Luxury holidays in Malta
Cross the Grand Harbour by painted water taxi and swim in a Gozo cove by afternoon. Name your pace and we shape the week with private guides, hotels and boat days.
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The best first view of Malta is from the water. A painted dghajsa, the traditional water taxi, carries you across the Grand Harbour beneath the honey-coloured walls the Knights of St John built after the Great Siege of 1565. Each noon a gun fires at the Saluting Battery above, and the sound rolls across to the Three Cities.
Valletta is a UNESCO-listed city of 16th-century townhouses and wooden balconies, small enough to cross on foot in an afternoon. Inland, the walled hilltop city of Mdina goes quiet after dark. The megalithic temples on Malta and Gozo are older than the pyramids of Egypt, and the coastline below is cut with coves for swimming and wrecks for diving.
Malta
8 days · 7 nights
Sliema
You stay all seven nights in Sliema and head out on guided days: Valletta and its cathedral, a ferry day on Gozo, the walled city of Mdina, the Three Cities by harbour boat, and the fishing village of Marsaxlokk. The last full day is yours.
Malta
8 days · 7 nights
Gozo → Sliema
Take the car straight onto the ferry and spend your first three nights on Gozo, with a coastal walk, the Ggantija temples, the Cittadella and the salt pans. Then cross back for four nights in Sliema, with Valletta, Mosta and Mdina, and a long day through Vittoriosa, Marsaxlokk and the south coast.
Malta
5 days · 4 nights
Sliema
Collect your car at the airport and base yourselves in Sliema for four nights. A suggested plan covers Valletta on foot, the Mosta dome and the walled city of Mdina, then the old harbour town of Vittoriosa and the painted boats of Marsaxlokk, at whatever pace suits you.
Malta
7 days · 6 nights
Sliema
Collect a car at the airport and stay six nights in Sliema. The suggested plan takes you through Valletta on foot, inland to Mosta and Mdina, down to Vittoriosa and Marsaxlokk, along the south coast to the Blue Grotto and Dingli Cliffs, and across by ferry for a day on Gozo.
Malta
7 days · 6 nights
Sliema
A week built around rest: six nights in Sliema with private airport transfers, and one guided day that covers Valletta, the Mosta dome, the Ta' Qali crafts village and the walled city of Mdina. The other days are free for the waterfront, the hotel pool or the shops.
Malta
4 days · 3 nights
Sliema
A short stay in Sliema or St Julian's with private airport transfers. One guided day covers Valletta and St John's Co-Cathedral, the Mosta dome, the Ta' Qali crafts village and the walled city of Mdina, and the next day is entirely yours.
Days your travel expert can plan around Valletta, Mdina and the south coast.
Drive inland to Mdina, the walled old capital, where tradition says St Paul stayed after his shipwreck in AD 60. Visit his grotto in Rabat, Palazzo Falson and the Wignacourt Museum.
See the underground Hypogeum and the sea-facing temples of Hagar Qim and Mnajdra. Take a boat into the Blue Grotto, then walk Birgu's lanes to Fort St Angelo.
Step inside St Paul's Cathedral in Mdina, then stop at a family wine estate for a cellar tasting. In Rabat, see the Domus Romana and the catacombs below the Wignacourt Museum.
Each area suits a different stay, and Gozo is an easy ferry ride across.
A walled capital built by the Knights of St John, with St John's Co-Cathedral and the Upper Barrakka Gardens over the harbour.
A seafront promenade facing Valletta across the water, with ferries to the capital and easy access to the whole island.
The quiet walled former capital on a hilltop in the centre of the island, with catacombs in Rabat beside it.
Malta's greener sister island, with the Citadella in Victoria, the Ġgantija temples and clear water for swimming.
Malta is offered as a self-drive, a private tour, a small group tour or a Mediterranean cruise.
A private guide for Valletta, Mdina and the Hypogeum, with the Gozo crossing arranged for you.
Drive on the left between Mdina, the temples and the Gozo ferry, with each hotel booked ahead.
The sea stays warm until late October, and spring suits walking best.
Mild and quiet, the coolest month with some rain.
Carnival in Valletta and few visitors at the sites.
Spring begins, green countryside and comfortable walking.
Warm days, Easter processions and quiet beaches.
Sunny and warm, the sea ready for swimming.
Long hot days and village feasts begin.
Very hot, the island busy with summer visitors.
The hottest month, best spent by the sea.
Warm seas, softer heat and fewer people.
Mild days, ideal for Valletta, Mdina and Gozo.
Cooler with some rain, still pleasant for touring.
Mild with Christmas cribs and lights across the towns.
Malta has direct flights from across Europe, and longer routes connect once in the Gulf or a European hub.
Tell us when you want to go, for how long and who is travelling. Your travel expert replies in writing with a trip shaped around you.
