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Palais Le Brun

Valletta, Malta · 4-star Hotel Price swings 126%

Palais Le Brun in photographs

When to go

The cheapest month we have found is January, at around USD 250 a night - -5% against what this hotel usually asks.

Where to book

• Book on Booking.com - Free cancellation options, guest reviews and a familiar checkout.
• Book direct with the hotel - Usually the best price, and the only route where a loyalty discount applies.
• Hotel website - Photos, facilities and location.

Where a hotel takes bookings on its own site, we send you there first. It is usually the cheapest way in, and the only one where a rewards discount counts.

Our notes

A Valletta palazzo with a pool on the roof

Palais Le Brun is a restored palazzo in the old residential end of Valletta, near the tip of the peninsula, where the grid of steep streets still feels like a neighbourhood rather than a museum. The house dates back to 1606, and it was the childhood home of George Borg Olivier, Malta's first prime minister after independence; his father extended it across the street with a bridge between the two houses. Inside it keeps the palazzo's bones - a limestone courtyard with a wall fountain, vaulted rooms, marble floors, panelled salons and antique furniture - with rooms that mix four-poster beds and old prints with marble bathrooms, and a few suites with their own terraces.

The roof is the reason to choose it: a pool and sun terrace above the city's rooftops, with views towards Fort St Elmo and Marsamxett Harbour. The restaurant sits under the vaults on the ground floor. Guests rate it highly - 4.8 from 673 reviews on TripAdvisor (read September 2026). Book direct: in our rate checks the hotel's own site has been clearly cheaper than Booking.com for the same room and dates.

The area

Valletta is barely 350 years old by Mediterranean standards, and it was built in one deliberate move: after the Knights of St John survived the Great Siege of 1565, Grand Master Jean de Valette laid out a fortress city on the peninsula the Ottomans had failed to take, on a strict grid designed by Francesco Laparelli so that no street would trap defenders in a dead end. It became the capital in 1571 and has stayed astonishingly dense ever since - roughly 320 individual monuments packed into half a square kilometre, which is most of why UNESCO listed the whole city in 1980 and why walking it can feel like touring one continuous palace.

Mdina, the walled hilltop town twenty minutes inland, is the older story: a fortified settlement for over 4,000 years, capital of Malta under the Phoenicians, Romans and Arabs alike, and still shaped by the maze of narrow, deliberately confusing streets the Arab period laid out to slow down raiders and hold onto shade. When the Knights moved the capital down to the coast and built Valletta, Mdina emptied out and went quiet almost overnight - which is exactly how it earned the nickname it still carries, the Silent City. A handful of noble families never left, and their honey-stone palaces are the reason it is worth the trip out from the harbour: less monumental than Valletta, and considerably stranger.

What it costs through the year

EUR figures are indicative conversions of the USD figure at 2026-11-06 (1 USD = 0.8939 EUR), not prices any hotel quoted. The hotel bills in its own currency.

All prices are for two adults over three nights, converted into US dollars at the rate on the day we saw it. They are what we saw on the day, not live availability, and not an offer. How we do it.