Dear Friends, 

Landlocked Travels ripped me off. They are fraud travel agent. I recommend nobody to buy tickets from them because:

1. They overcharge you. More than stated in the itinerary.
2. Your ticket might me different than your itinerary.

I purchased my tickets through Landlocked Travels (TICKET2NEPAL.COM) and basically got ripped off. They overcharged me and gave me a different return ticket. My arrival information had a different arrival city than where I flew from. This is not what I wanted. 
After doing  this, when you call them to fix it, they will say okay but never fix it. Its been almost 5 months since I purchased my tickets from them, I have still not received the difference amount of overcharge versus the real amount they put on my debit card.
They are very nice when you call them and they will promise to fix your problem, but in real life, your problem is pushed to the edge and never solved. I am posting this here so that what happened to me, does not happen to you.

After calling them several times, I sent them an official email 3 days ago, and have not received anything back. It is a shame for a Nepali Travel Agent to rip off Nepali students who are struggling to make their ends meet. I am attaching my email as well as other proofs against the company here. This is essential to verify the fraudness in them. If you've already bought tickets from them, please check your bank statement to see if they have overcharged you. Please also check your ticket information as it could have been changed.

I have filed a complaint with Better Business Beaurau (BBB.com) and awaiting response from them as well. I have attached the verification files along with the email I sent them for further information. In the end, DO NOT BUY TICKETS FROM THEM.

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Copy of the Email is as follows : Sent 02/02/2011

UPDATE:

I filed a complaint for Landlocked Travels and finally Madhav Poudel from Landlocked finally responded to me. He called me (cellphone) on the 10th of February and asked me to remove this thread from sajha. He also said that he provided me with a compensation and told me that a thing like this would not happen again. Shortly, I got a email from him which I have attached below.

Later that day, I got a call from Suresh, from the same company asking me to remove this posting. He claimed that my check was on its way and I should get it in 3 ~ 5 days. It has been 11 days and the check has yet to arrive. I called Suresh about my refund again abt 5 days ago, when he replied again, the check is on its way.

I dont understand how scammy a Nepali company can be. Landlocked Travels gave me the wrong ticket as well as overcharged me. They have not yet paid the refund they owe me. 

DO NOT BUY TICKETS from LANDLOCKED TRAVELS, their website is TICKET2NEPAL.COM.

They ripped me off and a lot of people who have posted in this thread. They agree to what they have done, I have attached the email below.

where is the email dude?

ah i remember the website now, mahile pani yehai bata ticket katyako ho...Nepal jane bela ma and they gave me Abu Dhabi transit...18 hour ko transit thyeo ani i was flying on Etihad airlines. According to Etihad airlines ppl, my travel agent was supposed to give me a hotel accommodation if i stay more than 10 hours, Etihad airlines haru le transit badi hune passenger haru lai hotel dincha re free ma, but they told me my travel agent took the money but did not give me the hotel.  Even when I was ready to pay, airport ko transit ko hotel ko room nai khali thyenna so I need to stay on transit for whole fu(king 18 hours. AAouda ko lagi chai tehai dukha payara 200 dollar ma tehai din book garyea.  Nepal pugyara phone pani gayako ho mahile, Nepal ko euta number diyako thyeo tesh ma..tyo travel agency ma pani choor haru jasto manche basdo rayacha response nai Nadine, usa bata ticket katyako rayacha so we cannot do anything re..

Kasto travel agent ho nepali bhayara nepali lai thagne?? If somebody from that travel agency is reading this tread and I would like to say “GO AND FU(K OFF!!”

 kalo_chasma and everybody, seriously man, there's nothing called humanity in this world now. Why ppl have become so cruel and selfish yaar. Feel like dying sometimes rather than being alive in this fuc(king selfish world yaar. 

I have not bought ticket from them (and will never buy from them) so I can't file a complain.  However those who had been ripoff from this company, file a complain throught the link below.  Certainly we all like our Nepali business community to do well but companies like this one can have a bad image of all Nepali owned business in peoples mind.

https://odr.bbb.org/odrweb/public/getstarted.aspx?siteID=113

I finally received a $90 check from them today. The check was issued on the 18th. It was a bad thing that I had to go to BBB in order to get my refund. They solved my problem but it took 6 months to solve it.

Thank you Sajha Users for sharing your thoughts. It's information like this amongst us, that will bring the ill minded businesses down. I thank sajha also because this thread was one major reason, my refund was finally issued after 6 months of waiting period.

Its is really unfortunate that some businesses like this travel agency, Landlocked, don't have enough ethics & honesty to provide their customers - mainly made up of their fellow Nepalis, the very same group of consumers they boast to serve - the service they promise, and when they realize they have done something wrong, they utilize evry means not to correct it. I hope they will learn a good lesson from this thread & follow proper business practices from onwards.

They are really crappy people.  They sound nice and all ..huss! ..i'll take care of it right away.  I will send you confimation and eticket tomorrow.  But their tomorrow never seem to come.  They send you the duplicate copy of reserved ticket as labels it eticket.  If you call the airline they will verify to you that it hasn't been reserved/booked/paid for.
I was planning to buy tickets from them but after waiting for weeks and weeks for their tomorrow to come, I finally decided to cancel it and put on an alert on my bank and CC.   I will never go to them for tickets EVER again!!!

