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New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Scammers!
March 31, 2018

I booked a refundable ticket in November, 2017 with Vayama and cancelled it a week after. I was charged multiple fees for cancellation, which I paid over the phone to the Customer Support team and received receipts for the same. It is now April 2018 and I have still not received the refund. Vayama insists that the refund had been issued but refuses to give me a receipt or an authorization code. Moreover, they've stopped responding to my mails and customer care puts me on hold and then hangs up when I tell them the problem.

Clearly they've made some type of administrative error and are now refusing to refund the money. Stay away from these crooks!

Date of experience: March 31, 2018
New York
21 reviews
87 helpful votes
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Wanted to cancel within the 24 hrs allowed by federal law -- they said there would be a $50 cancellation fee. Normally, it is absolutely free if done through airlines. Not sure why they don't follow the law.

Date of experience: March 18, 2015
Connecticut
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Worst Company Ever!
March 18, 2020

After verbally confirming my wife's departure twice on the telephone, they denied it ever happened and try to sell me a business class ticket for over $10,000. I lost over 4K with them and there mistakes, they never take any responsibility, not only did my wife get stranded and we way over paid, but we Are deeply hurt by this careless company. After calling them multiple times to resolve the issue, all they do is deny deny and make it look like we were in the wrong.

Date of experience: March 18, 2020
Lithuania
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Luggage Scam
January 9, 2019

Booked a ticket through Vayama.com. I did it in the past and there never been any additional luggage charges. Traveling overseas there is always one luggage included in the ticket, not with Vayama. Dropping my luggage at SAS counter I was unpleasantly surprised that there is $120 additional for each way. Never was disclosed anywhere during the booking process, What a scam! Will never book through Vayama again! Customer service was horrible as well keep telling me that there are their luggage policies online which are always changing and I should check them... Seriously? Why nowhere during the booking process there was no indication that luggage will be not included. Stay away from this scam save yourself nerves and money! If I could I would give zero stars...

Date of experience: January 9, 2019
Ohio
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Awful Experience
February 20, 2016

Avoid Vayama at all costs. First of all they failed to contact us regarding a reservation we thought we had made but there was an issue. Then, as a result of their initial blunder, we got our flights mixed up and they wanted to charge $432 for a change to correct the issue on a $132 flight. Worst experience ever. Vayama is a total joke. Zero customer service. If I could rate negative stars that's what they deserve.

Date of experience: February 20, 2016
Washington
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Lida A.
May 25, 2020

Do not book your flight with vayama! Me and several family and friends booked through different agencies to attend wedding. 2 months ago Due to pandemic flights cancelled. Everyone has been refunded for their money except me since I was the only one booked with vayama! They have no customer service, no phone number, no email answer other than generic one. Awful experience.

Date of experience: May 25, 2020
North Carolina
1 review
3 helpful votes
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These people have ridiculous charges for making reservations; if you have to change or cancel reservations, they charge at least $100 US per change, plus "undocumented" charges--all on top of the airlines' change fees. Yes, they answer their telephone, but their agents are unpleasant to downright rude. I have found that either English-language websites of the airlines themselves or reputable travel agencies in the countries being visited are much easier, faster, and cheaper than Vayama. I don't understand why Kayak refers to them!

Date of experience: November 20, 2017
Ireland
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Never Ever Ever Again!
August 22, 2017

They put wrong details of passengers on the ticket and then charge you crazy amount to amend. I booked 8 passengers in one booking and 6 of them have incorrect details when I received the ticket. I could see in my cache that the details entered were correct. One passenger surname was missing when its mandatory while booking. Their customer service guys are rude and hung up calls when trying to resolve the issue. Called the airline and they said call Vayama. This isn't the 1st time I booked online flights that I could book 6 incorrect tickets out of 8. I will never ever ever go near to them. Their ads kept coming up to annoy me even further! Frustrated, annoyed, disappointed + a lot more!

Date of experience: August 22, 2017
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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They are quick to book your ticket. But one of a very few booking services that does not let you cancel in 24 hours. That policy was changed on the phone call from 24 hours to "Only same day cancellation allowed". Bottom line. Be careful when you cancel and when you change your flight to make sure the timing is correct or they will make you pay for it. Not all agents knows what they are talking about. So be alert and ask questions even if the lady gets all testy on you.
Never again. Just steer clear from them!

Date of experience: November 3, 2017
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Scam
June 12, 2019

Scam, fraud, there are lots of chance not ending up going your trip. Disaster. Customer service is impolite and useless. I wrote comment on the website and vayama agent came and apologized and asked me to leave my booking number, just to show in public that they care about customer. But no action was taking when I sent my booking number.

