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Spain
1 review
2 helpful votes
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The prices are shown cheap but they also fluctuate a lot from airlines, so once a ticket is booked with available seat then the flight must exist with confirmation of ticket thru email or phone, if they change the flight then it is a site which makes scam in some places alone to purchase ticket. This website and place in uk needs to be investigated properly and make sure that they have connection with original airlines while processing and putting forth the display price

Date of experience: July 6, 2015
Canada
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Well, they just don't seem to get better even if improvement should come easily when you start below the ground.

I've recently made the mistake of doing business with them and their spectacular incompetence cost me an extra 900$ plus a good amount of stress that I could certainly have done without. In fact, they failed to notify me of a flight change. When I arrived at the counter, it was simply empty. I missed my connection; it was a nightmare in many ways.

When I called the "customer care service" (for lack of a more suitable expression), the rep was simply useless and his only concern was to make sure that the call didn't escalate. Apparently, I was "lucky" that someone picked up the phone. Finally, I had to take care of everything.

The good news is that it doesn't have to happen to you. Just keep away unless you really want to travel poorer and angrier.

Date of experience: September 18, 2015
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I have booked with ebookers several times. Before when there was a problem I could get someone on the phone and it was sorted. But things have changed. I rang customer service and entered the queue as number 6. After 30 minutes I was number 5. How can a company this size have only one person on the phones? Sadly my days booking with them are over. Thankfully there are many alternatives!

Date of experience: December 11, 2014
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I would rate them one star but it would not let me put -0. They advertised on a separate site a different hotel when booking came to and booked it ended up being another dump 15 miles away. I paid 399 I ended up with a 218 refund! Do the math disgusted with the customer service and the way they blame everyone else.

Date of experience: May 2, 2013
GB
3 reviews
17 helpful votes
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I've booked on Ebookers several times (Int'l flights, hotel, train) and I've never had any problem at all. There are no hidden charges and the price I see on the page is the price I had to pay. The confirmation of my bookings were sent to my email promptly. I love them more now because of the loyalty bonus scheme which all adds up. All in all, I can't fault it.

Date of experience: January 21, 2015
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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First, they charge you $400+ for a connection flight that was going for $150 (ONE WAY!)else were.
Then when you go to change the flight, they're telling you have to pay an additional $260 for cancellation!

The worst possible travel agency I've ever dealt with!

My only wish is that I wish I saw the 150 flight prices before ever given my credit card information to Ebookers!

Date of experience: August 3, 2018
New York
11 reviews
32 helpful votes
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I used to book a lot with ebookers and when everything is fine that's great but when there's a problem, get ready for a lot of frustration. So many hoops to jump through to sort out something that was not my fault. First time I put it down to bad luck but when similar happened, I realized that it was the system that was wrong. Now I use different sites to make my bookings.

Date of experience: May 16, 2014
GB
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Never book with these cheap third party "travel agents" registered in other countries (ebookers in India I believe). I spent 30 minutes trying to get something very simple sorted - a child tax refund - but they either couldn't understand or refused to. They also charged £15 each fees hidden under general "taxes" but do not make anything clear about their fees separately. Why do the OFT let them get away with this? I know why. The OFT doesn't exist anymore.

Date of experience: May 17, 2016
GB
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Avoid!
September 17, 2015

Not good experience: wasted one hour trying to book a hotel only to be told there was an error with every card I tried. Then rang Customer Services in India (the Website promised they 'could help with bookings'). They couldn't. The assistant sprouted a set script of total nonsense which neither she nor I could understand but basically saying she couldn't help or book for me or do anything. Avoid website & company at all cost.

Date of experience: September 17, 2015
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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The plane ticket I reserved on ebookers.de was cancelled four different times because they couldn't confirm the flight connections (please note, that I changed the return date almost every time, thinking that it would make a difference... it didn't!). When I contacted ebookers.de to clarify an important issue, ebookers took two full weeks to finally respond.

