The Top 25 Hotels Near Zest
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Balluta Bay frames every window here, and the architects of a hefty renovation clearly decided to get out of its way. The Malta Marriott is a 301-room resort in St. Julian's where the Mediterranean view does most of the heavy lifting, backed up by a spa, an indoor pool, three outdoor pools, four restaurants, and golf access at Royal Malta Golf Club. Locally made cement tiles and hand-blown glass keep things grounded in something more interesting than generic luxury.
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The Boathouse Lounge occupies a converted old boathouse right at the water's edge, which gives you a sense of the peninsula's geography: the Westin Dragonara sits on its own private spit of land jutting into the Mediterranean. It's a full-scale resort, with five restaurants, a casino, a beach lido, and suites that come with freestanding tubs and their own terraces directly above the sea. The kind of place where you can genuinely not leave for three days and feel no guilt about it.
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The infinity rooftop pool on the highest floor looks out over Sliema's rooftops to the Mediterranean, which is already a strong argument for checking in. This hotel sits in the center of town, a short walk from the sea, with 149 rooms including suites themed around the five senses, which sounds gimmicky until you're in one. An indoor pool, spa, and sauna mean rainy-day options, and the Asian-inspired ninth-floor restaurant handles dinner without making you leave.
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Four 17th-century townhouses knitted together along St. Barbara Bastion, with the Grand Harbour spread out below like someone forgot to put a ceiling on the city. This boutique hotel holds 23 rooms and suites, some with plunge pools, some where the bathtub faces the water, all dressed in sharp contemporary interiors and bold sculpture. A Forbes Five Star property, with a spa built into the ancient stone vaults beneath it all.
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The gardens alone could justify the address, sitting just outside Valletta's UNESCO-listed gates with an infinity pool glittering beyond them. This grand colonial-era hotel carries its art deco bones well through 132 rooms dressed in Mediterranean blues and pinks. A spa with a salt room, an onsite vegetable garden feeding the restaurant, and a terrace bar pouring local Maltese wine round out what is, by any measure, a full-stay proposition. It holds a Forbes Four Star.
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A former noble goldsmith's palazzo in the heart of Valletta, now a 25-room luxury boutique hotel where Baroque bones get dressed up in colored marble, bold wallpaper, and warm wood. Each room is different, the rooftop bar overlooks the old city, and a plunge pool turns up where you'd least expect one. Victor Borg's fine-dining restaurant Under Grain is downstairs for when the occasion demands it.
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A glass of fresh orange juice meets you in the grand lobby, a nod to the Maltese orange trees filling the gardens outside. This Forbes Four Star hotel near Attard began life as a regal villa and still leans into the heritage: columns, classical architecture, formal service, and multiple restaurants including one from Francesco Mazzei. The spa, pools, and general air of unhurried ceremony make it clear this is not a place for people in a hurry.
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The only hotel inside Mdina's walled Silent City, this converted palazzo sits above the Maltese countryside with views that make the drive up the hill feel obvious in retrospect. Stone corridors, a fine-dining terrace restaurant, and a trattoria downstairs keep you from having to leave, which is convenient given that not much else is open after dark in a city with almost no permanent residents.
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Yellow limestone walls, palm-fringed pools, and seven acres of semi-tropical garden on Gozo, Malta's quieter second island, set the scene at this resort. The 137 rooms come in neutral tones with brown marble bathrooms and balconies, the spa runs a full hydrotherapy circuit and one of Europe's larger ayurvedic centers, and two restaurants lean on produce grown on the grounds. Unhurried is the operative word here.