Travel Channel Reviews

Great shows but don’t count on seeing the end of some of the shows. The Dead Files gets cut off before the reveal on most episodes and then I switch over to my phone app to see the end of the show. But TravelChannel has TONS OF ADS! I literally counted the ads I had to go through…….38! 38 ads for a 43 minute show! Really? No way I will ever subscribe to this channel. I already have it in my cable package, but I want to see all the previous episodes of this show. But I think I am over it. So over it!!!!!

Adding to my previous review!!! AKA “Abuse To Viewers”

Well you responded with a link for help with the problem. I don’t know what the deal is there. I feel like it was just lip service! When I attempted to click on the link to submit a request, it DIDN’T DO A THING! So I couldn’t “submit a request” what a joke. Why even bother to respond to reviews if you don’t even have the correct information! Usually when there’s a genuine email address or website link, there’s a line under it or it’s blue. Not this time. But I still tried to click on it. With my finger and with a mouse. Perhaps you could be so kind as to recheck your information and try again? Maybe you should click on the link first, just to be sure. Thank You!

I’m currently subscribed to watch Travel Channel & today as I was trying to get on TravelChannel .. it said, “The current authentication session has expired. The user must re-authenticate with a supported MVPD in order to continue.” For anyone who comes across this, just go into the 3 stacks on the left top side of TravelChannel , go to settings, where it says TV Provider sign out and sign back again. And it should let you watch whatever you were previously trying to see.

I give it 5 stars since it was an easy fix and I also wanted to let others know if something like this happens.. just to follow the directions above. Closing TravelChannel won’t do anything and you’ll keep seeing the pop up message as I mentioned before. Hope that helps :)

I have used TravelChannel for about 2 years now. At first every time I tried to use it I had to uninstall and reinstall it to get it unlock all the shows I love to watch on travel channel. It would lock me out of my shows and the live tv portion saying my provider plan didn’t have travel channel, even though my plan includes the channel. I almost just deleted it forever but for some reason it started working properly. Well my frustration has once again returned. I have been locked out of content and live tv once again. TravelChannel won’t let me sign out so I can sign back in. Once again I find myself uninstalling TravelChannel so I reinstall and start all over again. Each time it deletes all my history and favorites. I love the travel channel but the frustration of the process I have to go thru makes me wonder if it’s worth the migraine it triggers.

Update: Thanks to the developer for helping me out. My problem is gone and now I can enjoy TravelChannel. I originally gave it a 1star rating because TravelChannel seems like having a glitch, but the developer stepped in and analyzed the problem and came up with a solution. I appreciate it. Now everything is working the way it should. So I changed my rating to 5stars.

I have an iPhone 11 and my cable service is with Cox in SoCal. When I try to sign in with my cable service it shows like a loading circle and that’s about it. You can only watch the unlock chapters, and nothing more.

Used to work fine then just locked me out. I tried to reactivate across several different browsers and devices. When I enter my Dish Network log in information it gives me an error message that says my online ID/password combination has expired, then directs me to the Dish site where it works just fine. I don’t want to change my password because that may not fix the issue and then I will have to update all my other app log in info. Sent an email to TravelChannel contact info and got an email saying they would get back to me in 3 days. My guess is I will never hear from them.

Update: I did hear from them, but after the same issue happened with the TLC app and I was forced to change my Dish password. It resolved the issue with both, but why would my password expire for the apps and not Dish? They didn’t have an answer of course.

So, I love the travel channel line up. But TravelChannel makes it hard for me to watch a program and go back to it later. For a few months it would not let me watch half the shows saying I did not have viewing rights/access, and that would flicker on and off. Sometimes it would say that and other times it disappeared and I was free to watch. It looks as though that was fixed, but now when I log in the programming consistently changes. For instance this morning I had complete access to season 6 of Expedition Unknown but when I went back to watch Episode 3 today Mysteries of Jesus, that episode along with a ton of episodes just do not show? Instead it says season 6 episode 3 is Amazing Adventures?? So I am super confused and just slightly irritated. If for some reason my cable subscription doesn’t allow this content well cool, just show that I can’t watch it, don’t make it disappear.

