Day 1 · Gozo
Arrive and cross to Gozo
Pick up your car at Malta airport and drive to Cirkewwa for the ferry to Gozo. Check in at your hotel and spend the rest of the day as you like.
- Travel
- 42 km, about 1.5 hours, plus 45 minutes by ferry
8 days · 7 nights
Slow days on Gozo first, then Malta's cities and coast, all at your own pace in your own car.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesTake 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.
The same person from your first question to the flight home, with a wedding or vow renewal planned alongside if you like.
How the days unfold. Your advisor tailors the pace, the hotels and the extras to you.
Gozo
Day 1 · Gozo
Pick up your car at Malta airport and drive to Cirkewwa for the ferry to Gozo. Check in at your hotel and spend the rest of the day as you like.
Day 2 · Gozo
An easy walk of about an hour and a half starts at Mgarr ix-Xini and follows ochre cliffs past small bays; from autumn to late spring the countryside is full of wildflowers and herbs. Finish at Xlendi, a former fishing village under high cliffs and a 17th-century tower, for lunch if you wish.
Day 3 · Gozo
Begin at Ggantija, two World Heritage temples built between 3600 and 3200 BC. See the old public wash houses at Fontana, walk the Cittadella above Victoria, then visit Dwejra Bay and the sanctuary of Ta' Pinu. End the day at the natural arch of Wied il-Mielah and the family-run Xwejni salt pans.
Sliema
Day 4 · Sliema
After breakfast, drive to Mgarr Harbour for the ferry back to Malta and on to your hotel in Sliema.
Valletta
Day 5 · Valletta
Spend the day walking the capital. Begin with a short harbour cruise, ride the lift to the Upper Barrakka Gardens for the noon gun salute, then visit St John's Co-Cathedral and Caravaggio's Beheading of St John the Baptist.
Mdina
Day 6 · Mdina
Visit the basilica at Mosta, whose dome survived a bomb that pierced it in 1942. Watch glassblowers at the Ta' Qali crafts village, then walk the walled city of Mdina and its 17th-century St Paul's Cathedral.
Marsaxlokk
Day 7 · Marsaxlokk
Drive to Vittoriosa, then on to the fishing village of Marsaxlokk and its painted boats. After lunch, see the Blue Grotto at Wied iz-Zurrieq and the hilltop temples of Hagar Qim, and finish at Dingli Cliffs, the highest point on the islands.
Sliema
Day 8 · Sliema
A last breakfast, then drive to the airport to return your car.
The hotels for each stop. Your advisor confirms them, or something just as good, for your dates.
Gozo · 3 nights
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Sliema · 4 nights
Or similar
Tell us when you would like to travel. Your advisor confirms dates and hotels, tailors the trip to the two of you, and stays with you until you are home.
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
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.
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.
Every trip can be shaped around you before you book.
Arrive early or stay on at the end, in the same hotel or somewhere new.
Your travel expert books flights that fit the first and last day.
Choose a better room or a hotel with a view for the nights that count.
A honeymoon, an anniversary or a birthday, planned into the trip.
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