Agoda: Cheap Flights & Hotels

I use agoda almost exclusively because it’s the easiest to use with the best photos, info and filters. Would be awesome if I could book two different kinds of rooms at once. I recently booked a room for my parents at the same hotel with myself and my husband. My parents can afford a nicer room and I had to go through the checkout process twice because agoda won’t allow you to choose two different classes of rooms at the same time. Just a little annoyance. Also, I’d be so happy if we could sort hotels based on how highly people rate them. We can only do it based on price or hotel star rating. Stars aren’t nearly as important to me as customer satisfaction. Even if these things don’t change I’ll be a loyal customer, though. Thanks for having my back over and over, agoda!!!

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Terrible service!!! I looked at the reviews, saw my price, booked online and I was charged $30 more than the advertised price, although the site said “taxes and fees included” on my final price. It also said “you will pay at the property” and “Book Now. Pay at hotel.” My bank put my business debit card on hold because the transaction was run out of the ordinary from Bangkok, and also there was a $300 charge on my card that I was never told about and did not authorize. Well, the card was blocked. The transaction did not go through. And my wife, myself, and my 2 year old were outside the apartments in a big city for 1 hour while I was on a text exchange with customer service, who contacted the facility manager. The manager called me and would not let me in because they could not authorize the hold, which was blocked on my card at my out of state bank that I could not contact until the next day. Security was parked outside with his flashers on while we waited the last 20 mins. Embarrassing and frightening. Frustrating and hidden charges. I was left with my family and I having to go out of town to stay with extended family who had to stay up late to accommodate us. Never again.

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I don’t recommend Agoda as it’s not that legit as it seems to be, I had an issue last night where I had booked two nights in a hotel in Abu Dhabi - UAE and the app has confirmed and amount has be deducted from my credit card then after few minutes I was surprised by an email from Agoda claiming that a tech error had happened and the booking didn’t go through and the amount which has been deducted will be returned but it may take 30 days !!! So I tried again to look into the same hotel I booked in and found that the price has raised up for no reason for the same offer !!! And this all was just in minutes. So it didn’t go well at all. But the other big issue which I faced with them and it’s totally linked to them is that my credit card details was stolen (while I was booking using their mobile app where these transaction should be more secured) so I was surprised that after 3 or 4 hours my credit card was used to buy stuff online it was bought from “Estee lauder online” !!!! So I had to block my credit card and report this transaction with my bank to run an investigation about it. So it’s not legit at all !!!!

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So i got an email 5 days before the stay saying that my credit card did not go through (which the same card had no problem on another website when I booked it later). They said that I need to redo my payment within 44 hours to avoid booking cancellation, they also gave me a link to redo my payment. My card didn’t go through again, after a few attempts, the link showed “Sorry, this link has expired and can no longer be used to pay for this booking". So I went back to the app, there is no place in the app that I can redo the payment to avoid cancellation, the app said that you need to open the link (which was expired) that was sent to your email in order to pay. So that was a bug in the app. I tried contacting agoda customer service and got no respond, I tried calling the hotel and no one spoke English. Then I received an email from agoda saying that my booking was cancelled because I did not made the payment on time. I ended up needing to book another hotel three days before my stay, which the choices left for me were pricy hotels and bad locations. So yea, no more agoda for me.

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Hidden fee. Extra fee is not shown when shopping a hotel to make the hotel to be cheaper on this app comparing with other app. It is hard to write a review on this app to be posted. Your review on this app must be reviewed by Agoda and may never posted if Agoda reject when your issue is related to Agoda too. Never admit Agoda false and always through issues to others that costs a problem. This app is not on customers side. Quick reply, but no real resolution to be resolved. If you book this app and pay up front, you will never be refund; even though, it is not your false after booking. If refund, booking fee remaining kept. Better to stay a way this app. If you book on this app, only book for one night. Don’t ever book more nights on this app. If you failed to arrive the first night, all booking nights will be cancelled and no refund to be given. It makes no sense to cancel all booking nights when paid upfront and fail to arrive a first night. The posted room on the app may not the same picture room at the hotel. Better to see in person before booking on the app.