By FAR the worst dedicated tv channel app I have ever used. Get ready for 6 commercials every 5 minutes. Worst part is it often freezes with 5 seconds or less on commercial 6 of 6, so you have to watch all 6 AGAIN when you reload! THEN when you scrub the video back to where you were (it never saves position) you get ANOTHER 6 commercials. It constantly jumps into the blurriest video I have ever seen (no exaggeration), to the point where words look like fluffy clouds, why does this mode even exist? Even if you pause for an hour it only buffers about 2 seconds of good video ahead before switching back to 060p resolution. Don't bother adding favorites, they don't save on app reload. Also it never remembers your TV subscription so you must login to your television provider every single time. TravelChannel literally forced me back into piracy.

I personally really like Travel Channel, and having it on my phone is great. But, there are something I want changed. First of all, captions. You don’t get a choice for captions. I have gone to the captions button, turned them off, but they still stay there. And they aren’t on time! They are always a sentence ahead of what is being said in the show. Also, ads. Not the ads being there, but “Ad 1 of 6” for example. Some it will say “Ad 6 of 6” on the third ad. Also, they are always showing ads for the HGTV app, Food Network app, DIY app, and even the Travel Channel app. What do you think we’re watching the ads on, buddy?

I’ve had The Travel Channel and History apps for over a year. I like being able to binge watch my favorite shows and check out new shows. Yes, there are ads, seriously people, they have to pay the bills. I get tired if the same ad is repeated too often, but overall I am satisfied that if I want the privilege of these shows at my fingertips, I will have to chill out about ads.
For the record, please let the big wigs in charge know that combining 2 old episodes for 2 hours is NOT a “new” episode. Call it a flashback or something else please. Please!

I have an iPhone XR and when i try to sign in with TV provider there is just a loading wheel and nothing happens even though TravelChannel has access to my TV subscription in settings.
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In the meantime I’ve realized that I need to be on my TV provider’s network to sign in and I was in a different state at the time so I take my rant back, Travel channel is fine but in my opinion is the least optimized app out of all Discovery programs, still great content though.

TravelChannel is okay. It has way too many commercial breaks. More than what you would get watching it live on cable. And it doesn’t have complete seasons of the Dead Files. I got TravelChannel to watch the Dead Files. So it’s disappointing to see that not every episode is available. Also I don’t like that you have to log in with your cable provider. I would love it if I could sign in with my email and pay like $3.99 a month to watch every single episode and watch commercial free. So to the developers!!! Like Netflix but on a smaller scale. I don’t think I’d pay more than $5 for one channel. But I know a lot of people would be interested in that.

MORE EPISODES!!
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MONTHY SUBSCRIPTIONS (no commercials or less)

I have several TV Channels apps that I love. Yes, they have commercials and yes, they are repetitive, BUT, none of them compare to the 6 or 7 commercial runs every few minutes with Travel Channel. They run over and over and over again. I have gotten so disgusted with it, I put an envelope over the screen, turn down the volume and wait for them to end. If you aren’t crazy about some of their shows, watch them on TV. They have fewer commercials and variety to some extent. I would never try any of the items advertised on TravelChannel as Travel Channel has run them so many times it is disgusting. I pay for my satellite, pay for my internet connection and still, I have to watch hours and hours of stupid commercials. No marathon watching with TravelChannel.

Way too many commercials, even more so than watching live tv. I’m literally paying for this channel and I’m watching commercials. Now if this service was free it’ll be a different story. Also when you pause on a commercial for a little while, you can’t press play to continue with the video. The whole thing freezes. You have to exit out of the video then go back, to continue watching the video. Though it won’t take you back where you left off. Why is it that I have to activate the service constantly? It’s like at least once a month when I have to activate the service just so I can watch anything. This is such a tedious process.

I LOVE TravelChannel, don’t get me wrong, HOWEVER, at some point recently, there must have been an update and boy is it buggy! I have the travel channel (and other channels in this channel’s package - HGTV, Food network, etc) from my cable provider and TravelChannel for each all have the same problem - I’m logged in, I can watch live tv for a couple days then it says I need to pay with my provider WHILE IM STILL LOGGED IN! So I have to log out, log back in and then use. It’s a royal pain, I’m almost at the point of not using anymore and deleting the apps. Please help! Also, If the developers could add the current show that’s playing when you his “live tv” instead of just seeing the channel (we selected TravelChannel , we know what channel were in), that’d be great. Right now, it’s a TOTAL shot in the dark!

