18+ Gaming rooms · photo ID required
Royal Club Resorts sits on the point at Kavallier Bay, where the harbour turns into open water. One hundred and eighty-four rooms, four kitchens, a spa cut into the rock, and a licensed gaming floor that stays exactly where it belongs — a room you choose to walk into.
Welcome
Royal Club Resorts opened in 2009 in a converted customs house on the point at Kavallier Bay, and has been added to carefully ever since — a wing at a time, never a rebuild. The stone is local, the shutters are the ones the building came with, and the newest part of the hotel is fifteen years old.
What holds it together is that everything is under one roof and nothing is an afterthought. The kitchen that feeds the tasting room also feeds the counter beside the gaming floor at four in the morning. The spa is not a corridor of rooms bolted to the back; it is a floor of its own, cut into the rock. And the gaming rooms are a destination inside the hotel rather than a lobby you have to cross.
The resort
Rooms, kitchens, the bar, the spa, the gaming floor and the event spaces — what each of them actually is, rather than what a brochure would call it.
184 rooms across three wings
Light-filled rooms and suites facing either the harbour or the open headland, with deep balconies, blackout shutters cut for the Mediterranean sun, and beds we chose after sleeping on eleven of them. From the Bay Room to the Grand Master Suite.
All-day dining on the terrace
Our main restaurant, built around a wood oven and a raw counter fed by the day-boats at the quay below. Breakfast through to late dinner, seven days, with the terrace open whenever the wind allows it.
Evening drinks and small plates
A low-lit room off the main hall with a bar programme built on Mediterranean botanicals and a list of Maltese and Sicilian wines you will not find far from here. Open mid-afternoon until late.
A full floor below the courtyard
Six treatment rooms, a salt-water thermal circuit cut into the rock, a dry sauna, a steam room and a small gym that gets morning light. Book a treatment after a day on the water or simply come down and sit.
Adults-only, 18 and over
A licensed floor of table games, slots and private salons, run as a distinct part of the resort rather than something you walk through to reach the lifts. Photo ID at the door, every time, without exception.
Four flexible spaces
From a twelve-seat boardroom to a 240-cover hall opening onto the courtyard, with a dedicated events team, in-house catering from the same brigade, and a technical rig that does not need hiring in.
Stay
Rates are per room per night, breakfast for two included, exclusive of eco-contribution and VAT. Low-season starting prices — the applicable rate is confirmed when you book.
A calm room with a king bed, a writing nook and a shuttered window over the inner harbour. The easiest base for a short stay.
A little more room and a proper balcony facing the open water, with a seating corner and a bath rather than a shower.
A separate sitting area opening onto the planted courtyard, quieter than the seaward wing and cooler through August.
A full lounge, a dressing room and a wide terrace above the quay — the room most guests come back and ask for by name.
Two bedrooms, a dining table for six and a corner terrace catching both the sunrise over the bay and the evening light off the headland.
The top floor of the west wing: three bedrooms, a private roof terrace with a plunge pool, and a host on call for the length of your stay.
On the water
The quay is thirty seconds from the lobby, which is the whole reason the building is where it is. The resort launch runs to the outer bays most mornings from April, and the swimming off the eastern rocks is better than anything you will reach by car.
Around Malta
Valletta, Mdina, the Blue Grotto, the ferry across to Gozo — nothing on this island is far, which makes it a rare place to be based rather than to commute from. Concierge books it all, including the things that do not take bookings.
Player wellbeing
Entry is 18 and over with photo identification, checked every time. Our floor team is trained to spot when an evening has stopped being one, and there are limits, time-outs and self-exclusion available to anyone who asks — discreetly, and without a conversation you have to start.
Enquire
Reservations answers seven days a week. If you would rather talk it through, the number is at the top of the page.
Home Casino
A licensed floor on the courtyard level, arranged as three connected rooms rather than one open hall. Entry is restricted to guests aged 18 and over, and photo identification is checked at the door every time without exception.
The floor
The main room holds the table games and runs from late afternoon through to the last hand. The northern room holds the slots and electronic terminals, deliberately separated so the noise stays where it belongs. Above both sits a small upper floor of private salons.
