Not honoured by Booking.com - Risk-free Reservation policy

10 de noviembre de 2017 00:26

We received notification on 21 September via the Extranet that

"if a guest cancels, we'll look for a new guest for the same dates. IF WE CAN'T FIND A REPLACEMENT, YOUR ROOM WILL STAY EMPTY AND WE WE'LL PAY FOR THE RESERVATION".

This has happened twice since receiving this new policy and twice we have been denied the remedy to the cancellation promised.

We were advised by Customer Service that this was actually just a TRIAL and not implemented except for a chosen 500 cancellations world wide per day.

I find this a blatant disrespect for the accommodation provider and FALSE advertising to us.

We can no longer believe or trust what is promoted to us by BOOKING>COM as a new tool as they say to "HELP US MAKE MORE MONEY".

Has any one else had this experience?

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Caroline Crabtree

14 de noviembre de 2017 10:52
I had an experience of this - a cancellation, then another booking dropped in, only for them to instantly cancel - this happened 3 or 4 times (new booking/instant cancellation) then another booking that did "stick". The guests were very unhappy with what they got, complained in 2 A4 pages to me, adding that they felt "duped". I wondered if they had been re-routed (as it were) from a very different property. I ended up giving a large refund - so not a good experience.
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Slayleigh

20 de diciembre de 2017 12:00
I was offered this and didn't accept as didn't fully understand how Booking.com could pay out risk free without them loosing money. Also have my suspicions on rerouting customers from their chosen B&B especially if that B&B isn't full. :(
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Trinidawson

6 de enero de 2018 04:04
We received the "Risk Free Reservations" message from Booking.com on Nov 20, 2017. In December, we had 5 paying guests, 6 cancellations, and 1 no-show. I wonder what Booking.com invoice for December will show? Have sent two messages to customer service to get details of this program, but have not received any response. In practice, if we get a reservation from booking.com, I do not block our Airbnb listing. Unfortunately. the reservation dates are blocked on booking.com site, so no one can book those rooms on those dates.
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Cayopete

22 de junio de 2018 14:26
Same problem and after one hell of a lot of communication back and forward to try and find an actual policy this is the latest response on 26th June 2018.

Dear Partner,

Thanks for getting in touch with us.

Please allow me to share the following:

The Risk Free Reservation only covers some reservations, at times. You will see whether a reservation is a part of this, after it has been cancelled by guest. It will clearly state that this reservation (from that point forward) is a part of the Risk Free Reservations and that we will find another guest for you for that date.

*They cannot tell you what reservations is part of it, so basically a con !*

I have refused to pay any invoice that has a no show / or cancellation on, if the amounts exceed the total invoice price, and invited booking.com to take me to court, would love to shout this to the world