I write with reference to my recent holiday in Malta between September 5-12.

We arrived on September 5 and went to our hotel in St Paul's Bay, collected our keys and put our cases in the room. We then went out to have lunch, got as far as the square and a very pleasant chap spoke to us and gave us a scratch card. He then informed us we had won a star prize of a holiday.

He said he wasn't selling anything whatsoever but wanted to show us a new hotel. He supplied transport to take us there and promised us two gold Maltese crosses and two bottles of wine for taking the time to go. We arrived at the hotel and were introduced to a chap who offered us coffee or tea. He then went in to a spiel about a future complex they wanted to build. We tried to tell him we weren't interested after being there about two hours and he said he had to get his boss to sign him off. Why... I don't know.

A Maltese chap then came out to see us. He started what I would call a hard sell; by then my friend got up and walked out. He still continued speaking to me and I informed him I wasn't interested in paying £4,800 for a timeshare. He was not well pleased and threw his pen on the desk and walked back to his office.

We then got captured again by a different method on the Friday and were taken to another hotel by a different chap who passed us on to a woman. When we realised it was timeshare again we informed her we were wasting her time and she was wasting ours and we wanted to leave.

Once again we were told she had to be signed off by her boss. We told him we weren't interested and had already seen timeshare people before. He then went on to give us his spiel, very, very persistently. I stood up and thanked him for his time and offered my hand to shake his... He said "No, no, no" and walked off.

I was highly insulted by this and I certainly will not be coming back to Malta because as far as I am concerned these people just hassle people by being very manipulative. They are also very rude and not happy when you do not sign the dotted line to buy timeshare.

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