Azur Hotel by ST Hotels

"Nice hotel; very clean with good room. No other facilities though. No bar. Restaurant for breakfast only (decent enough). Good central location too but less than impressive side street Aqualuna facility is a short walk. It is excellent except- we couldn’t relax near pool or bar. Music plays at far too high volume. Not just volume but type. Boom Boom from 11am ! Shame it’s an excellent facility and free to Azur guests. We went upstairs to escape the worst of the noise"

"I stayed here for 3 nights in January in a room on the ground floor, which was quite noisy with pedestrians passing at all hours. So this time I asked for a room on a higher floor - I had a room on the 7th floor at the back of the hotel. I had a small balcony with a table and chairs, not sure why the chairs were more like dining chairs than relaxing chairs - I ended up moving one of the small armchairs in the room out onto the balcony to read and relax. I stayed in November, there is no pool but guests at the hotel can use the nearby Aqua Luna for free. I didn’t bother but it is good to know this option is there as Malta isn’t famed for its’ sandy beaches either. My room was a nice double, with a small hanging space, fridge, room safe, kettle etc. The shower was a large walk in shower with good water strength. The TV worked but there were only a couple of English language channels - lots of German channels, but only BBC news and MTV in English. The main issue with my room was the electricity - there was a motion detector in the room but this did not work terribly well and several times I walked in, switched the lights on only to be plunged into darkness a minute later. They did come and check the electricity a few times but the problem persisted throughout my stay, usually within a couple of minutes of me arriving back. One of the lights did come back on but neither of the bathroom lights would work, nor any of the sockets, and it took longer for them to return to normal service. One day there was no water in the hotel for most of the day but there did not seem to be any back up plans, i.e. no bottled water given out. And when I came back one quite warm day someone had been in and changed the air con / heating option in the room. So what had been an air con unit was set just to heat and to 24 degrees, with no option to change mode or temperature. This is ridiculous as it was still quite warm out, and didn’t get below 18 degrees that same night. Also one of the two lifts (in this thirteen storey hotel) was out for over 24 hours with staff and guests vying for space in the other lift. Breakfast at the hotel is a bit of a scrum, always very busy whatever time I went down. All the buffet items are at one end of quite a long dining room and because I was solo I very often went to get toast only to return to my table and find it occupied. I usually only eat cereal and toast so took to getting these from the buffet first before finding a table later. One thing to mention is the cleaning, our cleaner on our floor was called Winnie and she was excellent."

"This isn't a luxury hotel but it is good value. Breakfast is busy but go early/late and it's fine. The pool is across the road from the hotel but it's less than 5 minutes walk and there was always plenty of space. Rooms are big with balcony and mini fridge."