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13 พฤษภาคม 2024
I should start by saying I’m a mybarcelo member and that I have stayed at a few Barcelo hotels before and also have 3 more booked this year, so I know what the usual standard set is! Pros: Location is great, hotel staff are friendly, building is clean and modern. Breakfast is on the whole pretty good. Rooms are clean and comfortable but that’s something you’d expect at a 5 star hotel. The views over Valletta are stunning. When it’s right it’s great however it’s often not right! Cons: it isn’t a 5 star experience One of the main selling points for this hotel was the stunning view you get over Valletta, which I can admit are beautiful. As a result of this, we paid extra and decided to book a room with a ‘Sea Front’ view - the quote on the Barcelo website states that our room would have ‘unobstructed views of the sea’. I have included the view we received in our first room as a photo below …. How you can sell that as a ‘sea front unobstructed view’ is beyond me and I personally feel conned out of our money. Thankfully after 3 days of complaining they moved us to a room just down the corridor, which did have a better view (albeit still partially obstructed), but this shouldn’t have been the case in the first place! Our room was supposed to have a sofa as per the website and the photos - it didn’t … Some of the main selling points of the hotel (facilities such as the lovely looking outdoor pool and the spacious gym) don’t actually belong to the hotel - not sure how you can class it as a 5 star hotel if they don’t even own these facilities. When you access these facilities, you are treated pretty awfully might I add - this is because you haven’t paid to use the gym or paid to reserve a sunbed - which you have to do as a member of the public. Not really good enough! You also have to reserve a sunbed for the day which is a strange concept anyway, and once you’re there you’re not allowed to leave otherwise they will give your bed away - we were told this by one of the staff at the beach club. The gym doesn’t have any water … bit strange and something I’ve never encountered before. Logically we thought that the spa (next door and part of the hotel) would have water … nope! That is ridiculous … what sort of a spa attached to a 5 star hotel doesn’t provide guests with water. What sort of spa doesn’t provide guests with water full stop? This is a hotel that charged us upwards of 200 euros per night for a room by the way! The hotel is situated right next to a busy main road, which is loud until the early hours of the morning - even on the 8th floor. The building next to the hotel is under construction so there is construction noise too. After 3 nights of our stay, we went to the guest relations manager to advise him of the issues we had experienced. He was sympathetic and friendly however nothing was done to improve our experience since (we stayed for another 4 nights). He explained that due to the layout I’d the hotel our room was technically a ‘s
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