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1 review
3 helpful votes
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NEVER!
January 31, 2023

NEVER! My worst experience. I will never buy a flight ticket from those websites again. My flight was cancelled and guess what? They have not refunded. I have been waiting for the refund for '8 MONTHS'. You can never contact them if things go wrong even if you have paid extra for being able to communicate with them. That is what you can only find in terms of solution> 'Your refund might take a very long time.'

Date of experience: January 31, 2023
Colorado
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Worst experience ever!
July 2, 2023

I bought ticket from kiwi involving Swiss airlines. They missed my connecting flight. Yet didn't provide me help although i had paid extra 22 dollars for their premium help service because i was travelling in an emergency. They send alternatives after taking 1 day and also those alternatives have around 24-48 hours.
Using their service i lost my precious extra 2 days and 250 dollars. Also i was restless for whole travel time. Never use their service any more.

Date of experience: July 2, 2023
Serbia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Avoid at all costs
September 13, 2021

They have not yet returned the money of my flight ticket from last July (14 months ago) to Tenerife that I know the airlines paid them already. They are keeping the money and not responding to queries even.
Avoid them at all costs! It will be better for you.

Date of experience: September 13, 2021
Virginia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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BEWARE! THIS IS A SCAM!
September 2, 2023

Do NOT use this company! They are a crooked scam. They will take your money and won't help you. They outsource to other countries with people who don't have customer service skills. They just keep repeating the same thing without assisting you in anyway. Do not fall for this

Date of experience: September 2, 2023
Nevada
0 reviews
9 helpful votes
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Worst company in the world
December 30, 2021

There is no actual person to talk to. The contact us is bogus, and all they have is an automated system. I've left multiple messages demanding some sort of customer service or even an email or message back via their site and I've gotten nothing. They took my money and they don't care about their customers at all. I even called frontier airlines, who said that Kiwi.com is their travel agency, and there was nothing that could be done to help me at all. Forgive my language but screw frontier and this bogus $#*! travel company.

Date of experience: December 30, 2021
Israel
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I bought a ticket from Madrid to Tel Aviv going through Turkey. The arrival and departure on Turkey was on the same airport. A couple of weeks after buying the ticket I got an email from Kiwi informing me 'the airline' changed the tickets this time arriving to a different airport (70 km away) from the one the flight departs from. Since the connection is 2 hours long, of course I will not be able to make it if I need to change airports. When I received the email I was half asleep and apparently clicked on 'accept' when reading about the great news. Now this, according to kiwi, holds me liable and if I want to get the flight which I originally purchased, I must pay an extra $300. So now this discount airline provider will become more expensive to me than having bought from a normal place to begin with. Their customer service is useless, I got no solution from them. Do not buy there, they will deceive you so they can charge you more money in the end. If I could place 0 stars I would!

Date of experience: March 18, 2022
Mexico
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Scam!
August 31, 2023

I purchased $670 in seat upgrades for wife and I while flying through Europe, never received them, the offered 40$ in compensation.

Kiwi.com is the absolute worst.

Almost a year later and still fighting… they are the worst travel agency out there ….stay far away!

Date of experience: August 31, 2023
Jordan
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Avoid at all costs
November 17, 2023

Worst customer service, a "travel agency" focused on ways to steal your money, specially on flight cancellations, if you dont pay the extra funds noted as"guarantee" you will not get the funds of cancelled flight which is globally obliged by the airlines, and the alternative flight they show are more expensive than the airline websites.

Date of experience: November 17, 2023
Bulgaria
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This is the worst booking company ever. My flight got cancelled because of the virus outbreak and ever since instead of a refund, I received around 3 useless emails from them saying that they are treating my demand. Impossible to reach their customer service. A year and 2 months treating a simple demand, I just don't understand how is this possible? I even got an email with a video of the company director explaining how their staff is working day and night to refund all of the customers whose flights got cancelled because of the pandemic. How can you work day and night for 1 year and still not get the job done, given that it should take maximum 40 min to treat a demand as simple as mine?
I regret so much booking with this company, even if it was the only booking company in the world, I would prefer to walk to my destination instead of booking again with them.

Date of experience: April 26, 2021
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Do not book with Kiwi
December 7, 2022

Do not book with Kiwi. My flight was delayed by 14 hours (prompting me to cancel) and they sent me £10 total.

I booked another flight, having lost $700 already, and that one got delayed too, making it physically impossible for me to fly home.

