bye .sliema......mate..have a good time........we are there on the 20th of jan......save us some sunshine please.
regards....john-doe.........

Have a great time Cant wait till we go in 17 days time.

I'll be there from Sunday thru Wednesday next week

My son and myself were free the week before Christmas, so with my wife's blessing (cause she has to work that week), we tried to get a flight with accommodation to Malta from a local airport (Birmingham, Coventry East Midlands). You'd never believe it but we were offered almost any other destination but the Malta flights were all full, that is for flights returning in good time for Christmas since I thought it was playing it too brown to come back late Christmas eve or on the day itself.

What's a matter with Midland airports? Surely I'm not the only person disappointed with the lack of flights to Malta so if there's a need for more flights there ought to be more available!!
Looks like we'll be staying at home!!!!!!

Trev

Hello Sleima2, I would like to know what are the benefits of going to Malta out of season? what sort of hotel do you stay in E:G 3*/4* or 5* and can you recomend it to us and what are the costs ?
Thanks,
Dave

bhm2trev

Air Malta have a flight from Birmingham leaving on the 13th Dec for a week @ £125pp if this is any use to you.

http://www.airmalta.com

For accom try
http://www.travelrepublic.co.uk (using promo code GETSOMESUN for 5% off)

I booked two adult flights for £158 all inc. Jan 13-20 2008 Manchester-Malta return with ba.com, special offers yesterday.

We also got a good deal through Air Malta for 6th-15th Dec from Birmingham @ £157 for us both.In the past we have paid a fortune for some of our flights so am really pleased at what we paid this time.

Air Malta. 20th Dec - 10th Jan. 2 of us. £175:60. inclusive. From Birmingham

Oh it would be lovely to go for a longer break like you are Fallan but unfortunately hubby never has enough holidays.Cant wait to see all the family and catch up.

Thought about going permanent but seriously thinking of Malta for winter and the summer here. The reason?? Can't stand the heat in Malta in the summer.....sad eh?

hi.all.........£137 for two from manchester.....air malta......20th to the 27 jan....
regards......john-doe..

Hi Dave, the benefits of going in Autumn and Winter are the same as the rest of the year in that Malta has so much to offer all year round, the islands don't change that much in the fact that the attractions and bars etc stay open because as you know Malta / Ghawdex is a living working country that happens to have tourusm, but of the course the weather does change but often not so much to be a problem,last week was warm enough for t-shirts and shorts in the day time and very mild at night time, we are returning in February and expect something similar, we always book our own flights and use private accomodation and the price we pay for that is between us and the owner as he wouldn't want me broadcasting it, any more questions please let me know.

Regards
Sliema2

Well Sliema2 we have managed to get a flight from Brum to Malta for a week from 8th December. Tried to do my own thing but finally did accept a remarkably good package to the Coastline! Even with a super cheap return flight (about £76 all in each return with Air Malta!), after adding the cost of the hotel room if booked direct, we still got the Coastline much cheaper than trying to do it ourselves.

I guess if you know the right folks who have decent accommodation to rent I reckon it could be very comparatively cheap to stay there this end of the year. We must survey this possibility for the future but for now, for what we've paid for the Coastline we're sure gonna enjoy it,

Trev

Glad you got it sorted Trev and have a great holiday

Hi jojouk,

Further to my PM to you I would like to publicly say a big thank you for your input!

What I didn't tell folks was that it was only my son and myself who were going because my wife had to work that week. However, she was able to get the week off and yesterday I contacted the travel company, Mercury, who informed me that unfortunately there were no single rooms available on their allocation at The Coastline.

I telephoned the Hotel directly and was a bit gobsmacked when the Maltese lady said how well she remembered me - and of course we will make an extra room available for you! The Hotel emailed Mercury, to tell them that they will provide the extra accommodation and my wife I'm glad to say, will be with us (though our son will have the separate room now!!).

I cannot fault The Coastline Hotel, and the way their friendly staff always try to do their best for their guests. It's certainly made us want to return there several times now.

We're all really looking forward to our break there,

Trev

Just arrived this lunchtime (Sun 9th dec). Got an Air Malta flight for 96 euros inc tax from Germany! Only booked it 2 days ago. Great to be back. I'm here until Wednesday morning, so just a short trip. Back on 23rd Dec for a week and my first ever xmas here. It's great to escape the commercial nonsense in the UK plus all the cr*p weather and traffic jams