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“WORST COMPANY EVER! ”

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written by Mtozoni on 01/12/2021

WORST COMPANY EVER! RUN AWAY FROM THEM, BUY A TICKET FROM DE DEVIL HIMSELF BUT NOT FROM THEM!I regret so much for not searching the reviews before booking with them. They cancelled my reservation without my authorization TWO DAYS BEFORE MY FLIGHT!

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“Lastminute.com - terrible experience”

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written by alexole74 on 15/11/2021

We booked flights with lastminute. At some point they (allegedly) sent us an EMAIL to notify that the airline has decided to cancel the return flight. Then as I have never received it the airline's flight left (6 days earlier) and we discovered it on the day when we were trying to check in. Clearly, apart from this mythical email notification, lastminute never moved a finger to let us know that our return flights are no longer there. No texts, no calls. Customer services are now saying that they cannot do anything and complaint form on their website isn't working properly. Lastminute is operating by BravoFly - based in Switzerland - so not UK based. My advice ? Never ever use them for anything. Their customer service is nothing but zero. Would never recommend. Terrible !

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“Dreadful Service ”

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written by ozCallahan365 on 22/10/2021

Despite numerous calls re refund still have yet to receive it after 6 months, stating it is still being processed! Would never go anywhere near them again and can only describe their customer service as abysmal.

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“Missing refund, terrible customer service!!!”

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written by JusticeClark385 on 20/10/2021

Me and my friends booked an apartment to stay in at leeds for one of there 21st birthdays, that week we got an email to say this people who was in it at the time had covid and had to isolate there, meaning we wouldn’t be able to go. I was told to make a cancellation request and I would receive my £229 refund. I did this within minutes of getting the email, I rang last minute a week after to see how long my refund be I was told it was processing and they didn’t have a time scale, so I waited a few days more still no refund so I rang again to be told I needed proof off the owner of the apartment that it was cancelled due to covid and that after it would be 100% sorted and I would receive my refund so I sent the email proving this. Then I received an email a few days saying I wouldn’t receive a refund I rang straight away to be told I cancelled the apartment myself and that I wouldn’t receive my refund. The people on the phones are unhelpful and rude and have told me many different things this is unacceptable I am now stuck not knowing what to do or who to call to get this money back as they are not understanding. DO NOT BOOK WITH THIS COMPANY THEY WILL KEEP YOUR MONEY.

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“DO NOT book through LastMinute.com - you will regret it”

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written by Jaliyah179 on 26/08/2021

Appalling company, with the worst customer service I've ever experienced. Had a small issue which could have easily been resolved in one phonecall, and I spent a week trying to get through to their customer service, only to be told they'd call me back and my case had been flagged as 'urgent'. They never called me back, and because of the issue, we missed our holiday and they won't issue a refund. Please avoid at all costs- they have a shocking reputation and shouldn't be in business.

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“no refund expected”

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written by Allisson194 on 09/08/2021

i ordered thru this firm and bravofly they didnt confirm my reservataion, no email was sent to me, no invoice, not ticket - but I was cherged with 150 dollars anyway! of curse no reply on phone or e-mail and no refund never never order from them!!!!!!!!!!!!

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“be careful booking with Lastminute.com”

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written by 39Caldwell on 03/08/2021

Be very careful booking with Lastminute. We choose to pay the extra FullyFlex (fully flexible tickets) option for our flights to the USA given we were unsure regards the Covid situation. As the Covid situation in the US became clear that we would not be allowed entry we made a request on cancellation or changing our dates to next year. Lastminute simply informed us that a cancellation request had been made and we would only be offered approximately 50% of the flight costs. We sent multiple messages saying explaining that we purchased the FullyFlex in case this sort of thing occurred, and that we wanted to move the flights if a full refund was not available. They simply replied that cancellation had been made and 50% was all we could claim. Bad customer service. Do not book with LastMinute and definitely do not pay extra charges for something that is not what is advertised.

