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Bravofly UK Reviews Summary

Bravofly UK has a rating of 1.8 stars from 117 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Bravofly UK most frequently mention customer service, credit card and full refund. Bravofly UK ranks 203rd among Plane Tickets sites.

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GB
1 review
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There is no 0 star rating, don't go with bravofly one of the worst. There customer care team is very rude and miss guided us for cancelling ticket.They will charge like anything if need any further service…. Must to avoid and save money for hassle free flight

Date of experience: December 9, 2023
Singapore
1 review
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[ZERO star] Bad Experience with Bravofly
August 5, 2023

I had a very bad experience with Bravofly. They didn't send updated itinerary to passengers when there is a change in flight timing. Moreover, when u ask for the updated itinerary, they will make u difficult to go through the tedious process or push to the air flight comp.
Also, whatever they have booked, cannot be found in the flight comp's system, Scary experience! Regret to book from Bravofly, last and no more next time.

Date of experience: August 5, 2023
Sweden
1 review
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Cheat on full flex.
June 17, 2023

Cheating! Pop up of extra fee for full flex AFTER you have given the info of your credit card for a total amount of your flight.

Date of experience: June 17, 2023
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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They will charge you £35 a person if the airline cancels the flight
They bury it in T&C and give that after you book the flight
Never use again.

Date of experience: September 25, 2022
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Unbelievable
August 30, 2022

I wanted to book a ticket from LHR to BOM direct flight for 1 passenger, returning after 5 months. Bravofly led me down the booking path without once showing me flight details apart from departure dates, and fares.
I was led into booking the flights without further details. The booking confirmation was the first I knew of the flight being via Kuwait. I immediately realised that I had to cancel the deal and was forced from pillar to post to get communication in order to do so. I managed to get to a customer service 'human' who said it will be done and I will get confirmation in 7 to 14 days. I informed Barclaycard of the situation and felt reasonably safe.
After more than 28 days there was no communication from Bravofly so I tried to get in touch again. Round the mulberry bush and eventually on a chat I got confirmation that the communication to cancel was received on the same date as the booking. I decided to get in touch by phone and eventually got an email stating that cancellation was in progress and would be notified by email within 7days. I do not expect any refund as the system that is being employed is totally fradulent. It takes one to the cleaners while appearing to be honest.
My opinion thus far is do not go anywhere in online transactions with Lastminute or its subsidiaries as they are set up to take money without delivering honest service or refunds. Any email confirmation without a clear reply process is an attempt to defraud. Taking you to a site, registration and a host of complicated avenues is not honest in its complexity.
Every purchase online must be subject to cancellation within 24 hrs at no cost, and the reply method must be immediate without having to register elsewhere.

Date of experience: August 30, 2022
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5 helpful votes
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Exemplary service
April 18, 2022

After my traumatic experience with previous travel agency which I mentioned from previous review I was hesitant to book again with other international travelling agency fearing that I might facing the same issues.
However my instinct prodded me to try once more because in fairness with international travelling agencies they offer the best prices compared to local agencies within our vicinity.It just happens some bad eggs were ruining their reputations.So I search again and fortunately I found this site Bravofly.com which also peddles competitive prices but way ahead better from my previous travel agency. Customer service is superb and very accommodating with all my queries.And added perks they were also offering vouchers that I could utilized on my next trips.
Its a worth value of money. I highly recommend them for travelers who were looking for affordable ticket fares.

Date of experience: April 18, 2022
GB
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Fraud company
October 27, 2020

This and its parent company have not refunded my cancelled ticket for six months now, have to take them to court! No other way to get money back

Date of experience: October 27, 2020
Denmark
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Do not use Bravofly
October 19, 2018

Do not use BravoFly They can not take enough money from you ordered the flight online with Visa therefore they took 25 % extra for the ticket when I came to the payment there was also travel insurance on do use that compani many complain about TrutsPilot immediately *******246

Date of experience: October 19, 2018
Germany
1 review
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I had a very bad experience with Bravofly and Fullflex, I paid the requested fees of flight ticket to Fullflex, for flexibility on change, and when I requested a change i didn't find a reply, even confirmation of receiving emails. And after more than 72 hours of requesting the flight change, I had a reply for start processing my email while my flight were about 36 hours.

They are not professional not dynamic and it's totally unprofessional, they are very very slow. Still this is my first step of complaining againts this very poor service which does not meet the amount paid as well.

