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Victoria Hotel
Malta and Gozo, Europe
Sliema
Classic elegance, rich furnishings and a unique, boutique style elevates the Victoria Hotel in Sliema to one of Malta's finest places to stay. It has a timeless elegance to it, and a traditional service ethic too, so you'll always be very well received and impeccably looked after.
Located in an elevated position on a hill in the heart of Sliema – one of the favourite destinations for holidaymakers – the Victoria Hotel is only a short distance to the seafront promenade – this is where Sliema lives and breathes – in its spectacular coastline, its array of shops and entertainments, and its friendly people.
Treat yourself to a stay at the classically elegant Victoria Hotel in the heart of Sliema:
As well as giving you the opportunity to explore Sliema, and the rich cultural heritage of the nearby capital, Valetta, the Victoria Hotel offers you every opportunity to relax. Benefiting from a quiet location and superb spa facilities, this is somewhere you can really take things easy.
Every care has been taken to make the Victoria Hotel spa as enticing and as luxurious as possible. Spread over two floors, its facilities include a freshwater indoor pool and an outdoor pool, as well as sun terraces, saunas, steam room and treatment rooms offering a wide range of holistic wellbeing treatments. You have no excuse not to feel utterly relaxed.
The same attention is given to guest's rooms at the Victoria Hotel. They are all fully air conditioned and come with extensive facilities to help you feel at home, including satellite TV and radio, direct dial phone, tea/coffee making facilities, minibar and Wi-Fi is available at a fee. Rooms are dressed in classic colonial style and all feature en suite bathrooms too. Why not look at upgrading to a balcony room or suite?. Junior and Deluxe Suites include a walk-in shower, all other rooms consist of a bathtub.
Even the restaurant menus are geared to your wellbeing, with a new healthy eating option available.
At the end of the day we do recommend a visit to the intimate Penny Black Bar, to luxuriate in the exquisite armchairs and while away the evening. Perfection!
Like Sliema, the Victoria Hotel manages to give you a little bit of both sides of Malta. In its refined setting and furnishings, you get a taste of the great devotion to hospitality and a hint of the past; while its facilities bring you right up-to-date.
The hotel is suitable for guests with mobility issues, but please note the hotel is located on a slope.
Special Offers
It pays to book early! The earlier you book the more you will save!
Valid for stays 01/11/2026 – 30/04/2027, if booked by 30/09/2026
Not combinable with any other offers.
Facilities
- Outdoor rooftop pool
- Indoor pool
- Spa*
- Sauna
- Gym
- Restaurant
- Bar
- Coffee Shop
- Gift shop
- Lobby lounge
- Some facilities may incur an additional fee
- The rooftop pool is heated during winter and open all year round - weather permitting.
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The Local Area
The Victoria Hotel is a superior 4-star hotel, located in quiet peaceful surroundings, situated in the heart of Sliema and a few minutes walk from the popular and picturesque seafront promenade.
Sliema offers excellent shopping, open air cafeterias, restaurant and bars and is only fifteen minutes drive away from Valletta or accessible by ferry.
Tripadvisor Reviews
4.5 Excellent3,312 reviews
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Great facilities, location and staff
We had a wonderful 2 week holiday here. The facilities were excellent - pool, bars, gym and room. Great location to enjoy Sliema and at the pool views of the sea and Valletta. Everywhere was vey clean and absolutely all staff were friendly and helpful. We will miss the lovely variety of delicious food for breakfast.
Visit 68 & Visit 69
Visit 68 was for 10 nights in May & Visit 69 was for 17 nights in July. We had our usual room on the 6th floor for both visits. The first thing we noticed in July was the loud noise coming from the 7th floor, it transpired that the indoor pool area was undergoing refurbishment and is due for completion at the end of July. This was an ideal time to do the refurbishment as the indoor pool has less usage during summer. Any drilling was limited to one hour a day between the hours of 11am – 2pm, when most guests are away from their rooms, either at the outdoor pool or exploring Malta. This work may have annoyed some guests, who may decide not to stay at AX The Victoria again. However, all we can only say is give AX The Victoria Hotel another try it is well worth it. As usual breakfast is served in the Copperfield Restaurant, there is a wide variety of items available from omelettes (made on request),cereals, bacon,sausage, mushrooms, beans, tomatoes, pancakes, Danish pastries, croissants, fruit, yogurts and much more. For guests on HB dinner is still being served in the Tabloid Restaurant (in the 5* AX The Palace Hotel). This will change when we return for Visit 70 in November as AX The Palace Hotel closes in November for 5 to 6 months for a full refurbishment so both breakfast and dinner will be taken in The Copperfield Restaurant. In our previous reviews we have advised about the changes AX Hotels have made to become greener, replacing single use bottles of shampoo, conditioner, shower gel and body lotion with refillable pump bottles, we didn’t think there was anything else they could do, however since leaving in May to returning in July the hotel has replaced the laminated signs, for Please clean my room/Do not disturb, Filtered water with our compliments, Change of bed linen/Change of towels to wooded signs (see attached photos). Not only is AX The Victoria a great hotel which has the most amazing staff, who are always happy to assist and help guests in any way they can, it is also ideally located for travelling around Malta. From Sliema you can access buses to Valletta and to the North and South of Malta. You can also catch the ferry to Valletta from the Strand, and since the beginning of May you can also catch a fast ferry to Gozo
Review by MaltaFanatics Wigan, United Kingdom
Very Enjoyable Holiday
For my holiday to Malta I decided to try this hotel. The hotel was far better than previous hotels I have stayed at in Sliema. The staff were all friendly especially the receptionist and the cleaner.
The roof top pool area is very smart with good views. Breakfast was in the Victoria hotel with dinner in the adjoining Palace hotel. Half board was very worth it with free wine with dinner! There was also a good selection for breakfast.
The room was modern with a small balcony.
There is a bit of a hill to walk up and down from the hotel with a couple of bars on the promenade at the bottom of it.
I would definitely come back to Malta and come back to the Victoria.
Highly recommend for those with food allergies
Fantastic service and food, dealt with my food allergies brilliantly and I felt very safe eating there. Rooms and facilities perfect as well.
Lovely friendly hotel
We stayed here for 10 nights having stayed here before around 15 years ago. Not a lot has changed, but that’s not a bad thing. The Reception area is airy and welcoming and the room we had was comfortable.
We were upgraded from a classic room to one with a balcony which was nice although the balcony was tiny (see photo). Air conditioning in the room was decent and the beds were comfortable and we slept well. Bathroom was clean and a good size with the shower above the bath. The only issue we had during our stay was with towels as there were numerous days when fresh towels were not left in the room and we had to chase.
Breakfast was better than we expected with cooked food available and buffet style. Overall it was very good with an egg station for omlettes and although cooked the sausages looked after little pale and put me off having them.
The hotel is 4 star rated but shares the facilities with the adjoing 5 star sister hotel AX Palace. To be honest unless the bedrooms in The Palace are significantly better I’m unsure why people would book there instead of staying at The Victoria. It is fair to say though that The Palace is bigger and looks more luxurious.
There are several restaurants across the hotels with the Temptasian one offering lovely views over Valetta and delicious food although a little pricey. We received excellent and friendly service from Romabel when we ate there.
The location of the hotel is perfect and there are rooftop pools with bars areas to grab a refreshing drink. Note that the rooftop bars do not take cash, only card and signing to your room if you have added a card to your room at check-in. Other than the towels issue, service was excellent and friendly.
Would we come back here? Definitely.
Happy to answer any questions if I get alerts from TripAdvisor.
Review by GeordiePJC Earl Shilton, United Kingdom
