Expedia Reviews 

I booked a return ticket from Melbourne to Mumbai and Mumbai to Melbourne. My return journey was scheduled for 31 December. Just 10 days before travel, I received an email stating that my return flight was cancelled. Expedia then suggested an alternative itinerary that made no logical or practical sense.

However, the connecting Garuda flights they suggested were not aligned with my actual travel date. Some legs were suggested two days earlier (29 December), while others were still shown for 31 December — a complete contradiction. How am I expected to take a connecting flight two days before I even arrive?

They are saying I canceled flights on 23rd Jan. This is totally incorrect. As I was receiving cancellation flights updates from Garuda Airlines and Expedia initially, I was trying to call Expedia multiple times, and I was not able to connect. Multiple flights suggested having more added hours and incorrect connecting flight time issues. So I went online on 23rd and clicked the button "cancel or change", now this button does not allow me to do anything else as the website said "I will have to wait as someone from the Expedia team will contact me for cancel or change of flights". This means I am waiting for the call from Expedia Team and this does not mean I cancelled the flights as I am expecting a call from expedia for change of flights.

Also how can you cancel flights without consultation or confirmation?

Endless Calls, Zero Solutions

For the last 10 days, I have:

Spoken to 15+ Expedia customer service agents
Escalated to 5–8 supervisors
Spent 10 + hours on calls (I have full call history)
Been repeatedly told: Our backend team is working on it and it will take 24 hours to resolve

Despite all this, no confirmed solution was ever provided.

When I contacted Garuda Indonesia directly, they clearly stated:

Flights were available on the same day,
They could rebook immediately
BUT they could not proceed because Expedia had already initiated a refund request

This refund request was done without my consent.

I relayed this exact information back to Expedia. After 2+ hours on another call, the supervisor again told me they would “check with Garuda.” Later, another Expedia agent claimed no flights were available anymore, contradicting what Garuda had told me earlier the same day.

This is unacceptable because:

On 29th agent from Expedia said he will be asking for a special waiver from the airlines. Once that part is done, Expedia will quickly book another flight for us. Now we are stuck in Ahmedabad and can't go to Mumbai which is 10 hours in Uber to catch a flight from Mumbai due to this flight cancellation issue. So agent from Expedia said he will book flights from Ahmedabad to Delhi and Delhi to Melbourne once the waiver is approved. This all will happen in under 24 hours.

Today is 30 December. My flight is in 1 day.

I still do not have confirmed return tickets.

No one at Expedia can give a clear answer.

Expedia keeps passing responsibility back to the airline.

Travelling with 4 people, there is no Breakfast for 4 option so was told by expedia staff to simply select the "Breakfast" option which will ensure we all got our breakfast included. We'll, as it turns out, the "Breakfast" option only included breakfast for 3 people! I then raised this with expedia who promised me a refund if I added another breakfast charge for the number of days and additional person. I just had to send them the receipt and they would refund me...well as it turns out, this was also wrong and they were relying on the Hotel to refund me (which obviously the hotel denied). I will not be using expedia again.

Awful experience with Expedia with flights booked on JAL.
Expedia tells you to contact JAL.
JAL directs you back to Expedia.
No Expedia support, no help, just an AI that might get you a cancellation and partial refund - yet to be determined...
Do not use Expedia

I used Expedia to book a three-night stay at the 5-star Elements Byron Bay for my partner's birthday weekend in early January 2026. I chose to use Expedia because it advertised room availability, while other websites, including Elements' own website, did not.

Expedia text messaged and emailed me to confirm the hotel booking (clearly stating 'Your hotel is confirmed' along with the itinerary), after which my partner and I booked our flights and arranged leave from work. I also booked several other activities and restaurants in Byron Bay for my partner's birthday.

A few days later, Expedia called me to say that the hotel had no availability, and proposed several inferior alternatives at 'equal or greater price' - most of which were 4-star hotels/motels with two bedrooms, which offered no value to us and were substantially inferior to our original choice, which was a 5-star resort with numerous amenities on-site.

