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HotelPlanner.com is the leading provider of online services in the global group hotel marketplace. Listed among the top 50 travel sites in the world and ranked number one in group travel, HotelPlanner.com is on track to produce nearly 1 million group l...


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Founded in 2003
West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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HotelPlanner Reviews Summary

HotelPlanner has a rating of 4.4 stars from 2,130 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with HotelPlanner most frequently mention customer service, great job and best rate. HotelPlanner ranks 10th among Hotels sites.

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Ohio
1 review
1 helpful vote
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After booking through HotelPlanner.com for a friend's wedding, the website barely worked as it should. I tried on Safari several times and it didn't work. I tried on Chrome and I had to refresh twice for it to work. (A five minute process taking about 25 at this point.) And finally, the site automatically selected dates, doubling my reservation. There are 7 charge attempts on my credit card statement proving the above. Yet, when I called support and explained, they refused to correct this. Now, I am paying for a room I don't need. Customer service is the last priority for this vendor.

Date of experience: March 21, 2019
Hotel P. — HotelPlanner Rep
over a year old

Greetings,

The date to Ms. Hannah's reservation was internally amended with the hotel and she was issued a refund of (1 Night) that was allocated back to her account.

Regards,

HotelPlanner Management Team

GB
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Great service
September 21, 2018

I booked a room for my whole family which means four of us. When we got to the hotel they wanted us to pay for a bigger room. HotelPlanner paid the upgrade fee. I will always use this site and recommend them to others.

Date of experience: September 21, 2018
New Hampshire
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I booked 2 nights 1 room at Best Western in Pompton Plains NJ through HotelPlanner for total of 276.47. Everything was good up until my mom got a call in the morning that my dad is really sick and we had to go home, back to NH. Now I called HotelPlanner and they said they can refund me for the night I didn't stay at. It's been 2 Weeks and Counting, I have called several times and left humorous number of voicemails. I call and they redirect me to a woman who never answers or even responds. I called again 4 days later and they did samething, after I asked nicely to not redirect me to that woman. I hung up, called and asked again for a good 5 minutes finally the girl didn't redirect me to that lady. But, They are still leading me on, telling me they will refund me, they just have to talk to the hotel manager and get the receipt of the night I stayed for and then they will refund me. I have the receipt but for some reason and I don't know why but they have to talk to the hotel manager, they can't just take my receipt I got from the hotel. I called the hotel manager and she told me there is no one by that name that called or left her any voicemail messages. So if it is 2 weeks and counting, I shall just say that my $138.23 is not ever gonna be returned back to me. They ripped me off and I hope you take my advice and not go with this site because if any problem randomly occurs at all, they won't resolve it. They'll keep you hanging. Also, they deleted my bad review on Facebook so they're just trying to lure people in thinking that this company is worth 4.4 star rating when they aren't worth that. Because they ripped me off a lot of money, I am never recommending this site to anyone. Because this happened to me, then I know for sure I am not the only one that this is happening to.

Date of experience: September 2, 2018
Hotel P. — HotelPlanner Rep
over a year old

Greetings,

We appreciate the opportunity to review you concern and apologize for this experience. Our reservation specialist was able to contact the hotel on your behalf and the reason that you were not yet refunded was because the hotel was having a difficult time locating your reservation.

HotelPlanner was able to provide the hotel the company’s internal information over the course of the date that you booked your reservation and the hotel was able to locate the reservation under a different person’s name so unfortunately HotelPlanner was not made aware that you modified the name on the reservation internally with the hotel which led to the confusion and refund not yet being processed.

Nonetheless, the hotel was able to provide the requested documentation to our reservation specialist and you have been issued a refund for the last night of your reservation that was not utilized. Please note that refunds do take between 3 – 7 business days for the funds to be allocated back to your account.

Regards,

Hotel Planner Management Team

New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Great Service
July 26, 2018

While looking into hotels in Frankenmuth, I made a mistake by clicking on the wrong button and accidentally booked the wrong room. I immediately called to have the mistake corrected. They were kind enough to reverse the charge so I could start all over. Thats great service!

