This is the earliest reference to the hotel that I found at BNA. It suggests that at one time there were two hotels. There is also a reference to the Strada Forni address in 1854, but I can’t see a later one.
A note on the prices: an 1840 pound apparently corresponds to around £128 in 2024. Thus the large apartments cost around £70, and dinner was up to ~£25.
26 November 1842, Naval & Military Gazette and Weekly Chronicle of the United Service
TO TRAVELLERS TO THE LEVANT AND INDIA.
DUNSFORD'S HOTELS,
254, STRADA REALE, AND 94, STRADA FORNI,
LA VALETTA, MALTA.
In presenting the above card to the notice of the Nobility and Gentry of the United Kingdom, G. DUNSFORD would beg to offer he unfeigned thanks for their distinguished patronage during the last six years; at the same time, in order, if possible, to counteract a report which has been industriously spread to the prejudice of Malta, she would take the liberty of submitting a List of her Charges, which she pledges herself have never been altered:-
Furnished Apartments, sufficient for a Family of 8 or 10 Persons, at from 10s. to 12s, per diem. For smaller Families, in proportion.
Breakfast, each from 1s to 1s 6
Dinner, each, from 3s to 4s
Tea, each, from 6d to 1s
Fire, Lights, and Wines, extra.
G. D. respectfully announces to Invalids trayelling for the benefit of their health, that her houses still enjoy the reputation they have so long held; and assures them, that every comfort is as much at their command in her establishment, as it could be in their own in England.
Hot and Cold Baths, &c. &c.
