“Travel insurance- don't waste your money! My student daughter purchased tickets recently and paid for additional insurance should she need to 'change her travel plans'. She did need to ' change her plans' . Not only did Trainine ignore the insurance, they also charged her 2 separate £10 admin fees for their complex chaos of partial refunds and exchanges. An absolute joke. At the very least save yourself some money by swerving their extra insurance costs.”
“I will never ever use this company again, I was a victim of a crime, could not travel, they will not refund or allow me to travel at another time. The lie, they say its the rail network, you can't get through to their customer services. If you find their chat, if you do, it takes forever to be answered and they lie and push you to from pillar to post- Rude stafff too.
NEVER AGAIN WILL I USE THIS COMPANY. TOTALLY NEGLIGENT.”
“Warning: Avoid Trainline like the plague. They sell rail sail tickets Ireland to UK which cannot possibly be collected in Ireland. They’re aware of this issue and sell them anyway so effectively it’s fraud. Avoid booking with this dodgy outfit and book directly with ferry & / or train operators.”
“Disgusting service. Actually had in writing that they would refund me most of the cost of my ticket, then said it was a typo. Gave a useless customer service number, will not disclose name of CEO or anyone who could help.”
“Ludicrous refund policies. Their travel insurance package wont even allow you a refund to change to a return ticket.
Obvious scam behaviour. Clearly make money from these mistakes and dont want to lose it.”
“Complete lack of knoledge of the Duty of Care act ,telling me the ticket machines were inoperative they day before I booked, incorrect
Station employee for Northern rail I formed us it had been down for 2 weeks .
CEO hides behind inept customer service team.
App removed will book through the station may pay more but the service e is better”
“Terrible. Refuse to refund me after our train was cancelled, pretending they have not received the tickets I sent them back. Plus obviously if trains were cancelled all day, we could not use them! Thiefs!”
“The customer service team was absolutely terrible, never dealt with anything like it before. Bought a ticket but didn't receive it, had to buy a new ticket at the barrier to get home. The rep on the phone basically said its not their problem and there's nothing they can do. Wouldn't give me a complaint number/email so that I could get trainline to look into it so I could send a copy of bank statement clearly showing there were two tickets I had to buy. I was embarrassed for the company with the way it was dealt. I asked what do you usually do in these situations has this every happened before - no, so it should probably be raised then if theres been a fault? - no reply. Scrolling down these reviews looks like others have had to pay twice and had bad experience. This company need to sort their customer service.”
“Their good at taking your money but when I asked a simple question about a booking I was basically insulted by the reply. Then trying to find out where to complain is nonsense. I am so annoyed by their service, I am thankful there are other booking companies for future.”
“£300 for a return to Poole and back ? I'll hire a car you ripoff merchants.I bet your train stinks too and we'd be diverted along the way. You disgust me to be honest.”
“They put on wrong information on their website, which prevented me from downloading the ticket and nothing could be done to have a cop of the ticket in a different way. On top of that, when I called the only contact number I could find to ask for an email address to send them a refund request with attachments, the operator refused to give me their email, with no plausible reason other then to discourage me from doing that! So I had to send an expensive registered email to their main office to be heard. Even then, the person who replied misread my email completely and didn't even bother to open the attachments, which didn't even need an interpretation as they clearly demonstrated that the fault of what happened was theirs. The whole operation cost me a huge waste of time, irritation and a sum of money I will aver see again.”
“Exactly same situation as "Phil Jones"
Tried to alter booking date and they immediately downgraded from 1st class to 2nd class
Waiting 45 mins on phone to be told "tough" the booking was now firm.
I explained i needed 1st class as my wife needs to be assured of a seat hence why i booked 1st class.
Told nothing they could do but offer a refund of the 2nd class ticket less £10 admin over £75 less than paid originally
Had to accept and book directly with the train company LNER
Even wrote to the CEO with not even an acknowledgement.
My company displays the company's CEO phone number for any issues... says alot about an organisation when their leadership team don't even give a xxxxx
Jody Ford. - Hang your heaad in shame
I recommend you delete the App and book directly with the Train Company”
“I wish I could give a zero
If I could give a zero, I would.
Booked a £407 first-class ticket, tried to change the seats in the carriage and they automatically downgraded me and moved me to standard class.
Three hours on two separate calls to customer services, one of which they hung up on me, ended with them offering me a £189 refund for standard class.
Then, they deducted another £10 for the refund.
I asked them to just reinstate my original booking because I made a mistake and it wasn't clear information that I would be downgraded.
They said they can't as when you make changes to a first-class seat they will automatically cancel that ticket.
No understanding of the situation and no class.
Will never use again and would advise anyone else not to either.
Shocking.”
“Keep hanging up while waiting in the queue to speak to customer service on phone! Been waiting an hour and a half to try and change my ticket because their website is not working, stuck at the payment screen. Same with the app. !!!BS COMPANY!!!”
“Awful service from this company. I had to cancel a train journey and sent the tickets back. They never refunded and ignored my letters and emails. Very disappointed and will never use trainline again. I am trying to get a refund via paypal.”
