“Very nice photos and description of a 4 star Greek hotel on the website. Turns out we have a cockroach infestation in our room. Contacted onthebeach after 2 nights and hotel refusing to move us immediately. No sleep as cockroachs were also in the bed. Onthebeach said they could not move us to a different hotel as it was up to the current hotel to sort out any problems. Onthebeach happy for their customers to sleep in cockroach infested rooms. It's best to avoid booking through onthebeach as they cannot or will not help.”
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AVOID, TAKE YOUR MONEY AND LEAVE YOU STRANDED IN WRONG RESORT
Booked a 3 night stay in calella to attend the motogp. On arrival to the hotel were informed our private transfer had dropped us on the wrong hotel with the same name. Paid for a taxi to the correct hotel to discover it was in the wrong resort, the first hotel was the one we had actually requested. Out of hours team could not help late at night and so we paid for a taxi back to calella and paid for new accommodation for the night as well as food and drinks when we should have been all inclusive. First of 3 nights ruined. We have been refunded the cost of taxi's and the night one hotel although it takes up to a week to reach us and were offered £100 in vouchers towards a new holiday which we did not accept and instead asked for this as a refund. This was denied. We did not get the voucher either. After this ordeal we would not use this company again and so the offer would not benefit us. Asked to speak to a manager/decision maker and was denied stating we would need yo complete a form if we wished to complain. Disgraceful service, please be careful if using this company”
“If I could rate zero star I would. We travel in less than a month. Changes too flights which I found out accidentally and was not notified about for 1 week by on the beach and this was After 6 messages on there supposed live chat and a phone call to cancel the booking which was the only way I could speak to a human.. live chat Absolute lie. This is not a live chat, it is a bot and cuts you off. I have been messaging for 2 weeks now. Was on hold for 45 minutes and spoke with someone called Sarah who was lovely however since this 48 hours ago no phone call.. my sister was on hold for over 2 hours with no answer and had to end the call. Absolutely disgusted with this company. We have requested a telephone call on multiple occasions to just be ignored. Our messages are ignored. No actual direct number for customer service. They have taken 60% of our money and we require a full refund. This is our first family holiday since our mum died. The whole reason for booking was the good flight times, They have now been changed from 1.30pm to 1am the next day and travelling with 3 children under the age of 4 is just not doable. The dates that work for 6 adults having to all get the same time off work and the hotel we wanted to stay at. All this was why we booked with them. Never ever again. The stress and anxiety we are all currently going through regarding this issue is off the chart. I cannot write anything else as I am getting more and more frustrated. Paddy McGuinness Needs to have a word!!!!!”
“Can't speak to anyone. Lost over 2k. Hotel happy to move dates after my accident and other refused to try and help. Waste of time and money. Sent us to an absolute dump the holiday before. I should have cancelled the next one then and there.”
“It’s now over 28 days since I was promised a refund, told it would be processed in 5-7 working days again no correspondence or any sign of the refund I was promised I can provide your email supporting this.”
“Cancelled booking and some how a month later they obtained my new card details and still took over £400 out of my account even though they confirmed it had been cancelled a month before, I really would like to know how they got my new card details as I didn't even have the card delivered yet
Avoid at all costs and customer service is absolutely shocking”
“-Overcharged £100 when booking.
-Terrible phone queues to resolve above issue. Took days and hours of emails and calls.
-I questioned their free lounge as I read so many people got let down. Have at least 15 emails confirming I definitely have the lounge, only to be cancelled once I arrived at the airport! Was too late to get any other food before flight.
-Customer service representatives were awful when trying to discuss the lounge issue and refused to let me speak to a manager, and even threatened hanging up the phone if I asked one more time....I asked to speak to a manager again, and they hung up! Awful.
-Transfer information not available online, the local Spanish phoneline didn't have my information, and the emergency phone line for customers currently abroad.....well this was ironically closed!
Awful service from start to finish.
I fly 7 times per year, have never had such awful service, and will never use them again.”
“fter hours of phone calls on hold at the expense of 13p per min to myself, chat bot conversations and failed communications, being sent around the houses, I am still no further on.
The on the beach website misrepresented and miss sold a hotel room as part of our very expensive family holiday which we are yet to go on. They have given me something that was not described nor pictured and I have all the evidence in screen shots and correspondence to prove this.
