Anna W.
Google
It was one of the worst experience I have encountered in terms of their customer management, internal communication, and problem solving skill. They just shrink the responsibility to different parties (both internally between department and externally with agoda) and telling me a different solution every time i repeated the issue, there is NO ONE to stand out and handle the issue.
This is what happened:
I accidentally booked the hotel on agoda for one more night (Jan15-19, but I am flying on Jan 18), and have immediately sent email to the hotel on this, with a follow up email several days after but NEVER get a reply. I have contacted agoda support and it took them forever to reach out to the hotel and hence i was waiting until the day i check in.
Upon checking in on Jan 15, I have talked to the front desk and they told me to ask agoda to contact their reservation team as this is not their responsibility, and they said I am able to get a refund from reservation team but not the front desk.
After I contacted agoda, they said no one from the reservation team replied. Hence, I went to the front desk the 2nd time on Jan 16 to ask the hotel help contacting their reservation team, I repeated my issue again as it was a different guy and he even took my phone to take a picture of my conversation with agoda, their reply was I need to wait until the day after as they need time to contact the reservation team.
On Jan 17, I followed up with the front desk, repeated my issue again as it was a different staff again, he told me I need to be patient and they are working on it, just wait one more day...
On Jan 18 which is the day i check out, another staff (his name is Abrar) have absolutely no idea of my issue and i repeated my issue again, then he told me that it is the hotel policy that there won't be refund. He claimed that he called the reservation team and they also confirmed there is no way. I was really not satisfied and then he came to me to ask for me booking confirmation and show me the policy with no refund. He gave me the email of reservation team manager (his name is Murab) and ask me to try to talk to him.
I sent email to Murab immediately but only after i sent a follow up email the day after to get a reply of "no refund due to hotel policy".