Gozo Quad Tour: Quad, Buggy and UTV Days Compared

The Gozo quad tour starts with a transfer from your hotel to Marfa, at the northern tip of Malta. From there the tour’s own boat takes you across to Mġarr Harbour on Gozo. It carries guests of this tour, but it is not a private charter. In bad weather, the crossing is by ferry instead.

On Gozo you ride a 570cc quad bike behind a guide, through the countryside and out to the Sanap Cliffs and the salt pans. A light Gozitan lunch is included. The day ends on the water, with a boat ride around Comino and the Blue Lagoon, and a swim in summer.

If you searched for a Gozo ATV tour, this is the listing to open: rated 4.7 from 1,121 reviews. Sarah from the United Kingdom wrote: “The quads were pretty easy to drive and everything was well explained.” Sue, also from the UK, booked it as a 71st birthday gift for her husband: “We had a bike each and so glad we did.”

The Gozo UTV tour costs $90 per person for 8 hours, with pickup and an English-speaking guide. You ride in a six-seater UTV on the route of the older jeep tour. The listing does not say who drives or set a licence rule, so ask before you book if you want the wheel.

Its stop list is the longest of the four: Qala Belvedere, Ramla Valley and Ramla Bay, the Xewkija Rotunda Church, Xlendi Bay, Dwejra with the Fungus Rock and the Inland Sea, the Ta’ Pinu shrine, Marsalforn Bay, the salt pans, and Victoria with its Citadel. The Sanap Cliffs are a winter stop, and Ġgantija is an optional stop that can be dropped. Lunch and a food tasting and shopping stop are part of the day, and you return to Malta by boat, past the Blue Lagoon and the Comino caves.

For a buggy tour Malta offers two choices here, and the difference is the steering wheel. The self-drive Gozo buggy tour, at $109 per person for 6 hours, is rated 4.6 from 788 reviews. A boat takes you to Gozo, where guides give a briefing and the gear you need. You follow the leader past cliffs, valleys and villages, with a swim stop in summer, and lunch is three courses. A powerboat brings you back past the Comino caves and the Blue Lagoon for a photo stop. You are back at your hotel at about 5:30 PM.

The chauffeured 4x4 buggy day, $95 per person for 8 hours, is rated 4.6 from 685 reviews. From Mġarr Harbour a driver takes you to the Daħlet Qorrot Valley, Nadur, Ġgantija, Xlendi, the Citadel, Dwejra and the salt pans. Lunch is a buffet with Gozitan wine, and guides speak six languages.

Book the Gozo quad tour if you want to ride yourself. At $129 per person it costs the most of the four, but lunch, the boat across and the ride around Comino are in the price, and it is the quad bike tour Malta visitors rate 4.7 from 1,121 reviews.

Want to sit back? The 4x4 buggy day at $95 per person comes with a driver. Travelling with mixed ages? The UTV day at $90 per person has the longest list of stops.

A Gozo quad tour shows you the island from the land. For a day at sea, start with our top pick, the boat and bus day from Sliema, at $50 per person for 7.5 hours: a boat to Gozo, time in Victoria, then the Blue Lagoon on Comino. Compare it with the rest in our list of boat trips.