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“One worse and terrible travel agency”

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written by NathenHorton410 on 19/06/2021

Please please please don't waste your time with this terrible company they took money of me and never reply back had to contact with and reverse my money

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“Not recommended to WORST ENEMY”

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written by dcirulis on 12/06/2021

ell where to start These so called Travel agents are nothing more than money. I booked flights to turkey using this shower and they didnt even tell me flight was canceled! I only found out by chance, No Emails no nothing once they have your cash they are not interested The ROT is from the Managing director down. Book with the at your peril also avoid their sister companies (Bravofly, Volagratis, Rumbo,Weg.de, Jetcost Hotelscan and FWD ) all the same company all the same ''Poop service'' Pay them and lose your money .. Book elsewhere in fact ANYWHERE ELSE but not this lot !! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

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“Terrible Customer Service”

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written by Joanna144 on 26/05/2021

I would have given no stars if I could. Really poor customer service. Have been the worst travel company to deal with in terms of the pandemic and cancelations. Totally not helpful. Will never use them again. Least helpful customer service people I have ever spoken to and no way to escalate the problem.

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“Don't bother!!!”

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written by antonionereu on 19/03/2021

Sometimes, when you think that they sell cheaper tickets, it's just a foolish... don't bother buying anything from lastminute.com, they simply doesn't solve your problems and get some new ones! Due to the pandemic of coronavirus, i am not allowed to travel to norway, since frontiers are closed to foreign people... So, i tried to rebook a flight, which was supposed to be made by airfrance airline company! The hotel changed my stay,to some months after, however, when i tried to do the same in lastminute.com, they asked me for 800€ (???) really?? where did this value came from??? If i'd book new tickets in airfrance directly on the airline company, it would cost me half of that money... So, they are not being polite! after contacted the customer support, they keep telling me that airfrance charges them that value, which is not true, if lastminute let it, they would change the flight and even provide me a 26€ voucher!!! .... Shame!!!

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“Absolutely horrible company avoid avoid avoid! I...”

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written by Hhfb on 03/11/2020

Absolutely horrible company avoid avoid avoid! I picked the option for free cancellation which obviously charges more! And it does not say anywhere on the website that I will have to pay more money out of my pocket to cancel booking! They refusing to give my £300 back on top they asking me to pay £100 more to cancel my booking! WTH! I want my money back I'm not paying single penny extra.

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“Appealing customer service.”

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written by on 25/09/2020

They said they phoned me and emailed me, I had no record of them phoning me or emailing me. I tried to transfer my flights but by the time t got through they said I was to late and that cost me £638. I will never use this company again and I have warned my family and friends not to use this company,

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“Need Negative Stara”

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written by Mickrtsm on 04/09/2020

If i could use negative stars I would. Our flights were cancelled, by the airline, as were all their flights out of Glasgow. This was due to corona and the restrictions applied to UK citizens into USA, as a result. I tried to contact Lastminute and they made it impossible, their “customer service” lines were only playing recorded messages and there was no response to any emails, even those sent to their Italian Directors. This was a package holiday and therefore entitled us to full refund within 14 days, per the Package Travel Regulations. Their website cancellation process involves you requesting a quotation for cancellation, not allowing for full refund per the law. I eventually found a working phone number and they refuse to give you any details, any supervisor contact and just keep reiterating that we would receive an email shortly with a quote. The regulations are clear that the contract is between me and them and they are responsible for my refund, they refuse to acknowledge this and keep stating that they need to get the money back from their suppliers first and this could take months! I have reported them to the CAA querying their suitability for ATOL certification, given ATOL certification gives people false confidence in these people. I am now waiting to hear back from credit card company to pursue a ‘chargeback’ claim. Do not, under any circumstances, trust this company with your money, they will not honour the law, let alone their ATOL certification and, if anything goes wrong you’re on your own!!

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“Competition Markets Authority - Complaint being looked...”

