Note for review: This is based on the travel agent specifically. The agent used an outside agency called FunJet but works for Carrousel Travel. This was also the wife of a friend. I say that so people reading this understand that this was treated with more patience than usual, not less. That being said here is what transpired.
Pam Novotney has been the absolute worst person I have ever had to deal with in my life from a customer service perspective. We booked our wedding group through her. That is 26 total people for a trip to Cancun. Since the start of this process there has been nothing but problems in the form of booking errors, communication issues, and pure disrespect for my wife and I. The list of transgressions against us is long.
First she was pushing specific resorts on us that we did not want to go to. I actually ended up finding the resort we wanted to go to. Then every single person or group that booked with her had to get price matched because her initial cost would be hundreds of dollars more. She did match prices we found so I do consider that a plus, but again I had to do that research along with my whole family.
Also she just called us out of the blue saying we need to have everyone pay in the next three days (no warning) or their trip will be cancelled. This was because she had personal matters to attend to leading up to the uncommunicated due date. So we are rushing to get everyone to pay her. Again why are we doing this?
She made many clerical errors with at least 60% of the people who booked. Either it was wrong spelling of a name, wrong birthday, or even gender was inaccurate. She also missed putting travel insurance on my sister and by the time we caught it, she told us it was too late. Can you imagine if we would have shown up to the airport with anyone of the above occurring? We would request her to fix the issue and the response time would be days to a week and half with no results.
Then after all of that she would not take responsibility; blaming us, or the agency for the errors. She shows absolutely NO EMPATHY for our situation and wants us to call FunJet and/or the airlines to fix the issue. Today I spent hours on the phone with our airline to correct her mistakes. The most infuriating thing is she is getting paid for this huge group while my wife and I do her job for her; fixing her mistakes days before leaving for the wedding (as if we need to be dealing with this). The final thing is she sold us on some discounts we would get with booking everyone through her (for 10 rooms at one resort). We didn't see a single discount or kickback. That shows little integrity.
At the end of the day a Travel Agent is supposed to make you feel better about the traveling part and she did the exact opposite. read more