Day 1 · Sliema
Arrive in Malta
You are met at the airport and driven privately to your hotel in Sliema. The rest of the day is free.
- Travel
- 12 km, about 30 minutes
8 days · 7 nights
One hotel by the sea, and a guided day out to a different corner of the islands each morning.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesYou 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.
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.
Sliema
Day 1 · Sliema
You are met at the airport and driven privately to your hotel in Sliema. The rest of the day is free.
Valletta
Day 2 · Valletta
A guided walk through the fortified capital built by the Knights of St John from 1566. Take in the Grand Harbour from the Upper Barrakka Gardens, see the Caravaggios and inlaid marble floor of St John's Co-Cathedral, pass the Grandmaster's Palace, then watch an audiovisual show on Malta's long history.
Gozo
Day 3 · Gozo
A twenty-minute ferry brings you to Mgarr harbour on the quieter sister island. Your guide leads you around the Ggantija temples, older than the pyramids of Egypt, the citadel in Victoria and the bays at Xlendi and Dwejra, with lunch before the ferry back.
Mdina
Day 4 · Mdina
A half-day in Mdina, the old walled capital, along narrow streets of Siculo-Norman and baroque palaces to bastions with views across the island. Leave by the Greek's Gate for the cliffs at Dingli and the San Anton gardens beside the President's palace.
Vittoriosa
Day 5 · Vittoriosa
Cross the Grand Harbour to Vittoriosa, Cospicua and Senglea, where the Knights first settled in 1530. Walk Vittoriosa's lanes past the first auberges, ride a traditional dghajsa around the creeks, and look over the harbour and Fort St Angelo from the garden at Senglea.
Marsaxlokk
Day 6 · Marsaxlokk
Visit the fishing village of Marsaxlokk, its harbour full of painted luzzu boats and its seafront market. Continue to the Blue Grotto and its caves, looking out to the islet of Filfla, then walk the winding lanes of a country village with your guide.
Sliema
Day 7 · Sliema
A day with nothing planned, to spend by the sea in Sliema or to revisit a favourite corner of the island.
Day 8 · Sliema
A last breakfast before your private transfer to the airport.
The hotels for each stop. Your advisor confirms them, or something just as good, for your dates.
Sliema · 7 nights
All seven 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
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.
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.
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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