Taxi, pre-paid booth ticketorAirport Direct TD3 to St Julian's and Sliema?

From

The taxi booth at arrivals — buy the ticket there, then the rank outside; the airport names Malta Taxi as its official service

To

Any address in Valletta, Floriana or at the Cruise Terminal at EUR 17; other localities at the table's price for them

Luggage

Included: the tariff has no luggage supplement, and regulation 47 obliges the driver to see that "the luggage is stored securely in the luggage booth".

Runs

All night

Journey

12–20 min

It loses to the bus at every party size, by EUR 1.50 at eight. EUR 17 seats five; the sixth passenger lifts it to EUR 25.50, and eight TD4 tickets are EUR 24. Its case is the night, the bags and the door.

Buy the ticket at the booth, not from the driver. The regulation requires the pre-paid ticket where a booth operates and forbids the driver to take the hire without it; the fiscal receipt half is yours to keep.

EUR 17 is the legal maximum for the ticket to Valletta. If the booth quotes less, pay less; if a driver asks for more than the ticket, the regulation is on your side.

More than five passengers costs half as much again, EUR 25.50, and Transport Malta says the rule "applies only to taxi vehicles which may legally carry more than 6 people"; ask the booth for one. Two ordinary cars are EUR 34.

The fare is by locality, not by zone: Floriana and the Cruise Terminal are EUR 17 like Valletta, but Sliema is EUR 20, St Julian's EUR 21 and Msida EUR 19. Say the town, not "the center".

No authority publishes a taxi journey time. The 15 minutes here is the TD4's timetabled 11 to 17 over the same road; allow more at the morning peak.

Between 00:50 and 05:20 it is the only thing that leaves, at the same EUR 17: the table has no night rate.

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From

The "Airport 1A" stop at the bus terminal outside arrivals

To

St Julian's (San Ġiljan, Spinola, Balluta) in 28 to 32 minutes, then the Sliema seafront to the Ferries in 40 to 43, and on through Gżira and Msida

Luggage

An Airport Direct bus: "ample luggage space", by the operator.

Runs

05:15–00:45

Journey

28–43 min

Sliema is the far end: 40 to 43 minutes to the Ferries, after St Julian's. For Valletta it is the wrong bus — the TD4 does it in 11 to 17.

Last bus 00:45 from the airport, first 05:15, every day.

The taxi table is EUR 20 to Sliema and EUR 21 to St Julian's for up to five.

Airport Direct TD3 to St Julian's and Sliema: price for every party size →