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Nine suites make up this palazzo on Old Theatre Street, some with a private terrace over Valletta's rooftops and church domes.
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By taxi or ride-hailing app. The hotel's own Malta itinerary has guests collect their luggage at the airport, take Bolt to Valletta and check in on arrival.
Casa Ellul is at 81, Old Theatre Street, Valletta, the address to give a driver on arrival. Malta's main bus terminus is just outside the city.
Suite 1 is the suite the hotel lists as wheelchair accessible. Guests who need step-free access should contact the hotel before booking to confirm the route from the street to the door.
Casa Ellul began as a Victorian-period palazzo, built after an earlier house from the Hospitaller era was demolished around 1830. Its street front runs as one continuous facade, so the whole building looks like one house from the pavement.
The suites differ from floor to floor. One has a terrace with harbour views. Suite 7 was built on the former roof of the original family home.
Suite 8 has a private terrace with a hot tub, facing the facade and cupola of the Carmelite Church. Suite 9 looks onto the street and the same church front.
Teatru Manoel is Valletta's 18th-century theatre, one of Europe's notable examples of the period's theatre architecture.
Reaching your suite depends on which one you book. Suite 3, on the second floor, is reached by stairs, or by taking the lift to the fourth floor and then walking down two floors. Suite 9 is reached by stairs only.
Breakfast is served in the ground-floor breakfast area. Expect eggs, homemade bread and cake, fruit, coffee and tea.
Dinner is at Risette, the hotel's restaurant, set under the Carmelite Church. The menu changes weekly, so ask what is on that week.
Order breakfast to your room if your suite has a terrace.
Go to the Grandmaster's Palace for its restored State Rooms, including the Throne Room and the Ambassadors' Room.
Ask the hotel for its check-in time and where a Bolt can stop when you confirm your suite.
Nearest first, all within 10 minutes on foot from the door.
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Casa EllulThings to do
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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