Hotwire User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience21.8% of reviews
Neutral5.4% of reviews
Negative experience72.8% of reviews

~ Based on 257 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Hotwire Safe?

Hotwire: Last Minute Hotels appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Hotwire is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 144,565 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

95.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
2.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 144,565 App Store ratings for Hotwire.

Is Hotwire Legit?

Hotwire: Last Minute Hotels appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Hotwire is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Seems like a trap

Was about to book a “4star hotel” and they showed me a “preview of one room in this hotel”…. I was like …. No 4 star hotel has a on wall AC/heater unit… reverse-image searched and it came back with Holiday Inn Express & Suites…. That a 2.5-3 star hotel….. No refund policy …. Yeah. What?

Why Always Sheraton?

Booked 4-star hotels 4 or 5 times. And it's always Sheraton. No exception. It's like there's no other options. Why is it always Sheraton for me but Hyatt, Hilton? I don't get it. I won't use it again to be honest bad experience

Left without a hotel room

For the 2nd time now I booked a room that was a hotrate hotel that said it was pet friendly and it wasn’t. They did refund my money but I had to stay on the phone with customer service for almost 2 hours and in the end didn’t have a place to stay. It’s very frustrating and disappointing and I won’t be using this app again.
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Horrible

The worst app to book hotel with, have to enter everything manually now and bot customer support. Uninstall

Can’t use save credit cards or Apple Pay

What is the point of signing in when the app doesn’t allow to use Apple Pay or the saved credit cards? If I have to fill in the guest name with no option to pre fill, the credit card number, email address, etc on every transaction, why am I even logging in when I can’t access and use the information you already have… that’s lazy.
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Bye

It’s been a fun run, but now your app sucks so badly that even one of the most loyal customer is leaving you. I hope AI software saved you a lot of money.

Disappointed

Nothing you can’t do on their website. The my trips section never loads your information.

Sucks Arse!

Don’t use. The app froze on me, then ended up double booking, and charging, me. Then, even after the hotel’s front desk person went out of her way to clarify that it was just me and that I didn’t need nor use a second room, Hotwire (truly owned by Expedia) had me stuck on a phone loop of blame passing back and forth to different people for 2.5 hrs, only to never (still haven’t refunded me. Worst customer service experience EVER!!!!
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My trips tab

My trips tab always shows blank. I have to logout and log back in to see my trips. It is frustrating.

App Changes Make It Unusable

The current location doesn’t work and they removed the map option for search results which makes knowing the locations difficult when reviewing the results. Better off using another platform.

No support, does not work in Canada

Can’t switch to Canadian dollars because you need to enter a postal code and it only presents a number pad.

So you are left booking Canadian hotels in US dollars and have no idea what the exchange will work out to.

Broken links in the app so you can’t read reviews.

Just very poorly done and has a scammy feel.
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Once good app trashed!

iOS app is basically non functional garbage!

Missing Rez, No Chat or Phone Support

I booked a hotel for an upcoming trip. I received an email confirmation (thankfully), but in the app it shows I have no upcoming itineraries or purchases. I'm so glad I saved the email because I'd be screwed otherwise. I tried using their chat function, waited 14 minutes without an agent connecting, even when I marked it as urgent. I called the phone number, and unless this was a flight for a package, they can't help me with a simple hotel reservation via phone either. Worthless.
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App is not useful

Can’t book in the app, can’t sign in in the app. The app is completely useless. Just use the website I guess? This should just be deleted, what a joke.

Lost money and new poor UX

The new UI/UX has many bugs. For example if you click sign in after starting a booking the app freezes.

More importantly my last booking was at a hotel that was already full booked. I showed up and was told Hotwire never paid the hotel as well as they didn’t have any rooms. Hotwire didn’t refund me either. Frustrating process. The hotel remained on the app too after I tried to search for another one.

Not using hotwire again.
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Unusable

Can’t log in. Button doesn’t work. Can’t scroll. Literally can’t make a reservation. Come on guys this is terrible

New updates are horrible

The app was very good but I guess app developers and company don’t care any more.
App is Junk
Can’t book through app
Same issues faced by others but have they cared? Evidence suggests not
On to other apps

Never again with Hotwire

Now - so much worse than it used to be. Booking a hotel blind used to result in some good deals on hotels. Not anymore. I paid more than it had been priced elsewhere for a low quality hotel experience. I have used Hotwire for years. My experience went from great to good to bad. Honest truth - this last one, I paid for the 2-person hotel as "non-refundable" and checked in and saw it was the lowest grade booking, left the room 100% empty/(used nothing) to stay somewhere else. Never again Hotwire.
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Good deals

I have used the Hotwire app for years. It’s easy to use and has decent filter options to refine results. My only pet peeve is the app only supports up to 4 star hotel filtering but the website and mobile web support 5 star hotel filter options. Strange.

Won’t actually book

I have tried many times to use this app and when I click book now it says there is a problem. Useless