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written by uoSoto455 on 01/07/2020

Dreadful service. I have been trying for weeks to get a refund for a holiday to New York at the beginning of April. They repeatedly promised to refund my holiday costs and keep saying that it is being processed. I have managed to get through today to be told another story that now instead of 15 days to process a refund it will take about 5 weeks. Now I have opened a case with CMA who are looking into the company for not refunding customers. I also requested details of their legal team. They finally sent me an email address to contact their lawyers and guess what! No reply. They do not answer the phone and if you are lucky to get through you keep getting a different story and an obnoxious and uninterested customer service representative. Their command of the english language is questionable and now they have stopped answering my emails. I would urge all consumers reading this review to report this company to the CMA on the Government website. Lodge a complaint and together we can get them shut down and hopefully our money refunded. DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY UNLESS YOU LIKE THROWING YOUR MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN!!

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Helene123's Comment

Written on: 13/07/2020

You can also join the group VICTIMS OF LASTMINUTE on Facebook. There are already over 3,000 members who are all still waiting for refunds. Emailing ABTA is pretty pointless as they are not the least concerned. I never believed that your money is financially protected with them.

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“Don't spend a minute on this website”

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written by Helene123 on 01/07/2020

On 1st January I booked a holiday. On 15th June I was supposed to pay the balance but I didn't pay it. On 16th June I received an email telling me that my holiday had been cancelled - that's why I didn't pay the balance. There was availability at the hotel for my dates and, although my flights had been cancelled, there were plenty of other flights available. There doesn't even appear to be an email address for this company. Their parent company is Swiss. This company cannot possibly still be solvent. Most British people book from brochures and hence the few complaints this year.It seems that we have to live with bankrupt companies trying to make money out of us. You can complain to ABTA and/or write an angry message on their Facebook page.

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“Lastminute.com - bottom of the pile”

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written by KRC1 on 20/05/2020

I wont be booking with them again and I would advise anyone not to book with them. We paid £3000 for a 10 day holiday in Cancun where the hotel was not up to standard, all the facilities were closed (the hotel not as described) and sub-standard food gave me food poisoning. In short I received: • Poor service provision, (in not providing the standard of holiday I paid for) • Misrepresentation of facts, (Complaints team subsequently that I had sought to cancel my holiday after I had it - I had not!) • Ineptitude in resolving this matter, ( an offer of compensation was made and then withdrawn • Lack of empathy and understanding, (using derisory and rude language used in response to me) • Lack of recognition a legal responsibility to make recompense, (as required by law) On that basis my solicitor will be in touch.

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“Would give 0 star if I could”

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written by Sheridanfy413 on 18/05/2020

Have been waiting for refund more than 3 months! No reply, no calls, and no emails. Very very terrible. There is no way to talk to anyone. Always showing that they experience high volume of calls. Would not recommend to anyone.

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Helene123's Comment

Written on: 27/05/2020

Thanks for this. I am supposed to be going away on 1st July but am nervous about paying the balance. I'll re-book it on different websites. British travel companies seem to think that they can use people's money to pay their salaries. ABTA should be paying all refunds where travel companies have cancelled your holiday. They must have run out of money a long time ago.

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“Very disappointing and appalling customer service. The...”

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written by Mynhardt on 21/04/2020