I love a couple of the food shows on the Travel Channel, but TravelChannel is a disaster! With every 20 minute clip comes 10 minutes of commercials! They even include a counter so you can see that your watching the second commercial in a string of ten. Even worse the geniuses at the Travel Channel have no clue that anyone using TravelChannel is watching on a phone or tablet and everything is close up! A 5 second ad would do just as well as a 30 second ad that just makes the viewer angry! Horrible horrible app!

I truly love this channel a lot. I don’t love the commercials. Usually they happen about every ten (10) minutes. You have to watch at least six (6) to eight (8) each time. On top of that they are the same commercials always! Sometimes in each break you can watch the same commercial three (3) or more times. It’s a form of brainwashing. I honestly thought it was stopped when subliminal messages were stopped. I feel people should be warned especially when young children are watching. Their little brains absorb everything. Shame on you Travel Channel!!!

I enjoy watching A haunting. You could say I watch it all the time. I can just about quote season one, two, and three. I enjoy watching new episodes. Season 10 is great! A bit confused because on idgo they already have season 4-10 they cut off 1-3. I think there no longer going to show A haunting. Keep up the good work - on keeping the old episodes, so we can watch them as many times as we can. Thank you for creating new episodes. Can’t wait to watch more A haunting on Travel Channel.

TravelChannel seems to have a problem all the time. As soon as one thing is fixed something else comes up. I would have to log into my account every time I opened TravelChannel . Then it was loading issues. NOW, I’ll watch one episode on TravelChannel and then when the next episode is loading an error pops up saying that I need to add the Travel Channel to my cable package!!!!! So frustrating because sometimes TravelChannel lets me watch my shows and sometime is doesn’t. Once the error message comes up TravelChannel no longer works. I have to delete TravelChannel completely and then re-download it. I’ve never had this much problems.

It WAS awesome until they started pushing for the discovery plus. I purchased that too and it really needs more content. I figured you would have a lot of episodes just for the discovery plus platform but I was wrong. The travel Chanel app is inaccurate comparing it to the travel channel website. Episodes are all out of order and it’s even missing a lot of episodes that should be in there. I’ve noticed it’s missing 2 episodes of the holzer files and it’s also missing episodes of ghost adventures and the dead files. I’ve only noticed those so far... please update TravelChannel more!!!

Overall the iOS and tvOS apps are descent. My one complaint would be the number of commercials and repeat commercials. Sometimes while streaming there is an inordinate amount of commercials during the show. There are now six (6) commercials every break and sometimes four (4) of those commercials will be the same commercial repeated in a loop. I understand you make your money with advertisements, even though I pay for the channel since this is a cable channel... but I can only watch the same Dell or w/e commercial so many times in a row.

I got this to watch Ghost Adventures! (And only Ghost Adventures! 😜) I like that show, and the amount of ads is... decent. I usually get like 2 ads, and every once in a while I get like 3 or more. The only unfortune that I am personally unhappy about is... well, you have to use a TV provider sign in thingie. And I don’t know if everybody really wants to let an app that maybe they JUST got and don’t really trust it yet have their information about their TVs, right? I mean, it would be better to not have any locked episodes because it just doesn’t make sense! It’s like, some people might think that you are trying to steal you’re information. Not that I do, really, but I just want to watch all of my very much liked Ghost Adventures in peace.

Update: Thank you so much for the recent response! It helps to know the developers are trying their best to satisfy their customers. I like TravelChannel so much! Thank you. I would like it if you made some apps in the future maybe about themes of television shows you have on you’re wonderful app! Thank you for taking you’re time to read this (long) review!

Not only do I love TravelChannel because I can watch my favorite shows through it, but they also have outstanding customer service. When this last iPhone update caused some playback bugs in TravelChannel and I emailed customer service, they not only responded to let me know they were fixing the problem, they later emailed to let me know it had been completely fixed. They were prompt, courteous and efficient!

The only way to get this and discovery app to work is delete download again and have to put all cable info again if you don’t use app for couple hours it won’t even open just shows a spinning loading screen apparently been like this a year from the reviews and the developer just doesn’t care.......
Just redownloaded app and its working so far cross my fingers it stays .. would love a picture in picture feature to an update so you can watch and do other things on iPad

I’ve been able to watch live tv and full episodes for months with my suddenlink subscription and now out of no where you are no longer allowing me to watch episodes off my app because suddenlink isn’t a listed provider?! 😡

Update 8/8/19:

Thank you developers for responding. 👏🏻 we’ve been able to enjoy watching travel channel with no issues for a while now! Granted my review was back in November I appreciate the response. 😁