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A restored 400-year-old palazzo in the heart of Valletta — thirteen themed rooms, a rooftop plunge pool over the Grand Harbour, and a spa in the vaulted limestone cellar.
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Need To Know
- Thirteen individually designed and themed rooms and suites, from 20 to 35 square metres, each with its own character
- Family-friendly, with connecting rooms available; open all year
- A spa in the vaulted limestone cellar — sauna, steam room and a heated whirlpool in a historic cistern, bookable privately
- A temperature-controlled rooftop plunge pool and terrace over the Grand Harbour
- Breakfast served in the former chapel; a bar, library, room service and laundry
- A restored 400-year-old townhouse on St Ursula Street, in the heart of Valletta
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The rooms — thirteen, each individually themed and named, from the glamorous Diva and the bohemian Zingara to the local-pride Maltija with its traditional enclosed Maltese balcony, no two alike.
- The cellar spa — set in the building's original vaulted limestone cellar, with a sauna, steam room and a heated whirlpool sunk into a centuries-old bell-shaped cistern, bookable for private hours.
- The rooftop — a temperature-controlled plunge pool and terrace looking out over Valletta's rooftops to the Grand Harbour, the city's old cannon line below.
- The breakfast — a generous buffet with hot dishes made to order, served in a room that was once the building's chapel, with a bar for drinks and light bites through the day.
- The location — on quiet St Ursula Street in the heart of the UNESCO capital, a short walk from the Grandmaster's Palace, the Barrakka Gardens and the harbour, 15 minutes from the airport.
Key Features
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€191.00 for 1 Night
Location
Address
102 Saint Ursula Street, Il-Belt Valletta VLT 1234, Malta
Travel Info
Palazzo Consiglia stands on St Ursula Street in the heart of Valletta, about 15 minutes from Malta International Airport. Valletta is a compact, largely pedestrian peninsula — the Grandmaster's Palace, the Co-Cathedral, the Barrakka Gardens and the harbour are within an easy walk, and a car is more hindrance than help inside the old city.
Last Updated: 2026-06-10
Expert Review
Origins
Palazzo Consiglia occupies a townhouse in the heart of Valletta that is some four hundred years old, raised in the era when the Knights of St John were building their capital on a bare peninsula. Like much of the old city it is a tall, stone-built palazzo on a narrow street — St Ursula Street, in the quiet south-eastern corner of the grid, a short walk from the Grandmaster's Palace and the harbour bastions.
The building has been restored into a hotel of thirteen rooms, part of the Maltese IK Collection, with care taken to keep its old bones while working modern comfort in around them. The most striking of those bones is below ground: the original vaulted limestone cellar now holds the spa, and the heated whirlpool there is set into a centuries-old bell-shaped cistern cut into the rock — the kind of water store every Valletta house once relied on. Breakfast, meanwhile, is laid in a room that once served as the building's chapel.
What sets the hotel apart is the rooms. Rather than a single decorative scheme, each of the thirteen is individually themed and named — Diva for early-twentieth-century glamour, Zingara for bohemian contrast, Maltija for local tradition with its enclosed Gallarija balcony, Nautica for the sea, and so on — so that no two stays are alike and the building reads as a set of small, distinct worlds. Above them all, a rooftop plunge pool and terrace look out over the city's terracotta roofs to the Grand Harbour, one of the great natural ports of the Mediterranean.
Top Secret
The spa's centrepiece is a piece of working history — a heated whirlpool set into a bell-shaped cistern cut centuries ago into the rock beneath the house, the old rainwater store every Valletta palazzo kept. Book the spa for a private hour and you have the vaulted cellar, the sauna and that cistern pool to yourself; then go up to the roof at dusk, when the plunge pool looks straight out over the Grand Harbour.
The Review
Palazzo Consiglia is one of a growing number of old Valletta townhouses given a second life as a small hotel, and it makes the most of the form. The building is around four hundred years old, on a quiet street in the south-east of the grid, and the restoration has kept what matters: the limestone vaults, the proportions, and a cistern cut into the bedrock that now does duty as the centrepiece of the spa.
The thirteen rooms are the draw. Each is individually themed and named — the glamorous Diva, the bohemian Zingara, the sea-cool Nautica, the proudly local Maltija with its traditional enclosed balcony — and they run between twenty and thirty-five square metres, decorated with bold wallpapers and antiques rather than to a single template. It is worth reading the room descriptions before booking; they genuinely differ, and the right one shapes the stay. A word of fairness: as in many historic Valletta houses, some rooms face the internal courtyard and take less light, so ask when you book.
The two ends of the building are the best of it. Below, the spa in the vaulted cellar, with sauna, steam room and the cistern whirlpool, bookable for private hours; above, a temperature-controlled plunge pool on the roof with the Grand Harbour laid out beyond. Breakfast — generous, with hot dishes to order — is served in the former chapel, the staff are warmly and repeatedly praised, and the whole of Valletta is within a ten-minute walk. It suits couples and city travellers who want character and a pool and a spa in the middle of the capital, rather than a resort outside it.