Date of experience: June 12, 2019
Illinois
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Worst website ever!
October 31, 2013

Worst website ever! We did a huge mistake by buying tickets from vayama.
Had to get dates changed and can you imagine there is no phone line for the department who takes care of it!
They told us to wait for an email from that department since thats the only way to communicate with them and they didn't even give us the email contact of them.
It has been 24 hours we are waiting and there is no sign of any email. We have a dying family member in the other country whom we have to reach and the call center of vayama guys say they can't do anything about it.
Made several phone calls asked for the higher management contact numbers but they refuse to provide any.
We are stuck with our thousands of dollars with the website and can't explain the level of frustration we are in right now.
Never felt so helpless before.
Please please i am warning you do not ever think of doing business with these people even if it is saving you huge chunks of money. Worst customer service ever experienced!

Date of experience: October 31, 2013
Canada
3 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Vayama is an scam agency, an entity with no integrity or an agency which to be trusted. Be aware of dealing with them because for sure you will be scammed. They haven't refund my flight ticket booking that has been cancelled by them, without even notifying me about that changes, this issue happened more than one year ago, despite that I am communicating with them since then, unfortunately, all what they are doing sending me the automated reply via email. Please be acknowledged be aware of not dealing with them, they are a real fraud.

Date of experience: July 18, 2020
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Stay Clear of Vayama
August 21, 2018

You're throwing money away with Vayama. I lost $1,500 on a flight schedule because they were going to charge an additional $1,000 to adjust the flights to a date 9 months from now that was 60% the cost of my original flight. I called both the airline and Vayama 6 times over two days and no one could help me.

Date of experience: August 21, 2018
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Liars, cheaters.
July 16, 2019

I got their email saying the flight schedule was changed to one day late. I asked them to cancel it. They charged me service fee $100 and partial refund $225. I asked them where they were located. "India". I will tell all my friends that you should never have anything to do with this Vayama company!

Date of experience: July 16, 2019
Arizona
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Avoid at all costs
May 26, 2016

Avoid this outfit at all costs. First, they screwed up the names on the tickets (which have to match your passport after all), then invoked some fine print in their terms to prevent me from re-booking a ticket when my plans changed. After over an hour on hold, speaking with barely intelligible reps, they refused to make the change, even after I confirmed with the airline that a change was possible. You might save a couple dollars on the ticket, but in the future I will always book through the airline of a reputable travel site. This mistake cost me a couple thousand dollars.

Date of experience: May 26, 2016
KR
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Originally I thought Vayama was fine, maybe even good until I looked at my credit card statement and realized they had charged me for making 2 phone calls to them because I was having problems with their website. I didn't ever book through them on the phone b/c the attendant told me I would be charged $15.00. It didn't matter anyway, as they turned around and charged me approximately $100.00 in fees for making 2 freaking phone calls! They are AWFUL. Do NOT use this site! It's a rip-off.

Date of experience: February 11, 2012
Lebanon
1 review
1 helpful vote
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The Worst Customer Service
September 25, 2018

The worst customer service I've ever reached. I submitted a name correction request due to their "mandatory" Given name on the website while we do not have a Given name in our country. So ticket was issued with a duplicated name.
10 days ago, they stated that they will get back to me within 48 hours. I called them and no updates! Till now, I'm still waiting for the name correction to be done while I need the updated ticket urgently to submit it. They just telling me to wait. Seriously?

Date of experience: September 25, 2018
Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I just lost 1500 dollars to these guys. Called them several times, but they said there was nothing they could do, some of them even pretended not be at the other end of the phone, just so i would hang up. Very rude. I will never make the mistake of booking on Vayama ever again. Stay away if you do not want to lose your money.

Date of experience: June 11, 2017
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Lost my money
November 28, 2019

Bought airline tickets, cancelled travel in July, 2019. Vayama made me pay $200 more for initiation of refund, which was promised. So far- no refund. Every time I am calling them they are asking for patience. More and more it looks like a scam and extortion. I lost hope. Do you hear me, Vayama?

Date of experience: November 28, 2019
Kansas
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Refund
February 28, 2015

Do not use this company as my flight was changed 8 times in 3 months and when I wanted to cancel and ask for refund they charged me almost the full fare for cancellation. They are not willing to resolve any issues and take no responsibility. The customer service reps and managers are in India and difficult to understand. Would recommend to anyone using Kayak or Vayama to avoid using them at all.

Date of experience: February 28, 2015

Overview

Vayama has a rating of 1.1 stars from 422 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Vayama most frequently mention customer service, credit card and full refund. Vayama ranks 208th among Travel Search Engine sites.

service
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value
21
shipping
11
returns
15
quality
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