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Beware of Capital One Travel scam
Believe me, stay away from Capital One Travel, even with the enticing 10x reward points and any travel credits. You will end up paying far more than any other travel websites or booking through the hotel directly. I learned of a very bad lesson of using Capital One Travel for hotel booking. I had booked a hotel in Asia and chosen the room type that was shown on Capital One Travel specifically a larger room with two double-size beds or a king-size bed with a total price about $400 more than a room with two twin-sized beds shown the Capital One Travel website. I knew well of these two room size difference as I had stayed in the same hotel before. However, the confirmations from Capital One did not show the room type (perhaps on purpose) or the bed size details. I called immediately Capital One Travel to raise my concern pointing out the lack of my bed type selection in the confirmation and was made rest assured by their customer rep on the call that it was a larger room with two double-sized beds or a king-sized bed assigned at check-in. However, when I checked in to the hotel last night, my worry was proved to be valid as I was assigned a room with two TWIN-sized beds instead of the larger room with two DOUBLE-sized beds that I had paid for. The hotel also showed me the room type sent by Capital One Travel was a room with two twin-sized beds only. The hotel manager asked me to show the confirmation from Capital One Travel. After spending a long time trying to justify my claim and rationalize the situation, the hotel has decided to accommodate me as a courtesy to change my room to two doble-sized beds when one is available. We are still not sure if I would get the room selected originally at this point. Of course, I was very upset and called Capital One Travel informed them about my situation but they provided no help at all. After all, shame on Capital One Travel with dishonest business practices deceiving card holders!