Our small family found ourselves in the UK on holiday(We from South Africa) during the middle of March 2020. We were due to return to South Africa on the 19th of March 2020. As from the 14 th of March things really stared getting heretic in the sense that countries started to announce lock downs,ban and cancel flights with no alternatives etc.I think it was on the 15 th March that the South African president announced that all flights from the UK entering South Africa would be banned as from the 18th of March 2020. Thus we had to cancel our flight on the 19 th March and try to fly out earlier. My daughter found a flight on lastminute.com departing London on the 17 th March arriving in South Africa on the 18th March which she promptly booked. We were then informed by the media that if you arrived in South Africa on the 18th March that you were most likely have to go into state quarantine, that is if you were allowed to enter the country at all, which i wanted to avoid at all cost as I am middle aged and have underlying health problems. We cancelled the flight with Lastminute.com telephonically and was assured by the operator that as it was a BA flight we would be refunded and that they would cancel our booking.We managed to fly out to South Africa on the 16 th on another BA flight and arrived safely in South Africa.I contacted or rather phoned the lastminute.com office shortly after our arrival and was told that our refund was being processed. After about 2 weeks we still did not hear or receive a refund from them so I e mailed their customer services with my story. Again absolutely no response. I then phoned their customer services again and after about an hours conversation got no more information from the consultant as her accent was so bad and we could not understand each other. I then out of desperation phoned British Airways as we were due to fly with them to try and resolve our problem. I was bluntly told that as we booked through an agent we have to deal with them and they can not assist us. They also pointed out to me that according to their system Lastminute.com never cancelled our booking with British Airways therefore we not entitled to any compensation. I have mailed lastminite.com various times but still have not heard from them. I realize that the world is upside down with the Corona Virus epidemic but i do think that lastminite.com has made no effort what so ever to deal with my case.We did not even recieve one e mail from them. I am greatly disappointed and shocked with their lack of response to all my efforts to resolve this issue. I will never book through them again. Mynhardt Bester

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“Never again”

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written by Goodman159 on 08/04/2020

They are useless.Never again any tickets with them. In a middle of conversation they just hung up.

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Asked by Nayimkadri on 22nd November 2019 Report this content
when booking accommodation for a holiday in Aug 2020 the call agent for lastminute.com, said(and confirmed in email) that payment will not be taken until arrival at my hotel. 1 day later my Credit Card is charged for the full amount, plus its taken out in US$ and not pounds, so I incurred a currency transaction charge on top. Lastminute.com were at fault and accept that but are blaming booking.com their offline provider. What can I pursue against them for incurring additional costs? and also having to pay for my holiday accommodation early thereby paying more interest charge to the credit card company in order to spread the payment over 3 months.

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Asked by enis.abdili on 5th October 2015 Report this content
Worst company in the history of companies online. I paid for a packaged deal to Amsterdam. After paying and the money leaving my account I experienced an error page. I called them and they said the money came out but my flight is over booked. Was asked to pay £6.90 extra. I did this. Once I did this he told me my flight details over the phone and I realised it's the same flight. What was the £6.90 for? To top this up he then turned around and told me that my hotel is overbooked! I asked for another Amsterdam hotel as this is not my fault and they already took my money. They offered me Bostian Zaandam Zuid. I asked is this close to Amsterdam Centrum? He replied saying closer then your other hotel and its about 15 minutes walking distance. I agreed and asked for email confirmation. When I received the email I noticed that the hotel address did not look like an Amsterdam address. Hit Google map and saw that the hotel is in fact 2 hours and 9 minute walk, 14.5 kilometers! They actually put me in a Industrial area. Called back spent in total about 9 hours on the phone if not more. They are refusing to change the booking, I need help. Does anyone know what I can do? 

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Report this content Karmabim Written on: 05/10/2015
The best course of action is to contact your card company and explain the problem. The card company help lines are there for your benefit and they will most likely give a refund and claim it back from lastminute.com. My experience of lastminute.com is also quite bad. After booking a double room in the Birmingham Jurys Inn, I called the hotel to confirm as my confirmation email only said for one person. Jurys told me the booking was only for one. Called lastminute.com who told me I could only cancel and re-book which meant paying a cancellation fee. After some time explaining it was their fault without any joy I told them not to bother, rang Jury's, who were most helpful and made the necessary amendments at no extra cost. In future I may use lastminute.com to find good deals but then call the hotel direct. Despite what lastminute.com may say the hotel is generally quite happy to match or even better the lastminute.com quoted price.
Report this content katiemc Written on: 06/10/2015
Contact your card company and also contact last minute in every possible way, facebook, instagram, twitter etc to make them listen to your complaint. Also all review websites as well. They are an appalling company, never in my life will I ever use them again! Best of luck.
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