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Overview

MapQuest has a rating of 1.6 stars from 216 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about MapQuest most frequently mention new version, pop ups, and long time problems. MapQuest ranks 67th among Maps sites.

  • Service
    18
  • Value
    14
  • Shipping
    8
  • Returns
    7
  • Quality
    18
Positive reviews (last 12 months): 25%
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  • And here I actually thought it would be better than Google Maps!
  • It's horrible now--can't even see directions on the map.
How would you rate MapQuest?
Top Positive Review

“These are the most helpful and courteous team”

Cindy C.
8/9/23

I enjoy telling others experience with local establishments ad where not to go, as well as "highly" recommended!

Top Critical Review

“Undermining our Business”

Chris S.
12/2/23

Posting rouge info, unknown photos, incorrect map locations, showing duplicate locations that do not exist. Its intentionally executed to blackmail us in to paying services to fix their false issues they ilegally created - to collect money. I guess we can all do these type of business practices now, its all good in USA

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Thumbnail of user chriss4864
1 review
2 helpful votes
December 2nd, 2023

Posting rouge info, unknown photos, incorrect map locations, showing duplicate locations that do not exist. Its intentionally executed to blackmail us in to paying services to fix their false issues they ilegally created - to collect money. I guess we can all do these type of business practices now, its all good in USA

Tip for consumers:
a class-action lawsuit would be appropriate

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Thumbnail of user adrianac232
1 review
0 helpful votes
June 23rd, 2023

Thanks to "mapquest" I could not attend My Nephew's funeral due to mapquest horrible directions! I was so saddened and heartbroken. Mapquest directions first started by saying that it would take me only 1 hour and 30 minutes from My home to My destination when in reality it took Me over 3 hours! As mapquest sent me through the longest way to get to My destination! And thanks to them I could not make it on time for My Nephew's Service :( Memories like this can never be replaced. I would and will never recommend this website for any kind of directions! As I found out from another website "google maps" In fact that My trip would take "over 2 hours" and not 1 1/2 hours like mapquest informed me of and especially when mapquest had sent me through the heaviest traffic directions causing me to miss such a special event in My life which I can never relive. I am so very disappointed in mapquest! If possible and if I could I would sue mapquest! That's how upset I am with this website! :(

Tip for consumers:
Yes! if you want to get to your destination on time and the right way? Don't Use Mapquest ever!!

Products used:
Driving directions

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Thumbnail of user johnm10459
1 review
1 helpful vote
August 25th, 2022

I have used mapquest for many years, inspiring disbelief and snide jokes from my children about being a Luddite. Well, the dang site is now almost impossible to use. You type in a good address and it is clueless. So, after three attempts just now to get directions to a site near my home here - using the correct street addresses - in San Antonio, I give up. You guys are losers. JXM

Thumbnail of user liberalz
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
April 20th, 2016

SiteJabber founder one: "Hey! Let's make a Yelp-like site, but for other web sites!"
SiteJabber founder two: "Wow! That's a great idea!"

- the only problem is that unlike most restaurants and bars, other web sites have help available on-line and methods to contact them on their site, too. Stop wasting your time here and go to the sites (like mapquest.com) and use their customer service portals to complain about your experiences. It will actually reach someone who cares.

Thumbnail of user gracem630
1 review
1 helpful vote
July 15th, 2022

When I type into the address fields, many of the letters that I type are skipped. This isn't happening when I type a document, or anywhere else - just the mapquest website when entering addresses. Also, it used to be able to make better guesses if you didn't get the address quite right, but now it just plays dumb. It's way less user friendly in July of 2022 than it was when I last used it - maybe a month or two earlier. Booo! To changes that aren't an improvement.
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Tip for consumers:
If something isn't working for you, let them know - otherwise, how will they know to fix it?

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Thumbnail of user cindyc1784
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 9th, 2023

I enjoy telling others experience with local establishments ad where not to go, as well as "highly" recommended!

Thumbnail of user lazarusw2
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
December 10th, 2022

The ads/banners are extremely irritating. Some companies never learn the lessons of history, or maybe they getting paid by their competitors to showcase how bad things are on the other side.

Thumbnail of user alr217
1 review
3 helpful votes
March 2nd, 2022

Mapquest has the address listed for my business while all the other search engines show the correct address. On Mapquest website, I attempted to claim my business to change the address myself but it took me out of their website to an advertising website that lean me nowhere fast.

So I went back to MapQuest and looked up the contact us page and again Ii attempted to contact them for help. No matter what I enter in the form it says that my request is flagged as suspicious spam and it won't send it.

There is no Chat, no phone number, no ability to send a message. How do they run their business.

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Thumbnail of user davej666
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
November 16th, 2022

This guys ripoff! I have called a day before and setup the appointment and when the Locksmith Pros came and opened 2 locks and changed them Tom Locks form Locksmith Pros charged us $800. Beware of who you call get a price or ales they rip you off!

Tip for consumers:
In the event you want to request service from them , you need to get exact price or ales they charge you more than $500 for opening a lock and change!
Locksmith Pros USA
5031 Fair Ave. #536
North Hollywood, CA 91601

Thumbnail of user shem13
1 review
3 helpful votes
September 21st, 2022

It takes forever to work and if you are planning a route forget it, this tool should be erased. Fix your website or get off the web

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Thumbnail of user peggyd11
2 reviews
13 helpful votes
June 1st, 2016

When making travel plans with multiple stops the old mapquest gave you the time and distance for each stop. This was very useful and the new version does not do this. The new version is no good to me because of this.

