Booking through American Airlines Vacations seemed like a good way to simplify everything—flight and hotel in one shot. Things were fine until the return flight got rescheduled by the airline and the hotel dates no longer lined up. Trying to sort that out was a mess. I checked
https://american-airlines-vacations.pissedconsumer.com/review.html to see how others handled similar problems, and yeah… lots of familiar stories. Eventually got it worked out, but only after a ton of back-and-forth. Not a disaster, but far from stress-free.