Laura L.

I have been faithfully using booking.com for the last 5 years to make all my hotel bookings. But I had a terrible experience with them, and will NEVER be using them again. I had made a booking for a hotel in Salzburg through them back in July. However the owner offered me a better rate than booking.com so I then proceeded to cancel my booking with booking.com. The owner of this hotel informed me that all transactions were to be done in cash, so I did not have to provide any credit card information for the reservation. However much to my surprise when I had to cancel with her due to a family illness 3 weeks after I had cancelled my booking.com reservation, she accessed the credit card information I had provided to booking.com 1.5 months ago and charged me a 200$ late fee! And what did booking.com do to help me, as I insisted that my privacy had been violated as she accessed personal information I never provided to her but rather had provided to booking.com, that should have been completely unaccessible to her after my cancellation with booking.com, they told me I was lying and that I had provided this credit card information to the owner. With a futile email exchange with them over 1 month to try to rectify the situation, not a single thing was done to help me. PLEASE AVOID THEM AT ALL COSTS AT THIS IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE.