Malta and Gozo Discovery

Excellent guide and well organised tour. Local food very good

Excellent trip and very knowledgeable guide

Wonderful adventure, excellent tour leader. Dreadful online customer service from London office.

Overall, a great experience and very good introduction to Malta and Gozo. Having a small group of nine was a plus. Our tour leader Chantelle was outstanding, very experienced, organized, friendly and knowledgeable. She even kept going with only a brief delay after being bitten by a dog during a free time break! She organized an evening outing for some of the group to a religious festival one night on Gozo, which was a great bonus. One suggestion would be to get an hour earlier start on the last day to spend more time in Mdina.

With Explore everything is arranged for you, you just need to turn up. It's easy travelling, with someone on-hand throughout if you need anything. Malta & Gozo Discovery trip was a full itinerary visiting some interesting sites. The tour guide was very knowledgeable, at times providing information overload. Staying in the old towns of Malta would have been preferable but was a good busy location with lots of restaurants etc. Overall a good trip.

I have been on several Explore tours and they have always been good. This tour to Malta and Gozo, however, was exceptional. The hotels were good, the size of the party just right. However, the success of the tour was primarily due to our brilliant guide who had the local knowledge and skills to ensure that we visited each site at the premium time for our visit. Chantelle was superbly knowledgeable regarding the Island and its history, communicated this at just the right level and engaged brilliantly with all the guests with such dedication that we were assured of a great trip. Full marks to Explore.

I did not enjoy this trip. Far too much time was spent in museums etc, and there was not enough free time. The guide was very knowledgeable, but unfortunately talked far too much. It felt more like a school trip than a holiday.

Scorching heat notwithstanding, I really enjoyed the Gozo and Malta trip. So much history! Beautiful sea caves! Excellent food! Itinerary was packed but well-paced, with some free time as well. I feel I got a thorough taste of the country. The thing that really made the trip unforgettable was our amazing guide Chantelle, with her encyclopedic knowledge, great organization, fun demeanor, and ready smile.

This was a great experience with an absolutely outstanding guide (Anthea Mifsud) and friendly and helpful drivers. The itinerary was strenuous and packed though rewarding. We felt the omission of the Grand Master's Palace in Valetta was a shame (but we went back under our own steam after the tour).