Mgarr Vacations from $1,326

As usual, the staff are excellent, from the reception to the restaurant they are friendly and helpful. The rooms are clean and warm and kept clean with great views out over the bay. Breakfast is good and adequate, you can help yourself to as much as you want. We always stay at viu-57 when we visit Melieha and this time we were fortunate with lovely weather. We fully recommend this hotel.

Our 4 day stay here was excellent. Great location for bars, shops and local bus connections to get you around the island. Staff were warm, welcoming & knowledgeable. Facilities at the hotel were really good and clean. Advised not to drink the water, but they supplied water from a filtered machine. We visited in early November so didn't use the aircon. The hotel supplied shampoo, conditioner and hand wash, towels, hair dryer in the rooms. The plugs were 3 min plug sockets. We could hire a towel for Euros20 which was fully refundable upon return. You can catch a bus to/from the airport which stops a 5 min walk from the hotel. If you wanted to take a taxi it was Euros21.

As the name would suggest, the hotel is right on the waterfront. Close to all the tour boats that will take you to Valletta, Gozo and the Blue Lagoon. Bars and restaurants all around the hotel. There is an outdoor pool across the road from the hotel which you have free access to. Breakfast is fine. Just the same as any other hotel breakfast but the staff are so lovely. We were upgraded to a corner room. The view was fabulous but very noisy from the main road traffic.