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Looking at 514 reviews, most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Many people encountered significant issues with the booking process, as payments often declined or failed, causing considerable frustration. Customers consistently reported terrible customer service, describing it as unhelpful, unresponsive, and difficult to reach. Obtaining refunds proved substantially difficult, with long waiting times and unfulfilled promises. Reviewers also highlighted problems with unexpected charges and money taken without confirmed bookings, alongside an inability to effectively contact the company due to automated systems. Though some people experienced decent customer service and found past booking processes straightforward, others noted that email communication was generally good, and some even received successful refunds.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Tried to book a package holiday which declined payment but took pending payments for the flights. As the holiday was never booked we have no official communication to send to the bank to cancel these... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I had a booking for aviemore in the cairngorm national park today The area is badly affected by wild fires The next village has been evacuated. The air quality is poor The situation is bei... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Seems as though I've had the same experience as countless others here. The most useless, inane service where you are sent generic messages over and over, receive no help, and have your time wasted f... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

When a simple booking is reversed 12 times no matter how you modify it, even choosing different options, it becomes rather laborious and a complete waste of an evening. The booking process has now got... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

misleading 100% off of flights

I booked through your website because the promotion clearly stated “100% off flights.” Any reasonable customer would understand this to mean that the flights in the package are fully included.
However, during the booking process I was suddenly told that I must pay an additional $101 for the outbound flight. The website still displayed flight prices instead of showing the flights as $0, which completely contradicts the advertisement.
If only part of the flight was discounted, or if only the return flight was included, this should have been stated clearly from the beginning instead of using misleading advertising.
What made the experience even worse was the customer service. The representative I spoke with was not willing to properly help or resolve the issue and simply tried to pressure me into paying extra.
This experience felt deceptive, misleading, and very disappointing. I expected the company to honor what was clearly advertised instead of changing the conditions afterward.

23 May 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Flight Price Change without consent and unhelpful agents

I was quoted and only saw a price of £300 for my flights from London to Paris. When I check my online banking to confirm the charge I've noticed a charge of £360 come out of my account. At no point throughout my booking or checkout did I notice an increase in flight prices, but they must have sneakily increased the flight prices as I was checking out. Awful business model and the live agents were not helpful at all. Will never be using Expedia again for flights, what a nightmare

22 May 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Duplicate Booking Hell

My card payment appeared to time out, so I went back and started over. Just as the hotel booking completed, I received two emails, showing the first booking had in fact been successful. Whoever was to blame, the result was a duplicate booking for £800. I rang the hotel directly and they seemed to have no problem with the concept of refunding the duplicate, but explained that the money was still with Expedia so there was nothing for them to refund and I should speak with Expedia. I rang Expedia and spent almost 90 minutes being told that the hotel wouldn't let them refund it, that I could change the dates of the 2nd booking instead, or they can only offer a partial refund as a 'gesture of goodwill'. After escalating this to the manager's manager and listening to him tapping away on their keyboard for 48 minutes, he jubilantly informed me that the hotel had 'accepted the refund'. He did point out that his team 'couldn't see any error' when my payment had initially gone through, suggesting it was my fault. Honestly, it might have been. But it takes a special kind of company to treat honest mistakes as opportunities for profit. Overall, an absolutely pitiful experience and surely an enormous waste of everyone's time, not least the Expedia CS staff who have clearly been told to try to hang on to any payment for dear life, no matter the circumstances. Let's hope it's not around forever.

21 May 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Don't trust them to send your refund to you!

I booked a hotel through here, all seemed OK. However due to issues at the hotel, they where sending me a refund. The hotel advised 5-10 days. At day 16 I chased for my refund from the hotel, they said it was done. I chased through Expeida and they had recieved the notification for the refund, but just decided to not process it. So they have done it now, but a refund that should have been back with me in a few days is now looking like it will be closer to 26 days from when it was issued. I'm guessing Expedia just wanted my money sat in their bank account. And I'm guessing that if I had not chased, they would not have actually processed it at all.

20 May 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Disgraceful company

Disgraceful company! Tried booking a last minute package holiday for a few nights to Lisbon and they could not complete the booking, but still took the money out of my account, TWICE! Customer service has been disgusting, and they offer no help whatsoever! Please avoid and do not use this company!

