Be very careful with Expedia.
Be very careful with Expedia.
I booked a Hotel in Rio for February 2027 called "Own Ipanema Visconti" with Itinerary number: #72071378204981
Few weeks later, I receive a doggy call from someone very uninterested in doing his job saying the hotel could not honour my booking. When I asked him why, instead of telling me the truth which I would have understood, (We all make mistakes). He said, well this things happen, we stopped working with that hotel. I thought ok, fair enough. So I enquired with the hotel on whatsapp and they told me it was because they were not longer working with expedia and hotels.com due to their high fees, and encouraged me to book directly with them. Now is when the funny part begins. I booked directly with them. Few days after I find from other review that was later deleted by expedia / hotels.com that this is not a hotel that is in operation. Stopped operating in 2024 and some scammers they use the name and list it in this platforms to scam people. This is a very serious breach in expedia verification systems to allow a Hotel that does not exist to be listed in their website. And even worse! not tell you the truth so you don't make the mistake of booking directly with them!. I asked a local friend who lives in Rio to go to the hotel adress to check if it exists. But guess what: It does not. Thanks expedia! Now I have been scammed by someone pretending to be this hotel thanks to you. On top of that, when your team contacted me to give me rebooking options, gave me 2 really bad options not even similar to the original category and area of the hotel I booked so I would ask for a refund, instead of offering me a hotel of similar category in same area. Again, I was a gold customer in expedia until not long ago. Since this happened to me, I will try to avoid them whenever I can. If they don't make this right for me, I will stop using them and keep telling everyone how bad they are in every possible website online.