Mauro and Val’s place was extremely well equipped and immacutely clean.
The spiral staircase to the floor upstairs to the bedroom and bathroom was a bit of a challenge for my wife (we are 80 year olds and she has a problem with stairs) but more agile folk will have no difficulty.
Pretty Bay in Birzebbuga which the Airbnb looks out onto is very attractive. But it is further out from Valletta than we would have liked — 35 min bus ride. However the buses are very efficient and easy to use and the bus to and from Valletta stops very close by. Valletta rents would have been appreciably higher. There are restaurants in Birzebbuga but not that many. Adequate shops for food are close by.
Mauro was extremely kind. Not only did he pick us up at the airport,but drove us there at 5:00 a.m. to catch our plane out. It is not something one should expect — but we are elderly and he was especially considerate. We were a little concerned about getting a taxi at that early hour — in retrospect unnecessarily worried (see below).
Regular taxis are fairly expensive and not very handy in Birzebbuga but taxis through Taxify (the Malta equivalent of Uber) are efficient and cheap — 7 euros into Valletta — and apparently are available 24/7.
Our stay was in mid February, and the weather was cool, especially at night. The Airbnb was heated with air conditioning/heater units which needed to be turned up quite high. It would be better to visit Malta a bit later in the year.
Jerry and Jackie, from Vancouver, Canada