Casino Malta — Attraction in Saint Julian's

This large casino is located directly underneath the Intercontinental Hotel in St Julian’s – this was useful as I was also staying there.

My first casino experience, you need to become a member to enter and play the games – this was free and relatively straightforward, you just needed to bring ID with you for your first visit and sign up for a membership. Membership has several tiers – the starter level for most people will be bronze. You get various offers on your first visit, including half price drinks.

The casino itself comprises a number of large rooms with gaming machines and tables for roulette and various card games. There are a couple of bars and waitresses roam the rooms checking for drinks orders. Very efficient bar staff – they remember your order after only a couple of visits. Standard bar prices also very reasonable.

Gaming machines are my thing, so I stuck with those – there are lots of different ones and you can bet anything from 20C right up to 10Euro or more a spin – I liked Gong Hei, Gong Hei, which is very similar to Eye of Horus or Fishing Frenzy, but with Chinese symbols. Also Lord of the Ocean was very good and a couple of others I forget. Overall this wasn’t my week, in terms of results, but I did enjoy several hours of playing over the course of 6 days and the chance to play some different machines was good.

Something unusual, coming from the UK, is that you could smoke inside in one of the larger casino rooms – it’s been such a long time since smoking was banned indoors here that I’d forgotten what it was like to be in a smoked-filled room. You can avoid that room if it bothers you though. Me, I found...

Is it the best casino you have ever seen? Absolutely not, especially if you have been around Europe or Vegas. But the location is great to escape the crowds and the wild parties going on nearby. The staff are generally friendly and helpful, things might be slow but you’re handled in a nice way at least. The machine collection is very poor, people are smoking everywhere, generally sad atmosphere, and machines breaking all the time. I put some money in the machine and it broke immediately, I had to wait 20 minutes to restart the machine to get my money back. But I wad there to have “fun” so I didn’t let it stop me. I moved to play BJ to realize what the other reviewers were saying… the minimum bet is 20€ with terrible odds against you (hidden decks, auto shuffle every hand) just killing the skill and fun of playing Blackjack. Roulette on the other hand has min 2€ and min 5€ tables so that was at least good. But beware of the small print! Min bet on color or odd/even is 50€!! Pretty ridiculous ngl. Not only that but the table screen doesn’t match the games. The monitor said we are playing American Roulette but the table was European Roulette. When I asked the dealer, he said just ignore that.. As for poker, the poker club was closed and games were open. When I asked about it at the reception, they said I can ask around in the lobby and collect customers to play poker.. yea, no, that’s...

Went to this casino last night. The 2 managers don't understand English and their customers is so pathetic. On arrival before registering I said if you do Punto banco then only you register me otherwise don't bother wasting time. The receptionist lady said yes and request to manager. The managers couldn't not meet the request. Hence they signed me up for janket where you have to pay 7,500 deposit for an VIP experience. On paying the VIP experience was terrible. As a result I requested to give my money back on the card. This could not be carried out according to then which is like a fraud. Today I m here they are saying management decided because of my behaviour I can't play which two managers said absolutely lies about me. When asking to pay my money back today there are still unable to sort of this issue because they seem to be fraud....