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TravelUp

Overview

The company demonstrates a mixed reputation, with notable strengths in the ease of the booking process and competitive pricing, which many customers found straightforward and efficient. However, significant concerns arise around customer service, particularly regarding unresponsive support, issues with reservation confirmations, and difficulties in modifying bookings. Instances of billing discrepancies and perceived bait-and-switch tactics have contributed to a growing sentiment of frustration among users. While some customers report positive interactions with staff, the overall trend indicates a need for improved communication and reliability to enhance customer trust and satisfaction.

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value
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shipping
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returns
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quality
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Florida
1 review
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AWFUL customer service
July 25, 2021

Attempted to get in contact with a human, nobody could get me in touch with someone to help modify or cancel my reservation. I kept being told to just email and they'll respond. Took them 2 days. When I reached out out was an hour later, granted my reservation was modified but because it took them so long they charged me because they said I waited to long. I just hope when I show up the reservation is there when I show up.

TravelUp attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond
Date of experience: June 25, 2021
Admin T. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good afternoon,

We are very sorry to hear of your negative experience with TravelUp.

We apologise if you were waiting too long for a response, our team has been inundated due to COVID-19 and we are sorry for the inconvenience. We are glad to see our team has been able to assist you and your issue is resolved

Kind regards, TravelUp Team

Ohio
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Flight Refund Policy
September 15, 2021

Worst Travel Agent ever, I was consistently on hold with multiple agents providing me with random names on requesting a refund for my flights that I booked months in advance where the country is has been moved to the Red List due to Covid Restrictions. Advised Customer Support that i was scared of traveling and would like a refund however they completely ignored my request and suggested i should chose a different date or country where i had to £200 more for flights. Very disappointed with there service and approach to venerable customer in this pandemic. Please guys do not book with Travelup and booked directly with the Airlines to avoid any disappointment.

Date of experience: August 16, 2021
Admin T. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

Unfortunately, our team will have to follow the airline policies and our own terms and conditions when making changes or refunding a booking.

If your flight has not been cancelled we cannot provide a refund due to airline policies. You can check for refund applicable by following the link below

https://www.travelup.com/en-gb/flight-status

We apologise for any inconvenience that this may have caused you over this time period.

Kind regards, TravelUp Team

India
1 review
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Very helpful
June 22, 2022

The ticket booking was very stressful since the price changed by the minute. The price was different when we looked at the overview and when we tried to book it, it changed (in less than a minute). But Shane Bond's assistance on the phone was really helpful.

Date of experience: June 22, 2022
TravelUp T. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

Thank you for your feedback!

As our website is linked to a live flight system availability can unfortunately change in line with demand. We are glad to hear that Shane was able to turn your experience around.

We apologise for any inconvenience that may have been caused at this time.

Kind Regards
TravelUp Team

Panama
1 review
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We arrived and the hotel that we booked was full!
November 14, 2021

We arrived and the hotel that we booked was full! We were never contacted we were just moved to a much cheaper hotel and still charged the full price! No one has been helpful or has tried resolving the issue or even offered a refund.

Date of experience: October 15, 2021
Admin T. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Dear Lindsey,

We are sorry to hear about your negative experience.

We can see that one of our agents is currently assisting and is waiting upon our supplier for more details before we can resolve the situation

We apologise for the delay and thank you for your patience during this process.

Kind regards, TravelUp Team

Massachusetts
1 review
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Picking up a room was very confusing
March 12, 2022

Picking up a room was very confusing. The same room was listed twice, one included breakfast and was less expensive. I accidentally picked the one without breakfast. I immediately called and email travelup, but never got a response to my email and the person in the phone told me there was nothing he could do.

I am very unhappy with my experience and plan to tell my 350K followers about this.

Date of experience: February 10, 2022
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Slow communication and 50% refund!
July 22, 2021

After Covid putting a halt to our trip for second year Me and my group requested a cash refund and only received 50%
Obviously my party are disappointed with this outcome and won't be using travel up in the future

TravelUp attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond
Date of experience: June 22, 2021
Admin T. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Dear Joanne,

We are very sorry to see you have had a poor experience with TravelUp.

After checking your booking we can see that you originally was going to lose the whole amount, but after negotiating with our supplier we were able to agree to refund back around 75% of your booking. A full voucher option was also a viable option as it covered any future price increases. We understand this is a frustrating situation however we feel our team have been very helpful to assist you here.

However we do apologise for the inconvenience this may have caused you and your party.

Kind regards, TravelUp Team

GB
1 review
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Avoid at all costs.
September 12, 2024

Airline cancelled flight 2 days before our departure, notified TRAVEUP in good time. They failed to notify us so stranded at airport having to re-arrange our own flight. Contact numbers given not available over weekend and on Monday morning after 9:00am phone line was answered but ending up in Pakistan with very rude person, continually speaking over me.
HONESTLY DONT RISK BOOKING WITH THE COMPANY.

Date of experience: September 2, 2024
Steve M. TravelUp Rep
9 months ago

Good evening, Mark.

Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us.

