Me and a couple of friends decided to spend one of my friends' birthday at the La Vallette hotel since it was cheap and it is located right next to the night-life village of Paceville, however we could never imagine what ugly surprises we would get.

First of all for a room costing 45 euros per night we had to pay 60 euros per person as a further deposit, supposedly in order to cover for any damage done to the room. However this was used by the management in order to leverage any request we could have made and that if we did not comply, they would take away our deposit.

Although the hotel was empty except for a couple of other guests, for no apparent reason we were given the most remotely located room on the 5th and topmost floor in a block were the lift did not work for half of our weekend stay, which is already enough to reconsider you booking and this is only the start.

As I believe is quite normal, before we went out to Paceville we invited a couple of guests to our room for a drink. After a while the security came by and asked us to lower down the volume in our room and as any decent group would do, we lowered our voices and went out to Paceville. So far nothing out of the ordinary. We eventually returned to our room at about 5a.m and slept at about 6 in the morning.

Since we had our guests over before we went out, the security reported that more than the paid amount of guests were staying in the room............so what was their solution to this.

At 6.30 in the morning, the Site Manager used his master key to open our room and came in WITHOUT even knocking on the door shouting and waking us up, completely ignoring and depraving our privacy, even because more than one of us simply wore a boxer shorts. This simply because they thought that more than the paid amount of guests were sleeping in the room.

After this scandalizing charade, which left our group dazed after just 30 minutes of sleep and simply appalled by this kind of drastic and unprecedented action, we simply went back to sleep.

In the morning we demanded compensation, but our words simply fell on deaf ears with the manager simply dismissing any action as required.

Furthermore for the next night we wanted to book another room for four more guests of ours, not because of the great service, but because the next night was non refundable, and some friends wanted to sleep over. So we went to the reception (it is important to go before noon, as after noon the price of the room is increased, as if the room gets any more beautiful than it is...which is totally sarcastic btw.), in order to book the next room. Although we were willing to pay the 45euros cost of the room we did not have another 240euros cash on us for another deposit, so as a courtesy to what they did to us on the previous night, we asked for another room and to kindly consider the deposit we had already payed for the other room.

As by now you can imagine the answer was a blatant no, so for a weekend costing us 90euros, the management of this hotel wanted us to pay 480euros as a deposit. Since we are but mere students, we not kindly, rejected this offer and left.

I agree with all the bad reviews here...this hotel is disastrous and its management is an ugly joke!

We read the poor reviews, but thought that as we were going off season, mid-Oct, it wouldn't be too busy/noisy. We were wrong. The rooms are very basic, and the hotel is very noisy. The hotel needs a serious re-fit.

On the positive side, its location is great, the staff were friendly and er, that's about it.

The only people I would recommend this to are those that are intending to party until the early hours and are just looking for a cheap bed for the night near the Paceville night life. That way the noise and the room quality probably won't bother you.

This is by far the worst hotel we have ever stayed at. I don't know how it's rated 3 stars. I wouldn't give more than two at the most and that's being nice.

Staff at the front desk is useless. The hot water barely qualifies as warm. We had to move rooms because I went through one of the beds. Yes, I sat on the bed and the frame gave way.

Constant shouting inside and out. Can't sit out on the balcony because sometimes you feel uncomfortable with all the shouting. The water smelled like it was coming straight from the sewer. We had to push the flush handle several times to get it to flush once during the entire stay.

On our last night there was a storm and the wind was blowing quite hard. This caused a very loud whistling sound inside the room from the sliding balcony door. The staff claim that this is normal in ALL hotels in Malta.

All in all the worst hotel stay we've ever had and we will absolutely never go back here. I suggest if you are looking to stay here, you pick somewhere else.

i cannot tell you just how bad this place is.. if you want to have a truly horrible holiday stay here.. i loved staying on a building site having to deal with ill mannered staff not!!! take the advice given do not stay here unless you are 16-20!!!!