Thumbnail of user gwrnkls73
1 review
1 helpful vote
April 26th, 2023

I travel all over and Mapquest USED to the best to route my trips. Now I can't move my routes so that I can efficiently see what I want to see and the routes I want to take, the way Google Maps does, but Mapquest was WAY better at letting me move and choose my route than Google Maps. The site now makes users SPECIFICALLY choose something and sometimes it can take 5-8 attempts until it does what the user wants. Change it back because Google Maps does not let users pre-plan trips, especially in National Parks. You can't plan a trip to Yellowstone or Glacier if you're planning in January to go in July because the roads are closed and Google forces an alternate route that cannot be changed.

Thumbnail of user tracep2
1 review
1 helpful vote
April 2nd, 2022

I used MapQuest to route two destinations on a round-trip drive. It told me the fastest route was taking over nine miles of side streets, instead of the freeway. I checked the same destination order on Waze and it was SO much faster and more logical.
If you want to know the order of multiple destinations, MapQuest can tell you where to stop first, second, etc. But, DO NOT follow the route it gives you. Use Waze, instead, by adding your second stop first, then enter your first stop, hit go, and choose "add a stop". That way Waze will make your "add a stop" location as your first stop and the other address as your second stop. Plus, you'll complete your drive a whole lot faster.

Thumbnail of user daveg70
4 reviews
9 helpful votes
December 21st, 2022

MapQuest used to be great a long time ago. Seems like lately they have so many incorrect business addresses and sometimes mapping businesses to houses. It's very strange andmakes MapQuest unusable.

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Thumbnail of user gwens80
1 review
1 helpful vote
March 18th, 2020

Place was nice General Manager Zach was talking how horrible his direct boss was and low grade they make him run this hotel. Get new employees

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Thumbnail of user sandyj184
1 review
8 helpful votes
July 20th, 2021

For the last hour, I have been trying to get driving directions. No avail. Too many damn ads. If you want to find out how to get somewhere, don't use Mapquest.

Tip for consumers:
That the app doesnt works

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Thumbnail of user toml534
1 review
5 helpful votes
July 5th, 2020

I used to rely on mapquest a lot for planning travel. But now, the ad pop-ups are so distracting and annoying I'm likely going to delete it. It's also far less user friendly than it used to be. Very disappointing. Sold out to advertisers.

Thumbnail of user dohns
13 reviews
14 helpful votes
August 7th, 2015

Mapquest always always gives directions that take you around the world to go down the block. I prefer to use navigation on my cell or a separate car GPS

Thumbnail of user mv158
1 review
2 helpful votes
November 2nd, 2021

Honestly, what is Mapquest? It does not work on iOS very well, so it might just be me. But, put in address and there is a bottom part of the map showing, confused with junk adds (that are not collapsable at all). Useless. Forget about directions - no place to even try. This is just one big advertisement for nothing that even makes sense. Awful awful awful!

Another review for sitejabber - after I send this review, I will block you as you require me to sign up for even more advertising and, even though denied, the expectation is you will use or sell my info.

Tip for consumers:
Show a map. Your name is Mapquest, not Adquest. Or just change your name to Advertising Minefield.

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Thumbnail of user shirleyn669
1 review
2 helpful votes
January 7th, 2023

Enter address MQ keeps changing it, pick walking - keeps sending driving instructions, map print unuseable, reset map - messes up printing directions.

Thumbnail of user kimberlyh1641
1 review
2 helpful votes
May 8th, 2022

It constantly sends you in the wrong direction. I will be using Google maps from now on. It is a piece of junk

Thumbnail of user laurap824
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 4th, 2021

Mapquest used to be good. You could put in an address and it would show you the place and the surrounding area and you could find what you want.
Now It shows you the state or country and you have to navigate to where you want.
Also, the sidebars are no longer useful.
Has anyone a GOOD map to recommend?

Thumbnail of user non910
1 review
0 helpful votes
September 2nd, 2022

I can get walking/driving directions but no transit directions. This is useless. This is useless and it wants me to keep saying that until my review is long enough to be helpful. Is this long enough? It's still useless.

Thumbnail of user dianeg422
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
August 10th, 2021

I am horrified! What a mistake I made with downloading the Mapquest app on my Windows 7 PC. Now everything is INFECTED.
Even when I logged into sitejabber my screen was filled with a pop up (photo2) When I tried to set up shipping zones for my shopify store a total screen popup appeared.(photo 1) This app invades everything!
Yesterday the upper right pop up gave me an "opt out" option but when I tried it wouldn't let me opt out. Today that doesn't even show. I tried looking under programs to uninstall but it doesn't show up there. It is stealthy. This is a nightmare! I'm so mad at myself that I mindlessly downloaded it.

Tip for consumers:
Stay away!

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Thumbnail of user jackw570
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
October 17th, 2020

I asked Mapquest for directions from my home to Poe Paddy State Park, near State College Pa. The route provided sent me over a mountain on a rock strewn trail, not a road, with my RV in tow. It took me three hours to cover ten miles of trail. I could not turn around with the RV in tow and damaged parts of the RV undercarriage. Mapquest is a very dangerous piece of software.

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