19 May 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Expedia complicit in harm to women

Informed Expedia that I had been indecently exposed to by staff at accommodation I had booked through them. I advised they may want to stop advertising the business to protect other women.
Because It was not deemed safe for me to remain at the accomodation Expedia said they would fin me alternative accomodation at no additional cost. They did not find accomodation so I needed to arrange this myself. I have since been in contact with Expedia to ascertain if I will get a refund but they are not responding to me.
They continue to advertise the property where at least one man thinks it is appropriate to expose his genitalia to women. Expedia knowing this goes on in this accomodation are complicit in potential further harm to women

10 May 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

No refund

No refund:
I paid a deposit, cancelled weeks ago but no sign of my refund. Expedia said the hotel had the deposit, the hotel said they don’t get paid by Expedia until six weeks after people stay. I asked Expedia for proof they had paid the hotel and received what appears to me to be a false receipt because it is for the wrong amount and purports to say they refunded me over two weeks ago but the bank may take time to process it….completely different to what I had just been told. I will never book with Expedia again.

18 May 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

If I could a minus score I would do

If I could a minus score I would do. I wish I had read the reviews before using Expedia.
When it came to payment there had been a large increase (almost 20%). No breakdown as I had gone to pay via PayPal.
Expedia have changed the story so many times including using dynamic pricing, taxes and fees but no breakdown of what these taxes or fees were. Then it's extras like breakfast ( when breakfast was advertised as free). Then it's room type or refund (cancellation cover). Do not use Expedia unless you want to end up paying more than you should and they are adamant they will not refund the over charge.

11 May 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Expedia & Qatar Airways: Cancelled Flight, Months Without a Refund

Absolutely disgraceful experience with Expedia and Qatar Airways. I booked flights for 3 adults from Brazil to Dubai, and the return leg was cancelled by Qatar Airways due to the war situation affecting Dubai/Qatar airspace. The flight was cancelled on February 28th, and months later I am STILL chasing my refund.
What makes this worse is the complete lack of accountability. Expedia keeps pushing me to Qatar Airways, and Qatar Airways pushes me back to Expedia. Meanwhile, thousands of pounds of my money is being held while both companies avoid responsibility and give scripted responses with no actual resolution.
If an airline cancels a flight, customers should not have to spend months fighting to get their own money back. The customer service from both sides has been appalling — no ownership, no urgency, no care.
I will never use Expedia again after this experience, and Qatar Airways should be ashamed of how they handle cancelled flight refunds. Customers deserve transparency and refunds processed in a reasonable timeframe, not endless excuses and blame shifting.

28 February 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Robbed of 1k

One star is too much for expedia. Please please please avoid using this website at all cost. It's not worth the headache. I went through the process of booking a package hotel immediately after the payment confirmation check, the website tells me there's an issue with booking and that I should try again later. No further information. Just over 1k was taken from my account without any confirmation of booking. I then call Expedia and they tell me they will refund me within 3-5 days but I didn't get a refund until I filed a dispute with my bank. I called Expedia multiple times and they didn't know what they were doing, had AI sounding responses, and never happened to have a supervisor. I got my money back 3 entire weeks later and that wasn't even thanks to expedia. It really caused me so much distress since I was trying to book my first holiday with my friends without adults. Waste of my time and worst booking experience you could ever imagine. Hell and horror.

19 April 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Refund request

Back in February, I booked what was meant to be the trip of a lifetime for my girlfriend, travelling First Class with Emirates via Dubai.

Two days later, the war began. I contacted Emirates to understand my options after my flights were cancelled. As a result, I had to cancel the return portion of the journey (Malé–Dubai–London), as those flights were no longer operating.

Expedia opened a refund request for me in March. However, it has now been over two months, and I have still not received any update.

In the meantime, I had to pay thousands of pounds out of pocket to return to London. I had expected, given that this was a First Class booking with Emirates via Expedia, that there would be some level of support or consideration in resolving this matter.

I am extremely disappointed with Expedia’s service and the lack of communication. I am still waiting for a response regarding my refund request. If this is not resolved promptly, I will have no choice but to escalate the matter further, including pursuing legal action.

