Hotwire "guarantee" means nothing I booked a Hot Rate hotel through the website. I understand you take your chances when booking these rates. But the site said "You’re guaranteed to stay at one of these regional or national chains:" and showed Sheraton, Radisson, Holiday Inn, and Wingate. It further offered a photo from the hotel I was booking. I was booked into the Sonesta Select. I have talked to multiple people there, and get the same rehearsed answers. How can they legally make a guarantee and then not follow through with it?

I never write a bad review even if… I never write a bad review even if deserved but this was so bad I had to for future hotwire customers! We were promised an " Excellent Rating" hotel and of course it showed very common nice hotels as my choices but ended up giving me a sketchy unsafe "ECONO LODGE MOTEL" that was beyond nasty!! I will never ever book with Hotwire again!

HOTWIRE has become a SCAM HOTWIRE was fantastic back in the years. Now they are abusing their customers. The commissions are ridiculous. Go back to what you were in 2017 and become a travel giant. You won't survive otherwise

Beware of this when using hotwire.com I was researching trips for rental car and made two reservations. Somehow one was submitted as prepay which I did not authorize because I was only doing light level research. I then spent two hours chatting with hotwire and then calling Hertz and Expedia (who owns Hotwire) only to get the same answer which was to send an email to a generic email address I got a response today and it was that they could do nothing and call my bank to try and get my $632 back. This is wrong and not fair whatsoever.

Not worth any perceived savings Every time I book a car with them, I have a bad experience. I say I will never book again and a couple of years later I decide to try them again and always get screwed. They will not update or change your reservation for any reason ever, so it's completely useless to call customer service. And if you are slightly late on your time, they charge you a whole other day (instead of an hourly rate, like most rental agencies.