What's people's experience with Booking.com?

[Iggy Wolf]

Seeing the 1 star reviews in the app's most recent reviews didn't inspire me. I recently booked with them but that was before reading the reviews. Seems like it's good if everything goes great, but horrible if anything goes wrong.

I did get a message from the hotel confirming my booking, so at least I know I am booked and not just on paper. Although I'll probably call the hotel anyway just to confirm. Does anyone have any experience with Expedia, Trip Advisor, or Hotels.com etc and whether other sites are better?

[Xero_Daxter]

Booking.com? Booking.yeah

[JD]

Last time I booked through booking.com I got an automated message from the hotel saying my suite was confirmed. I drove to the hotel and was told they were all booked and no suites were left. I had to call booking.com to get my money back.

I only book through the hotel directly. I've had so many problems with third-party websites that I gave up on them.

[bAd a!m]

Find the property via booking then google the location and see if they have a private website. Use their own website to book or contact them.

[talemore]

I got bokked

[Fake]

Hotel
Expedia
Hotwire
TripAdvisor

Are all the same company

Enjoy the illusion of choice.

[Uncle Sam]

Origineel geplaatst door Fake:

Hotel
Expedia
Hotwire
TripAdvisor

Are all the same company

Enjoy the illusion of choice.

Indeed many sectors are like this, one big conglomerate owns many small "different" companies.

[Azza ☠]

Watch out for the phishing "Booking" scams.

Requests for any payment via a QR Code or an URL Link should be avoided. The Booking website is legit, but there are a lot of scammers who impersonate it and attempt to hijack it. Some of those negative reviews towards it are due to those impersonation scammers posing as it.

As for the best booking website, it really varies greatly. Normally better with the airline directly, they can however plan it out for you if it's a major trip. This can protect you more or cause more issues, depending how much you need to change it. They will also be taking a cut.

- Google Travel / Hotels
- "Booking"
- Trivago
- TripAdvisor
- "Trip"
- Momondo
- Agoda
- Kayak
- HotelsCombined

[Apollo702]

I live in perhaps the most crazy tourist destination of them all- so I don't travel much
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3306701527

But sometimes there are guests from out of town and I sometimes come into a lot of contact with tourists.

And if the subject comes up, many are saying that they are having increasing problems booking online. They don't always name specific sites- but they all are saying the same thing- and it appears to be a problem across the internet.

The pattern is that the entire internet is steadily getting worse.

[Uncle Sam]

Origineel geplaatst door Apollo702:

I live in perhaps the most crazy tourist destination of them all- so I don't travel much
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3306701527

But sometimes there are guests from out of town and I sometimes come into a lot of contact with tourists.

And if the subject comes up, many are saying that they are having increasing problems booking online. They don't always name specific sites- but they all are saying the same thing- and it appears to be a problem across the internet.

The pattern is that the entire internet is steadily getting worse.

Yep, good ol' "Enshittification" systematic decline in quality of online platforms over time driven by greed.

[Apollo702]

Origineel geplaatst door Uncle Sam:

Origineel geplaatst door Apollo702:

I live in perhaps the most crazy tourist destination of them all- so I don't travel much
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3306701527

But sometimes there are guests from out of town and I sometimes come into a lot of contact with tourists.

And if the subject comes up, many are saying that they are having increasing problems booking online. They don't always name specific sites- but they all are saying the same thing- and it appears to be a problem across the internet.

The pattern is that the entire internet is steadily getting worse.

Yep, good ol' "Enshittification" systematic decline in quality of online platforms over time driven by greed.

Before my health nightmare happened, I had a small and rising . com. One of the things included was I went up and down the internet and created an Ultimate Website List.

I would open up site after site, test and rate them, configure (with things like scriptblockers) what was and wasn't allowed to run in the background... and then put them in folders and set them up for the users.

I would do things like open up a category such as sports and open them all up, do the process and then maybe the next category was news then travel, then...

And it blows me away on how many sites 5 or 10 years ago were the BEST!- and now upon returning to them- what the heck!?!?!

The stunning thing is that somehow corporations think that they are benefiting by enshittification.

My best guess is that it leads to my dream situation:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3043934505

They make the internet so horrible that it finally brings down social media and gets people's faces back out of the phone. Perhaps that is what will break the addiction once-and-for-all?

[MinionJoe]

It's alright. Expect spam for a decade after signing up though.

[Isaac]

Origineel geplaatst door Iggy Wolf:

What's people's experience with Booking.com?

Bad website. Always book directly with airlines. Booking.com lies with prices.

[Othobrithol]

I did my time working hotels to get through uni. Oh the things I subjected discount online bookings to... Out of necessity, of course, I'm not evil.

Say, Of the rooms left in the house, I only have one that has working AC and doesn't smell like bong-water. And there are other full rate, maybe even rewards members still incoming.

You see, here is where the experience pays off. When I see you and your "last year's rates because the manager forgot his login information" rate, I have to size you up and determine, based just on your appearance and behavior during check in... are you more offended by the heat or the smell?