Comments on: Why I No Longer Use Airbnb When I Travel And What I’m Using Instead

By: Gilly Platt

Gilly Platt — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 13:59:54 +0000

In reply to Vahagn. @Vahagn, yes I agree with you totally about B.C. Whereas my daughters have always found Airbnb very helpful if there’s any issues

By: Gilly Platt

Gilly Platt — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 13:58:27 +0000

An interesting read, I really hope you don’t get scammed my Booking.com – we did. We went to an apartment in Basingstoke for the weekend and the place looked like some kind of squat, we really expected someone to walk in from another room it was so lived in. It had dirty unmade beds, a broken chair and dirty coffee mugs lying around. We couldn’t get hold of the owner or Booking.com for a few days as they didn’t answer the phone or emails, eventually we got hold of B.C but they refused to give us a refund as they’d already paid it to the owner and we broke our contract by not staying there.

We’ve lost £500 and they were of no help at all. On the internet there’s hundreds of cases saying similar stuff, I hope you don’t get this. We’d never use them again!
Gilly

By: Travel Meow

Travel Meow — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 18:20:40 +0000

Booking.com is good for research, easy cancel, make good use of genius discounts.

Once I find hotel I like, then I register with them directly in the future, and usually offered promotions and discounts.

Highly recommend HotelesMX and CityExpress (Mexico)
some locations, they are cheaper than airbnb!

also Hotel Principe and Best Western Zen (Panama City)

By: Vahagn

Vahagn — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 12:36:17 +0000

You will use booking till the first problem case when you try to contact their support with no luck. They never answer. Their phones are always “busy” and they reply to your messages in couple of days with a standart tezt with sorry. So go to hell with this paid post to advertise booking. They have 0 support for their users, even with genius level 3.

Airbnb is more expensive but I had many cases where I needed their support and they were always helpful.

By: Mohan

Mohan — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 04:42:50 +0000

I have used Booking.com for years for hotels, homes, apartments etc and mostly completely satisfied without paying any booking fee, without giving credit card details and free cancellations most of the times. Also enjoyed Genius discounts and rewards with good service.

By: SG

SG — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 15:02:18 +0000

In reply to Rory. @Rory, for m'y last trip in Italy, many appartments were in both Abnb and Bkng and the total Price was usually lower on Booking (not Always but in most cases).

By: Ruby

Ruby — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 02:25:15 +0000

In reply to Sunny Rae.

@Sunny Rae, sorry I meant I am an Airbnb host.

Very respectively
Ruby