The staying at Freda’s was not very pleasant. My friend and I did not feel at home at all.
Freda and her son gave us a very warming welcoming but things got complicated next morning.
At the beggining Freda asked us a lot of questions about our plans in Malta, so we told her every detail as long as we knew it (we did not have a real plan for every day). Ok, we thought, it might be normal. She told us she was asking so much because we were kind of ‘her responsability’. On that moment we started to feel a bit unconfortable. We noticed that specially when the first morning she did not have the smile in her face she got on the first day: she seemed angry because we had been partying the night before. Next morning it was even worse, Freda hardly said ‘hello’ and she was waiting (literally) at the kitchen like if we were her children or something, waiting to ask us if we had fun that night. There is more, she was apparently angry with us becase my friend washed her feet right before going to sleep since they were dirty and she dried them in THE ONLY TOWEL she had in the bathroom. And that is not all... nobody is wondering how she could see what my friend was doing in the toilet at 5 a.m? She recognised that she spied us from the window.
Talking about bath... we had no shampoo nor gel, and she just gave us one towel x person for three days. Well, she changed some towel the last day, right. Since we needed more towels, we took them from the wardrope and that was also a bad idea.
The last day rained. We had our clothes hanging on for drying outside and a pair of shoes undercovered. Casuallly, next morning the shoes were wet (somebody had moved them). In fact, everyday we got home (let’s say we stayed home maybe 2 hours x day in total), everyday we found the door’s room opened and our stuff replaced.
We were scared to go back ‘home’ everyday.
Maybe Freda has some ‘mum obsesion’, if so, she has a son already to take care of. Hosts are hosts, and if somebody is taking the decision to rent her place for tourist, she must accept they are free to enter in or out whenever they want, and they must have all services included since they are paying.
She will never have host that bother less than us. We just slept and had breakfast, then left the whole day.
Location is fine, but a little bit far from the centre if you go walking.
My message: young people, do not take it.
Hope it is useful.