Why advertise availability, take our money, and then send a separate confirmation email if there's no stock available? In most jurisdictions, this would be misleading or deceptive conduct and amount to a breach of consumer law. Some might even consider this a 'bait and switch'.

Expedia offered no other remedy besides a refund, leaving my partner and me with no option but to book directly with the resort for a later date and reschedule our flights, incurring a $198 AUD flight change fee.

Terrible experience that left my partner and me extraordinarily disappointed and inconvenienced.

My partner and I have resolved to go out of our way to discourage others from using Expedia.

Extremely Disappointing and Misleading Experience

I booked what I believed were business class tickets through Expedia at a total cost of $22,000+. After completing and fully paying for the purchase, I received confirmation only to discover that every single segment was economy class. To make matters worse, trips that were supposed to be around 21 hours ballooned to over 30+ hours, with multiple long and unnecessary layovers.

This was not a minor inconvenience—it completely changed the comfort, value, and feasibility of the trip. The booking was misleading, and the pricing did not reflect what was actually provided.

Resolving this was another nightmare. It took three months of back-and-forth emails with Expedia and the airlines to finally receive a partial refund, and even then Expedia deducted $800 in so-called “administrative fees.” Charging that amount after such a significant error is unacceptable.

This experience cost an enormous amount of time, money, and stress. I have completely lost trust in Expedia and will never use them again nor recommend them to anyone. For a company of this size, the lack of transparency, accountability, and customer care is shocking.

Awful frustrating agency to deal with! moronic staff! I wasted a number of hours trying to get help for transactions that were charged to my card even though no booking was confirmed. Multiple issues with using using their app. I will never use this stupid agency again

Travel agencies please stop using Expedia! Please! For everyone's health and sanity, book directly with the hotel.

Absolutely unacceptable experience.
I booked through Expedia Australia expecting standard customer support, and what I received was confusion, delays, and zero accountability. Despite multiple attempts to resolve the issue, no one was able to provide clear answers or meaningful help. I was passed between agents, promised callbacks that never happened, and left to fix the problem myself.

This was stressful, time-consuming, and completely avoidable. I would not recommend using Expedia if you want reliable service or proper support when things go wrong.

Never book with Expedia or Wotif. I arrived at my 4-star hotel to find a room that reeked of mould — it was so strong we couldn’t stay in it. The second room was just as bad. The hotel admitted the problem and approved a refund, but Expedia/Wotif refused to honour it.
In Australia It’s illegal selling accommodation with mould.

I was exhausted, stressed, and forced to book a new hotel at my own expense. I’ve never felt so unsupported by a booking platform. I don’t want anyone else to go through this.

Do not use! I booked accommodation through Expedia and then had the landlord send me additional contracts, in which it asks for an additional 30% deposit and if I didn't sign, they may not honour the booking. Sent Expedia a note asking them to help clarify with the landlord as I had booked and paid through them and there was no mention of this previously. Expedia's response was they can't see a "VRBO" booking and for me to go through the VRBO app. Unfortunately all you get is a useless chatbot in VRBO app and no ability to chat to a person. Expedia just washed their hands off the matter and I had to speak with the landlord directly. Completely unacceptable and I will never risk this level of stress booking through Expedia again

I accidentally gave a 1 star via Expedia app. After numerous calls and emails they would not change it. Poor form.

No support for unused ticket since plans had changed. Family had to purchase another airline ticket because the unused ticket was cancelled by the airline. Reached out to the airline and they of course said to contact Expedia which we did and the ticket still showed as active for the return flight (NOT THE CASE). $300 out of pocket for a ticket that was original paid and issued by Expedia.

Lesson learned. Do not book flight via expedia. Book your flight directly with the airline

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Had a flight cancelled due to medical condition. Expedia bounced me to Qantas to handle the cancellation, and Qantas bounced me back to expedia to do it since they are the travel agency.