Every dealer on this floor came through our own training programme. Limits are posted in euro at each pit before you sit down, and the house rules for every game are available at the desk in print, in English and Maltese.
Limits
Published minimums and maximums for the main room and the poker room. Salon limits are agreed individually with the floor manager and routinely sit well above these.
| Game | Minimum | Maximum | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackjack | €10 | €5,000 | Main room |
| European Roulette | €5 | €8,000 | Main room |
| Punto Banco | €25 | €20,000 | Main room |
| Three Card Poker | €10 | €2,500 | Main room |
| Ultimate Texas Hold'em | €10 | €3,000 | Main room |
| Poker room, no-limit hold'em | €1 / €2 | No cap | Poker room |
| Poker room, pot-limit Omaha | €5 / €10 | Pot limit | Poker room |
| Private salon tables | €500 | €100,000 | Upper floor, by arrangement |
Limits vary by table and by time of day. Confirm at the pit before you play.
Slots & electronic
Denominations run from ten cents to €100 a spin, across reel classics, video slots, electronic roulette and multi-hand blackjack terminals. Cabinets are serviced weekly and audited on the cycle our licence requires.
A separate high-denomination room off the north wing has its own host through the evening and its own cash desk, so nobody has to cross the main floor to settle up.
The Sovereign Circle
Access is by invitation or by qualifying play. Each salon has its own dealing team, its own service, and a lift that reaches the suite floors without crossing the public rooms.
Membership adds a named host for the length of a stay, priority across all four restaurants, use of the members' cellar at Kavallier, and transfer arrangements from the airport. Limits are set individually.
Before you come down
Photo identification is checked at the door on every visit, however many times you have been in that week. Maltese residents are subject to the separate age rules that apply to them under national law — the desk will explain.
Smart casual through the main room. No beachwear, no swimwear, no bare feet, and a collar after eight in the salons. Jackets are not required anywhere.
Calls are fine in the corridors, not at the tables. Photography and filming are not permitted anywhere on the gaming floor, which is a licence condition rather than a preference.
Limits, time-outs and self-exclusion are available to anyone who asks, and our staff can arrange them quietly at any time. Free confidential support in Malta is available from the Responsible Gaming Foundation on 1777. See our host responsibility page.
Home Rooms
One hundred and eighty-four rooms across three wings. The seaward wing faces the open headland, the harbour wing looks back over the quay, and the courtyard wing is the quiet one — and the cooler one in August.
A calm room with a king bed, a writing nook and a shuttered window over the inner harbour. The easiest base for a short stay.
A little more room and a proper balcony facing the open water, with a seating corner and a bath rather than a shower.
A separate sitting area opening onto the planted courtyard, quieter than the seaward wing and cooler through August.
A full lounge, a dressing room and a wide terrace above the quay — the room most guests come back and ask for by name.
Two bedrooms, a dining table for six and a corner terrace catching both the sunrise over the bay and the evening light off the headland.
The top floor of the west wing: three bedrooms, a private roof terrace with a plunge pool, and a host on call for the length of your stay.
Every rate includes breakfast for two, wifi, use of the spa thermal circuit, and the outdoor pools. Rates exclude VAT and the Maltese eco-contribution, which is charged per adult per night and collected at checkout. There is no resort fee. Parking is free for residents while spaces last.
Good to know
Check-in from 15:00, checkout by 11:00. Early arrival and late departure are arranged where the house allows it, and are free for suites.
Children are welcome throughout the hotel except the gaming rooms, which are strictly 18 and over. Cots are free; extra beds are €45 a night.
Eight rooms are adapted for step-free access with roll-in showers, spread across two wings. The spa, all four restaurants and the gaming floor are step-free from the lobby. The quay steps are not.
Flexible rates cancel free until 48 hours before arrival. Advance-purchase and package rates are non-refundable, and that is made clear before you confirm.
Home Dining
One brigade of fifty-two runs all four rooms, and the fish comes up the same steps to each of them. What changes between the rooms is the pace, the hour and how much of a plan you need to have made.
