The Field
House
Safi, Malta. Eight hundred square metres of limestone and glass, standing alone in the fields three kilometres from the runway.
from €24,900
the week, for ten
Safi, Malta. Eight hundred square metres of limestone and glass, standing alone in the fields three kilometres from the runway.
Five bedrooms, each with a double bed and its own bathroom, arranged over three floors around a living room that rises the full height of the house and opens its entire southern wall onto the terrace.
There are two pools. The long one lies outside, cut into the lawn behind a limestone deck, with slatted cabanas shading the beds along its edge. The second is indoors, off the wellness room, next to a sauna and a hot tub. That second pool is why the house holds up in February as well as in July, and it is the thing almost no villa on this island can say.
Beyond the terrace the lawn runs unbroken to the boundary wall — room for twenty to eat outside, or for nobody to be within earshot of anybody else. Showers are set into the stone flank of the house, where you come in from the pool.
Inside, the living room rises the full height of the house. The southern wall is glass from floor to roof; the stair and the gallery run up the stone opposite, and the whole thing looks out over the water.
Saturday to Saturday, not by the night. A week is what this house is for: the pools, the kitchen, the long lunch that turns into the evening, the Wednesday you give up and drive to Gozo. One arrival, one departure and one clean is also what keeps the rate where it is.
Seven nights, the whole house
Ten guests across five double rooms.
€2,490 each for the week.
€356 each a night, with the pools, the sauna and the lawn in it.
Rather less than a good hotel room on this island, and you get the island to yourselves.
The rate moves with the season and the week. Tell us your Saturday and we send a firm total, held for 48 hours.
A village of eight hundred people in the south of Malta, at the line where the island stops being a city and turns back into fields. The house stands on its own at the edge of it.
The airport is three kilometres off. You land, and twenty minutes later you are in the water — which on a Friday night flight with children is worth more than any view. Valletta is twelve kilometres north.
Marsaxlokk and its Sunday fish market are ten minutes east. The Blue Grotto is a quarter of an hour west, and the Dingli cliffs a little beyond that. Gozo is an hour and a ferry, and worth the whole day.
Tell us the Saturday you want and who is coming. Within one working day you get the dates confirmed and a firm total, held for 48 hours. Nothing is taken before you have both.
Payment is by bank transfer — thirty per cent to hold the week, the balance thirty days before you arrive. If the house is not what these photographs show, we rehouse you or refund you in full within twenty-four hours.
If you would rather talk it through: +1 509 768 2249.