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This Valletta palazzo has a rooftop pool and a spa below ground, around a central courtyard.
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Take Airport Direct route TD4 from the airport bus terminal to Valletta. The bus runs every 30 minutes, and an Unlimited Travel Card covers it at no extra cost.
Some rooms look out across the city to the Grand Harbour and the open sea. Others face the palazzo's internal courtyard, so the view depends on the room.
Yes, a pool sits on the roof of the palazzo, and guests can take in the views from it. The spa is at the other end of the building, below ground.
66 Saint Paul's is a restored and modernised 17th-century palazzo in the heart of Valletta. Original features remain in its interiors, and they give the building its character.
The hotel keeps to a small collection of rooms, each individually designed. Two of the larger ones are a split-level room and an open-plan suite.
The central courtyard has been carefully preserved, and some rooms overlook it.
Other rooms have panoramic views of the Valletta skyline, the Grand Harbour and the Mediterranean. Fort St Angelo is in view across the water.
The guest facilities sit at either end of the building: the rooftop pool at the top, and Myoka Sixty Six Spa, a subterranean boutique spa, at the bottom.
Arriving by bus, you walk the last stretch to St. Paul's Street. If you are driving, ask the hotel about parking before you travel.
When you book, say whether you want the harbour outlook, the courtyard outlook or more space.
Go up to the roof to swim and take in the views, and go down to the spa for treatments.
Between the two, stop in the courtyard on your way through, where coffee is served in the day and an aperitivo in the evening.
Coming by ferry from Sliema or Cospicua, take Route 133, the Valletta circular, from the ferry quays into the centre of the city.
Lower Barrakka Gardens are a short walk from the hotel, so a treatment in the spa and a walk in the gardens fit into one afternoon.
Nearest first, all within 6 minutes on foot from the door.
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The town
About a kilometre from end to end, Valletta is the smallest capital in the European Union, with walls on every side. Republic Street crosses it from City Gate to Fort St Elmo, and the cathedral and both Barrakka gardens lie a few streets off it.
Yes, if the sights are the point of your trip. After dinner you walk home, with no ferry to catch.
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