All-day dining · wood oven & raw counter
The main restaurant, open from first breakfast to last dinner. The oven runs all day, the raw counter takes whatever the day-boats bring up the steps, and the terrace stays open until the wind says otherwise.
Signature
Whole salt-baked dentex for two — €62
Raw counter
Sea urchin, red prawn, sea bass crudo — from €18
Hours
07:00 – 23:00, daily
Tasting room · 22 covers
Twenty-two seats and one menu a night, changing with the boats and the season. Bookings open sixty days out and the room is usually gone within a week of release.
Menu
Eight courses — €145
Pairing
Maltese, Sicilian and Rhône — €85
Hours
19:00 – 22:30, Tuesday to Saturday
Cocktails · small plates · late
The room where the evening tends to settle. Mediterranean botanicals behind the bar, a short menu of things to eat standing up, and a piano most weekends from ten.
Signature
Bitter orange and carob negroni — €16
Plates
Gbejniet, bigilla, cured tuna — from €9
Hours
15:00 – 02:00, daily
Round the clock · serves the gaming floor
A small kitchen off the gaming rooms that never closes, so nobody at a table has to choose between a hand and a meal. Also does the early breakfast for guests catching the first ferry.
Signature
Fish soup with galletti and rouille — €19
Service
To the tables, or at the counter
Hours
24 hours
Reservations
The Salt Room and Cavalier Bar take walk-ins and hold a proportion of tables back each service for residents. Kavallier opens bookings sixty days ahead and is generally full within a week of release; residents get a window three days before public opening.
Dietary requirements are handled properly rather than apologetically — tell us at booking and the kitchen will build around it, including the tasting menu. The Quay Kitchen needs no booking at any hour.
Home Experiences
What there is to do here beyond the room and the table — some of it downstairs, some of it out on the water, and some of it a forty-minute drive across a very small island.
A salt-water circuit cut into the rock below the courtyard: cold plunge, warm pool, dry sauna and steam, with six treatment rooms above it. Treatments use Maltese sea salt, prickly pear and carob. The relaxation room faces the water through a single long window.
The resort launch runs to the outer bays most mornings between April and October, with a skipper, a cooler and no fixed itinerary. Diving, sailing and fishing are arranged through operators we have used for years rather than whoever pays a commission.
Concierge arranges everything from a morning in Mdina to a full day across on Gozo, plus the harder things — a private opening at a small museum, a table somewhere that does not take bookings, a car and driver who actually knows the roads.
Four spaces: a twelve-seat boardroom, two divisible meeting rooms, and a 240-cover hall opening onto the courtyard. Catering comes from the same kitchen brigade as the restaurants, and the technical rig is ours rather than hired in.
Meetings & celebrations
The Bastion Hall seats 240 for dinner or 320 theatre-style and opens directly onto the courtyard, which matters between June and September. Two divisible meeting rooms take 20 to 90, and the boardroom seats twelve with the good chairs.
Catering comes from the restaurant brigade rather than a separate banqueting kitchen, and the audio-visual rig is owned rather than hired, which is usually where an event budget goes wrong.
Home Offers
Four packages that run most of the year, plus the winter rate. All of them are bookable directly through reservations and none of them are available through a third party.
Two nights minimum
Two nights in a Headland Room, breakfast for two, a €100 dining credit at The Salt Room, and late checkout at 2pm. Available Sunday to Thursday outside July and August.
Three nights minimum
Three nights in a Courtyard Junior Suite with breakfast, one dinner at Kavallier with pairing, and a 60-minute treatment each in the spa.
Two nights minimum
Two nights in a Cavalier Suite, a private cellar tasting for two, a half-day on the resort launch with lunch aboard, and daily breakfast.
November to March
Thirty per cent off flexible rates across every category, breakfast included, with full use of the spa thermal circuit and no resort charge.
Packages need a minimum stay as shown, are subject to availability, cannot be combined with each other or with a corporate rate, and exclude VAT and the eco-contribution. Package rates are non-refundable inside 14 days of arrival. No package includes gaming credit of any kind, and none of them is contingent on visiting the gaming floor.
Home About
One property, one company, one point of rock. We do not franchise the name and we do not operate anywhere else.
