How to Travel Around Malta (and Gozo) by Bus and Ferry.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- OK guys, well I appreciate this may be a bit of a niche subject material but hey, I wanted to go to Malta and travel around by bus so I thought if anybody wanted to do the same, maybe this will help!
I'd never been before, but I must say it was a fascinating island and it's surprising what you can do with public transport once you get to know how to use it and where it can take you. Additionally, it's really easy to get over to the neighbouring island of Gozo and I'll also tell you how to do that here along with all travel costs. I think you'll be amazed at how inexpensive it can be!
If you're not planning on visiting Malta, well I hope this video will provide you with some entertainment anyway. I had some great fun making it and, keep watching guys, because things didn't go quite to plan towards the end of the day!!
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Hi Dr Gupta. Well many thanks for commenting and please thank your friend for recommending me, it really helps to spread the word 😊 Glad you’re enjoying the content, though I must admit if you go back too far, my early videos are a bit rubbish when it was just me and an old iphone😂 Hopefully, I’ve improved a bit since then and please stick around as I’ll be uploading lots more adventures regularly in the future. I’ve just come back from filming some stuff in Latvia, Estonia and Finland which was an amazing experience! Thanks again for your support, Mark
I was in Malta a few years ago and took the ferry over to Gozo for the day. Such a beautiful island and in particular I loved Valletta! ✈️
Yes Gozo was lovely, such a chilled-out few hours with that boat trip too. Never been to Malta before but would definitely like to spend longer there next time.
Well, you were right! This is certainly a niche video lol, I've never been to Malta but it looks a lovely place and the ferry looked very nice and clean buses 🙂🍻
Yeh, I don’t think it’ll break any records but, you know, something for everyone. Bingo fans??
This video makes me want to visit Malta. Mind you, I get that feeling with all your videos.
Great! That’s the idea hopefully 😊👍
Very useful video for all who need to visit Malta. I am going to Malta in about 10 days and my plan is to buy explore card to transport. Thanks for sharing. Good job
Cheers Nikola, thanks for the kind words 😊👍
Sorry About the loud bangs from across the water mark.... I happened to be over there at the time of your filiming and I was attempting to wire up an electric cooker 🤣😅🤣👍great video m8... thanks 😊
haha, love it. I honestly have no idea why that cannon was going off!? Would love to find out if anyone knows.
@@LetsMakeaTrip maybe it's the sound of the local women hitting their husbands over the head with frying pans lol....
Thanks for this one, Mark. It brought back so many memories of a favorite vacation destination... albeit my last visit was almost 20 years ago. Valletta is as stunning as ever, and although the buses are a world away from what they were back then... bright yellow 1960's beauties... it's great to see that timetables are still pretty much irrelevant and that all roads still lead to the capital ☺
Yeh, my first time on Malta, I thought it was great - so much history, I just couldn’t get round it in the time I had. The main advantage of the new buses was the air-con, that was certainly a godsend! I did see a couple of the old buses, they were being used as historic tour type excursions. A fantastic place that I need to return to one day but for a little bit longer stay 😊
@@LetsMakeaTrip you definitely need to go back, as do I! The first time I was there, I stayed in Bugibba in St. Paul's Bay and the last in Sliema, opposite Valletta. Thanks to a friend who lives there, I unfortunately know that a lot of the country is unrecognizable now, mostly thanks to the low-rise limit on development, island-wide, being abolished a few years ago. So, a lot of the character and charm is fast disappearing... but that won't stop me going back, one day
@@CreativeEm yes I did think it was quite built up, though I reckoned the western side of the island looked quieter. I didn’t get as far as there but would definitely check that part out next time. I reckon you need at least a week really.
@@LetsMakeaTrip yep, at least a week, including at least one night on Gozo, if you can
@@CreativeEm Gozo looked a world away from Malta somehow. I’d definitely want to do a few nights there. Tbh I could live there but then again, a nice little cottage on a Scottish island or the welsh coast would do me just fine. It’s the lure of the sea 😊
Great video. I went to Malta back in 2002 when my dad won a local radio competition in Birmingham. Went a couple of years ago for my dad's 60th as well. If I go again, I will probs do my own thing all the time as the trips they try to sell you in hotels are a rip off. Prices on the buses and ferries are good. I remember the yellow buses back in 2002. On that occasion, the driver pulled the gear stick out changing gear and just casually slotted it back in whilst driving as if nothing had happened.
Hi John, thanks for the comment. I really enjoyed reading that - especially the bit about the gear stick! The drivers are a bit hit and miss I think. Put it this way, I’d hand over my €2 and I may/may not get a ticket 🤣 this was my first time on Malta, yes I’d like to go again and maybe stay in Valletta next time, I think there’s a lot more to explore there. All the best, Mark
We went in June 2020. The timetable changed on 1st June. The app nolonger worked and certain stops were nolonger in operation. Our experience with the airport bus was the same as yours with the trip to the airport from Valetta even worse. The bus droppedus off 300 m from the terminal and we had to negociate traffic and uneven ground to get there! Such a shame as the buses and people were very good. Just incompetent management I guess.
Hi Stewart, sounds like things had improved somewhat by the time I got there then! I agree, once you’re on the bus the actual transport is good (and cheap) it’s just it can be a bit random at the airport in my experience and that’s where many visitors are going to get their first impression of the service. Cheers, Mark 👍
Very interesting and useful video! Thank you!
Cheers and thanks for watching 😊👍
Malta is probably one of the easiest countries to travel around I have never hired a car or bike because the public transport is so good and cheap.
