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Not from my experience. I’ve found the inverse to be true with the likes of booking.com now having some apartments. Booking isn’t perfect but it is definitely

Not from my experience. I’ve found the inverse to be true with the likes of booking.com now having some apartments. Booking isn’t perfect but it is definitely my go to for travel accommodations. Their customer service is always helpful and easy to get in contact with from anywhere I have traveled to.

wahnfrieden 3y ago
Agoda usually has better coupons and sometimes mobile specific ones, better than Booking if they have the same listing. But the prices will also vary. Same parent company.
dheera 3y ago
> Booking isn’t perfect but it is definitely my go to for travel accommodations. Definitely keep an eye on your transactions, I had an additional fraud $1500 transaction from Booking.com Netherlands shortly after I booked a stay in Norway. I reported it to my credit card and all was fine but there are probably some bad apples working at Booking.com.
- makingstuffs 3y ago
  That’s crazy, glad you got your money back. Was it a booking which asked you to pay directly by any chance? I recently had an apartment (in the Netherlands also) request that I pay them directly with a bank transfer before I arrived but it seemed dodge to me so I booked with another
  - dheera 3y ago
    No, I paid for the (intended) Norway booking via Booking.com in full. I then got a fraud charge a couple days later. I never gave my credit card info directly to the Norway property (not sure if Booking shares it with them?) but I'm more inclined to suspect someone at Booking who had access to their saved credit card database OR superuser access to book some other resort using my saved payment info.
    - kotaKat 3y ago
      Booking.com and other OTAs often will book the reservation with a virtual card that they fax the details over with the reservation (or otherwise communicate the virtual card payment information in the OTA extranet). What could have happened is someone compromised the hotel's side of the extranet and grabbed your (and other) bookings' virtual cards and attempted to start racking charges against them which would then go back on your card you gave for the reservation to Booking. While there's supposed to be fraud controls on the cards, who knows what could have let the extra charges fly.

wahnfrieden 3y ago

Agoda usually has better coupons and sometimes mobile specific ones, better than Booking if they have the same listing. But the prices will also vary. Same parent company.

dheera 3y ago

> Booking isn’t perfect but it is definitely my go to for travel accommodations. Definitely keep an eye on your transactions, I had an additional fraud $1500 transaction from Booking.com Netherlands shortly after I booked a stay in Norway. I reported it to my credit card and all was fine but there are probably some bad apples working at Booking.com.

makingstuffs 3y ago
That’s crazy, glad you got your money back. Was it a booking which asked you to pay directly by any chance? I recently had an apartment (in the Netherlands also) request that I pay them directly with a bank transfer before I arrived but it seemed dodge to me so I booked with another
- dheera 3y ago
  No, I paid for the (intended) Norway booking via Booking.com in full. I then got a fraud charge a couple days later. I never gave my credit card info directly to the Norway property (not sure if Booking shares it with them?) but I'm more inclined to suspect someone at Booking who had access to their saved credit card database OR superuser access to book some other resort using my saved payment info.
  - kotaKat 3y ago
    Booking.com and other OTAs often will book the reservation with a virtual card that they fax the details over with the reservation (or otherwise communicate the virtual card payment information in the OTA extranet). What could have happened is someone compromised the hotel's side of the extranet and grabbed your (and other) bookings' virtual cards and attempted to start racking charges against them which would then go back on your card you gave for the reservation to Booking. While there's supposed to be fraud controls on the cards, who knows what could have let the extra charges fly.