"Booked a trip to Italy with my dad through Expedia.com. The first issue I had was coordinating our flights, as we both had different origins. I tried to explain to a customer service person how I wanted to schedule the trip originating from two airports but meeting on the east coast for the flight to Rome. They couldn't quite understand that, so I ended up having to book two separate trips. Luckily we were still able to sit next to each other on the way over, but not on the way back. I got a seemingly good deal on the hotel for Venice, it was much cheaper than some competitors. Overall, the trip went through without a hitch and Expedia definitely performed. I will be using Expedia again...if they have the best price, of course."

"I SHOULD HAVE CHECKED THIS WEBSITE AND THESE LOW-RATING REVIEWS BEFORE BOOKING TICKET.

Because the same thing happen to me. They had a very nice price on the website, but you had better take the following items into account:
1) the time and money you might spend in the endless loop of customer service line.
2) the pleasure of a vacation that is taken by their horrible service
3) the frustration because of being fooled
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I had nothing to say, just hope this review can be helpful to someone planning a trip or vacation so that they won't invest their money and "supposed-to-have" happiness on a irresponsible and lousy company."

"I had the worst experience with EXPEDIA.COM ever and do not recommend you use this service.
Sure, if everything goes through well it's fine but when customers have a problem; don't expect them to take care of their customers.

I had booked a room in Planet Hollywood @ Vegas for two nights Saturday and Sunday.
I decided to go Friday and Saturday instead so I called Expedia and asked the customer rep to cancel only Sunday night.
It took me 20-30 min to clarify what I was trying to do because she barely understood what I was saying.
After going back and forth trying to contact the hotel with 10 min waits in between, she comes back and tells me that my SUNDAY NIGHT HAS BEEN CANCELED.
I knew she had a hard time understanding me so I even made her repeat it 3 times. I asked her.. so I STILL HAVE SATURDAY NIGHT, and ONLY SUNDAY HAS BEEN CANCELED. Her response: "That is correct sir, I have cancelled one night for you."

So Vegas trip comes. I go to PH and tell them I have a reservation on Saturday and request a walk in checkin on Friday to see if I can get the same room. They go into their computer to check for my reservation and THE ENTIRE RESERVATION GOT CANCELED. After talking to the supervisor at PH for a while, they said I have to go through expedia since it was booked through a third party. I call expedia and they tell me I need to call back in a few hours because they can't pull up reservations due to system updates! The rep told me there is absolutely nothing they can do at the moment. I hung up and just checked in Friday night and decided to give them a call tomorrow.

The next day, I checked with PH and asked how much it would be to extend my stay an extra night (saturday night since Expedia f'ed up my reservation), they told me $500 so I definetly had to call them up and get this fixed. The first rep had no idea what I was trying to explain to him, he just kept say "I'm sorry for the inconvenience sir" so I asked to get transfer to a supervisor. So I get transfered to a guy named Enzon who was a complete dick on the phone. His answering of the phone was "what is the problem sir" I explained the situation to him, how Expedia messed up by cancelling BOTH my reservations instead of one night and all he could say was "well it shows here sir that you have requested to cancel the entire reservation" I repeated over and over again how I DID NOT CANCEL THE ENTIRE RESERVATION, and his response OVER and OVER again was "well it shows here sir that you have requested to cancel the entire reservation" like a god damn recording.
Then he suggested/mocked and said, if you really want to stay their so bad why don't you walk in and do a walk-in reservation. I told him it's the principle of the matter! so he says "there's nothing I can do it shows here sir that you have requested to cancel the entire reservation" I told him it was $500 to stay a room, and the proper thing for any big company to do would be to at least reimburse for the difference since it was their mistake. (Same response from him) ...

I ask to speak to his manager, and he tells me managers don't take phone calls. After pushing a bit more, he says he will try and puts me on hold for like 10-15 min (which I'm sure is bS and he's not even trying to get a hold of the manager). He comes back and says there's no point because the manager will probably tell you the same thing I'm telling you and offers me $100 Expedia Gift card for my troubles. At this point he's completley useless and I'm completley pissed. $100 would not cover the difference since I booked the room for $139 ! So I hang up.

So. . F' Expedia. I will never use them again. WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE EVER."

"Booked and paid for four flight tickets to Hawaii months in advance, a total of over $5500. Flight got canceled. We booked (and paid) for replacement and had them request a refund from the airline. Were told that that could take up to two months, which in itself is ridiculous. Checked back after a month, got some boilerplate reply. Checked back after two months only to learn that they had not submitted the refund to the airline and that I have to wait another 60-90 days. I am now being on hold to speak to a supervisor - have been holding for twenty minutes. I am being ripped off!"

"I booked a hotel for a college reunion thru Expedia. My friend called the same hotel and was told they were sold out for the reunion dates. A bit concerned, I called the hotel and asked what the deal was. The nice person at the hotel was honest enough to tell me that they were overbooked, there was a mistake and the hotel was not supposed to be open for on-line booking. He said that they would honor the reservation but last two guests for that day would be sent to an affiliated hotel about 1 mile away.