Date of experience: April 21, 2018
Sofia B. Bravofly UK Rep
over a year old

Hi Ahmed M,

Thank you for your valuable feedback here on SiteJabber. I'm sorry to hear that you have had a cause to complain about our services.

FullFlex policy is an additional service that our customers can purchase on our website at the time of the reservation process and it is valid for cancellation requests rather than change queries. If, for an unforeseen event, you are unable to travel on the selected dates, you can request a cancellation before the departure of your outbound flight and you'll receive a voucher code worth 90% of your original ticket price.
Regarding any change request, you won't be charged additional administrative or handling costs from us if you have the FullFlex, however, airline change fees have to be paid the same.

Being a travel agency, we act as an intermediary between the customer and the airlines and we have management times to deal with a request based on the urgency of the query.

It is strange to hear that we told you that the request would be managed within 72 hours even though the flight departure was within 36 hours. I'd like one of our Customer Care Agents to investigate this further and get back to you. Could you please respond to our private message with your Booking ID number and more details.

Best,
Bravofly

Panama
1 review
1 helpful vote
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This company is a joke they don't care about people, I asked the airline to change ticket or cancel a month in advance and they said they were processing, every time I sent an email it was the same response so I assumed they were in contact with airline. To top things off the only reason we needed to change was because my daughter was ill and having seizures and many issues, i had medical reports and certificates and told them that and they kept on saying be patient we are processing. Now the flight is about to leave in two days and now they tell me that they made it a priority now to answer me and I got my answer not only did they not cancel ticket due to medical they are now telling me that they can refund 280 euros out of a $7000 euro ticket. Now they have delayed my response caused my daughter added injury as we have no flights home and cost me a lot of money, i think this company should be given a negative rating not 1 star I want to give them negative 100. Also if you have a problem you have to pay to talk to them on your credit card what a joke. I am now going to take legal matters when I get back to Australia and hopefully I can shut them down i will make sure everybody knows about this provider, they don't class a child who is having hundreds of seizures a priority then they are lacking any type of humanity and they should be ashamed in there company and themselves, shame shame shame! I hope God Blesses and touches your heart because something is very lacking in your responses to me and my family over last month. Writing this letter even makes me sick as I now have to get my family home and now I don't know how I am going to do it as we needed refund money to pay for new ticket, but I guess its not there problem because sick children are not a priority in this world anymore, Thankyou Bravo good job you guys excel in customer care.

You know why you experience an unexpected amount of calls because you are scammers and you are going to hell.Do not be overcome with evil but overcome evil with good, that is why I am praying for you people working for this shameless company. I have reported you to international consumer protection, my own country in Australia, in America and endless chat sites that ask for reviews, you have found a friend now in me and I am going to shut you down and find out where you guys practice, my solicitor has received a file and I will be chasing you endlessly, you hollow hearted human beings. Repent and ask God for forgiveness. Sincerely people like yourselves will end up in hell please seek God you need it, I don't want to go there so I forgive you.
God Bless
Chris

Your new best friend

Date of experience: April 10, 2017
Ireland
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I was appalled to see my flight booked and paid for at 153 euro and then seeing my card debited by 183 euro instead for something called Fullflex. I booked the day before the flight so why would I need this? Never even noticed the option for this. Very angry.
I was careful to watch out for the OPT IN or OUT trickery on these websites but this I never spotted.

The flight became more expensive than going to the airline website
Paula Cullen.
Flybe 23/03/2017. Dublin to Southampton

Date of experience: March 26, 2017
GB
1 review
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Having searched for cheap flights and finding a great deal - I continued to place my card details and book the flight, selecting the purchase button. It was at this point that I realized I had been entirely wrong to assume that the price i had found and agreed to pay, would be the actual price taken from my account!
One prompt confirmation email later, and I realise my great flight prices were coupled with an extortionate and unethical 32 euro card charge! NOT WHAT I AGREED!
Even worse, when I called customer service, I was connected to last. Minute CS who blamed another website entirely - cancelled my flight and were unable to refund my money for a further 2 weeks! By which point flight prices have inevitably increased by more than 30 euros! An appalling experience - DO NOT USE

Date of experience: March 1, 2017
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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They are based in switzerland for a reason. You can't get hold of them when something goes wrong and they won't pay up. Most bookings end in tears and they pocket your cash no matter what. Stay away and warn your friends to never use them.