Royal Club Resorts is owned and operated by [Registered company name Ltd], registered in Malta, company registration number [C 00000], with its registered office at the resort. The gaming floor operates under [licence type and number] issued by the [Malta Gaming Authority]. Accommodation and catering are licensed separately by the [Malta Tourism Authority, licence number].
[Registered company name Ltd]
[Street address]
Kavallier Bay, [postcode]
Malta
VAT: [MT00000000]
The building was the customs house for the inner harbour, and had been empty for eleven years when the company bought it in 2006. It reopened in 2009 with sixty-four rooms and a single restaurant. The seaward wing followed in 2013, the spa floor was cut into the rock in 2016, and the gaming rooms were licensed and opened in 2018.
Nothing has been demolished. Every phase worked around what was there, which is why the corridors do not run straight and why the older rooms have the better windows.
Finance, compliance and player protection report to a board with two independent non-executive directors who hold no operational role on the gaming floor. The floor, the cash desk and our player-protection procedures are audited on the cycle our gaming licence requires, and those reports go to the board unedited.
The resort employs around 410 people directly. Every dealer on the main floor is trained and certified through our own programme before taking a table, and every member of floor and front-of-house staff completes player-protection training annually.
We do not license the name, run a points network across other resorts, or sell our floor design. There is one Royal Club Resorts.
The year the customs house reopened as a hotel, with sixty-four rooms and one kitchen.
The year the gaming rooms were licensed and opened, nine years after the hotel.
People employed directly across rooms, kitchens, spa, engineering and the gaming floor.
Home Contact
Rooms, tables, treatments, events and membership all come through the same desk. Tell us which and we will route it.
[+356 0000 0000]
reservations@royalclubresorts.website
Seven days, 08:00 – 22:00 CET
Open 24 hours — ask for the duty manager at any time.
events@royalclubresorts.website
support@royalclubresorts.website
Every written complaint is acknowledged within two working days.
care@royalclubresorts.website
Or ask any member of floor staff for the player protection officer by name.
Kavallier Bay, Malta. Roughly [00] minutes from Malta International Airport by road. Transfers arranged through reservations; parking is free for residents.
Home Player wellbeing
The gaming floor is a small part of this resort and we would like it to stay that way for everyone. These are the tools, the limits and the support available.
Last updated: 6 August 2026
Everyone who works the gaming floor — dealers, hosts, cash desk, security — completes player-protection training when they join and again every year. Floor staff are trained to notice when someone's evening has stopped being an evening, and they are authorised to bring in the player protection officer quietly, without the guest having to raise it first.
Nothing about the way this resort is priced or packaged depends on anyone gambling. No room rate, package or offer includes gaming credit, and none of them requires a visit to the floor.
Gambling turns harmful when it starts reaching money, relationships, work or health. The usual signals are spending more time or money than intended, returning specifically to win losses back, borrowing to fund play, hiding what has gone, and feeling anxious or preoccupied between visits. If that is familiar — for you or for somebody close to you — speak to any host and ask for the player protection officer.
Helpline numbers change. If one does not connect, search for the current national gambling support service where you live, or ask at our reception — we hold the current list.
Entry to the gaming rooms is restricted to guests aged 18 and over, and photo identification is checked at the door on every visit. Separate national rules apply to Maltese residents and are enforced at the door. Anyone whose age is in doubt will be challenged regardless of how busy the room is.
We do not advertise gaming to anyone under the legal age, do not use imagery or language aimed at minors, and do not present gambling as a way to solve financial difficulty or as a measure of personal success.
care@royalclubresorts.website, or ask any host for the player protection officer. Every conversation is confidential.
Home Legal
What personal data we collect, why we collect it, how long we keep it, who we share it with and what rights you have.
Last updated: 6 August 2026
[Registered company name Ltd], the operator of Royal Club Resorts, is the data controller for personal data processed in connection with the resort, this website, our reservations systems and our accommodation, catering, spa and gaming services. Registered office: [street address], Kavallier Bay, [postcode], Malta. Company number [C 00000].
