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Cesca Boutique Hotel's quiet setting up Xlendi Valley leaves you a short drive, or a downhill walk, from the small beach and the waterfront restaurants of Xlendi Bay, with the rest of Gozo within easy reach by car.
Hotel, Xlendi. Meridian Dispatch.
Take a bus or drive to the Ċirkewwa ferry terminal, then cross on the Gozo Channel ferry to Mġarr. Route TD1 serves Ċirkewwa. On Gozo, Xlendi is reached by car or by public transport from Victoria, the island's capital.
Yes. The hotel has its own restaurant, Berta's, which serves breakfast every day. Evening meals run Wednesday to Saturday, and weekends add a lunch service. On the other nights, guests walk or drive down to the bay in Xlendi.
Breakfast is served every day from 07:30 to 10:30 at Berta's, the hotel's restaurant. Lunch is served there at weekends from 12:00 to 15:00, and in summer the pool bar serves poolside lunch daily from 12:00 to 17:00.
Yes. The infinity pool sits on the top floor, the highest of the hotel's four storeys, beside an outdoor terrace. Both look out across Xlendi Valley.
The 18 rooms come in six types, from 25 to 45 square metres. Comfort, Deluxe and Superior rooms, at 25, 27 and 30 square metres, have a balcony over the valley. The three Classic Suites face the countryside, and Classic Suite 2, the largest at 45, has a freestanding steel bath.
Yes. The Superior Rooms, at 30 square metres, each have a private jacuzzi and a balcony with a view over Xlendi Valley. Ask for a Superior Room by name when booking to be sure of one.
Yes. Lifts serve all four floors of the hotel, including the top floor, where the infinity pool and the outdoor area look out over the valley. Guests with heavy luggage or limited mobility do not need the stairs.
Yes. Xlendi Bay, down the valley road from the hotel, has a small beach of sand and pebbles, suited to swimming and relaxing. Xlendi Tower, the oldest free-standing coastal watchtower on Gozo, stands at the bay.
Yes. Every room has individually controlled air conditioning and double-glazed windows. The Comfort Rooms also list free Wi-Fi, a safe, a minibar, a smart TV and an espresso machine.
Cesca is a 350-year-old converted farmhouse on the edge of Xlendi Valley. Its first owners farmed the cotton fields that once spread across the valley, and the property now belongs to their great-grandsons.
It has 18 rooms, three of them suites, and each room type has its own layout and outlook. A Deluxe Room is 27 square metres.
The hotel stands in the midst of the valley, in tranquil surroundings. Its infinity pool and outdoor area are on the highest floor, and that is where the valley views open up.
Down the valley, the village of Xlendi wraps around Xlendi Bay. Once a tiny fishing village, it is now a busy small resort.
Every morning, breakfast is served in the hotel until half past ten, in time for a full day out on the island.
Berta's Restaurant is inside the hotel. It serves dinner from Wednesday to Saturday and lunch at weekends, with evening service from seven. Booking is recommended, so reserve your table through Reception.
From Sunday to Tuesday there is no dinner service, so plan to eat down in Xlendi on those nights. In summer, the pool bar also serves lunch by the pool every day.
For a walk with a view, take the Xlendi Walk, which looks out over the Ta' Ċenċ Cliffs and the Sanap Cliffs.
If your stay takes in the first Sunday of September, Xlendi holds its annual village feast and the Gostra that day. Plan an evening down at the bay to see them.
Cesca stands in Xlendi Valley, inland from the bay, so Xlendi's beach and waterfront are down the valley and the rest of Gozo is a short drive. Nearest first, all within 32 minutes on foot from the door.
Xlendi Bay
No. 8 beach in Malta
Xlendi Bay gives you clear water and caves to snorkel inside a narrow, cliff-walled inlet, with a watchtower on the point to walk out to afterwards.
Ta' Ċenċ Cliffs
No. 5 wilderness in Malta
Take the 305 bus to Sannat and you can walk Gozo's tallest sea cliffs down to a swimming inlet in about two hours.
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The town
Xlendi is a small resort at the end of a valley on Gozo's south-west coast, where the cliffs close in around a narrow bay. The coast path climbs out of it both ways: west towards Dwejra, and east over the Sanap and Ta' Ċenċ cliffs.
Stay in Xlendi if your days are swimming and cliff walks; for the rest of Gozo you change buses in Victoria.
Read the Xlendi guideThe official pages this guide was checked against.
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