HotelValues
Reviews and Complaints

I booked Sofitel in Montreal for 3 nights with what I thought was the Sofitel website but was in fact Hotel Values. Very sneaky. I had to cancel due to Covid. My Visa had already been charged
No refund at all. Over 1200 dollars. No help at all from 3 poorly trained people at CR at HotelValues. Total scam company. Beware.
Also $400 in tax and fees compared to regular tax and fees at the Ritz of $200.
Makes me feel angry and like an idiot for getting scammed.

When I Went online to book a hotel, and somehow got redirected to what I thought was Holiday Inn website. I went to book a room for that evening, and the room rate was $190. When I proceeded with the reservation using my phone, it asked for my credit card information, which I put in.
After that section, it had a check box for their cancelation policy, then below that a button to confirm the info you input - and it said you can review the charges.
The text was volumimous.
Two days before the reservation I called to cancel because I couldn't make the trip and all the did was explain their cancel policy and no refunds... over and over. I aaked to move the trip to Adam e that works. They said. NO. Iexplained that I wasn't canceling I was trying to get the reservation I just tried to move it. Again they said no. I called the hotel and. they said they were no jurisdiction because it is a third party service, but ultimately the Holiday Inn Monticello In Charlottesville is getting paid. So, can't Holiday Inn honor at least 1/2 a credit? No.
Hotelvalues.com is a SCAM. Their booking process is set up to scam you bc you can't see the real price until you put in credit card. It really doesn't allow you to review charges to verify they are what you want. It only showed the room rate prior to the credit card info.
They also give you 2. days to cancel from the date you book (so Booking for a stay a month away is useless). Further, you lose 90% of what was. charged even after 2 days!
I lost $200 and I. asked the customer service person how long it takes them to make $200. No answer.
I explained this to 3 different people. They offered me nothing.
I want either all or even half of my money refunded as I did not stay at the hotel. The fees are unacceptably exorbitant. They are an unethical booking setup to. scam the public and hotels. should. not allow them to do this.

I booked a Hotel through Hotelvalues.com. @ Hampton Inn & Suites from 10/16/2021 to 10/19/2021. I had to cancel due to illness. I was told that I would not be refunded for the $400 plus dollars I was charged for this reservation. I understand a small cancellation fee, but no refund is unacceptable. Hotel has plenty of time to rent the room, as today is 10/10/2021.

Went online to book a hotel, and somehow got redirected to what I thought was Hilton website. I went to book a room for that evening, and the room rate was $161. When I proceeded with the reservation using my phone, it asked for my credit card information, which I put in. After that section, it had a check box for their cancelation policy, then below that a button to confirm the info you input - and it said you can review the charges. So I hit the button, and scrolled below, to see the excessive and unacceptable fees. I immediately tried to press the back button on phone to cancel before the confirm function finished processing. I wasn't sure if I caught it in time. I IMMEDIATELY called their customer service to explain and all the did was explain their cancel policy and no refunds... over and over. I explained that I wasn't canceling I was trying to get the reservation I just submitted to not process. No one would help. I did not intend to book once I saw the fees and the way they have their booking process is set up to scam you bc you can't see the real price until you put in credit card. It really doesn't allow you to review charges to verify they are what you want. It only showed the room rate prior to the credit card info.
I immediately called them, within 1 minute of my transaction - I did not book this and decide after 5 days to cancel. I did not want to book the room. The booking was for that evening that I was In as well, so it wasn't as if this room had been reserved and now they lost the chance to rebook with someone. It was 9pm on October 4, for a stay October 4, that same evening. I did not want to book this after I saw these fees and I explained this to 5 different people. They offered me a courtesy 10% off which equated to $16.00. I explained I wasn't even necessarily canceling a reservation, I was trying to not have the one I just submitted actually go through. Again they refused. I want either all of my money refunded as I did not stay at the hotel. Or at the least the fees that are unacceptably exorbitant. I am not the first to complain about their shady unethical booking setup.

