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California
1 review
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Trivago is wasting their money with an awful ad campaign in the US. I reached out to the Marketing Department, and have not received a reply.
I travel quite a bit and use a few different platforms, apps and tools. I advise others on travel and am often asked what tools I use for booking travel. I am well within the target audience for Trivago.
Based on their awful ad, I would never use them.

Date of experience: January 5, 2025
Texas
1 review
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Bait and switch
January 14, 2024

They advertise a price and clearly state that the reservation is cancelable. Click on link, enter CC info, get a confirmation that reservation is non refundable. They hide behind the booking company and they're not responsible for the change in terms. Complete BS of a business model. There's a reason that they've been fined by governments for fraud. Only by stopping using them, will they go away for good.

Date of experience: January 14, 2024
Canada
1 review
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No savings
August 9, 2022

I used Trivago to stay at a Days Inn in Ontario Canada. I booked for 2 nights then decided to stay an extra night. I paid the motel directly for the extra night. When I checked my credit card statement I found there was no difference in price. Which begs the question, why not just book directly with the motel/hotel yourself?

Date of experience: August 9, 2022
Utah
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Poor rating Trivago
November 11, 2023

They would not refund or change the dates of my hotel stay. They don't really mean cancel the reservation 24 hours before. I will never use trivago again. I will call the Hotel and make my reservation.

Date of experience: November 11, 2023
Hungary
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Price is different when you are going to book. What is the use of a comparing site when prices are not correct shown on Trivago. It's not the booking site. Prices on Booking and Agora are mostly 2 or 3 times the price shown on Trivago when you click on the Trivago price.

Date of experience: February 22, 2023
Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Need my refund
February 20, 2023

I need my refund back my booking was booked the wrong date call and spoke to someone after two days of getting someone to finally answer said I had to wait 24 which it has been no one answered and still waiting on a refund which I haven't received and they took my money I need my money back don't have money to give away!

Date of experience: February 20, 2023
Indiana
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I was led to believe I was booking directly through the hotel and it was not labeled Trivago.after calling and making reservation my message from them said Trivago.My daughter to.d me she got a much lower rate going directly through the hotel.I told her I was duped because it looked like I was going directly through the hotel.I also said I may want to cancel at the ti e and they said I could but added an additional 7 dollars to my reservation.I canceled and when I called to cancel they said they were adding another additional fee.what a deceptive and horrible business.Yoy get a higher rate and they rip people off.Do not use them.

Date of experience: April 14, 2024
Wyoming
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Found a bed bug right as I was going to bed. Notified the manager who then called the owner. The owner showed no instantly became rude n condescending. Flat out blamed us for bringing them in. No plan to remedy the problem. We requested our refund n left. Inspect thoroughly the beds! Think twice before considering staying here. Magnify that picture!

Date of experience: May 20, 2020
Kentucky
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Ripped off
May 10, 2022

Booked a room with Days Inn Wyndham Effingham Illinois. The event we were going to attend ( FUNFEST) canceled all but one day for event. We called and canceled our hotel reservations for September 14th through 18th of 2022 on May 10th 2022. We have just given that money to someone because we cannot get a refund. We should have called and booked directly, ended up costing us much more than we would have saved going through this company. Very dishonest! Lesson learned!

Date of experience: May 10, 2022
India
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
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I booked three hotels via Trivago during the last two months. No complains! Fast and easy to book, best prices available and a top notch user surface. From my experience: Best hotel comparison website!

Date of experience: March 2, 2017
Netherlands
16 reviews
30 helpful votes
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Surprised to see so many 1 star ratings for Trivago. Found it helpful several times when looking for a decent hotel deal. Don't travel much, so maybe I'm not as picky.

I do have specific requirements such as an in-room refrigerator and microwave. Trivago let's me filter hotels for both.

Date of experience: July 31, 2017
South Africa
8 reviews
20 helpful votes
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Their persistent and excessive TV advertisements are enough to drive anyone bonkers. Whenever one of their ads come up I immediately change channels. I would rather use any other travel site than theirs.

Date of experience: February 13, 2018
Pennsylvania
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Helpful site and quick server responses. Have been using it for 2 years now, good deals and makes it easy to find a booking partner. Don't know all of the ones in the list but so far, I only made good experiences. This is why I would recommend trivago to my friends any time if they're looking for hotels.

