AUTUMN & WINTER GETAWAYS

Enjoy Malta's mild climate in elegance and luxury. Relax and enjoy your warm winter holidays at a leading luxury hotel in Malta.

At the Grand Hotel Excelsior there are several relaxing options to enjoy during your holiday. Take a self guided Tour around Malta with our exclusive chauffeur driven service, enjoy a spa treatment or simply relax in our indoor pool.

The Grand Hotel Excelsior has come up with some interesting great value packages for you:

SILVER

Book a Deluxe Inland Room on Bed & Breakfast Basis & get:

• A Welcome Drink upon check-in
• Free Upgrade to a Deluxe Partial Sea View Room
• Grand Buffet Breakfast
• Personal Invite to Our Grand Pre-Dinner Drinks*
• Complimentary use of Indoor Heated Pool and Gym

*Pre-Dinner Drinks are held every Wednesday.

Rates start from 118 Euro per night for sole use. Minimum 3 nights' stay applies.

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GOLD

Book a Deluxe Inland Room on Bed & Breakfast Basis & get:

• A Welcome Drink upon check-in
• Free Upgrade to a Deluxe Partial Sea View Room
• Grand Buffet Breakfast
• Personalised Chauffeur Driven Airport Transfers (maximum of 3 persons)
• Personal Invite to Our Grand Pre-Dinner Drinks*
• La Valette Lounge invitation at Malta International Airport
• Complimentary use of Indoor Heated Pool and Gym

*Pre-Dinner Drinks are held every Wednesday.

Rates start from 148 Euro per night for sole use. Minimum 3 nights' stay applies.

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PLATINUM

Book a Deluxe Inland Room on Bed & Breakfast Basis & get:

• A Welcome Drink upon check-in
• Free Upgrade to a Deluxe Partial Sea View Room
• Grand Buffet Breakfast
• Personalised Chauffeur Driven Airport Transfers (maximum of 3 persons)
• La Valette Lounge invitation at Malta International Airport
• Half an hour Thai Massage per person booked
• Malta Day Tour (entrance fees and lunch not included)
• Personal Invite to Our Grand Pre-Dinner Drinks*
• Complimentary use of Indoor Heated Pool and Gym

*Pre-Dinner Drinks are held every Wednesday

Rates start from 238 Euro per night for sole use. Minimum 3 nights' stay applies.

Terms and Conditions:

• Offers are valid for stay dates 1st Nov 2011 – 29th Feb 2012
• Offer is available when staying 3 nights or more
• Prices are per room per night
• Above offers are on Bed and Breakfast Basis.
• Quoted Rates are inclusive of tax and availability is subject to change at time of booking
• Above offers are on a full prepaid basis. A full prepaid non-refundable deposit is required at time of booking. Your credit card will be charged between the time of booking and day of arrival.
• Deposit is non-refundable if reservation is cancelled or modified.
• Offers are not combinable with any other offers.

Welcome Autumn - Exclusive October Online Offer

There is still time to enjoy some nice weather!

Looking for a special place to spend your holidays in Malta? Malta is bursting with exciting events and the Grand Hotel Excelsior awaits you to celebrate and relax in elegance and luxury.

Benefit from Our October Exclusive Offer available only when booking through Our Official website...

For stay dates 4th till 11th & 23rd till 31st October book a Deluxe Inland Room on Bed & Breakfast Basis and get a FREE Room Upgrade to a Deluxe Partial Sea View Room. And if you stay 3 nights or more you can benefit from a discount off your rate. The average nightly rate includes the % discount for stays from 3 nights.

Rates start from 155 Euro per room per night.

For more information visit the Grand Hotel Excelsior Malta Website.

World Tourism Day at Excelsior Hotel Malta

Tuesday 27th September 2011 - Hosting guests from around the World and operating with personnel from 23 different countries, the Grand Hotel Excelsior believes in finding unity in diversity. To celebrate this day the Grand Hotel Excelsior’s Lobby will be transformed into a little global community embracing music, food, drinks and art from around the World, from the collection of Dame Francoise Tempra.

The Harbour View Bar will serve typical cocktails from around the globe, whilst Le Grand Spa will be having special packages on treatments originated in different cultures.

In the evening, an International Buffet will be held at the Admiral’s landing featuring cuisines from Latin America, Asia, Middle East and the Mediterranean. Click Here to View Menu.

Activities in the Lobby are free of charge whilst the International Buffet is at 33 Euro per person.

For more information kindly visit Our Hotel Website.

Chef Challenge on Cibus Magazine

This month Cibus challenged the Hotel Excelsior's Executive Chef Roger Friggieri to create an original dish utilising Fresh Lampuki, Figs, Capers and Peppers. 

If you would like to try out some of our mouthwatering dishes visit one of our renowned Malta Restaurants.

The Maltese Cross

Introduced to Malta by the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem upon taking possession of the islands in 1530, the Maltese Cross has become an intrinsic part of Malta’s culture and heritage, as well as a much-cherished symbol by the Maltese.

The Maltese Cross formally adopted by the Knights Hospitallers of St. John in 1126, stylistically owes its origins to the crosses used in the crusades, when it was identified as the symbol of the “Christian warrior”: Its eight points denote the eight obligations or aspirations of the knights, namely “to live in truth, have faith, repent one’s sins, give proof of humility, love justice, be merciful, be sincere and wholehearted, and to endure persecution”. With time, the eight points also came to represent the eight “langues” (literally “tongues”, but in effect national groupings) of the noblemen who were admitted to the famed order, namely those of Auvergne, Provence, France, Aragon, Castille and Portugal, Italy, Baviere (Germany), and England (with Scotland and Ireland). The Maltese cross remains the symbol of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

The link between the Maltese Cross and these islands was forged with the Knights’ arrival in Malta in 1530. By then, the Cross had become the established symbol of the Order, and as the Knights set about putting their stamp on these islands through their inspired architectural feats and patronage of the arts, so the Maltese Cross provided the signature to this glorious legacy. The Cross found itself on coats-of-arms, palaces, hospitals, the entrances and gates to various forts and towers, on fortifications as well as on coins, cannon, monuments, churches, paintings and frescoes, furniture, silverware and jewelry.

A selection of souvenirs including thimbles, magnets, baseball caps, lighters and pendants featuring the Maltese Cross are available at the Grand Hotel Excelsior's Gift Shops.