Andrew L.
Untrustworthy. Infuriating. Deceptive.
I tried them for the first time this year. I will never use them again for anything. I had to cancel an activity with them. The site said "full refund" if cancelled more than 24 hours in advance of the activity. They said refunds take 30 days. It took them nearly two months to respond to my request. Along the way, I got several emails telling me not to call them and they're working on my request. Finally, today they responded: I got an email telling me my refund would be a "coupon" for credit with their site. I was promised cash. Now I'm waiting on hold to speak to customer service for over 40 minutes. Still no answer. That credit is useless to me as I will never use their site again. They lie and then you can't get in touch with them. I travel. I've been to Latin America seven times in the last year alone. I spend thousands of US dollars on travel every year. Despegar won't see another nickel of that. Consider yourself warned. As a sidenote, I cancelled activities with GetYourGuide and Viator for the same trip. These refunds showed up within 24 hours and one week respectively. My AirBnB was also refunded within 24 hours.