Date of experience: November 25, 2016
GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I made a big mistake of booking for a flight on their web site. Booking reference no*******. They were quick to debit my bank account but didn't receive any booking confirmation! After several phone calls I didnt receive any flight details that I was promised I would receive as soon as possible. Didnt receive any flight details up to 20hrs before flight! Very irritating. This site is for scammers! I regret using this so called travel agency! I am advising all my friends, relatives and everyone that never book anything through this company! This web needs to be reported yo the authorities

After booking

Date of experience: September 19, 2016
Mauritius
1 review
2 helpful votes
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AVOID AT ALL COSTS
September 13, 2016

You will not get a ticket but only a booking request code. Your booking may or may not be approved. Before that determination is made the price may go up - you have NOT reserved the right to purchase at the advertised price.

Once the booking request is confirmed and accepted, you will still not get a booking reference number for you to be able to confirm with the airline whether you are flying or not. This will put you in a very bad position with price continuing to climb should you re-purchase elsewhere, your deadline approaching, and no guarantee from the airline that bravofly has even passed on the request.

Customer service is of no use.

Date of experience: September 13, 2016
Arizona
1 review
1 helpful vote
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SO HORRIBLE!
June 8, 2016

SO HORRIBLE!
My outbound flight was cancelled, I received incredible grief about a partial refund. They kept telling me it was my job, not theirs to contact the agency. I had to purchase separate outbound flight as they would not refund my car rental or my inbound flight. Then they would not adjust my car rental time to match the new flight time.

Date of experience: June 8, 2016
Sofia B. Bravofly UK Rep
over a year old

Dear Jamie S,

Thank you for your review, I am extremely sorry to read about how inadequate was your booking experience with us.

From the review, I was unable to catch exactly what happened and how the outbound flight was cancelled. In order to understand the case I kindly invite you to send me a private message confirming your 9-digit Bravofly booking ID.

We will be in touch as soon as an outcome has emerged from my investigation.

Kind regards,
Sofia

GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Booking reference *******
I booked our holiday to Portugal back on 4/1/16 when checking airline details I noticed that for our return flight with TAP Portugal 3 out of 8 of us do not have an e ticket reference?! 2 of the 3 are babies less than 6 months old! I called TAP Portugal who said the reference and e-ticket number needs to be requested by Bravofly, I called Bravofly and spoke to a man called Vijay Who agreed all 8 tickets were paid for as per my receipt but they would look into it and call back within 3-5 days but it has been 10 days and Iv heard nothing! We need to know that our babies and my fiancé will be on our flight home just as we have paid for nearly 5 months ago! A friend of ours is hoping to speak to watchdog about this as we just don't know what to do!
They also took out more money than the agreed price back when the flights were paid for but I couldn't be bothered to fight it when I heard these bad reviews!
I truly don't know what I can do to resolve this

Date of experience: April 21, 2016
Sofia B. Bravofly UK Rep
over a year old

Dear Jemma P.,

Apologies for the delay in our response here. In first of all, we thank you for your valuable feedback. We would like to reassure you that we have been looking into your request and apologise if you had a cause for complaint regarding the long management.

For any further queries please don't hesitate to contact us privately here.
I have forwarded your request to the relevant Team in order to investigate your case.
Kind regards,
Sofia

Israel
1 review
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2. 5. 16 update after multiple emails and addressing all the review sites I could find with Bravofly.com profiles we received the Full Flex refund and the money has been returned to our bank account. Thank you BravoFly for ending this on a positive note.

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Booking Id: *******

Me and my husband were booking our flight. We filled out all our information, including credit card details for the flight.

We skipped the options for Full Flex and car rental and checked only these two boxes:

- Tick this box to confirm you have read and accept on the basis of paragraph f of the privacy policy to receive the best offers available
- Check this box to confirm you have read, understood and accepted the terms and conditions and the privacy policy

And clicked on "Buy".

After that a window showed up with a button on the right (I obviously can't redo this option since I would have to rebook another flight to have this window show up) that said something like "I would agree for Full Flex" - I honestly don't remember what it said since I clicked assuming this was the last step to book the flight! Of course at this point no terms and agreements were asked for us to agree to, cause that would hurt the whole scam.

We just clicked, assuming this was the end of booking our flight and only after clicking did I realize my mistake and immediately contacted you at the full flex email: *******@en.customer-travel-care.com

You replied to my emails, but without any assistance and now no one is repying there.

