I booked through Hotwire and the hotel… I booked through Hotwire and the hotel was disgusting. I will never book through them ever.

Use priceline.com instead of hotwire They put me in a motel and called it a 3.5 star hotel. I tried to fix it somehow with their customer service and hotwires customer service smelled worst the motel they put us in. The feces or blood drops in the bathroom was the deal breaker for us, we just left and had to pay for another hotel ourselves. Hotwire pretty much told us to take care of the scam ourselves.

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?

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.

I love it, not sure why it's got bad reviews Not sure why everyone is leaving bad reviews for hotwire - I've had some great deals from the company in the past. In Europe I saved some serious cash on hotels (I had a room worth $350 USD a night for under $150 a night on hotwire). I've saved tons of money on rental cars too under their hot deals - often times more than several hundred dollars compared to competitors. Obviously you need to be careful because you cannot be refunded for any of these rooms or cars.