Sliema is Malta's smart seafront town — a long, elegant promenade of Art-Nouveau townhouses, glassy new towers, pavement cafés and the island's best shopping, wrapped around a coast that looks straight across the water to the golden bastions of Valletta. This is the sophisticated, grown-up base: the pick for couples, shoppers and city-and-sea travellers who want a stylish stretch to stroll of an evening, a ferry hop to the capital, and their neighbour St Julian's a walk away when they fancy some buzz. What Sliema doesn't have is sand — its swimming is off flat rock lidos into clear, deep water — so it rewards those who value promenade life, dining and easy access to everything over a beach towel on the shore.
Every Sliema package we sell carries full ATOL financial protection under licence #11211, and your ATOL Certificate arrives the moment you book — you can read exactly how your ATOL financial protection works before you commit a penny. Every hotel on this page has been hand-picked and inspected in person against our 22-point criteria, which counts for a lot on a seafront this long: a room with an unbroken view over the water to Valletta is a very different holiday from one facing the busy road behind, at the very same address.
"Sliema is where I send couples who want Malta to feel a little more polished, and the thing I check hardest here is the view," says Thomas Kaplan, our Product Manager and Mediterranean specialist, whose twenty-eight years across TUI, Thomas Cook, Neckermann and Vrijuit have made him fussy about exactly this. "On my audit visits I stand on the balcony of a standard room, not the suite the manager wants to show me, and I ask what you actually see and hear: the Valletta skyline and the ferries, or a light well and the traffic. On a promenade like this the gap between a front room and a back one is enormous, and it never shows on a booking site. I'd never list a Sliema hotel I hadn't stood inside myself." You can read more about Thomas and how he inspects every property we sell.
