Latest Reviews for St Julians

A fantastic holiday so long as you want to do more than sit on a sandy beach all day. Malta is a wonderful place for sghtseeing and we enjoyed visiting, Gozo, Valletta, Mdina and the Blue Lagoon.

We had a great time at this hotel and felt the few negatives we read about before we went were fairly irrelevant to the enjoyment of the holiday, e.g. the lifts which were a bit quirky, but gave you a focus to chat about with fellow guests. As others have said altough the roof pool was not large we always got a sun bed and the breeze up there was welcome on a hot day. There was plenty to do , see eat/ drink in St, Julians so if yu find the prices at the hotel pricey there is plenty of choice nearby/ I loved the breakfast, the ice machine and I found our room larger than many we have stayed in over the last few years. The separate toilet and shower was a nice touch too. The staff will happiy empty the mini bar to use as a fridge if you ask.

PORTOMASO HARBOUR: The restaurants were very expensive and apart from Le Corragio, weren't worth the money. SNOOPY'S: This was the best find of the holiday for food. To find it you need to walk out of St Julians along the Harbour and just as you pass the sign into Sleima, it is on your right. It looks very dark and dingy, but don't let that put you off, they do the best Duck Salad i have ever tasted and were very reasonable. It's a lovely walk as well. RAPHAELS: Lovely location, but the food was overcooked and reminiscent of School dinners. NOVE:They do a lovely Pina Colada VALLETTA:Catch the Ferry from Sleima (95c each) it runs every half hour. We took a Horse and Carriage ride around Valetta, which was lovely, they stop and let you get off to look at the Gardens and give you a bit of History on the way. Do haggle with the price though. We got an hours tour for 40 Euro's. If you want to see the Island, take a Hop on Hop off, bus 15 Euro's and you can hop on and off all day. Very bumpy though. The roads in Malta are not great. All in all we had a lovely holiday and would go back, because the Maltese people are just so lovely and it is a very pretty island. The nightlife is a bit quiet, but it's what you make it.

My sister and i have just come back from a week at the Hilton, St Julians. For 2 woman alone, Malta is the perfect place to go. We were never hassled once and felt very safe. THE HILTON: A beautiful hotel with more pools than you could ever need, set in a lovely location. The Staff were very friendly and the food excellent, my only criticism would be the price of drinks. £10 for 2 Lime and Soda's, £5 for a glass of wine. Do check your bill at the end as they have a habit of adding a few things on. But we would definately go back. Just buy some drinks to have on your Balcony.

The resort is walking distant away, with the nightlife very close.If you decide to do an island trip, busses are not far away, I couldn't comment on the beaches as we didn't use them the time a year we were staying at the hotel.

I know it is probably a bit late, but better late then never. We spend Xmas in the Hotel Westin Dragonara with my family. What a fantastic hotel, it felt like the Ritz abroad. The rooms were very spacious, with 2 kingsize beds, sky tv. very clean, the location is great as you can walk into town from the hotel with no problem. The food was very good and the Maltese people love little children. (which was great for my 6 year old) Around Xmas the good hotels have a gingerbread village competition, which was set up in the lobby and the whole of the lobby had this lovely smell troughout our stay. I bet it is even better to stay in the summer when the weather is hot, as the pool and poolside look very attractive. I would defentely reconmend this hotel and I would defentately go back again (hopefully soon).

St Julians was good for us to stay. Public transport was easy to use and frequent. We didn't want a beach holiday, so not having a beach didn't matter. We didin't use the nightlife, but there did seem to be plenty going on. Plenty of good places to eat and had beautiful pizzs and pasta in one of the pubs, but unfortunaately can't remember the name of it. Food in Rokna restaurant was good and reasonably priced. Some areas seemed a bit run down, but this only added to the range of things that we saw and laughed at on the holiday.

My friend and I wanted single rooms, and reviews of single rooms in other hotels had worried us. From the time I telephoned to ask about rooms,( normal double with single occupancy and a good price), made the booking, arrived at 3.30a.m. with arranged taxi service by the hotel, through to the time we left at 5a.m. again with arranged taxi service, we could not have asked for a better hotel. The staff were all exceedingly helpful, and nothing seemed too much trouble. We would go back there and recommend it to others. Only downside was the lift and ensuite bathroom were a bit small for people with limited mobility. Otherwise 10 out of 10, and we thank the staff for helping us have a great holiday.

