Holiday Rental Specialists

Booked a holiday for a group of us but was cancelled due to lockdown. Company unwilling to provide same accommodation for same price or offer refund. Buyer beware as this company also advertises on Air BnB. Worst customer experience ever.

This company will not provide a refund on accommodation impacted by border closures due to COVID. They cannot provide the service they advertise and then they keep your money, providing a 12 month credit only. It is profiting off a pandemic and very poor form. I recommend you use anyone but this company

A couple of months ago, I wrote a very negative review when I had to cancel my booking due to COVID restrictions, and I was unhappy with the response from HRS via booking.com. HRS has now been in touch to rectify my concerns and I’m now completely happy with the solution offered to me and with the excellent communication from Sarah. I’ve been offered a credit note and a discount on my original booking for a future date. Thank you Sarah for your help and I’m very happy that HRS has obviously been listening to their customers and it appears they are making changes to their policies. (If I could find my original review, I’d edit it, but I can’t locate it.)

In covid times this company will not give you a refund and when you move to another property they charge a fee
Reading the reviews I will never book through a management agent again.
Greedy people who did not think their clients may need the refund

customer service was great they refunded my money due to covid lock down and was very good with me and understood where i was coming from also gave me a discount when i booked 2 months ago will book again with them a++++++++++++

L'Etape Australia Cycling event was cancelled due to weather/flooding but they are refusing to refund even though their terms say they refund for an act of god and flooding!
They then wanted to charge another $150 to re-advertise it as an act of good faith...

Very very very disappointed in the lack of flexibility & basic humanity of this company. How can we support the tourism industry when we suffer personal financial loss through no fault of our own, but due to unpredictability of the pandemic if we book accomodation. As a small business owner devastated financially by the 8week lock down in Melbourne, I have felt keenly the catastrophic economic consequences for all industries directly impacted by covid 19. I have also felt the importance of supporting all industries as best we can as we have...

I am VERY surprised at these negative comments.I have had the BEST service from Rena and Cameron at Holiday Rental Specialists. Friendly, warm and they were able to retrieve an enormous additional cost when I booked with a website, bringing the booking down to a REASONABLE amount.
The property we booked looks great and we are looking forward to being with our friends there in a few weeks. So a huge thank you to HRS!
I shall be definitely popping in to say hi to thank Rena and Cameron personally when there.
Annie

No clarity on sharing cancellation implications and uncontactable. Unbelievingly hard to cancel a booking despite CoVid then misled on understanding full cost reimbursed on a credit note and end up getting booking fee $750 deducted.

Do not use - deplorable conduct!!!!!
Cancelled our booking for 16 people 24 hours before the weekend with no prior contact or warning, simply an e-mail saying the reservation was "Cancelled". Absolutely no consideration given to the fact that alternative accommodation cannot be secured for sixteen people in one day, no compensation for caterers that were booked and paid for the whole weekend, no assistance or compensation towards any alternatives and are now delaying the refund for ten days. Disgusting behavior, do not do business with holiday rental specialists.
If you have had a similar experience, which we know others have, please contact accc and fair trading.

Deplorable conduct!!!
Cancelled our booking for 16 people one day before the weekend with no prior contact, simply an email saying the reservation has been canceled. Absolutely no consideration given to the fact that alternative accommodation can’t be found for sixteen people in one day, no compensation given for the caterers that have already been booked/paid for the whole weekend, no assistance or compensation towards any alternatives and are now delaying the refund for ten days. Shame on you!
Disgusting behavior, do not do business with this...

Made a booking.
Would like to be complementary, but.....
They will not make ANY concessions due to hardship or CORONA VIRUS.
Suggest reading other reviews, and what the court said about the principles of this organisation.
The Codes they "operate under" do not have considerations for the customers.

We paid for our booking in Culburra Beach 9 to 23 January 2021 and received a confirmation and receipt. But Holiday Rental Specialists then cancelled our booking saying there was a problem with their booking system and the dates were no longer available. But a check revealed that the dates are still available but the price had more than doubled! This firm is unethical.

After having to change a family holiday due to COVID we were hit with additional booking fees .
Once we paid additional fees a booking confirmation was received - only to be cancelled 2 weeks before our holiday . Other booking agencies deserve your business more than HRS who would also provide a better level of service. I would never get them to manage my holiday property even if they managed it for free .

Booked a weekend away (at quite an expense) and received a confirmation email.

A day later another 'confirmation' that said we needed to get in touch.

Then an email to say our booking was cancelled - no apologies and even tried to put it on us for not following up with a call to confirm earlier despite the email stating 'this confirms your booking'

Do not use.