Date of experience: July 11, 2014
New Mexico
3 reviews
10 helpful votes
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Booked a hotel with Trivago, which referred me to an outside website, and subsequently discovered I had paid more than $20.00 more than I could have obtained the advanced reservation elsewhere. This site is a total bogus scam, and their pitch man on TV accurately portrays their professionalism: totally absent.

Date of experience: October 1, 2014
Illinois
1 review
5 helpful votes
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This site is great!
August 5, 2013

This site is great! Trivago has focused on comparing hotels with each other in numerous perspectives. Before submitting your search you may filter for: price, hotel rating, number of stars, the distance to either the city center or other important sites, type of lodging, hotel facilities... also you may search for a specific hotel to find the cheapest price for that exact hotel. After setting the filters to your liking trivago will provide you with a list of suitable hotels which may be ordered by popularity, rating, price or distance. So again you choose to prioritize exactly what is most important to you. Overall I think it is a very carefully planned and user friendly service that I would like to recommend to others who like to take care of their travelling arrangements online.

Date of experience: August 5, 2013
Florida
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Beware!
June 4, 2016

I learned that if I had stepped into the chosen hotel, my rate would be $22 cheaper than booking through Trivago. Now I find that Trivago booked me not only for last night in Tennessee but has also booked me for three days from now in New Mexico via Priceline! There is absolutely no way to get hold of Trivago and get it made right. Priceline says "Too bad, so sad" and hotel refers everything back to 'the third carrier'. The minor convenience now seems not worth the costs.

Date of experience: June 2, 2016
New York
2 reviews
18 helpful votes
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Tri va no!
June 8, 2016

Absolutely the worst. Never, ever use them. Ruined my vacation, and they take no responsibility for their screw ups. Everyone points fingers at everyone else. I am bringing a law suit against them, which means going to NYC to get a judgement. It will be worth it.

I repeat: contemptible company, use at your own peril!

Date of experience: June 7, 2016
Australia
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I would like to pass comment on Trivago and shed a little light on the company. Firstly it is at least 66% part owned by Expedia so Expedia and its affiliates have a vested interest in it.
As an accommodation provider we have been trying for some extended period to get our business removed from their website as the data pertaining to the business is erroneous. Like those that use the site to book accommodation and then cant get a response I sympathize with you regarding their lack of communication. Numerous emails from us to them result in an auto generated email or a response that advises us to "sign up" and make the changes ourselves. Trivago are obstructionist, they do not respond to emails if they do it is always putting the responsibility back onto the other party or offering excuses as to why they cant do things. But then this is a company that allegedly offers free beer and breakfast to its employees why would you deal with them.

Date of experience: August 11, 2014
Massachusetts
3 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Tried this after seeing countless ads on CNBC
Bunch of baloney! I tested it out and managed to get better rates through Hotel.com AND direct to the hotel. Obviously they're making $ by taking a share and counting on people not doing their homework. I'll test it out again as I travel a few times a year but not holding out much hope...

Date of experience: June 6, 2014
Canada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Don't use either site. You will get ripped off. My first experience and it cost me 285 dollars. Elvoline is a scam company. They switched my reservation within 1 hour and then kept the money and now I can't get it back.

Date of experience: September 23, 2015
James M. Trivago Rep
over a year old

Dear Shawn,

Thank you for taking the time to leave a review.

Please note, as a hotel search, trivago is not involved in the booking process between the user, the online travel agent and the hotel, and therefore cannot, in any way, claim financial responsibility for the transaction process between these parties.

Nevertheless, before displaying rates from a booking site on trivago, a background check on the company is always conducted to ensure that their customers have the opportunity find the deals offered on their website. This background check has been completed for Elvoline.com. They are not a 'scam' company.

Trivago does not display deals from any site that does not pass our initial integration check, or where there are any reports that the site is not reliable.

We would love you to get in touch with us immediately at info@trivago.com so that we can assit you in resolving this issue.

Kind regards,
Trivago User support.

Overview

Trivago has a rating of 1.6 stars from 325 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Trivago most frequently mention credit card, customer service and next day. Trivago ranks 201st among Travel Search Engine sites.

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