There I was also repeatedly told I was wrong and that terms and conditions state that there is no refund. Aside for the fact that I never checked the box for the terms and agreements, I went to read said terms and conditions and they say no such thing that a refund can't be made. They only stipulate the terms in which you can use the FullFlex service (which according to reviews on many websites is actually not trustworthy either).

So I am hereby requesting once again to have the money charged to my credit card for this service which I will not be using and never intended to purchase be refunded immediately.

With much aggrevation,

Maya

Date of experience: April 16, 2016
Sofia B. Bravofly UK Rep
over a year old

Dear Maya K.,

Thank you for your message and I'm sorry that you have had reason to complain about the additional service, Full Flex- coverage, we offer during the booking phase.

We are aware of your request and our Complaints department is currently checking your reservation in more detail as well as the booking steps you went through.

You have also been contacted by one of our Customer Care representatives ensuring that you'll be provided with feedback as soon as our relevant department have checked this matter thorough.

Kind regards
Sofia

GB
1 review
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At the time of booking a flight for myself and my partner the Bravofly website crashed. It did not confirm that the payment had been taken from my account and I did not receive an email booking confirmation immediately. I therefore booked another Ryan Air flight for the same dates, same passengers etc which went through fine. A couple of hours later I received two bookings and rang Ryan Air the next day. They confirmed that they had cancelled the duplicate flight as I explained it was a system fault and this was refunded back to Bravofly the same day and assured that the money had been transferred.
After waiting two weeks without receiving the money I rang to be told by Bravofly/ last minute that this can take up to 6 months to refund (even though it was already in there account) but should be within the next week or so. I rang again the week after where they confirmed they have received the full refund back from Ryan Air and this would be transferred into my account within 3-5 days. I think received two emails both saying that I needed to respond to the email within 10 days in order to receive a refund, if no response the refund will be issued as a voucher. I replied to both emails and rang the company again to ensure that I could have a refund. This was all confirmed on both the phone and email (which I have copies of promising a full refund). Last week I then received an email giving my voucher number! I rang the company AGAIN. They said that I was no longer allowed a refund that they could only give me a voucher. The man on the phone was so rude, I have never had anyone speak to me like that before and repeated the same words to me over and over again as though I was stupid. I am a student nurse who has saved for this holiday for a long time and will not have any time during the rest of the year to use the voucher. I was promised a refund both verbally and written. I am very sure they need to honour this! I have also sent two complaints to the email address that was provided to me over a week ago and have not had a response still! This service is appalling and I still have not received my promised refund!

Date of experience: April 5, 2016
Sofia B. Bravofly UK Rep
over a year old

Dear Kelly B.,

Thank you for having contacted us and I'm truly sorry to learn about problems with your refund request and our Customer Care.

I would like to check your booking in more detail and also verify at what point your refund process is.

Could you please send me through a private message your 9 digit booking ID and I'll investigate this further right away.

Kind regards
Sofia

GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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L cancelled my flight in November 2015 with bravofly due to illness and not being able to fly. I received a response confirming my cancellation and the amount due to be refunded via either voucher or money. But after that email I have sent several emails and made several calls requesting a flight cost breakdown for my insurance company and almost 6 months later i still have not received one. I have been told on a few occasions that they do not have to provide that information or i am sent the same standard refund message. My insurance company need to know the taxes, supplements, charges etc. I do not understand why this is so difficult.
I am also still waiting for my actual refund (which is approx 1/4 of the cost) since november 2015! I have not received a penny back as yet. I have never experienced anything like this before with any travel company but i am disappointed with myself for not checking out bravofly before booking with them.
I would advise everyone to stay away from this company as what should be a straight forward resolution has been and still is a headache!

UPDATE 31. 3. 16
I have received a response since i sent a private message to sofia B but now Bravofly claim that i never responded to the cancellation request which is not true. I responded on the 9th November 2015 which is within the 72 hours limit. I am fed up of these excuses not to pay my refund. It seems like one excuse after the other. Is there a governing body for bravofly surely they must have to answer to someone?

Date of experience: March 29, 2016
Sofia B. Bravofly UK Rep
over a year old

Dear ms M.

Thank you for having contacted us here on Sitejabber and I'm very sorry to read that you've had problems with your refund process.

As you perhaps may already know, the airlines may take several months to process a refund depending on the number of requests they are having in queue.

In order to verify your reservation and also in what stage your refund process is, please send us your 9 digit booking ID through a private message.

Kind regards
Sofia

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