Several Maltese sites are sold as one ticket covering two places.
People pay, see the first one and leave, because nothing at the entrance tells them there is a second.
Knowing which is which saves money and, more often, saves a wasted trip.
Ħaġar Qim and Mnajdra
These are the two most missed. They share a site, a visitor centre and a single ticket.
Ħaġar Qim is the one you reach first, sitting under a large protective canopy.
Mnajdra is a few hundred metres further on, down a slope towards the sea.
It is a separate group of temples with a better setting than the first, looking straight out at Filfla.
Walking back to the car park after Ħaġar Qim means paying for something you did not see.
Allow an hour and a half for both, and take water. The path between them is open ground with no shade.
Ġgantija and Ta’ Kola
In Gozo, the Ġgantija ticket also covers the Ta’ Kola windmill, a two minute walk away in Xagħra.
The windmill is small and takes twenty minutes, and it is already paid for.
It is an eighteenth-century working mill with the miller’s rooms kept as they were, which is a different kind of visit entirely.
The Hypogeum is the opposite case
It stands alone, costs far more than anything else, and the number of people allowed in each day is strictly limited.
It sells out well ahead, so it needs booking before you travel rather than while you are here.
Children under six are not admitted.
Nothing else covers it. Not the Heritage Malta pass, not any combined ticket.
What does not share a ticket
Tarxien is separate, though it is ten minutes from the Hypogeum.
The Valletta sites are all separate from each other, including the Grandmaster’s Palace and Fort St Elmo.
The Mdina cathedral museum, Casa Rocca Piccola and the Din l-Art Ħelwa towers are privately run and charge on their own.
Check what a ticket covers before you pay
Every current price, and what each ticket covers, is on one page. It is kept in one place on purpose.
Prices move, and a figure copied around a site goes stale in the copies first.
The reduced rates for children, students and older visitors are set out in the ticket bands.
There is also a rundown of which temples are worth your time if you are deciding between them rather than doing all of them.
All of these are Heritage Malta sites, and what each ticket covers is set out on their own site.
