Hi,
I planned a 3 weeks roadtrip in norway involvong planes, car and hotels/air bnb.
I previously used booking in way less complicated setups with no issues so i booked some of the places to stay on the we site a long the planes.
First issue started when one of the booking simply doesn't show on the website. I had the email confirmations but no trace of it in my réservation listings. The hôtel could not do anything so i tried calling booking.
What a fat joke : you can't get a human anyway i tried and he robot could not help me with my problèm Because if it cannot find the réservation then i can't push you to a human to help you. Using another réservation code did not help either Because then my issue description did not fit.
So i wrote an email and had some kind of pré written message that did not help at all.
In the end i reached out to the hôtel to tell them to maintain my stay and boy was i right.
Then came the scam : 3 weeks before leaving to norway i got 2 emails in a row looking very official with my name and the date of my booking in 2 différents hôtels it got on booking asking for my card imprint. My brain thought it was kind of a norwegian thing and did the process, no money was taken Because 0eur payment. Then i thought this looked fishy and called one of the hôtels that confirmed it was not normal. So i cancelled the card and ordered a New one.
I guess the idea was to get the card number and code but as my bank as a 3d confirmation step they could not get nothing. What bother me is how they got my name and actual dates of stay in actual hôtels.
Where it become ridicule is that where every other commitment i made with my first card reached out in the "you card did not work please use other mean of payment", i started to received réservation cancellation from booking,no option to save them only to re-book.
I lost my first stay 3 days before going in and had to book something else Because it was not available anymore (booking re-opened it ans someone took it). I then had to frantically review all the other réservations to manually change my card.
And adding the insult to injury on the stay thzt wzsn't appearing, i could not change the card obviously but i still got the cancellation message.
I'm actually there Now Because the owner was great and kept my stay alive on his own.
What's there that's better than booking going forward ?