Hotwire.com

Hotwire.com Review


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pk2011
Clovis, NM

Hotwire sucks

1 star rating

Educated, care about the details, Internet User, on a budget
Pros

    Used to be reliable

Cons
    cant control vendor, upfront pay (understandable!), bad customer service, False advertising of savings per night!

NOV
30
2008

Hotwire.com  — 

I used Hotwire.com to book hotel using a feature where we choose a category of star rating for a given price but name of the hotel is not given until we actually pay and once we pay, it is non-refundable. Problem is they use their own system to rate hotels and try to rate hotels higher than they actually are ie they sell a product claiming a better than real quality. It is like selling brass claiming it is gold. I chose for 2.5 star category but was given a hotel that has been rated 2 star by every other source of such information. It is like I paid for Gold but was given brass and Hotwire claims it is gold because their system rates it as gold. They need to be forced to adopt some external source of rating or they must tell the name of the hotel in advance.



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tleming wrote on May 29, 2009 at 2:36PM

I can't agree more. I just booked a hotel for a wedding using hotwire. Virtually all the hotels in this town were 2 star by every rating service I could find, so I felt safe buying a 2 star hotel unseen. Wrong, hotwire gave me a 1 star econolodge hotel that they rated 2 stars. Not only that but upon reading traveler reviews it seems that it only was worth a 2 out of 10. (With the exception of reviews that seem obviously written by the hotel owner or manager)
I'll never use hotwire again and will be very wary of using priceline either. captainleming@hotmail.com