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TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Terrible site,found it difficult to find the way to book my table at the hotel,I had a Groupon voucher,which instructions said to put the code into booking,but nothing on site to let you do that. I ha... See more

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Just booked a table and since I didn't choose how i wanted to be adressed (because I didn't have to, so why bother), it automatically chose to adress me as Mr. It's the 21st century and bookatable st... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

We booked for a restaurant offer of 3 courses for £25 and even paid a deposit. Restaurant refused the offer upon arrival. In our complaint to book a table, they said menus are subject to availability... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The self cancel my booking, after 4 months of wait, the day before we went to the restaurant, in a travel to a different country. Awfull service and no support on restaurant opening times. Never use a... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Choose another website to book a diner.

Hello,
I have booked a diner at Matsuhisa (Nobu of Paris) and they have cancelled my reservation one hour before the diner.
They said they had no more tables available...
Well... Then this website is not the right one to book a table !

May 16, 2018
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Rubbish service

Rubbish service! Tried to book a service but no response nor was the offer available after booking. Called bookatable but rude response, total shambolic management team!

April 14, 2018
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Book in advance

I have used bookatable.com quite a few times, most recently was last week when I booked 4 of us for GBK in Clink Street London. Never had a problem with their service and would recommend.

April 5, 2018
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

I cannot seem to unsubscribe from your …

I cannot seem to unsubscribe from your mailing list. I didn't even sign up for this service in the first place. I am receiving far too many marketing emails and no longer want them. I have tried using the unsubscribe button on the email I received but it seems not to make any difference.

February 5, 2018
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Reply from Bookatable

Hi Colin

We’re sorry to hear you’ve had some difficulty unsubscribing from our marketing emails.

Here at Bookatable, conducting our email programmes in a responsible, fully law-abiding manner is of the utmost importance to us. Though it can take up to 72 hours to stop receiving emails once you’ve clicked the unsubscribe button in our emails, we’d like to make sure we’re able to resolve this for you as quickly as possible. We’d request that you email hello@bookatable.com from the email address you’d like to have unsubscribed: the team will ensure this is actioned, and also provide you with details of exactly when and where this address was opted in.

Thank you for using Bookatable.

Kind regards
The Bookatable Team

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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

dispiriting

Send non useful follow up emails without consent.
no unsubscribe button.
nowhere on website to log in and change email preferences.

the underlying service is useful. so disheartening that the core offering is undermined by rubbish email marketing.

December 8, 2017
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

tried to unsubscribe from your annoying …

tried to unsubscribe from your annoying mailing list several times. the link you provide on the bottom of the email does not work. have emailed your website to be removed but with no effect
highly irritating and never signed up in the first place!

October 23, 2017
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

They just want your money

You'll see them every day when you want to sign up then nothing. We weren't even listed on there for the first month but they still charged!

The covers were 13 over a 3 month period and my bill over £500. We were mis sold completely.

There are much better companies doing the same thing, shop around>

October 19, 2017
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Offer didn’t exist - don’t waste your time.

Booked a table for Frankie and Bennys through an email offer from bookatable. When I arrived the offer doesn’t exist (9.99 for 2 courses with a free drink). The offer is available as a walk-in customer without a drink so used this.

Waste of time.

October 3, 2017
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Reply from Bookatable

Hi Russ,

Thank you for informing us about your recent visit to Frankie & Benny's.

We’re sorry the restaurant did not offer the menu associated with your booking. We always notify restaurants when diners have booked deals (which are set up by the restaurants themselves), and reservations are marked as such in their online reservations book.

Please accept our apologies on behalf of Frankie & Benny's that this was overlooked on this occasion. We would like to follow this up with them directly to prevent this from happening again, so it would be really helpful if you could email your booking details to hello@bookatable.com.

Thank you for using Bookatable, and we hope this will not deter you from using our services in future.

Kind regards,
The Bookatable Team

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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Don't seem to vet reviews

Don't seem to vet reviews. Looks like they accept reviews that are vague in content and seemingly written by the establishments themselves. Wouldn't trust or recommend.

August 14, 2017
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Reply from Bookatable

Hi Andy,

Thank you for taking the time to review our site.

