I booked a room in Abeer Guest House . 41 El-Qobba, East bank, 85951 Luxor, Egypt thru Booking.com. The dates are very special because the entire world is going to gather at Luxor to watch the total solar eclipse Aug-2027.
Almost on all booking websites hotels in Luxor for those dates in Aug-27 are already booked and there’s hardly anything left within mid-range budget category.
I raised a few queries to the guest house owner with respect to my stay and and they realized due to that how important the dates are. The very next day as I just kept on checking I noticed that the per night cost of the same guest house was increased to 3 times the earlier rates. And then within next 1 – 2 days it went full. (At least as per the search results)
I thought I just got it in time. I noticed that the owner was not responding to any of my queries and within days I got an email that the guest house had initiated a free cancellation of my booking and I had 24 hours to decide. This was unusual and misleading as the booking was confirmed.
I contacted the booking website and they also informed me that the booking is confirmed and there’s nothing to worry. I continued follow-up with the guest house to answer my queries and eventually after a few days they replied
We are sorry to inform you that we can not host you at this time because we are away and traveling.
I raised the matter with booking.com but they were not much supportive. They went ahead as per the instructions from Abeer Guest House and on their own cancelled the booking.
It’s a dirty tactic to force guests who have booked at a lower rate to cancel the booking and then get it booked at higher rates.
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