Mysterious leak of Booking.com reservation data is being used to scam customers

Re:Mysterious leak of Booking.com reservation data is being ... by mijamo on Monday February 13, 2023 @12:01PM (#34776256)

For some reason my experience has been the opposite: higher prices when going through the hotels directly. My thoughts were that clients booking directly are not really comparing so less price sensitive and thus the hotel charges them more. The difference has often been around 10%.

The UI of hotels website is also often terrible and I absolutely do not trust them with my credit card info (nor do I wish to send them a SEPA deposit which I have seen at more than one place).

For flights on the other hand I take the airline website any day.

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Re:Mysterious leak of Booking.com reservation data is being ... by Scoundreller on Monday February 13, 2023 @12:10PM (#34776426)

> For flights on the other hand I take the airline website any day.

Sometimes identifying “the airline” isn’t straightforward.

Found a great routing+price: Toronto-Philadelphia-Paris on an OTA, all on AA metal.

But the fare wasn’t available on AA.com, you had to find it on Iberian’s website which booked some of the legs through a Finnair codeshare.

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Re:Mysterious leak of Booking.com reservation data is being ... by gmokki on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:51PM (#34778255)

Currently travelling in India. Tried booking hotels and domestic flights with mastercard/visa, but nothing worked. Called my bank and they said their system show no rejected transactions so the block must be on Indian side.

So had to book on booking.com and other multinational sites.

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