If i could leave 0 star I would.
My issues started back in 2018 when I booked to go to Lake Garda, via a deal we found on wowcher. To cut a very long story short we were mislead into thinking we were booking a hotel on the lake with a pool - because both web pages showed the pictures of such hotel. After we booked we noticed that one of the addresses (very small print) didn't match. We then discovered that we had been mislead to believe we were booking this hotel, we infact had been booked into a dingy 2* hotel on the other side of the lake, no where near where we thought we were staying.
So, after complaining and going through a painful ordeal we managed (after several days) to get a refund on what we had paid and we booked direct. Although because it was such short notice we couldn't book into where we originally wanted and had to settle for another hotel. This was a surprise trip for my partner which was completely ruined by the stress of this. During the process we discovered other reviews saying that this had happened to many other people - couples that didn't actually notice until they arrived at the hotel - Discovering that it wasn't the hotel that was pictured all over the website!
Anyway we managed to get a £75 compensation voucher for our troubles to use on a UK hotel - I would never have booked with Super Escapes again but as it was in compensation I thought we might as well try to get something out of this awful experience.
So, we tried to use this voucher at the beginning of January (due to expire at the end of Feb 2020) and wow this was basically impossible. They told me that this could NOT be used in the UK and only towards a break or holiday abroad. This went on and on, I told them that they must check their phone records because this is what i was promised as compensation. After several weeks of going back and forth, they finally agreed that I could use in the UK (only because i wouldn't go away!). So, they told me to choose a hotel i would like to stay at, so i researched the web for an entire afternoon and found one, when i sent this over they said this hotel wasn't on their 'suppliers list' - so why waste my time in asking me to choose a hotel! I asked them to send me the supplies list so i could choose one, and not waste anymore time, they refused. They asked me to send some other options....so i did, and guess what, after few more days of waiting for a reply and chasing them, these were not on the list either. They asked me where i would like to book a hotel, i said anywhere in London - I'm not fussy I just want to be able to use the voucher i am owed. After another week, i was finally sent a list of hotels in the UK that i could use the £75 voucher on, along with the price of the hotel - I was in shock. The hotels were double the price that they were showing on the hotels direct website or booking.com / trivago etc. I sent screen shots of the other website prices asking why they were quoting more than double the price and their answer was "it may be a little expensive as you don't have to deal with the hotel, we do it all for you" - Are you joking? I would pay extra not to have to deal with Superescapes ever again, not the other way round!
So i wasn't getting a compensation voucher at all was I. You were going to charge me more than double the price so even if I used the voucher i would be paying more than if i went direct.
One example - a hotel list on their suppliers list was £319.75 per night...on booking.com and directly it's £159.
I explained that I wasn't going to get ripped off again and mislead by Super Escapes.
So they completely ruined our first trip, and couldn't even allow us to have our compensation.
PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM. THEY ARE A POINTLESS MIDDLEMAN OFFERING OVERPRICED RATES. THEY ARE FRAUDSTERS.
Customer Support Executive - Marlon Gibson (who refused to speak to me on the phone).
4 years ago
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