 I am considering buying tickets from Landlock travels and saw this whole thread in sajha.com from last year. Suggestion from anyone purchased tickets from this travel agency would give a new idea whether they have improved or still cheating people.
Thanks

 you are  ovsolutely  right  they  also  chaeat me  of $700  dollars  dont  trust  this  people  ,beware  of  this  agent

 holy cow! i was just about to book from them. thanks guys for letting everybody know. 

Whoever post this thread thumbs up for you. I am almost ripped off from these guys :@

 guys what should i do.. they also gave me quote of $1372 from qatar airways for this coming may, but i found ticket for $1400 directly from qatar website. should i buy with landlock or just go directly to qatar official website?? its just $28 difference.

do not go with this website...astina maile ni ticket kinda yeuta price bhanyo ani ticket ko lagi debit card info pathaye pachi ta last price ma audaina, ticket badyo, tax badyo bhanera $25 lina khojeko thiyo....be careful guys !!!

I had similar issue with these guys in DEC 2011.
Be aware with land locked Travels.

Thanks "Lyause" for letting us know what you had to go through.

Recently, I also called around 10 to 12 Nepali institutions here in the US if they could find me the cheapest ticket to KTM. Few of the things that lack in our fellow Nepali business people is professionalism, punctuality, and of course integrity as mentioned in Lyause's original thread. Most of the businesses I called didn't even know how to answer the call and introduce themselves to the caller (which was me) and introduce their business. They would simply say "hello" as if they were on their cell phones. Ridiculous!! Anyways, after a couple of days of research by myself, I found out the quotes I was getting myself from online retailers like Priceline, Expedia, Cheapoair, etc. were far cheaper than those Nepali guys. Then I booked it myself for the cheapest advertised price, also I could pick my own seats on all 4 flights I would be flying in.


So, the message here is, don't trust them just because they have a business. Give it a try on your own. It might take you a day or two to understand how the flight booking system works, like it was the case for me, but more often then not you will get a fair/cheaper deal on the Internet. But, also remember, not all Internet retailers are genuine. I have come to know there are several of them that are fraud.


Hope it helps!!

Very frustrating moment with Landlocked travel (ticket2nepal.com) ,Alert for every Neplese or anyone staying throughout the world please be careful while using service of Landlocked Travel (ticket2nepal.com)

 

 

We decided  to purchase ticket for our family from Landlocked travel (ticket2nepal.com) .Thought every thing will be fine  and will be cheaper we bought almost 3 month before the travel date .We bought altogether 5 tickets ,3 tickets for me and my wife and daughter travelling from USA to Nepal and 2 tickets for my parents travelling from  Nepal to USA. Everything  was set  and our vacation was fixed but when we arrived at arrived at the date of travel we were shocked as airlines said that we don`t have confirmed reservation and they denied to give us a boarding on the mean time I was talking with the Landlocked travel and they said there is some technical mistakes in reservation ,we will search next option and will call you .

 

Flight was already departed and we were stock there for that day .Firstly I thought there might have been some technical failures but they didn`t confirm me for the next  day too  I have Dought so I called airlines for the confirmation and I was shocked again as I found that have only made the reservation they have never paid for the airlines  but my credit card was  already charged before 3 month after I quickly called the landlocked travel(ticket2nepal) but they don`t have good explanation to give I was helpless there was no any option rather to wait for there next conformation .Finally we were confirmed for 3^rd day but not for the same route as we Paid as we didn`t have option they confirmed was through Delhi and we had worse experance travelling via delhi .Finally we arrived Kathmandu .

 

 

After I arrived Kathmandu I was very conscious that we all family including my mom and dad we need to return back on same route as we purchased ticket accordingly and even Ticket2nepal has promised us so. Rather enjoying with my relatives I was busy calling them and visting there office and  after 10 days they said that all we 5 are confirmed on same date .Finally  return date  came everything was set  we boarded from Kathmandu everything was fine upto Newyork but we had domestic connection onward but American airlines in New York said that my mom and dad don`t have reservation I tired calling landlocked travel(ticket2nepal) but no one  answered  so we paid almost 800 dollars for onward ticket .After that I called  ticket2nepal for  refund but no one took it seriously neither they refunded my money back .How such unethical and unprofessional company exist in United states can anyone suggest what is the easy way to get my money back and all  beware again be careful with such organization .

BE CAREFUL USING SERVICE OF LANDLOCKED TRAVELS(TICKET2NEPAL.COM)

Time to buy online.   

SU-JAL, you revived this old thread so you knew about this company. I am wondering why you chose to go with them despite knowing about them.

Anyway, what you went through sounds horrible. Nobody should be going over this ordeal. Hopefully you will complain to BBB and any other authorities.

Bbb has an F rating for this travel agency: http://www.bbb.org/houston/business-reviews/travel-agencies-and-bureaus/landlocked-travels-in-spring-tx-90019909/