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A six-suite 17th-century townhouse in the heart of Valletta, restored by its owners — among the largest rooms on the island, named for the poet Coleridge, who once lived nearby.
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Need To Know
- Six individually designed rooms and suites, among the largest in Valletta, sleeping up to 13 in total
- Open all year
- Breakfast served in the limestone cellar; an honesty bar; concierge and room service
- Bicycles, a library, laundry and disabled access; air conditioning throughout
- A 17th-century townhouse with original Knights-era features, owner-restored and personally run
- In the heart of Valletta on Old Bakery Street, 15 minutes from Malta International Airport
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The building — a 17th-century limestone townhouse from the time the Knights of St John built Valletta, its original interior doors still in place, restored by owners Trevor and Natasha with antiques brought from Britain.
- The rooms — six individually designed suites named for the poet Coleridge, among the largest on the island, with bespoke murals, hand-restored antiques and contemporary bathrooms.
- The location — on a balconied street in the heart of the UNESCO capital, a short walk from St John's Co-Cathedral, the Grandmaster's Palace and the harbour bastions, 15 minutes from the airport.
- The breakfast — a buffet of local organic meats, cheeses, Maltese pastries and fruit, served in a limestone cellar uncovered by chance during the restoration, with an honesty bar to return to.
- The welcome — small, owner-restored and personally run, with a manager who knows the city; the kind of place where the staff arrange the day rather than hand you a leaflet.
Key Features
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€155.40 for 1 Night
Location
Address
89, VLT1456, 92 Old Bakery Street, Il-Belt Valletta, Malta
Travel Info
The Coleridge stands on Old Bakery Street in the heart of Valletta, about 15 minutes from Malta International Airport. Valletta is a compact, largely pedestrian peninsula — the Co-Cathedral, the Grandmaster's Palace and the harbour bastions are within an easy walk, and a car is more hindrance than help inside the old city.
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Malta International Airport
5800m
Last Updated: 2026-06-10
Expert Review
Origins
The Coleridge occupies a limestone townhouse in the heart of Valletta that dates back more than four hundred years, to the early seventeenth century when the Knights of St John were raising their new capital with the finest architects and engineers of the day. The house kept good company: the grand Palazzo Carafa next door was home to Grandmaster Gregorio Carafa, and this building is said to have housed his circle. Some of its original features survive intact — even the interior doors date to the time of the Knights.
Its modern life began in 2017, when owners Trevor and Natasha reopened it as a hotel after two years of careful restoration. They did much of the work themselves, preserving the fabric of the building while enriching it with antique furniture, much of it brought from Britain, and original artwork throughout. The aim was to keep the bones of a Knights-era townhouse while making the rooms among the most comfortable and spacious on the island — the hotel quietly claims the largest on Malta.
The name is a literary one. The British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived in Valletta in 1804 and 1805, working for the British administration and writing about his time on the island, and the six rooms take their names from his poems. The result is a small, personal, distinctly British-Maltese house — racing-green hall, gilt-framed mirrors, hand-painted murals — in the middle of one of the world's most concentrated historic cities.
Top Secret
The breakfast cellar was a happy accident. While digging to install a lift, the owners exposed the keystone of a buried stone arch, and beneath it a limestone cellar — and a well, now a sustainable water source for the hotel. Breakfast is laid there each morning, on the Maltese marble floor within the old walls. Ask, too, for the penthouse suite, where full-length hand-painted murals run the length of the room.
The Review
Valletta was built from nothing by the Knights of St John from 1565 — a Baroque city of gentlemen, raised on a bare peninsula and now packing more than three hundred monuments into barely fifty-five hectares, the whole of it a UNESCO World Heritage city. The Coleridge sits right in the middle of it, on Old Bakery Street, a short walk from the Co-Cathedral with its Caravaggio and the Grandmaster's Palace.
It is a small, owner-restored townhouse of six suites, and the work that went into it shows. Trevor and Natasha spent two years on the building, keeping its seventeenth-century bones — the Knights-era doors, the limestone walls — while filling it with antiques brought from Britain, original art and bespoke murals. The rooms are among the largest on the island, generous and individually designed, each named for the poet Coleridge, who lived nearby two centuries ago; the beds are vast, the bathrooms contemporary, and the detail is the kind that comes from owners doing it themselves rather than to a template.
Breakfast is the set piece, served in a limestone cellar the owners uncovered by chance during the restoration — local organic meats and cheeses, Maltese pastries and fruit — and there is an honesty bar to come back to after a day in the city. There is no restaurant as such, and no need for one in a city this full of them; the Coleridge is a base, not a resort. It suits couples after a characterful, central, personally run place from which to explore Valletta and the wider island — small, historic and quietly done, in a capital best enjoyed from inside the walls.
