Malta Private Tour at Blue Grotto, Mdina and Ħaġar Qim
Description
Explore Malta’s history and natural beauty on a private half-day tour with an English-speaking driver in a comfortable, Wi-Fi-equipped vehicle. Start at the Blue Grotto, where you can marvel at the brilliant sea caves and opt for a boat ride. Next, visit the Ħaġar Qim Temples, a prehistoric site over 5,000 years old offering insight into ancient Malta and panoramic sea views. Continue to the medieval Mdina, known as the “Silent City,” with its narrow streets, historic buildings, and stunning vistas from the bastions. End at the Dingli Cliffs, the highest point in Malta, where dramatic views of the sea await. This fully customizable, private experience includes hotel pickup and dropoff, ensuring a relaxed and scenic journey through some of the island’s most iconic landmarks.
Tour Options
Itinerary
Discover stunning sea caves where sunlight creates a magical blue glow. Perfect for boat rides and photos
Step back 5,000 years at this hilltop temple complex — a fascinating glimpse into Malta’s prehistoric past.
Wander the quiet streets of Malta’s “Silent City,” a beautiful medieval gem with panoramic views.
Enjoy breathtaking sea views from Malta’s highest point — especially unforgettable at sunset.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Your Welcome Pickups driver will be waiting for you at the selected pickup location and time. Before your ride, you’ll receive your driver’s details — including their name, phone number, and car information — so you can easily recognize them. Your driver will arrive on time and be ready to assist you and any special requests before starting your journey. Please note that our sightseeing tours does not automatically include airport pickup or drop-off. If you wish to start or end your tour at the airport, simply select the option with airport pickup included when booking if available. Kindly share any special requirements, such as traveling with a service animal or needing extra assistance, when booking your ride. This ensures a smooth and enjoyable experience for you.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- For 1-4 people: A comfortable sedan will be assigned to your group.
- For 5-8 people: A spacious minivan will be assigned to your group.
- For 9-12 people: A private minibus will be assigned to your group.
- Throughout your ride, our drivers serve as informal local guides—sharing stories, history, and local tips at every stop. Please note that drivers are not permitted to enter museums or archaeological areas, but they’ll ensure you make the most of your visit with suggestions and background information before you explore on your own.
- Some stops on your itinerary may be closed on the date of travel due to public holidays, maintenance or special events. We recommend verifying opening hours on the attraction’s official website or contacting us before your tour. If a stop is unexpectedly closed, we will try to offer a suitable alternative.
Reviews(10)
We had a great time! Very flexible itinerary. Ray was our driver. Highly recommended
Excellent Grant was knowledgeable and entertaining.
Our guide was so friendly (we both own St James Cavaliers), very knowledgeable, and patiently waited while I lingered a little too long at one site.
Our guide was very nice; he was accommodating and knowledgeable. We really enjoyed him. Thank you. We love Malta.
Great communication prior to tour. Carlos was early which was perfect. Informative during the ride and patient while we visited the sites. Unfortunately we were unable to see the blue grotto because the water too choppy but it was not guide’s fault. Recommend.
Our driver Ray was knowledgeable and friendly. He was able to accommodate us. We had an excellent overview of Malta. Recommend!!!
That it’s expensive. We were expecting a guide to 3 venues to enhance our experience of Malta. We got a driver. No problem with him but £250 is a lot for 4 hours. The destinations were interesting but we had to pay extra for the boat and the archaeology museum. Someone is taking too much profit.
So nice having a private guide for the limited time we got to spend in Malta! Ray was knowledgeable and very flexible with things that we wanted to do and see. Malta is so rich in history!
Very good sights, Hgar, Blue Grotto and Mdina. However our excursion started at 6:00am and was scheduled to go to 10:00am. However we could not get into two of the locations until 9:00am. So we had to wait for 45 minutes to an hour. Then ended up going over time by an hour since we had to wait. So excursion ended up going to 11:00am due to no fault of ours. Driver said he needed to charge an extra EUR50 since were over time. I do not feel this was our fault but bad organization of the trip. I am asking Viator to refund our EUR50.
Perfect way to explore Malta! Our driver, Rrapo, was excellent. He picked us up at the hotel closest to cruise port - we were able to customize our day and ended up seeing everything we wanted! It was a very hot day and we appreciated the air conditioned car.
