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Booking.com complaint
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Better advice might be to check with trip advisor (or similar) for actual customer reviews before booking anywhere with anyone?maggie_norman said:We booked a holiday home for a 3 night stay in Porto Santo in April
The place was absolutely unfit for habitation.
It was infested with COCKROACHES, Completely disgusting, We had to leave!!
Please do not book through BOOKING.COM.I'm not an early bird or a night owl; I’m some form of permanently exhausted pigeon.0 -
Post was from 2019 (since when the poster hasn't returned)! Your advice still stands for others though, i.e. blaming the booking agent for that type of hotel problem misses the point....ArbitraryRandom said:
Better advice might be to check with trip advisor (or similar) for actual customer reviews before booking anywhere with anyone?maggie_norman said:We booked a holiday home for a 3 night stay in Porto Santo in April
The place was absolutely unfit for habitation.
It was infested with COCKROACHES, Completely disgusting, We had to leave!!
Please do not book through BOOKING.COM.1 -
ArbitraryRandom is replying to a post earlier tiday by a new poster who tagged onto the old thread.eskbanker said:
Post was from 2019 (since when the poster hasn't returned)! Your advice still stands for others though, i.e. blaming the booking agent for that type of hotel problem misses the point....ArbitraryRandom said:
Better advice might be to check with trip advisor (or similar) for actual customer reviews before booking anywhere with anyone?maggie_norman said:We booked a holiday home for a 3 night stay in Porto Santo in April
The place was absolutely unfit for habitation.
It was infested with COCKROACHES, Completely disgusting, We had to leave!!
Please do not book through BOOKING.COM.
it would really help in threads could be locked after a set time with no posting.0 -
No, the post that revived the thread today was on a different subject about alleged data breaches, but the above quotes are in response to a post from five years ago about cockroaches.sheramber said:
ArbitraryRandom is replying to a post earlier tiday by a new poster who tagged onto the old thread.eskbanker said:
Post was from 2019 (since when the poster hasn't returned)! Your advice still stands for others though, i.e. blaming the booking agent for that type of hotel problem misses the point....ArbitraryRandom said:
Better advice might be to check with trip advisor (or similar) for actual customer reviews before booking anywhere with anyone?maggie_norman said:We booked a holiday home for a 3 night stay in Porto Santo in April
The place was absolutely unfit for habitation.
It was infested with COCKROACHES, Completely disgusting, We had to leave!!
Please do not book through BOOKING.COM.
But yes, reopening old threads does lead to such confusion, and some other forums do automatically lock down old ones after inactivity....0 -
Obviously this thread keeps popping up in google, so hopefully at least someone will find the suggestion usefuleskbanker said:
Post was from 2019 (since when the poster hasn't returned)! Your advice still stands for others though, i.e. blaming the booking agent for that type of hotel problem misses the point....ArbitraryRandom said:
Better advice might be to check with trip advisor (or similar) for actual customer reviews before booking anywhere with anyone?maggie_norman said:We booked a holiday home for a 3 night stay in Porto Santo in April
The place was absolutely unfit for habitation.
It was infested with COCKROACHES, Completely disgusting, We had to leave!!
Please do not book through BOOKING.COM.
I'm not an early bird or a night owl; I’m some form of permanently exhausted pigeon.0
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