Conrad H
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The location is good for St. Paul's Bay, if you are going to prepare some of your own meals there are supermarkets and fresh fruit and vegetable stalls within walking distance, as are most of the attractions in the area, such as the Motor Museum, the Aquarium, the points from which boat trips can be taken and the bus station from which there are regular services to Valletta and most other parts of the island running until late at night. A travel card can be bought allowing you to 'tap-on' to buses for just a few Euros per journey. Most buses have displays inside showing the name of each stop as you approach it, so are fairly easy to find your way around on. However, they can be very crowded, are no more punctual than most bus services anywhere in the World and occasionally are driven in a quite spirited fashion!|The Hotel itself is located in what seems at first a fairly dismal cul-de-sac just behind the main seafront. However many rooms do have sea views and the Hotel common areas, the two small swimming pools and rooms were clean and in reasonable decorative order. |The only downsides to the 'apartment' were firstly that those used to UK style building regulations might be surprised to find the toilet located about two metres from the fridge, directly in front of the door from the kitchen into the shower room, with no intervening lobby or passage. Secondly, if you wanted to be positive about it, the decor could perhaps best be described as 'subdued'. It reminded me of a flat that a colour-blind friend of mine decorated for himself many years ago, using only brown, grey and off-white.|We didn't interact a great deal with the staff, but those we did speak to were polite and helpful, and on the two occasions during our ten day stay that we had breakfast on the hotel roof the food was good. |Overall, based on our stay we would definitely stay again were it not for the fact that we like to go to different countries, or at least different regions, every time we go away.