4 March 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The company lacks simple customer service skills

The company is inflexible and unhelpful. Non-refundable trips are also non-amendable - even though rooms in Europe are sold based on the room not on occupancy, they were not able to change the number of guests on a room - even though it was already a room for two people and therefore a minor change. Instead, they advised me I would need to book another room for two people and ask the hotel to cancel the other and see if they would refund. Presumably, also paying an extra commission charge to them.
As I was not prepared to spend more money and risk losing the money from the initial room booking, I asked my husband to call the hotel. They were very helpful and added the extra guest with no problem and at no extra cost.
I would not recommend using Expedia, as they are inflexible, unhelpful and quite possibly exploititive.

16 May 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Awful company to deal with if circumstances change

I have used Expedia for years and had no problems at all.
However we recently had to cancel our holiday we had planned in August due to my husband being hit by a car and had to have major surgery. (We contacted the hotel directly so they could fill the room asap. The hotel owner kindly said they would waive the normal 50% fees due to the circumstances.). Expedia despite phoning the hotel twice to confirm this still haven’t given us our other 50% refund. I really shouldn’t have to be dealing with this with everything else I’m having to deal with. This is very disappointing.
There is no human at the end of the phone to speak directly to. All in all not terribly impressed.

1 May 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Don't publish negative reviews

Booked a day trip through the Expedia 'things to do' option which had an excellent rating. The day itself was horrendous and was so bad I provided a negative review to flag the issues to other travellers. The review which was kept to the point, had no names etc was not published. Very unprofessional behaviour as if they are not going to highlight bad points to customers what is the point of using them when they don't tell the truth. I've had issues with them before so will be using other companies from here on.

11 May 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Technical fault on website, resulting in extra expense

Very disappointed with how Expedia has handled our complaint.

We attempted to book a package holiday in March, however due to what Expedia later acknowledged was a technical/pricing error within their system, the booking repeatedly failed while authorisation charges were still taken from our bank accounts.

As a result:

£1,726 was temporarily tied up in pending transactions
We ended up paying £130 more than the original advertised package price
We spent over 7 hours speaking to multiple customer service representatives trying to resolve the issue

Although Expedia eventually acknowledged the issue and provided some credit, the handling of the complaint itself has been extremely poor. We have had to repeatedly chase responses, explain the situation multiple times to different representatives, and several emails have gone unanswered entirely.

We also repeatedly authorised my husband to deal with the complaint on my behalf due to personal circumstances, however this was repeatedly ignored.

What has been most frustrating is the lack of consistency and accountability throughout the process. A stressful situation caused by Expedia’s own system error has been made significantly worse by the way the complaint has been handled.

We are still awaiting a fair and proper resolution.

7 March 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The worst customer service experience i…

The worst customer service experience i have ever had. Booked a one way hire car via Expedia, booking explicitly said it inclued "all fees and taxes". On arrival was charged an additional £100 by car hire company for it being a one way rental. Expedia will take no responsibility for this and won't acknowledge that they gave no information in the booking that there could be additional fees. Infuriating complaint process that ends at supervisor level, apparently no managers and no ombudsman to go to. I will never use Expedia again and would urge others not to.

14 May 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I have tried to cancel my booking…

I have tried to cancel my booking 72073109879344 for two weeks. You charged my £499 on the 10th of April. I have tried to cancel the booking as the client had already booked another hotel. We even went to the hotel we booked and they said we had to go to Expedia. I have tried on your website 10 times and you seem to have made it impossible to get a refund. If I do not get a refund I will take you to the small claims court and let the whole world know what you are trying to do. This was the first time I think that I used Expedia and for sure it was the last time. You should treat your clients well not make it so difficult to get a refund. In the future when I see your adverts I will just turn them off. To anyone who is thinking of using Expedia, DON'T DO IT! I want my refund.

14 May 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Never rent a vehicle here

I rented a van through Expedia and gave them my age. They let me rent it but when I went to pick up the van I was told I couldn't due to my age. They told me to get a refund from Expedia. After talking with them they declined. Now I have no van, no sofa and no refund.

12 May 2026
Unprompted review

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