What does "Не я то в отеле, а у Вали дома красота!"
My parner is Russian and I caused an argument, as I translated it to she is not in the hotel and Vali has a beautiful home. She is away and I asked who is Vali and where you at his house.....She got angry and and said no I was not at anyones house. Learn Russian properly. So I am trying to understand where I translated wrongly.

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Не, я-то в отеле, а у Вали дома - красота! 
No, I am in a hotel, while Valya's place is great.

Ask your partner to use proper punctuation every time she texts you.

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The first part of the sentence sounds weird. I wouldn't say it's incorrect, but it's hard to clearly understand, especially without the context. What you were talking about before this phrase? I don't get why she put that Valya's house in this sentence. "Не я то в отеле" literally means "That's not me in the hotel". If you put a comma after "Не" and a dash between "я" and "то", that phrase will mean "No, I'm actually in the hotel".

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"Valya" is short from Valentina. Valentina is a woman. I think she meant "No, I'm in the hotel and Valya has a good home". :-)

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"Не, ..." is just 'no'. Sometimes it is also used like 'so'.

я-то в отеле
-то is topicalizing particle. It is like "_as_for_ me, I'm in a hotel"

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;))

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