Great video brought back a lot of memories when we visited Malta and Gozo. Had a week in both places and preferred Gozo. Your buses were no fun compared to the old classic yellow ones when we were there.Spotted the hotel we stayed in above the harbour in Gozo. Great me ories thanks
Hi Alister, thanks for the comment. Yes I’ve heard a bit about the old buses now. Unfortunately I didn’t get to ride one though there were one or two doing classic bus excursion type things I saw in Valletta. Glad you enjoyed the video 😊
Only just came across this video of yours, another fab vid too, I love Malta as well, I went in April 2019 and it was the one of the best holidays I’ve had, given the size of the island there is lots to do, had a jam packed full 7 days when I went, like you we also went to Gozo on the ferry which was very pleasant, Gozo is lovely, it has this castle I think it is and an animal/history museum which was really enjoyable, watching the sun set on the top of the castle was the highlight of the trip :D defo would recommend staying in Gozo as it’s lovely
Hey thanks SL, appreciate the comment. I think in hindsight I should have spent a bit more time in Gozo but I only really had one full day on the island. Gives me an excuse to go back though! 😊
Thanks for this video, now I can visualize how it will look like when I come in September! 🙂👍
Pleasure, glad it helps 😊👍
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@@LetsMakeaTrip. Then, we the subscribers are in for a big treat in the coming days. Hooray!! 🥳 and godspeed Mark.
They fire the cannons every day at noon in Valletta!
Hi GreatTravel. Yes I thought it might be something like that. It went on for quite some time as well. Thanks for the info 👍
Lol, very enjoyable! Almost a shame the classic busses aren't running any more!
Cheers mate. Yes I think they’re used for special occasions, excursions etc. I did see one in the street. Actually I’ve seen one in Tallinn today I’ll post-up on Twitter...
Superb footage 👍👍👍💖💖💖😄😄😀😀👊👊😍😍😍😇😇😇
Thanks Derisley - superb emojis today mate 😊👍
As I live in Malta, I'd have suggested you to travel to Gozo via the Fast Ferry from Valletta. And if you were in Birzebbuga, you could travel up north with X4 as far as the airport and then catch the X1 service to Cirkewwa. Alternatively to travel to Valletta you could take X4 or 80 (that one is the longest one though). Route 41 passes under my house and has like 70ish stops on the way
Until 2017, they used to park buses around the Triton Fountain, before they pedestrianised it
Hi Enrico, thanks for the info and yes it was great to visit your beautiful island. I came back from Cirkewwa via the airport which I think was the X1. Trouble was, the onward buses to Birzebugga either didn’t turn up or they had different route numbers/destinations. In hindsight, I may have gone back via Valletta but overall, it was good fun and very cheap. Didn’t know there was a fast ferry to Gozo but it does make sense I guess. Cheers for the comment.
@@LetsMakeaTrip the Gozo Fast Ferry is a very good option which they started around one year ago. It works fairly well but often stops in case of bad weather, in which case they will activate the X300 bus route which travels between Valletta and Cirkewwa with only two stops
@@enricomonti156 Thanks for information guys so the fast ferry can only be caught from Valletta no we're else ?. What bus number will be the fastest to the normal ferry to gozo from Sliema.Thanks.
@@Dani-jq6db yes, from Malta the fast ferry can be taken only from Valletta at Lascaris Wharf, near the old customs House. As to get there, the fastest way would be to take the ferry between Sliema and Valletta and from there you can take a shuttle bus that will take you to the Gozo Fast Ferry pier. Alternatively you can take bus numbers 13, 13A, 14, 15, 16 and 21 from Sliema Ferries to Valletta bus terminus, from there you either walk to the ferry terminal or take shuttle route X133
@@Dani-jq6db moreover if you want to take the regular ferry that leaves from Cirkewwa, and that's like over one hour by bus from Sliema, so I'd rather recommend the fast ferry
Great place
Just what i needed!
Going there with a mate in June :)
Glad I could help. I wouldn’t have any qualms about travelling around on the bus (if that’s what you want to do). Cheap and quite extensive. Have a great trip! 😊👍
@@LetsMakeaTrip Fantastic to hear!
We are deffinently gonna take the bus, as we Are two young Guys
Any places not really accesabel by bus?
@@joecena6387 if I remember correctly , when I looked on the map it seemed like the west of the island was the least accessible. I only had a day or so there tbh but I would definitely go up to Gozo - the ferry was great 👍
@@LetsMakeaTrip Gozo is now on the list! 😉
Glad to see your going abroad mate 👍 Were the old buses green in the early 90s? I was about 10 then. I know they run a new fleet these days but do you still see mk1 escorts and transits and the odd Lada still in Malta? I'm in sunny Newport South Wales at the minute. Sprinter trains and Gold Stagecoach buses it is 👍🏴🇲🇹
Hi Scott, yeh, despite all the testing I just had to get away. This flight had been booked/postponed/re-booked for 18 months! I didn’t see much of the old stuff in Malta tbh, a couple of classic buses which were red as I recall though they’re going back well before the 90’s. Somebody on here may know? Plenty of sprinters in Newport though - always a few about when I’m down there. Haven’t seen the gold stagecoach bus but I am threatening to take the Flixbus from Cardiff sometime soon. Cheers mate.
Scott, the old buses were bright yellow and each was individually named too in honor of a wide range of people. I happened to travel on the Mika Hakkinen a number of times when I was last there