Malta is a loverly island and there is a lot to see and do. The people are very friendly with the one exception and can all speak English. They also drive on the left which is a big plus. We will go back to Malta, especially to see the Hypergeum whch was fully booked for two months in advance when we were there and find somewhere to stay other than Bay Street.

This is not a hotel in the true sense of the word merely rooms above a shopping complex - think Wood Green Shopping City or any you care to name.And if I can deter one other peron from going there, this will have been worthwhile. The Reception is on the 2nd floor and they could not care less what happens to anyone in the so called hotel. You have to pay for so many extras you will need to take extra cash to pay for all these. On arriving at our room, we saw out of the window there were two gangs of girls fighting in the square below us. No amount of complaining led to an improvement. This area was the gathering point every late afternoon and late into the night for all the effluent teenagers in the area to let off steam, scream and shout and get up to sexual shnanigins on the stairs leading to the rear entrance. We politely requested to move to the quieter side but the stroppy cow in reception refused point blank to even look to see if this were possible. I could go on and on about the nearby noise of the thump thump music but I think you get the picture. Will not be ever going back

The Hotel is situated in the middle of Malta's night life an excellent base to party from ,the sandy beach at St George's Bay is just 1 minute walk away from the hotel to relax during the day time, Mozzarella's restaurant at the Baystreet complex opposite the hotel is execllent value for money with a great varied menu offering pizza, pasta, steaks and salds, the Motto cafe next door does wounderfull baugets and mouth licking deserts and is a wounderfull wine bar by night.

we booked the hotel with an open mind after reading some of the reviews but found the hotel to be clean comfortable and very central. with loads to do bowling cinema gym more restaurants than you can fit in a week and bars and clubs of all sorts

great place

We went to Malta to get married in May 2007. The care and attention from the staff at the hotel, representatives of the holiday company, the Maltese people and those from other services booked in relation to our wedding such as Frank's Chauffeur services who provided a vintage car, Steven's Movie Studios who took wonderful and unusual photographs, made it a holiday that has wonderful memories. The hotel was what you would expect from 5* accommodation in respect of the facilities but the level of service and the natural warmth of the Maltese people and from staff of other nationalities would be difficult to replicate. From the waiting staff to the manager Joseph, they could only be praised. The food was really good but for something a bit more special the Michelin star restaurant (Villa) at the front of the hotel is excellent. The rooftop pool area is great with a good amount of sun loungers either next to the pool or further round on another part of the roof. We got married in Valletta in the Saint James Cavalier bulding which is steeped in history. This was a wonderful setting if you want to get married abroad but don't like the idea of a beach wedding. There are a variety of bars and restaurants in St Juliennes to suit most tastes with a friendly service in all the ones we visited. We are looking forward to going back to Malta as there is a lot to see for a small island. We will certainly stay at Le Meridien in St Juliennes and recommend it to anyone thinking of going to Malta.

Our first impressions when we arrived at this complex were pretty bad to be honest. The apartment wasn't ready when we arrived and it was very small even though we had booked a 1 bedroom apartment for only 2 of us & it was extremely dated.

However as the holiday progressed the fact that the location was so good and the reception staff were so nice and helpful when you asked anything it kind of softened the blow of the quality of the accomodation

To summarise the main good factors were: *excellent location for accesability to both the Marina Area(beautiful & reasonable restaurants)& also to Paceville if you are wanting to do some serious partying. *excellent location for catching public transport. The bus stop was at the bottom of the street and from here with the help of a bus timetable you can travel to the majority of the different tourist attractions, beaches & resorts at an extremely low cost. *Extremely helpful reception staff. The gentleman spent lots of time with us advising us of the best things to see and do from his local knowledge. *A lot cheaper than a lot of other accomodations we had considered in St Julians

And the worst: *Extremely dated apartments *Ants in the extremely small bathroom *No airconditioning and ceiling fan broken in the main living area (Receptionist did give us a large fan FOC) *Cooker/Grill in Kitchen area broken *Unfriendly/offputting cafe/pool area staff *Additional charge for using the sunloungers & cushions at the pool *Had to take your own rubbish to the skip each day *As part of the complex had recently been sold to someone else a lot of construction work & noise going on *If you don't like noise these apartment are definately not for you.