Date of experience: July 26, 2018
Hotel P. — HotelPlanner Rep
over a year old

Greetings,

Thank you for your review. Our team takes great pride in providing our customers with outstanding and attentive customer service, and we thank you for your compliments on their effort.

Regards,

HotelPlanner

India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Date of experience: January 10, 2018
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Hotel Planner scammed me! They quoted and took my credit card for one price and doubled the price later! Beware! Don't book with them!

Date of experience: June 26, 2015
Hotel P. — HotelPlanner Rep
over a year old

Greetings,

Thank you for review and on the behalf of HotelPlanner I do apologize to you for any inconvenience that this has caused you. Can you please send an email to reservations@hotelplanner.com with the itinerary number of your reservation so that I can look further into this matter for you. Please copy and paste the Subject Title above ((Hotel Planner | Glenda R. - Site Jabber Review)) when you are sending the email.

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HotelPlanner Management Team

Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Make sure you read that no charge cancellation fee is for the room only they Hotelscheap.org still charges you a service fee for each night of the reservation that will not be cancelled or credited back. I unfortunately went through this site to booked a motel in Austin that was rated 3.0 with decent looking pictures but when I arrived was the motel was totally filthy, stunk and looked very dangerous to even stay there (total misrepresentation on their booking site). I cancelled the reservation and did get money credited back for the motel but HOTEL$CHEAP.ORG still felt that they actually did me a service and would not refund my money for the service fee for the entire six nights.

Date of experience: September 4, 2014
District of Columbia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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On August 31 I booked two rooms through hotelscheap.org at the Melrose in Washington, DC for the Thanksgiving holiday. Our travel plans were impacted by Hurricane Sandy and I wanted to add one night to one room and subtract one night from the other -- a wash in terms of cost, but I figured I should go through hotelscheap.org to work this out. I was told that I had no reservations; that they had been canceled. Why? How? When? When was I supposed to find out? No explanation save something nebulous about the hotel accepting walk-in guests. I pressed but to no avail. I received a cancelation from this company by email while I was on the line with the representative who assured me that my refund would be processed within 24 hours. I called my credit card company today. Nothing yet. I called hotelscheap.org and was told the refund had been processed buy it would take 3 to 7 days for it to 'show'. This representative also insisted that I MUST have gotten notice of the cancelation. Not so. I asked to speak to someone and was told that the 'department' that handles cancelations only speaks to customers being canceled. HUH? I said I didn't know whether hotelscheap was the hotel's vendor or the other way around, but that as a customer I regarded hotelscheap as a company of all feasance: mis, mal and non. To think that I would have shown up at the Melrose fully expecting to check in and begin a happy holiday with my family only to learn then that we had no rooms and that hotelscheap had a considerable amount of my money. NEVER do business with hotelscheap. Stick to the reputable, tried and true companies.

Date of experience: November 9, 2012
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I've wasted hours of my life on the phone with them. Approx. 10 different service people who couldn't use my codeto redeem a coupon that I had earned. They would place me on hold for a seriously long time so I could talk to their supervisor ( who was just another co worker) or in a few instances would give me another number to call which seemed to be hotels.com where they didn't use the code. One person assured me that after he took down all my credit card info and placed the reservation that someone else would enter the rebate code for me. I tried to cancel that reservation within the same call and they still wanted to charge me their hidden penalty fee. I could go on and on. Now that I think back to my summer vacation which I had booked through them, I recall that the hotel we had booked had no record of our booking and said it was a wrong code. Luckily we still we able to book. I think that both websites are affilitated with eachother and they are both scams! I wonder if anyone has ever been able to use the 30 per cent back credit coupon. My husband thinks you pay a premium to book with them in the first place as he was able to find better prices on the internet for same rooms on our summer vacation.
I am frustrated by the amount of time I wasted trying to redeem our credit back coupon only to be finally told by the last rep that we couldn't use them in an angry tone... for this time period. STAY AWAY from both hotelscheap.org and hotelscheap.com.

Date of experience: December 28, 2011