So I decided to cancel the reservation rather than risk being moved to the other hotel. I would rather have a guaranteed room. I cancelled with Expedia, which charged me a $25 cancellation fee. When I called Expedia to ask that the charge be waived – because the reservation was really not guaranteed – they told me all they could offer was a $25 coupon. The Expedia representative told me she “could not” refund my $25.

So be forewarned that Expedia will charge you $25 for cancelling reservations even when they cannot be guaranteed. Very unhappy with Expedia.
"

"I have booked many trips on expedia before and luckily never encountered any problem so far.
I booked a hotel recently through expedia but I did not like the hotel so when I tried leave a negetive feedback on expedia about the hotel, it did not let me leave the feedback saying that the system cannot accept the feedback at that time."

"**AVOID EXPEDIA.COM**

The lies continue...the deceit continues...

I just read the review before mine from over a year ago. Expedia still is lying and trying to deceive customers!

I booked a hotel in Richmond, VA. All went well and they treated me like royalty - until they got my money! I requested a non-smoking room because I am asthmatic - I can't be around smoke or smoke smells for obvious reasons (and I did explain that to the agent). Lo and behold, when I got my email verification it showed a booking for a smoking room, but had a star beside it. Below that was additional information about how I needed a non-smoking room for medical reasons. I've been burned before on things like this and I wasn't going to let it happen again. I called and was immediately put on hold. After a wait of over 20 minutes, I spoke with an agent and explained everything. He told me not to worry that when I checked in that I could remind them that I needed a non-smoking room. I asked if that was a guarantee. He stumbled and then kept trying to reassure me that there would be 'no problem'. I told him that I did not want to take the chance because of my asthma and wanted a non-smoking room booked. He checked and...amazingly, there weren't any available!! But they still took my reservation and gave me a line of bunk to get my money! I insisted that he call the hotel and guarantee me a non-smoking room. He put me on hold and said that he would try to call. Soon thereafter he returned and said that he could not get through because the line was busy - hmmm, how convenient, the line was busy. He had the audactiy to tell me to call back and they would try again. I said, "Ohhh, nooo!!! As a customer courtesy since you already have my money you will call ME back after you have this all sorted out!" I got, "Oh, we can't do that. We're not allowed to make outgoing calls."

B-U-S-T-E-D!!!

See, when I first called Expedia, I didn't like the rate the agent quoted me and told him that I was going to shop around online for an hour. The agent was so desperate to make a sale that he offered to call ME back in an hour and stated that he would be willing to beat whatever deal I found. I took him up on it and he DID call me back. I shared this information with the person that told me that he couldn't call me back. He didn't know what to say expect that they were allowed to do that. Well, obviously they are or the first agent would never have called me back. I insisted and he refused again. I told him to cancel the reservation right then and there. He tried to pull the red carpet back out for me since I was threatening to take away their sale and my money but it was too late. I cancelled! At the end he had the nerve to tell me that it would take 4-6 weeks for my credit card to be refunded. "Oh no you don't!" I'd asked him if my credit card was already charged and he said yes. This time I put him on hold and went to my credit card account online and...surprise, surprise, they didn't waste any time charging my card. I told the agent that I expected an immediate refund or I was contacting the credit card company and filing a fraud complaint and a stop payment. He said that he would 'see what he could do'. The refund was issued by the end of the day.

If you must deal with these jokesters, stand tough to them. I suggest that you avoid them like the plague."

"Expedia will take darn good care of you until they charge your credit card. Then, you're on your own. If nothing goes wrong with your order, you will probably be very satisfied. I was, until a week ago when I was informed that one of the flights in my itinerary (a month away) was cancelled. Assuming that since expedia was my travel agent, I called them to reschedule. Long story short, I spent over 7 hours on the phone being told different lies from expedia "customer service" about how Expedia is not the one responsible for changes in the itinerary, that the airline has to change the tickets. I called the airlines (2 of them) and both confirmed that it is the BOOKING AGENT (expedia's) responsibility to reschedule my itinerary, that the airline companies cannot touch my itinerary. And after about 7 hours on the phone with expedia, the last Expedia representative I talked to told me: "You don't need to call the airline, I can fix it right here" and lo-and-behold within 5 minutes my itinerary was fixed, but she refused to reissue me new paper tickets (so in reality I wouldn't be able to fly anyways.)
In the end, I had to personally drive 2 hours to the airport to get my tickets and beg the airline to print me new ones, even though it is once again the booking agent's (expedia's) responsibility.

Search online and you will see how many people went through the exact same hell that I did. I paid well over 2000 dollars for my trip to expedia, and yet they openly REFUSED to do their job as a booking agent, they also openly LIED to me. If you order from expedia, you are playing a dangerous game of Russian roulette. They refused to help a customer in a situation as common as a cancelled flight....that's very frightening.
I will never again take that chance again, and will never again order anything from expedia."