Date of experience: January 31, 2014
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Hotel put me in the room type of room and then a really noisy room with the hotels lift which went constantly all night. Checked out and Ebookers failed to refund. Really poor response from customer services

Date of experience: May 30, 2015
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Disgusting service
September 14, 2015

Booked package deal with these, couple months after we booked, called customer service line as we wanted to change a few things, person spoke to didn't even ask for booking ref, just rudely said nothing allowed, explained that have called BA and they said we could but had to do it through company that we booked package with, person on home, Indian call centre just kept saying, didn't even ask my name, my package or any details and was very rude never use this company again... they take over £3000 for our hoilday but got money and that was it, disgusted

Date of experience: September 14, 2015
New York
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Definitely avoid this service. I booked a flight with them on the evening of March 29th and called them to cancel the following morning. The customer service representative to whom I spoke reassured me that he was cancelling my flight, but the charge continued to appear in my credit card statement. I called them again and they told me that since the 24 hour refund period had already elapsed, I should take it up with the airline. Now I have to pay nearly 400 USD for their mistake.

Date of experience: August 4, 2015
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I also had a problem with this company. I'm from Los Angeles and try to book a flight to Colorado and I noticed the flights were cheaper with ebookers although it never stated that the price was in British pounds. It should give some type of breakdown for their customers. My ticket actually cost over $200 more then what was advertised. I was also hit with some kind of $17.26 international purchase transaction fee. These charges totally screwed me. It put my bank account in defict. I was then hit with a overdraft charge and now in bad standing with my bank. When I tryed to call the long distance number it was disconnected. On line the only info I could get was there are no refunds! I noticed there are no 1800 numbers. They make it impossible to contact a real person for US clients. I will never buy tickets on here again and will boycott this company.

Date of experience: December 2, 2014
Brazil
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Very bad service
October 20, 2014

Very bad service. I dont recomend and will never use them again
Requested to change my return ticket but the agent on the first time took 45 min to check, kept asking non sense questions and in the end said to buy a new return ticket. Then i also tried on their online chat, it was very frustrate, they are not willing to help, they just do the basic and dont care at all. Conclusion, they could not change my return ticket and took over 40 min to check. Very useless. Next time will buy directly from airline.

Date of experience: October 20, 2014
1 review
6 helpful votes
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EBOOKERS = SCAM
May 2, 2017

This is a SCAM company.

Never do business with Ebookers/Expedia. You do not only loose the money you paid for the tickets but also the phone cost of trying to get to the support, they never answer.
Why has these people at Ebookers not be arrested?

Date of experience: May 2, 2017
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Absolute worst!
July 18, 2016

Booked two tickets from Dubai to Winnipeg. Had to cancel one and was told that my card would be reimbursed in two weeks max. Two weeks passed so we called and a customer service person said it would be two to twelve weeks. I asked to speak to a supervisor and they never called back.
For the second ticket, we decided that we need to cancel our flight back ecause of the unrest in Turkey. Our country's foreign affairs has placed a 'avoid all non-essential travel' notice. E-bookers won't refund us for the return flight. DON'T USE THEIR services unless you want poor service.

Date of experience: July 18, 2016
Georgia
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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This is the worst website that I have every dealt with. They said my total was one price and when I checked my bank it was almost $400.00 more for the ticket. They need to make people aware that the amount they quote you for the price of the ticket is in British Pounds and not American dollars. This website is very misleading and never use this one for booking airline tickets.

Date of experience: June 12, 2014
GB
2 reviews
10 helpful votes
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Rubbish
December 22, 2015

My friends have booked a holiday to Gran canaria but when they printed tickets E bookers have booked 2 flights back from Gran Canaria to Newcastle instead of 1 flight each way. When he rang them up they refused to take the blame and said they don't make recordings of calls! So they have lost the flight money and it's cost them over £1500 to get extra flight to get there.

Date of experience: December 22, 2015
GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I concur with all the other bad reviews. Terrible company. Unprofessional. Best price guarantee my foot!. I am dreading my holiday with them now, wish I had booked with someone else. ABTA are you aware

Date of experience: January 11, 2014

Overview

ebookers has a rating of 1.4 stars from 102 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with ebookers most frequently mention customer service, credit card and full refund. ebookers ranks 409th among Travel Deals sites.

service
9
value
9
shipping
4
returns
4
quality
6