I highly recommend Victor’s apartment as it is well-located in a quieter part of Marsalforn and is a delight to stay in – spacious, light, airy, and relatively well-equipped, with that wonderful L-shaped balcony giving stunning views of the Mediterranean Sea and Qbajjar Bay. When the wind was gusting and whipping up the sea we would often spend time on the balcony (or inside the apartment looking out of the windows if it was a bit too windy) just watching the spectacular waves crashing onto the headland where the Qbajjar Battery is.
We’d often walk west to the nearby salt pans or roughly the same distance east into Marsalforn town to buy groceries, etc. at the Lighthouse or Splash convenience stores. About twice a week we’d also visit the popular Lidl supermarket that is just a short drive away in Victoria (Rabat). Having a refrigerator, stove and oven (but not microwave) in the apartment made all the difference given our much longer than originally planned stay and the fact that all of the restaurants were closed shortly after our arrival due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. We bought a filter coffee maker early on during our stay to satisfy our morning addiction and left it in the apartment for others to enjoy if this is the way they prefer their coffee.
Our original plan was to stay for the month of March, arriving on the 2nd and leaving on the 30th. We arrived as planned but the COVID-19 pandemic completely disrupted our return to North America when the Maltese government suspended all commercial passenger flights on March 20. Victor was very understanding of our situation and kindly agreed to our initial request to extend our stay for almost another three weeks and then, as our airline (Delta) still could not get us seats out of the country, he happily extended our stay a week at a time a further 3 times. My thanks also go to the terrific staff at Hertz in Malta for similarly extending our car rental during our unexpectedly extended stay with just a couple of quick emails each time. Finally Rob, a wonderfully knowledgeable and experienced customer service agent at Delta, was able to secure seats for us on the May 6 Air Malta "lifeline" flight to Amsterdam, together with transatlantic flights for us from Amsterdam with Delta’s partner airline KLM the following day.
Although we didn’t get to visit many of the places on Gozo, Comino, and Malta that we’d originally planned this whole “adventure” probably turned out for the best given the very low infection rate of the virus on the island. During our extended stay we certainly felt far more secure from being infected on Gozo than we would have back in our home towns in the USA or Canada.
We can't thank Victor and his mother, Catherine (who delivered fresh bed linens and towels each week), enough for being so accommodating and helpful during our stay. We certainly hope to return in the future when the COVID-19 pandemic has passed so that we can visit the many historic places that were closed during our unexpectedly extended stay.
Note: Bedroom 1 is smaller than Bedroom 2 and only has a queen-size bed, not a king-size and queen-size bed as the listing currently shows.