I booked a house in Perth,Australia on Vrbo for Christmas in 2023, paying for the property back in April 2023 for my wife’s 50th birthday on what was meant to be a trip of a lifetime. By chance i contacted the host in August to check on the bedrooms and beds, as I am travelling with a family of 6, and I found out the property had been de-listed 2 months ago as the owner had sold the property. I have spent over 10 hours on the phone with different Vrbo customer service reps for over a week, to get refund and I was made to feel that I was lucky to get this and Vrbo have been completely unhelpful in supporting me to secure another property and with it being so late in the day and a highly demanded period, I have no chance of booking a house for my family and I to stay in, without paying a hugely inflated cost or staying in a really sub standard place that has no reviews or demand for obvious reasons. Vrbo do not respond to my requests to help with a resolution, have not responded to my complaint that you can only register on line, you can never speak to anyone and there is no process for escalation. This has caused my family huge distress, as we are flying 6 of us from the US to Australia at huge expense with flights and Vrbo have left us high and dry with no facility to help support , apart from recommending I use a different website! Oh and to top it off I lost over $100 on the refund with the exchange rate over time and the fees to convert currencies. Don’t use this company, they do not care about their customers and the customer service team have no power or empathy to fix anything!
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