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Osborne is a small-footprint hotel with six floors, serviced by two slow elevators. We had a comfortable six-night stay on the 6th floor, with a 90 degree view of the harbor. ||The hotel is decently located, some four blocks off Republic Street, southwest of the city on South Street. It has a small narrow lobby, with a small front desk. ||The rooms are decently sized, with four windows on two walls, with effective blackout curtains aside from sheer lace ones, which prevent the strong Malta sun from coming in when you don't need it. ||Room furniture is dated, in white French ornate style. The night tables are too small, only about 12 inches in diameter - with a wide-base lamp, there is very little else you can put on top. There is a wall-mounted TV with enough English language channels. Two paintings and a cloth-covered headboard provide colorful relief from the all light-cream walls and ceiling. There's accent lighting above the headboard, which is nice. ||There is a hot water pot and a coffee maker in the minibar cabinet. Major complaint - not enough outlets. We had to disconnect the night table lamps to be able to keep our phones charging beside us. An no outlets on or near the work desk - we had to connect to the plug behind the TV wall. This is a major oversight. The least the hotel could do would be to install an extension power strip.||The toilet is functional - but my wife missed having a bidet. We noted the lack of hooks to place used towels. Shampoo and body wash were via dispensers in the shower stall - nice idea but housekeeping wasn't consistent - they missed refilling the empty shampoo dispenser. They also had a metal rack for toiletries at the back of the shower stall, which we found dangerous since you could easily hurt yourself if you stepped back.||Breakfast was very good, with enough variety to satisfy. Of course, if they could add more veggies aside from tomatoes and cucumbers, that would be even nicer. ||We found one hotel practice that we thought deplorable. We had a wine bottle and we forgot to being a wine opener. So we went down to the bar to borrow one. We were shocked when the bar keeper said that they charged 5 euro per bottle that would be opened that wasn't theirs. What !? Where else in the hospitality industry would I find a hotel that would charge 5 euro to open a wine bottle? Unbelievable!