Best Hotels in Sliema & St Julian's (Locally Reviewed)

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Short answer: Sliema is Malta’s most practical base — walkable seafront, ferry to Valletta in 8 minutes, every restaurant and cafe at hand. St Julian’s is the dressier neighbour. Paceville within St Julian’s is the nightclub strip and the right answer for almost no traveller. The high-end picks are the Westin Dragonara Resort, Hilton Malta, Le Méridien St Julian’s, AX Palace and The Hotel Phoenicia (Floriana, just outside Valletta). Mid-range: Hotel Juliani, Holiday Inn Express Sliema, Plaza Regency. Book seafront-facing rooms 8–12 weeks ahead in summer.

Sliema and St Julian’s are where most Malta travellers actually sleep, and for good reason — between them they have 150+ hotels, every restaurant in the country in walking distance, the Sliema-Valletta ferry for sightseeing, and the Coast Road bus connections to everywhere else. The catch is that “Sliema and St Julian’s” is really four neighbourhoods stitched together, each with a very different sleeping experience: the Sliema seafront, inland Sliema (Tigné, Townsquare), St Julian’s Spinola Bay, and Paceville. Pick the wrong one and you’ll be 100m from a 04:00 nightclub bouncer when you wanted to be 100m from a quiet cafe.

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Best Hotels in Sliema & St Julian's (Locally Reviewed)