1 reviews | Active since May 2012
No person to contact for help
I travel a lot and thus make use of online travel agencies to book flights. Travelstart was the one I used most frequently up until I had to change my bookings one Sunday evening. Travel start does not have a direct line to contact them should you have queries or need to change your flights. I fell sick on a Sunday evening and had an early flight out the Monday morning. I spend most of Sunday evening struggling to get hold of someone to assist me over their Whatsapp line and their contact portal on their website. I finally got a response after I was send a message to say I should contact them during office hours. This was just after 7pm Sunday evening. According to their website their Whatsapp line is active until 8:40pm Monday to Sunday. I was told that because I was already checked I cannot cancel the flight. This was not a problem as I wanted to move the flights to Tuesday same time departure and return. I received an email at 7:39 Monday morning explaining to me the procedure to follow to move the flights to Tuesday morning and afternoon. I had a cut off time of 11:30 Monday morning to confirm this which I did on the Whatsapp line as well as the web portal. I only got a response by 11: 40am which in my mind was to late according to their earlier email. The end of this story was that I booked flights for Tuesday through another agency ending up loosing my money for the flights booked through Travelstart because I could not speak to someone directly and getting help timeously. I will never use them again; all other agencies and airlines have direct lines of communication. I have changed my flights on the day of travel to an earlier flight through the airline. In this case the airline could not assist me as I did the booking through an agency.
Thank you for taking my call.
As advised I will be awaiting your email with the new tickets purchased so that we can conclude the investigation on our end and then I will be able to provide you with feedback.
I am happy to hear you are doing much better and would like to wish you and the wife all the best.
Kind Regards,
Melissa Eksteen
Thank you for taking my call.
As advised I will be awaiting your email with the new tickets purchased so that we can conclude the investigation on our end and then I will be able to provide you with feedback.
I am happy to hear you are doing much better and would like to wish you and the wife all the best.
Kind Regards,
Melissa Eksteen