We are truly sorry to hear about the difficulties and frustration you encountered with your hotel reservation. We understand how exhausting and stressful it must have been, especially after a long day of travel and performances.

Please accept our deepest apologies for the inconvenience you faced. This is certainly not the level of service we strive to provide at TravelUp. We empathize with the discomfort and frustration you experienced during your stay.

To address this issue and investigate what went wrong, we would appreciate if you could provide us with more details about your booking. Please email us at hotels@travelup.com with your booking reference number and any additional information related to your experience. This will help us look into the matter thoroughly and work towards a resolution.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We are committed to improving our services and ensuring a better experience for our customers in the future.

Best regards,
TravelUp.

Arizona
1 review
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No refund
July 25, 2021

The hotel told me that they will refund me my stay for lack of service, but they said that they will send the refund to travel up so they can issue the refund to me as they were the one who charged my card. Travel up are now saying that they have a third party that should issue my credit! I paid Travel up and no one else, and don't care who is the third party is. Don't use this service, it's a bad business

TravelUp attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond
Date of experience: June 25, 2021
Admin T. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

We are very sorry to hear of your poor experience with TravelUp.

We can see from your booking that our team have been able to resolve the issue and your refund is currently in process, we are just waiting for the supplier to return your funds from the hotel. We hope you will be refunded as soon as possible.

Kind regards, TravelUp Team

Florida
1 review
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AVOID THEM AT ALL COSTS! Pay more if you have to, but do not buy through Travelup. They never provided a confirmation number beside the one saying you made a reservation with them. The hotel I booked with had no idea who I was and there was no way to prove I had paid for the room because TravelUp never gave me the real confirmation number. At this point, I have tried to reach their customer service 6 times and when I do get through they said to wait while they reached out to their suppliers and they would get back to me. Well, they never did. I am 2 days from my trip with no place to stay. I am currently waiting to speak to a customer service rep (I have been waiting for over an hour and this will be my third call in three days) to cancel it and get my money back so I can try to get a new hotel.

Date of experience: April 14, 2021
Texas
1 review
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The website kept refreshing and changing the dates. So when I booked, the dates were wrong. The actual dates were not available. When I try to cancel the same hour, I still got charged with the $33 fee. Will not use this service again.

TravelUp attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond
Date of experience: July 22, 2021
Admin T. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

We are sorry this has happened to you. We have not heard of this happening to a customer before, so we will be checking our website to make sure it is running smoothly. Your choice should be shown to you, including dates before you click on 'Buy'.

We are sorry if you have been inconvenienced by this situation.

Kind regards, TravelUp Team

California
1 review
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Travelup misleading in his advertising for the "non refundable deposit" for our hotel booking. We found out this deposit is not a deposit. It's a nonrefundable fee once you make the reservation for the hotel we selected.

Date of experience: June 24, 2024
Steve M. TravelUp Rep
12 months ago

Good evening, Bob.

We sincerely apologise to hear about your experience with our hotel booking deposit policy.

Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

At TravelUp, we strive to be transparent and ethical in all our dealings, including our deposit policies. We regret any misunderstanding regarding the nature of the "non-refundable deposit" for your hotel booking. We aim to ensure that our customers are fully informed about all terms and conditions associated with their bookings.

To investigate this matter further and address your concerns directly, could you please email us at hotels@travelup.com with your booking details? This will allow us to look into your specific case and provide assistance accordingly.

Once again, we apologise for the confusion and appreciate your feedback, which helps us improve our services.

Best regards,
TravelUp.

Ireland
1 review
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We are really disappointed in Travelup. After we booked a room at Zafiro Palmanova for our first family holiday, Travelup contacted us in a very positive manner, offering to help finalize the booking or even get the room at a better price. However, when we informed them that we had already completed the booking, we discovered they were overcharging customers by about 370€ for the same room.

When we brought this to their attention, their attitude changed abruptly. They refused to offer any assistance and were quite rude, with all niceties disappearing instantly.

I understand that Travelup is a third-party vendor, but charging such extortionate prices is simply unfair. We will be contacting the hotel directly about this issue and will book directly through hotels in the future.

Also prior to this bad review travel up responded to me and asked to email there *******@travelup.com which then resulted in further abrupt rudeness and poor customer relations.

Travelup's poor customer service and unreasonable pricing have left a very bad impression on us.

Date of experience: June 12, 2024
Steve M. TravelUp Rep
12 months ago

Good afternoon, David,

Thank you for reaching out to us about your booking.

Please accept our apologies for the unprofessionalism you have received from our team. This is not how we conduct business at TravelUp, and further investigations will be carried out regarding this experience.

Please share more at - hotels@travelup.com along with your booking reference number so that we can follow this up internally.

Regards,
TravelUp

Florida
1 review
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I booked with your company for the first time
March 20, 2022

I booked with your company for the first time. I received a confirmation email and when I arrived from Arizona to the resort in Florida, I was advised that my reservation was canceled. The property manager told me your agency was advised in advance that there were no rooms available. I am having difficulty working with a representative from your company to resolve this issue.

Date of experience: February 18, 2022
TravelUp T. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good Afternoon,

We are very disappointed to hear you have had a negative experience with TravelUp.

