Hi pondskater,

As you know I never bumped into you while there but what you have said about the Coastline is accurate especially the occasional 'smell' you mentioned, which certainly wouldn't put us off staying there again either! We had a great holiday and although there were a few 'hiccups' like the air conditioning in our room did not work, this was soon dealt with and we were moved from a garden view room to a sea view room with excellent air conditioning, at no extra cost! The staff are absolutely brill and I certainly respect their professional but pleasant way they deal with guests.

The Coastline is probably one of the best for entertainment. My past experience in Malta has been never to expect too much regarding entertainment but the evening programme on offer was quite varied. Johnnie Gee is the resident entertainer and we certainly enjoyed his performances. There were also other shows which were also very enjoyable.

The weather was roasting every day and we found the well maintained swimming pool with its poolside bar really great. There did seem to be a lot more visitors from Belgium, Germany, France, Holland etc and we did enjoy making friends with some of them.

So I was told there are concerns that generally less Brits were choosing to holiday in Malta and in fact the local papers were reporting that some 4 & 5 star hotels were considering closing down during the winter months to save money. No hotel names were mentioned in the article.

There were a lot of foreign students staying in the hotel, & studying English in the local colleges. I did think it was a bit naughty of the travel company (Chevron!!), not to tell us about this! We were disturbed by a racket caused by some young female students who had some boys in the room next door, late at night and at 1.45 am in the morning, I did complain to reception! It was dealt with by the staff and I glad to say that it never happened again!

Anyway, all in all we did have a cood holiday and we certainly would stay at the Coastline again,

Trev