This people diverted my inquiry about lodging in Bryce Canyon Resort, they charged me over $300 with a fraudulent tax charge for a room that the owner charges $88. I'm going to contest the charge with Capital One. I have s3nt this complaint to the website with no response. I have told the hot3l owner that she should nit have taken a booking when she knew that the customer was being ripped off.

We booked a king suite at the Arizona grand through hotelvalues.com. Unfortunately we had to cancel. We were told they wouldn't refund our $600 as per the hotel's policy. This was a blatant lie. The hotel itself offers refunds to within 72 hrs. But we'd already canceled, so we were not refunded. The hotel and the third party booker kept passing us back and forth. Nothing could be done apparently. This is unethical. It's a scam. Don't book through these people.

I called what I thought was the Americinn hotel by Wyndham (the one closest to the Denver airport). The representative quoted me specifically (and supposedly on a recorded line) $131 a night (a grand total of $261.06). I stayed from 9/25-9/27/21 with reservation confirmation number of R2827890505. When I arrived back home this morning I checked my online acct and I saw a charge from "cci Hoel Res" for $419.27! That is not a valid charge. I called Getaroom.com and brought my concern up to them. She said there was nothing she could do because the charge was valid. When I mentioned that their representative provided me with misleading info on a recorded line she then offered me a 10% discount. I told her that was not acceptable because I was still being overcharged $66.21. This is a fraudulent overcharge. I want to report their business please

Made a reservation on my phone through their website. Astounded to discover when I read the email confirmation that they marked up the room fee amount quoted by nearly 30% calling it a "reservation fee". Called to cancel and was told they would cancel but not return any of my money. Unethical and disingenuous. I would like a refund of the $183.36 fee they charged to my card.

I was charged $369.59 tax on $658.05 this is unacceptable along with charging me over $700.00 if I cancel my reservation.
The tax did not show up on the web site until I paid.

10 minutes after I made the reservation I was going to cancel my reservation and rebook on another web site that only charges $116.00 for taxes but I was told a ridicules fee of over $700 if I cancel it. All other web sites gives a 24 to 72 hour cancellation time.

The taxes charged to me is over half of what my room cost…. After this trip I will never book another reservation with you.

I made reservations to state at Candlewood suites in Boise Idaho for 9/14-9/16. I realized on 9/9 that I should have reserved 9/13-9/15. I called Hotelvalues.com to modify the dates. They would not do it without charging 50% for changing. Apparently the date you could change free of charge was 9/6. I was three days late. This is not acceptable way of doing business. I want refunded the charge fir 9/15.

Thought I was on Hampton Inn's website. I wasn't. Gave a decent price. Booked it for two nights. They added $164.09 in "tax recovery charges & services fees". Credit card company sided with them even after I explained all the BS associated with them.

Booked a hotel with hotelvalues.com for Comfort Inn in Sidney, British Columbia, Canada. Unbeknown to me was directed to the site for Comfort Inn in Sidney, NY USA. Booked a room for September 6, 2021 for one night. Received confirmation (#R2770661131) but unfortunately did not notice the reservation was for Sidney, New York and not Sidney, British Columbia. Arrived in Sidney, B.C. and to our dismay there is not even a Comfort Inn there even though when booking that is what we asked for.

They charged us over 100 more than the advertised price . Total cost was 339.38 advertised 339

On 8/20/21 I booked with IHG (Hilton), it sent me to a third party booking site which was Hotelsvalue.com (Conf. #R2749124392). I immediately notice the booking dates were incorrect and called to make changes to the reservation. I spoke with the customer service rep and they informed me that they were unable to reach the hotel to rebook or refund me. They sent my issue to the escalation team to try to reach the partner hotel to send a refund or do a "one-time courtesy" cancellation. I was unable to rebook the hotel. On 9/1/2021 I received another email for the escalation team stated the following:
"In an effort we tried and secured a waiver on your behalf we have reached out to our hotel partner and requested a one-time courtesy cancel to waive the penalties associated with your booking. Unfortunately, the hotels have denied the request and will not be extending a courtesy cancel". (signed and send by a customer care representative from Hotelsvalue.com)

I contacted IHG directly and spoke with a representative who quickly handled my issues, giving me a full refund and stating that they had not been contacted by Hotelsvalue.com about this issue. No notes at all. I was deemed a NO SHOW on their books.

