‘Our guests left because they couldn’t stand the noise and dust’
The owners of a boutique hotel in Mosta are demanding financial compensation from the authorities after claiming that months-long non-stop roadworks significantly disrupted their business.
The Julina Boutique Hotel before the roadworks began.
Carmen and Chris Spiteri Cremona, who run the small, luxury Julina Boutique Hotel in Main Street, about 100 metres away from the Mosta Rotunda, said that in the past weeks, tourists arrived at their hotel to check in, but when they saw the state of the road in front of the hotel and heard the incessant noise of the construction machinery, they walked out and left.
“Some did not even check in. They walked in and out again. Others checked in, spent one night and left the next morning, complaining that they cannot stay like this,” Carmen Spiteri Cremona told Times of Malta. “And every time I must give them a full refund and help them find alternative accommodation.”
Infrastructure Malta is currently rebuilding the stretch of road connecting Ta’ Qali to the Mosta square. The final phase of the project, close to the square, is nearing completion.
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