I have the original screen shots of the website from when I booked and this Sunday. Funnily enough they have now rectified this error on the website and booking page and deny this error but clearly as Citizens advice said, this is an admission of their mistake????? However, they do not care, they do not respond when they say they will, they do not resolve the situation and basically tell you to its hard luck. This is their error and I am now in touch with both Trading Standards and the ombudsman.
(Which you cannot use ABTA as funnily enough they decided to with draw from them! Funny that!)
PLEASE PLEASE avoid at all costs. I have never had to write a complaint letter in my life and I cannot believe how they are treating people. I have been in touch with two others, one had theirs resolved (exactly the same error as mine). They want to charge me an extra £2K to upgrade to a room I have already been sold!!!
Update and response to On the beach - you have totally ignored the fact that your website showed the pictures of the wrong room as sent to you in screen shots in my complaint as explained before. So what you are saying on a public forum as an excuse is incorrect and another lie. I am now in the process of engaging a solicitor”
“The most hurrendous company to book with. They keep your money, tell lies, threaten you with legal action, make false allegations and refuse to ever speak to you over the phone. The worse holiday experience ever do not book with this company. They threaten to cancel your holiday and keep all of your money. You are paying them thousands for the stress.”
“Honestly shocking company, haven’t even been on the holiday yet and I’ve delt with more stress than ever. Can’t talk to anyone for help, they took £140 out of my account for a name change and didn’t actually end up changing the name till a few weeks ago when I paid way before December 2023. I was paying £181 a month for this holiday and just had an email saying they couldn’t take money out of my account even tho I knew I had £181 in there for it, went onto my booking payments to see they have randomly changed the price to £208 a month with no notice or explanation at all! Will never book with this company again, supposed to be exiting booking a holiday but I’d rather not go now!! Absolutely shameful of this company. Don’t book with this.”
“Seen all these bad reviews i have booked 2 holidays for myself my husband and two kids and have had brillant service everything went really smoothly cam wait for our next holiday”
“Just booked with this clown company and realised why I stopped using them years ago I will never use them ever again, I would rather never have a holiday in my lifetime.”
“Nightmare. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. Booked a holiday- airline cancelled flights and cannot stop direct debit payments because will be charged additionally for that even though I'm entitled to a full refund, would still have to pay these charges- meaning will be paying for a holiday I'm not going on and operations team prioritise the cancellations within the next 14 days meaning could be waiting months until this issue is resolved- no telephone number provided to the operations team to sort an issue which should take 5 mins on the phone. VERY POOR.”
“I haven’t got ne yet and feel quite ill all day trying to talk to someone, because their tel nos that open at 8am are not taking calls! I think they check your booking no and block you! I got thro to while on holiday and she was lovely, but the booking is thro someone else. I booked 3 days ago and last 2 days been trying to get the balcony I requested. The final booking knocked it off ! I will be suing when home. It’s stressful and heartbreaking for them to do this, plus I booked a balcony room for £100 less with booking.com, but Otb blocked a refund after 3 days! So sadly I cancelled the booking.com. I live In Weymouth with a sea view balcony, why would I book a basement room! I have a screenshot of the room I was pressing on, you have a week to fix this, or off to court I go!”
“Absolutely terrible booked a holiday but they can’t confirm for 48 hours ( I booked a last min deal) can’t get to speak to anyone the phone numbers they give don’t work. My hol pending so don’t know if I’m going or not can’t even cancel to book with someone else and still no phone calls to let me know what’s going on . The chat is a waste of time just keep telling me some one will be in touch ? Waited 2 days now . The worst customer service Ive ever experienced I will never use again avoid like the plague
Now been over 48 hours still nothing”
“SCAMMER!!!!!
The worst company to book your holiday.
I cancelled my booking which due in 10 months and paid the cancellation fee of 90 gbp and then after a day I received a confirmed cancellation. Few minutes after charging me my complete flight fee. And then I phoned them and asking what is for the flight fee I dirmdnt received a flights… they said they cant do anything as the flight is already paid. And then after few minutes they were sending me flight which I cannot rebook or change the Destination and charge me 1200 gbp…. WORST COMPANY”