I will definitely book with IHG again, but NEVER through Hotelvalues.com.
IHG should look at this company that they are partnering with, they are not a good company to work with.

G. Parsons

Same as others, I mistakenly moved too fast and did not realize I was not on Hilton website. My bad. I then realized after purchase and it is $100 over Expedia. Expedia even allows cancellation time, and this site does not. Do not use HotelValue to book any hotel. Please also note that they change the domain to read guestreservations.com, so it all disguises that you are not on a direct website of the hotel. Obviously, if they knew they were upstanding and competitive, they would use their name on the webpage. Once again, after I received the email, I then saw that it was hotel value.

Hi there please see a copy of a reply I sent to the above company as I believed I was booking direct with Holliday Inn direct but was diverted to Hotels.com who charged me £143.95 for doing so, the booking reservation number is
R2764120188

Hi there

I am writing to you re the recent reservation in this e mail and would like to know why you charges of £143.95 are so high as all you did was handle this booking so an admin fee of about £15 is all that should have been added as you can not charge vat or fees for cleaning as you did nothing but take the booking which I believed was booked direct with Holliday Inn at the time of making the booking as I have stayed there several times, and you fees are unacceptable further more the first room we spotted was half the price but when we clicked on book the room disappeared?

I also know that on arrival the hotel was not fully booked but after traveling 250 miles to get there and arriving at another property was told they had no reservation for me which I had proof off this was my only other alternative.
I normally travel with work but on this occasion I was with my partner for a weekend break and this put a good start to the weekend before we even got checked in, I have also logged a complaint with booking.com as the other property was only £99 for 2 x nights. I look forward to your reply and a refund of the overcharged price of £143.95, I am also a genius level 2 with booking.com, but at the time I had spent 30 minuets on the phone trying to get hold of them to no avail.

Yours Faithfully

A Buckton

The deceptive actions of this "business" are pathetic. I went directly to the hotel's website but was unwittingly 'redirected' to this third-party "business". When I received a reservation confirmation from HotelValues.com for $240 over the advertised room rate, I called to complain. I then received an email from GAR (Get A Room). Despite making a formal complaint to both companies (which are apparently one and the same) days ago requesting a refund of the additional "Tax Recovery Charges and Service Fees," I still have not received a response. Underhanded businesses that misrepresent themselves and charge undisclosed / exorbitant fees should be shut down!

This is a clear mistake on my part. I booked two rooms at a Hampton in Lexington KY and inadvertently did it on hotelvalues.com. They charged me $124 per room and then $128 in taxes, special charges, etc.

It's there on the confirmation and it is my fault. I just don't want anyone else to fall victim. I book a fair amount of hotel rooms and I'm fairly savvy about how and where I book and mostly I book through the hotel as I'm a member of most frequent traveler programs. I'm really wondering how this actually happened. Was I just blind or was there a little deception?

Clearly, they were trying to show a low nightly rate and make it up with SPECIAL CHARGES. I can't even bring up their website now and it makes me wonder if it wasn't diverted in the background.

Hotel values.com create websites that look like the actual hotels' website. You will notice at the top it will say "guest reservations/whatever hotel" you're looking at, then they use really fine print so you do not see it is nonrefundable. When they send the email to you is when you see they are different company. As soon as you make the reservation they take the money from your account. They took over $1000 from me because their unethical criminal tactics tricked me.

How many of the same story must be told before something is done about these THIEVES? I was making a reservation for a Hilton Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. I was on the Hilton hotels website. hotelvalues.com hijacked the site. The $270 per night room became a $390.63 per night room after they added ridiculous so-called "taxes." AND they immediately charged my debit card for the entire amount of $1180.79. There is NO WAY they will refund my money. This is outrageous and must be stopped.