Getting to Gozo involves a ferry and a drive. An organised day trip handles both for you. You are paying for the logistics.
With or without the ferry queue
The crossing and the driving
You are collected, taken across, driven around the island and brought back. On a summer day when the Ċirkewwa queue is long, that is worth real money.
It also means you see four or five places rather than the two you would manage alone on a first visit.
Doing it yourselfBook a Gozo day trip
Time at each stop
An organised day means somebody else decides how long you get at Dwejra and the Citadella. That suits a first visit and frustrates a second.
If you have been before, hire a car in Gozo instead and set your own pace.
About GozoCompare Gozo tours
Stay a night
Sleeping in Gozo changes the island completely, because it empties once the day boats leave. Two nights beats any day trip.
People stay mainly for the farmhouses.
Gozo farmhouses
Tour or under your own steam
Which suits you
- Take a tour if
- You have one day, no car, and want the Cittadella, Dwejra and a swim without planning any of it.
- Go independently if
- You have a car or are happy on Gozo’s buses, and would rather choose your own pace. The ferry takes foot passengers with no booking at all.
- Either way
- You pay the ferry fare leaving Gozo, not arriving. See ferries.
A day trip gives you roughly five useful hours in Gozo after the crossings. One night roughly doubles that and changes the island entirely, because the day boats leave. If Gozo matters to you, stay over.