We can see that this has since been resolved and apologise for any inconvenience that may have been caused at this time.

Kind regards, TravelUp Team

Texas
2 reviews
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I had mixed feelings at the beginnig
July 22, 2021

I have not obtained any communication with Travel Up at all. I had my Hotel information but not any confirmation or anything else I can just walk in and be received. I was scared that nothing has been sent to me. Once I communicated with them all was fine, I was sent all my bookings and everything was fine. I had what I asked for, no complain what so ever. I had the Hotel I asked and the price too. Thank you for your services, I am pleased.

Date of experience: June 22, 2021
Admin T. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Dear Henry,

We can see that one of the members of staff from our hotel team has sent over your hotel confirmation. We are very sorry if the system did not automatically send you one upon booking.

We hope you enjoy your travels!

Kind regards, TravelUp

Arkansas
1 review
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Totally a scam...
February 18, 2020

Took my money (700$) for a hotel room that is not available. The hotel has no record of my reservation and is totally booked. Now Travelup will not return my money. Costumer service keeps giving me the run around, sending generic emails, and even hung up on me. My only option is to "cancel" my reservation for a fee...

Date of experience: February 18, 2020
GB
1 review
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Worst service
May 27, 2020

Booked British Airways flights through Travel Up, but unfortunately flights were cancelled. BA confirmed full refund sent to Travel Up, however, Travel Up will not give full refund. After weeks of no contact, I received one email saying the will take an admin fee. They updated their T&C's in February 2020 to enable them to take an admin fee (I booked December 2019), and therefore I am not legally contracted to new T&C's. They are illegally trying to give me a reduced refund and I am receiving no contact to discuss this. Awful customer service, not professional and worst of all they are abusing their customers rights. Worst company I have ever dealt with - here's to hoping I eventually get my refund back, safe to say I will never be using them again.

Date of experience: May 27, 2020
New York
1 review
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My husband and I traveled from upstate New York to North Carolina and stayed at the SureStay Plus Hotel in Fayetteville. The hotel was very nice and clean. Staff and guest were very welcoming and there to assist. The front desk staff was extremely helpful and their dedication to make sure that my husband and I was good is the key thing that will make us stay at that hotel again. I strongly recommend this hotel to anyone traveling to North Carolina. 5 stars is all I can rate but they deserve and 11 for going above and beyond!

Date of experience: July 24, 2023
Rebecca H. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good evening,

Thank you for sharing your 5 stars review and we’re so happy to hear you had a great experience at the "Sure Stay Plus Hotel" in North Carolina.

Your review made our day! Our whole team works very hard to keep our customers happy, but we can only do it thanks to amazing customers like you.

Thanks again, and we hope to serve you again soon.

Regards,

Travel Up

New Zealand
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Never Again
July 29, 2021

Charged an Admin fee and Charged a Cancellation Fee.
With Admin Fee, Travel Up worked out dearer than if I booked through the hotel alone. Hotel also had no cancellation fee.
On top of this when I cancelled booking they confirmed cancellation via email, then proceeded to withdraw full amount for the room. Fortunately after I called Travel Up money was put back into my account minus the cancelation Fee.

Would not recommend.

TravelUp attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond
Date of experience: June 29, 2021
Zach A. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good morning,

We are disappointed to hear about your experience with us.

We are sorry to hear about the mistake during the refund process and we are glad to see this is now resolved. Our deposits are non refundable for cancellations which is fairly normal for deposits wherever you go unfortunately.

We hope you are able to get away and travel soon!

Kind regards, TravelUp Team

Virginia
1 review
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Don't buy from them!
February 7, 2021

I booked with them a hotel. Bellagio, Las Vegas. When I arrived after a long flight. Front desk told me that my booking is canceled. It was my and my husband's anniversary! I was so angry and tired so I paid extra to book a room at the day I arrived! Next day I called them and they told me "I'm sorry. We gonna give you a refund"
Day before my booking I emailed them is everything alright with my booking?
No response!
They gave me a refund but for such thing they should've give me a credit too! So disappointed! The worse travel company!

Date of experience: February 7, 2021
New York
1 review
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Costumer service is terrible with them. Took them well over a month to get back to me. Tried to get a refund due to covid related issues. I even sent them my results of a positive test and they still ended up taking the money. They replied with they will not negotiate any further and closed the case. Save your time and money, go directly to known websites.

TravelUp attempted to help this customer through the Sitejabber Resolution Center, but the customer did not respond
Date of experience: January 18, 2022
TravelUp T. TravelUp Rep
over a year old

Good Afternoon,

We are sorry to hear about your negative experience you have had with TravelUp.

Thank you for providing us with further information so that we were able to locate your booking. We can see that you requested to cancel your reservation and the team advised you of the refund amount as per the cancellation terms agreed to at time of booking. After escalating this with our supplier we can see that a further amount was also refunded back to you. Unfortunately on this occasion a full refund was not possible due to the policy.

We apologise for any inconvenience that may have been caused at this time.

Kind Regards
TravelUp Team