All in all we still enjoyed our holiday and Malta is a very Beautiful Island. St Julians as a resort is excellent as it has a good selection of restaurants with reasonable prices and if you chose to go clubbing there is a good range of lively bars and clubs. The public transport may be older style but it's extremely reliable and soo cheap. Malta tends to have more european tourists especially Italian due to the location but that certain didn't put me off.

We have just returned from this hotel. It was very disappointing! We have holidayed in many 5* hotels and this was not up to scratch. Firstly we moved rooms 3 times. 1.) stank of stale smoke. 2.) woken at 6.30 GMT by buiding works. 3.)nearly good.

They have british plug sockets but provide two pin plugs with hairdryers and mosquito plugs. most adaptors are two pin to British not vice versa! The showers in the bathrooms were slow and the baths stained there was also no heating in the bathroom and as it was relatively cool, would have been nice.

The sheets were changed once in seven days. the complimentary water was not given to us on two occasions and then on day four was charged for at 1.75 LM. you had to be wiley to notice that.!!

TV.s were old and poor remotes intermittent and volume poor. monotonous entertainment of one man on piano every night playing the same tunes. Barely no drinks service by the pool as bar closed, although on one day staff did walk round and ask!

Quality of Breakfast cold buffett meats and cheeses less than fresh and coffee luke warm and stewed. Yoghurts warm. Restaurant and other areas plagued by flies. mosquitoes rife my husband had more than 60 bites on his return. i only had ten and they were jolly itchy!

Sports club living well poor only 4 ladies showers for over 30 ladies one not working and all a bit gungy/smelly!

Not much luxury, basic sunbeds and towels no turn down chocolates or complimentary wine! Turn down started at 4.30pm GMT. Beach club area totally closed so no access to sit and watch sea and other hotels still had this facillity.

On the convesre some lovely well priced retaurants in the new Portamaso complex especially the Billy steak restaurant. Also an excellent Jazz bar, and Totos in Spinolla bay lovely. Good thirty minute walk to Silema but a nice one or cheap 0.20c bus fare. Although drivers a bit rude. Try the open top bus trip as this is excellent. We were more disappointed as the saturdays entertainment of piano accordian and violinist to occampany the Fish evening was Fabulous.

Just think they need to update and bring themselves in line with other hotels.

I cannot rate the Radisson Sas highly enough. We had a very relaxing week at the hotel, and the staff were very friendly and most helpful.
The hotel was virtually taken over by a wedding party from Northern Ireland, I must admit on some occasions the hotel pool did feel like the Falls Road Belfast rather the Bay Point Resort Malta. On our first visit to the pool the bride was paralytic in the pool and was putting of children entering the pool.

Please be careful with the mini bar, and don't do what I did. On arrival at the hotel I completely emptied the mini bar and put my goodies in, unknown to me each item is placed on a computer sensor, and you only 15 seconds to replace before it is charged to your account. I should have read the card which did explain this. The staff at the reception were very understanding and removed the items from the final bill (must have thought I had major drink problem) .
I now understand from other reviews the landscape in Malta is somewhat lacking, some parts do look really shabby. We manage to fit a boat trip to the ";Blue Lagoon "; it was very a lovely location , however it was totally packed with tourist , and I am sure they were going for an all time Maltese record of how persons you can get on a piece of concrete to sun bathe measuring 20 feet by 10 feet .

If you think of going to Malta for a cheap holiday, think again. We found most things expensive or at least the same prices as the U.K., and beware Malta is going over to the Euro in January 2008, this normally a good excuse to push prices up .

I love Valetta, and I loved the old public buses ( and yea our bus broke down on the way back from Valetta the oil sump fell off).

I do not believe I will return to Malta, we had a good time but its not one of those holiday destinations where you think I must go back to.