Guest House de la Valette

Finding the hotel was difficult as there is restaurant seating in front of the hotel. Once we found the hotel, the reception staff was not there. We waited 15-20 min to check in and the elevators were not working which they said they would compensate for via taxi drive upon arrive which no one was there.

Taking 2 large luggage suitcases up the spiral stairs was difficult and the tiles in the rooms were coming off and the room was not cleaned.

Staff:
The staff were very sweet and welcoming however one of the two girls sitting at the reception couldn't speak any English, the other one knew some and did her best. However, overall it felt very disorganised, which I blame the hotel management for - when we were asked to pay the environment tax, they said they don't take card payments. When we took out the cash, they said they didn't have any change. They also don't have bathrooms for you to use outside your room. However the staff let us keep the luggage there after the checkout for no charge which was very sweet of them.

Hotel & location :
* The entrance to hotel was very cluttered and messy, they were doing construction work so everything was all over the place. Plus the odours coming from the restaurant on the ground floor weren't very pleasent, as was already mentioned by others in the reviews, however we couldn't really feel it on our floor (2).

* the location is in the heart of Valletta. We stayed here during the Carnival days and the streets were extremely loud so bear that in mind. Luckily our room was facing the inner courtyard and after the carnival was done for the day, it got very quiet.

The room:
* our room 201 was pretty spacious, nicely decorated and modern. The bed is larger than a double, perhaps a king, was very comfortable. The 2 pillows each person gets are big and supportive. There's a nice big mirror, lots of lights, even a reading light.
* there was a mini fridge, a TV, a blow dryer, bathrobes, a coffee machine and a kettle with a range of teas available, and bottles of water.
* the smart TV/screensharing function didn't work no matter what we tried.
* the bathroom looked very modern too, the hot water was always available, it was never a problem, like some people mentioned here. When we first checked in, there was a shower cap on the shower head to gather the water from it leaking which looked alarming at first but it was actually never an issue during our stay there.

* Now, the biggest disappointment for us was, as many have mentioned, the lack of air ventilation in the room and a vast presence of mould in the bathroom. There's no window in the room so the only source of air is the aircon which, when turned on, was blowing hot air, which made the already warm, humid and stuffy room even worse. We tried sleeping with the aircon on but found ourselves waking up in the middle of the night gasping for air, to battle this we had to leave the door slightly ajar at night. Even then, I found myself waking up through the night covered in sweat and feeling sticky.
If you have stay here, what we did when arriving to our room was opening the door fully to ventilate the room and also using the bathroom stool as a door stopper to have the air circulate in the bathroom too.

The price we paid was very affordable, perhaps because it's February, had it been more, we would have probably looked for a different place to stay.