From Malta Central
The Malta Guide
The whole of this site, written down and laid out to carry with you. One PDF on your phone, no signal needed.
- A PDF, not an app
- Reads on a phone
- Works with no signal
What is in it
The guide covers Malta, Gozo and Comino, in the order you would actually use them. Six sections, each built from the material we research and check for this site.
Beaches and swimming
Which bay suits which wind, how to reach it, and where the shade is.
Festas and what is on
How a village feast runs, and what is worth planning a trip around.
Getting around
Eating and drinking
What to order, what it costs, and when the kitchens close.
History you can stand in
The temples, the Grand Harbour and the siege, in the places they happened.
The practical side
Money, pharmacies, tap water, plugs, and what nobody tells you.
Who it is for
Somebody with a week here who would rather not spend it reading forums, sorting old advice from current advice.
And somebody moving over, who needs the practical answers in one place instead of across forty tabs.
It assumes you have never been to the islands. It does not assume you are on a tour.
How it works
It is a PDF. It opens on a phone, a tablet, a laptop or a printer, and it keeps working when the signal does not.
There is no app to install, no account to make and nothing to subscribe to. You download the file and it is yours.
Where it comes from
Malta Central is written and checked here, on the islands, rather than assembled from other people’s guidebooks.
The 69 beach pages, the festa calendar, the bus and ferry pages and the practical guides are all first-hand.
The guide is that work, edited down and laid out to read in order rather than searched a page at a time.
A PDF is a snapshot, so every figure in it carries the date it was checked. This site stays the live version.