I had contacted expedia several times and eventually they agreed to submit the request on my behalf and requested a medical certificate. I attached the medical certificate in the email and never heard back. Upon following up they said the never received it and asked me to upload it directly to the airline. At this point I'm convinced they just dont want to do it or dont event the slightest care to the customer

Very poor experience with Expedia. Their website and agent confirmed that breakfast was included in my booking, yet the reservation they sent to the property was “room only.” I was forced to pay again for something that was clearly advertised as included.
What made it worse was the customer service. I provided screenshots, chat transcripts, and proof of the mistake, but kept receiving emails from different representatives asking me to repeat the same information. No consistency, no ownership, and no resolution.
This feels like misleading advertising and terrible customer service. I will think twice before booking with Expedia again.

I am publishing these informations hoping that Expedia’ bosses see this and fix my open case. There is no other way to get trough their none-human Expedita customers support.😱 Extremely difficult almost impossible getting in touch with an Expedia agent. I have an application case request open as follows:
My itinerary number 73197615814821 My my review deleting request #651007292794, dated 18 August. Two weeks passed and there was no action by Expedta customers agents. They lost my business. Hello is there anyone there at Expedia customer support???? 😡

Booked return flight through Expedia. Paid in full. Got confirmation from the airline. One leg was fine. All of a sudden they cancelled the return flight and said it was not refundable! Wow, how nice. Now I am going to small claims tribunal, we'll see what they will tell there.

Going back and forth with an AI chatbot is unacceptable! Keeps giving me generic answers that don't help me. It is unacceptable! ChatGPT gives me more information than your own AI chatbot. This is not an industry where you have room to make mistakes. These things cost money. They take forever to answer questions and then time out very quickly if you don't get back to them. I have called their NZ phone number countless times, and they tell me to contact them in an alternative way. I have contacted their chat many times, and they keep telling me to call them. How would you like me to contact you? Suppose I should jump into a boat and sail over?

I booked accommodation through its website for 3 nights accommodation at Suite 39 Guesthouse in Salerno I found
This place had an appalling smell that I had to book elsewhere. Expedia did not respond to my requests for a refund nor did the dishonest vendor. I will never use Expedia for bookings again. Awful service. I do not recommend Suite39 - very dishonest and distrustful.

Because of my bank's set limits for visa card transactions which neccesitated my card being declined for full payment for a Brisbane- Lagos- Brisbane return ticket, I was forced to buy departure only Brisbane-Lagos flight tickets at exactly 11.59pm on the 29th July 2025. I paid Aud3596.75 for the one way tickets but when I made searches for Lagos-Brisbane tickets i discovered that buying tickets for that route was
much more expensive than I expected.
I called expedia customer care within 2 hours of the ticket purchase and asked to either cancel the Brisbane- Lagos flight booking and hold on to the money so i can pay the additional amount required to purchase return tickets or alternatively they can give me a refund so i can make a fresh booking for return tickets on expedia. they refused both options claiming my 24 hour window period of getting a refund was over at 11.59Pm which incidentaly was the exact time I paid for the ticket. All pleas for reasoning that my refund option window cannot expire at the exact time i bought the tickets fell on deaf ears as they sited company policy. I ended up loosing Aud 1088.76 in cancellation penalties which was the only option expedia left me with despite my making calls to them requesting assistance only 2 hours after i made online payment and despite making a forced cancellation within 12 hours of the tickets purchase. It is such a painful experience and leaves a sour taste in the mouth that i had to loose such amount of money. It is unfair that I wasn't obliged a change or refund even within 2 hours when I should have a 24 hour window period for free refund. Consumers need to be protected from such sharp practices. I definitely won't recommend expedia to anyone

When you want to book cheap accommodations without any customer support this is the site for you. The price is competitive most of the times (best to check Google Hotels which compares multiple sites).

The problem is when seeking the smallest of all clarification the following will occur:
- Customer service will say there is nothing they can do
- Legal team will immediately reach out with a formal letter saying this is not Expedia's fault and you agree to pay the full amount and will not dispute the charges and that if you dispute they will cancel your booking and retain any cancellation fees as per their policy.