At Bookatable, we are committed to providing an authentic review service for our entire network of diners, and as such, we offer diners who have booked via Bookatable the opportunity to submit a review of the restaurant they have visited. This is the only means of leaving a review on the site, and ensures that our diners are able to consult a range of reliable reviews when browsing restaurants.

Once reviews have been completed, each submission undergoes our moderation process, and the only case in which we would not publish a review would be when it failed to meet our publication criteria. Though we do encourage diners to tell us as much about their experience as possible, we would never reject a review due to lack of information or detail.

We hope this information has been helpful, and do hope you will consider using our services in the future.

Kind regards,
The Bookatable Team

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Rubbish site

Rubbish site. Keeps defaulting to 2 people when you try to book for 3

June 24, 2017
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Reply from Bookatable

Dear Hein

We were sorry to hear you encountered some problems when trying to book your table. If you could send some more details to hello@bookatable.com so we can investigate further, that would be a great help (device used, whether you were using the app or the main website, name of the restaurant you tried to book, and screenshots of the error if possible).

Kind regards
The Bookatable Team

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I regularly use this site

I regularly use this site, especially for the Star Deals in London.
you have to make sure that you actually look at the options on the menus and compare to the actual price as there a few deals that are not brilliant, but there are also plenty of great deals out there to eat at some of the best restaurants in London for a very reasonable price!

June 6, 2017
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

They dont publish bad reviews

I used "Bookatable" to book a place at a restaurant/bar in London. It wasn't the best experience so I wrote what I felt was a fair and balanced review, but ultimately negative. The review was never published, so I wrote to them to ask why, suggesting it was because it was a negative review - this was their response:

"At Bookatable, we are committed to providing an authentic, reliable review service for our entire network of diners. Once reviews have been completed, each submission undergoes our moderation process, and the only case in which we would not publish a review would be when it failed to meet our publication criteria.

In this particular case, we can confirm that because of failing of the rating ( the stars ) has resulted in this particular review not appearing on the site."

So, yes, they don't publish negative reviews. Not much point in having reviews if you can't trust them! Although, to be fair to them, at least they were honest and didn't try to hide it!

December 28, 2016
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Reply from Bookatable

Hi Andrew

Thanks for reviewing our service.

Firstly, we’d like to sincerely apologise for the miscommunication you received from us: you should not have received an email stating that your review would not be published as a result of the star rating. This should have explained that your review was undergoing an extra level of moderation by our team: we do this when our diners feed back to us about negative experiences so that we can follow up with our restaurant customers directly, wherever required. This can mean a slight delay in such reviews going live, but please rest assured we never reject reviews based solely on a negative star rating.

We can confirm that despite this delay in your review being approved, it is now live and visible on the site. Again, please accept apologies for any inconvenience caused, and we do hope you’ll use our services again in the future.

Kind regards
The Bookatable Team

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Restaurant was closed!

Booked a restaurant and was required to enter my credit card to confirm.
Received the email confirmation and booking reference- all looked OK.
Arrived at the restaurant with friends who had come in from Brighton to London -to see that it was closed!

How can this happen????

Hmmmmm! Not very happy!!
Then had to trawl around the west end looking for a place to eat at peak hour.

September 8, 2016
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Beware - Unreliable

If you are planning to use this service be aware that you ought to check with the restaurant (directly) beforehand in order to ensure your booking.

I used Bookatable to make a post-theatre reservation at a restaurant in the knowledge that there would be few restaurants open and I'd be very pushed for time to find one after the show.

Imagine my irritation when the booking was cancelled by the restaurant only hours before I was due to eat there. The irritation turned to annoyance when follow-up enquiries that I made in the following days established that the restaurant didn't even open that late and never had done!

Apparently the system that Bookatable employ is only verified with the restaurant a matter of hours before guests are due to arrive. Thus, if mistakes of this nature are made there is no time left to remedy them. Good for Bookatable, no doubt, but also hopeless for anyone using their service.

My advice, book directly with the restaurant, I will from now on.

February 23, 2016
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

so convenient and informative concerning offers

I recently booked a meal for a friend which was a special offer. I received an email notifying me of the deal and booked up immediately to ensure that we took full advantage. The service always is on point the call staff are helpful also. Great idea for people with limited time.

February 3, 2016
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