Gozo Island Tour: Four Day Trips

The $90 per person listing is the Gozo island tour with the most reviews here: 2,965, rated 4.3. It lasts 9 hours, includes pickup (the details show when you check availability) and has a live guide in English, Polish, German, Italian, Spanish or French. The day starts with a 25-minute ferry crossing.

The first stop is Ġgantija, the megalithic temples on the UNESCO World Heritage List. They date to around 3600–3200 BC, older than Stonehenge and the Pyramids of Egypt, and some of the limestone blocks are more than 5 metres long and weigh over 50 tonnes. The name comes from the Maltese word for giant: people believed a race of giants built it. If you were looking for a Malta temples tour, this is where the oldest of them stands.

Next comes the Citadel, the walled old city in Victoria, Gozo’s capital, seen from all over the island. Then Xlendi Bay, a sea inlet at the end of a deep ravine, ringed by steep cliffs, with a small promenade of cafés. The last stop is Dwejra on the west shore and its Inland Sea, a small bay closed in by high cliffs. A legend says Odysseus was stranded on Gozo for seven years.

At $78 per person, the second listing is a Gozo full day tour with a live guide in English, German, Italian or French, rated 4.2 from 653 reviews. It lasts 8 hours and includes pickup.

It opens at Ġgantija, then heads for the Citadella in the heart of Victoria, a fortified city with an old prison inside its walls. Victoria, which both listings also call Rabat, is where you get time on your own for lunch; lunch is not part of the price.

After lunch come Ta’ Pinu Basilica near the village of Gharb, then Dwejra, and a drive to Mġarr Port by way of Qala Belvedere. Along the way there is a crafts shop selling lace and jams, and a trackless train ride into Victoria. Pick this Gozo island tour if the basilica matters more to you than a set lunch.

Neither boat day is a guided Gozo island tour: on land, the time is yours. Our top pick, the boat-and-bus day at $50 per person, leaves the Sliema waterfront in the morning for Mġarr Harbour. A bus takes you to Victoria, with a photo stop on the way, and you get about 75 minutes in town. Back on board, the boat stops for about 90 minutes at the Blue Lagoon on Comino. An audio guide in English comes with it; the bar on board takes cash.

The lagoons and caves day costs $34 per person and has the most reviews of our boat trips: 7,634, rated 4.7. It sails from Sliema or Bugibba past the sea caves, stops for 1.5 hours at the Blue Lagoon and gives you about 3 hours on Gozo; a bus to Victoria costs five euros extra. The guide speaks English and Italian.

To step ashore at the Blue Lagoon you need a pass, required since May 2025: book it in advance at blcomino.com. Swimming from the boat needs no pass.

Book the Ġgantija tour. At $90 per person it is the Gozo day tour with lunch, a guide in six languages and Xlendi Bay as well as Dwejra, backed by 2,965 reviews.

Want Ta’ Pinu and the train? Take the $78 tour and buy lunch in Victoria. Rather explore alone? Go by sea for $34 or $50.

Would you rather fit the sea into the same day? Our top pick, the boat-and-bus day, costs $50 per person for 7.5 hours from Sliema: a bus to Victoria on Gozo, then about 90 minutes at the Blue Lagoon. Compare it with the other boat trips in our full list.