Date of experience: December 7, 2022
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Kiwi is NOT transparent in costs - hidden fees
March 15, 2023

Kiwi does a terrible job of integrating potential cost increases up front. Like sure it'll show you the lowest cost flight up front, but backed behind that are SO many hidden fees that they do not warn you of. Not to mention their documents and emails are not user friendly. Again, not transparent in warnings and reminders. For example, I booked a flight that is typically just 3 hours direct. Kiwi booked two direct flights to my destination and one flight back. Entire thing = $143 - fine sounds reasonable. Come to find out, all flights were Frontier Airlines AND you cannot update baggage on their site once the purchase is made. So, I ended paying in total $278 dollars MORE in just CARRY-ON luggage, a high cost fee for EACH of the flights - 3 total. That is MORE than the original flight tag itself. So total for this whole thing I actually spent $421. Ridiculous. Highly do not recommend using them.

Date of experience: March 15, 2023
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Worst Service Event
September 15, 2023

I was told I could change or cancel my flight if I did it in 24 hours, when I tried to do this, they said thats not an option. When I asked for a change of the flight, they can't do that either. Customer service is horrible, don't follow what they tell you directly in text, so I will never ever use them again. Waste of a company!

Date of experience: September 15, 2023
Japan
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Actually a zero star or even minus
April 19, 2023

They do nothing at all; I have a flight in one week which needed to be rearranged by the airline they are not doing anything at all for past two weeks. Their quality of service is definitely the worst and I recommend no one to use them for booking anything even if they seem to give you a good deal.
They've given me a wrong info for the longest time til I questioned them. Not trustworthy at all. Please watch out.

Date of experience: April 19, 2023
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Booked a flight out of Hamilton, ON to Cancun and I purchased the 'guarantee' from Kiwi.com in case of cancellation - which I ended up cancelling the flight due to the snow storms we recently had and most flights were cancelled. They are refusing to refund my credit card and instead give me 'Kiwi Credits' which amounted to $14 dollars! This company is a scam and a joke stealing people's money, I don't ever want to use their services again and would advise anyone from booking through this website - they steal your money.

Date of experience: March 9, 2023
Missouri
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Lies, deceit, and theft
July 10, 2021

Kiwi informed me that my flights were cancelled so I requested a full refund. So far I have only been refunded about half of the amount. The trip was for July 2020 and the refund request was in June 2020. It has been over a year. They are now claiming that one of my flights was not cancelled so they are not obligated to give me a refund. However, I have a screen shot from Kiwi from the day when I requested the refund showing "Cancelled flight" next to both flights. Furthermore, their customer service is horrendous. I can no longer talk with anyone on the phone nor will anyone respond to chat messages. Prior to this I spoke with a couple agents who said I would be refunded the full amount, Nonetheless, here I sit, not fully refunded.

Date of experience: July 10, 2021
Delaware
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Fraud charges
May 6, 2023

They book your reservation with low price but then you are stuck with them for any changes as they give you $10 back and they change their terms and condition to deviate from department of transportation policy. So be aware of these travel agency.

Date of experience: May 6, 2023
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Site failure refund method
December 7, 2021

I have book many times with this company now I am going to stop booking. I planned a booking weeks ahead of time, the airlines cancels i asked for a fund they said it's up to airline to give refund it can take up to 90 days, I got a answer almost two months they send me a email select payment method it doesn't work I contacted customer service they said time has ran out only credit only.

Date of experience: December 7, 2021
Indonesia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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All the bad reviews you saw everywhere about kiwi.com is true. It was my first experience to travel far away, i never know that kiwi.com is not a trusted company. Short story, i booked a flight from Kuala Lumpur - Rostov-on-Don on a round trip. Everything went normal from Kuala Lumpur to Rostov-on-Don, but when i want to go back to Kuala Lumpur, they cancelled my tickets by themselves and never return my money until now (already 9 months). When i was in airport to go back, i can't check in because of it. I'm only a student with short budget, the tickets is already expensive, i gave up all my savings, but this happened. I was stuck in Russia for one night until my parents gathered some money to take me back home. What a shame, at least give me my money back, every dollar is worth for me, i'm just a student from developing country

Date of experience: July 28, 2019
Michigan
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Booked 3 round trip plane tickets through Kiwi and upon receiving my confirmation email, discovered that they only gave me a one way. Called immediately to see where the return flight was and was told it was only a one way. Customer service was brutal and had absolutely zero remorse nor would they add the ticket back home or refund the money to look for a new round trip flight. I would recommend to avoid Kiwi at all costs.

Date of experience: March 25, 2022
Peru
1 review
0 helpful votes
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They cancelled our reservation 16 days after booked, confirmed by Kiwi and fully paid. This was 2 days before the flight. Airline still had seats available at 50% more of course. They must have hoped prices would go down and when they didn't, they simply cancelled us and refused to book the flight.

Date of experience: March 21, 2022

Overview

Kiwi.com has a rating of 1.3 stars from 2,166 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Kiwi.com most frequently mention customer service, full refund and credit card. Kiwi.com ranks 236th among Plane Tickets sites.

service
1,068
value
1,028
shipping
690
returns
872
quality
933
This company does not typically respond to reviews
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