Best Family Suite Hotels in Malta for Summer 2026
5 family-friendly hotels with family suite in Malta . Handpicked for families who want the best.
A four-person hotel room in Malta in July runs around €350 a night at a decent 4-star. A proper two-bedroom suite or apartment at the same resort? Often cheaper, and you get a door between the parents and the kids. That alone is worth the booking. Malta is one of the few Mediterranean destinations where apart-hotels, connecting rooms and real family suites are mainstream rather than a rare luxury. The island is small enough that your choice of base barely changes your itinerary. What matters is the room layout, and the five hotels below have the best we found.
Malta is compact, English-speaking, and laid-back in the way only a small Mediterranean island can be. Drivers wave you across the road, waiters bring extra bread for the kids unprompted, and half the population seems to be on first-name terms. For families, this matters more than any single attraction. You spend less energy navigating and more energy actually having a holiday.
🛏️Why Malta Works for Families Needing Space
Malta's resort infrastructure was built around British package holidays in the 1970s and then adapted for self-catering visitors in the 90s. That history left a useful legacy: two-bedroom apartments with real kitchens, resorts where a suite costs less than two separate rooms, and staff who are genuinely used to families rather than tolerating them.
The family suite options split roughly into two camps. The northern resorts (Mellieħa, St Paul's Bay, Marfa) offer larger footprints, sandy beaches and balconies big enough to hang washing. The urban strip (Sliema, St Julian's, Il-Gżira) gives you suites with a view of the Med, a walkable restaurant scene and easy bus connections to Valletta.
Prices run 20% below comparable family suites in Mallorca or the Algarve, and the currency is the euro. Flights from most UK and Irish airports are under three hours, which matters when you have a five-year-old who doesn't want to sit still.
Parent's take
The thing nobody tells you about Malta with two kids: the ferry from Sliema to Valletta costs €2.50 and runs every 30 minutes. Kids love boats. You save on taxis, you save on parking, and you arrive at the Valletta waterfront which is an attraction in itself. This one detail made our week easier than Mallorca ever was.
Our Top 5 Picks
Hotels in Malta with family suite, sorted by guest rating.
The Westin Dragonara Resort
St Julian's
Wonderful
3,400 reviews
The Westin's Executive Suites come with a separate living area and a door that actually closes between kids and parents, a rarity at this star level. The resort sits on its own 7-acre peninsula in St Julian's so kids can roam between the Cave Beach Pool, the private playground and three restaurants without crossing a road.
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€403/night
Why families love The Westin Dragonara Resort
We booked the one-bedroom suite with the sea-view balcony and it paid for itself by day two. Kids slept in the proper bedroom with blackout blinds, we watched the Malta ferries from the living room couch. The Westin Kids Club took the six-year-old for two hours a morning which is when the spa becomes affordable. The Cave Beach Pool is a natural rock formation filled with seawater, genuinely unique, and shallow enough for the four-year-old.
AX ODYCY Hotel
Qawra, St Paul's Bay
Wonderful
6,492 reviews
AX ODYCY has family rooms that connect through an internal door and 'junior suites' with bunk beds tucked into a sleeping alcove. The on-site water slide and kids' pool mean you can leave the resort only when you actively want to, not because the kids are bored.
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€254/night
Why families love AX ODYCY Hotel
Booked the connecting family rooms and the staff left both keys at check-in without us asking, which tells you how often they do this. The water slide on the roof is the best thing on the island for an eight-year-old. We ate half-board and the kids' buffet was actual kids food (pasta, chicken nuggets, fruit) rather than a tiny version of adult food. Sea access is rocky lido style, so bring swim shoes.
The Gomerino Hotel
Valletta
Wonderful
480 reviews
The Gomerino sits on a quiet Valletta side street five minutes from Republic Street with family rooms that fit four people and a rooftop terrace overlooking the city skyline. The building is a restored 18th-century palazzo, so rooms have real stone walls, high ceilings and windows that open onto Saint Paul Street rather than a corridor.
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€263/night
Why families love The Gomerino Hotel
We stayed for four nights with two kids aged 6 and 9 and this was the best base we could have asked for in Valletta. The family room has a proper double bed in the main room and two singles in a separate alcove, not ideal for babies but perfect for older kids. Breakfast on the rooftop includes pastizzi (the local Maltese pastry) which the kids demanded every morning. Saint John's Co-Cathedral is a five-minute walk, the Upper Barrakka Gardens are even closer.
Ramla Bay Resort
Marfa / Mellieħa
Excellent
621 reviews
Ramla Bay offers two-bedroom family suites that sleep up to six with a proper dining table and a balcony over Marfa Bay. The private sandy beach is 20 steps from the lower pool, which is unusual in Malta and why this place books out six months ahead for summer.
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€168/night
Why families love Ramla Bay Resort
Went full family suite for a week and had zero regrets. Two proper bedrooms with doors, a shared bathroom and a small living area, plus the balcony is huge. Half-board plan worked well because the kids ate at 6pm in the buffet restaurant and we ate at 8pm on the terrace once they were asleep. The private beach is small but sandy, rare for Malta, and the water stays shallow a long way out.
Grands Suites Hotel and Spa Sliema
Il-Gżira (Sliema seafront)
Excellent
720 reviews
Grands Suites offers one- and two-bedroom apartments with full kitchens, washing machines and balconies facing either Manoel Island or the Sliema waterfront. It sits in Il-Gżira, a five-minute walk from the Sliema ferry terminal that runs to Valletta every 30 minutes.
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€184/night
Why families love Grands Suites Hotel and Spa Sliema
Booked the two-bedroom apartment for a week and cooked breakfast every morning which saved us around €70 a day. Two proper bedrooms with doors, a full-size sofa bed in the living room, a washing machine that we used three times. The location is ideal if you want the Sliema food scene without paying Sliema room rates. Kids loved the Sliema to Valletta ferry, €2.50 each way, and the pool is on the 10th floor with a panoramic sea view.
💡Practical Tips for Booking a Malta Family Suite
- 1July water temperature averages 25°C, which means even a four-year-old will happily stay in for hours. Pack more swim nappies than you think you need because nowhere sells them cheaply on the island.
- 2If you are booking two interconnecting rooms rather than a suite, call the hotel directly to confirm the door actually opens. Booking.com often lists them as an option when only the physical hardware exists.
- 3Bring collapsible beach shoes for kids. Malta's sandy beaches are limited to the north (Mellieħa Bay, Golden Bay) and most swimming happens on rocky lidos where bare feet don't work.
- 4Maltese bus drivers stop for pushchairs but the network is irregular after 8pm. If your suite is outside Sliema or St Julian's, budget for a taxi each evening or plan to eat in.
- 5Supermarket suites (with a real hob, not a microwave) save you €150 a day in breakfasts alone. Look for 'kitchenette' in the room description and confirm it includes a fridge big enough for milk.
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