Almost every paid site in Malta charges three or four different prices. Adult is the one on the sign.
There are lower rates for children, students and older visitors. Ask, because nobody offers them.
The price bands
Heritage Malta sites use adult, youth, senior and child.
The child rate is the cheapest, and the youth and senior rates usually sit together in the middle.
Infants under five are normally free. A family of four rarely pays four adult prices.
Take something that proves age. A student card or a passport settles it in a second, and without one you will be charged the adult rate.
An ISIC card or a university card both work. A photo of one on your phone often does not.
Some sites share one ticket
Ħaġar Qim and Mnajdra are one site and one ticket. So are Ġgantija and the Ta’ Kola windmill.
Paying once and seeing only one of the pair is the most common way to waste money here.
The Mdina and Rabat sites are separate tickets, though they are five minutes apart.
The Hypogeum is the outlier
It costs several times what the other sites charge, numbers are capped every day, and it sells out weeks ahead.
It is the only one that needs booking before you travel rather than on the day.
A small number of last-minute tickets are released at the National Museum of Archaeology at a higher price. Do not build a trip around that.
When the multi-site pass is worth it
Heritage Malta sells a pass covering its sites for a fixed period.
It pays for itself somewhere around the fourth or fifth site, and faster at adult rates than at child rates.
Working out whether it suits your trip is covered in this piece on the pass.
Residents get a separate annual card, which is cheaper again and worth having if you live here.
Free and cheap days
Some sites open free on national holidays and during Notte Bianca in Valletta in early October.
The Upper Barrakka Gardens and most of the fortification walks cost nothing any day of the year.
Where the current prices are
Every price is kept on one page rather than repeated around the site, because prices move and copies go stale.
Tickets themselves are sold on heritagemalta.mt, and buying online saves a queue at the busier sites.