To verify age and identity; to fulfil room, dining, spa and event reservations; to administer membership; to meet obligations under gaming, anti-money-laundering, hospitality and tax law; to monitor for signs of gambling harm; to keep the property secure; and to reply to your enquiries. Where we rely on consent — marketing, for instance — you may withdraw it at any time without affecting what came before.
Performance of a contract (your booking); compliance with a legal obligation (identity checks, anti-money-laundering, CCTV retention, guest registration); our legitimate interests (security, fraud prevention, service improvement); and your explicit consent (marketing and any optional profiling).
With our gaming regulator, tax authorities and other competent authorities where law requires it; with payment processors, identity verification providers, booking channels you chose to use, and IT and hosting suppliers acting on our instructions under data processing agreements. We do not sell personal data.
Where a supplier is outside the European Economic Area we put an appropriate safeguard in place first, usually the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.
You may ask for access to your data, correction of anything inaccurate, erasure where no legal obligation requires us to keep it, restriction of or objection to certain processing, and a portable copy of what you gave us. Write to privacy@royalclubresorts.website and we will answer within one calendar month. You may also complain to the Office of the Information and Data Protection Commissioner in Malta, or to the supervisory authority where you live.
Encrypted storage of payment data, restricted staff access to identity records, controlled CCTV access, and regular review of our reservations and website systems.
privacy@royalclubresorts.website, or [Registered company name Ltd], [street address], Kavallier Bay, Malta.
Home Legal
What this website stores on your device, which categories you can turn off, and how to change your mind later.
Last updated: 6 August 2026
Cookies are small files a website stores on your device. Local storage, pixels and similar technologies do comparable things and are covered here too. They let a site work, remember what you chose, and show us how it is used.
As shipped, this website sets two essential items in your browser's local storage: one recording that you confirmed your age, and one recording your cookie choices. Nothing else is stored unless you accept analytics or marketing, and no third-party advertising network is loaded by default.
Typefaces are loaded from Google Fonts. That sets no cookie, but your IP address is visible to Google as part of the request. The fonts can be self-hosted if you would rather they were not.
Clearing this site's stored data in your browser removes both saved preferences and brings the age confirmation and cookie banner back on your next visit. Most browsers also let you block storage entirely under privacy or site settings, though parts of the site may then behave oddly.
Where we add a third-party service such as analytics, payments or a booking engine, that provider may set its own cookies under its own policy. We choose providers whose terms are appropriate under the GDPR.
Analytics and marketing storage lasts a maximum of twelve months. Essential preferences last until you clear them.
privacy@royalclubresorts.website. See also our privacy policy.
Home Legal
The terms that apply to this website, to a reservation with us, and to your visit as a guest.
Last updated: 6 August 2026
These terms are between you and [Registered company name Ltd], the operator of Royal Club Resorts. By using this website or making a reservation you agree to them. We update them from time to time; the version on this page when you use the site is the one that applies.
This website is intended for adults. Entry to the gaming rooms is restricted to guests aged 18 and over on production of valid government photo identification, checked at every visit, and separate national rules apply to residents of Malta. We may refuse entry to the gaming floor, or to any part of the resort, to anyone who cannot establish age or identity to our satisfaction.
Reservations made through this website or the reservations desk are subject to availability at the moment of confirmation. Most categories require a valid payment card to hold. Cancellation, deposit and no-show terms vary by rate and season and are disclosed before you confirm. Rates exclude VAT and the eco-contribution unless stated otherwise.
All play is subject to the house rules posted at each table and machine and to the rules and limits set by our regulator. We may bar anyone from the gaming floor, or ask them to leave the property, for conduct that disturbs other guests, breaches house rules, or gives reasonable grounds to suspect cheating or collusion.
This site exists to inform prospective guests and help them reach us. You agree not to submit false information, not to attempt unauthorised access to our systems, and not to reproduce substantial parts of the content without written permission.
The resort name, marks, and all original text, design and imagery on this site belong to [Registered company name Ltd] and may not be reproduced, distributed or used commercially without prior written consent.
Rates, hours, menus, limits and facilities change. Everything here is accurate as far as we know at the date shown and is not a contractual offer. Confirm anything that affects your money or your travel with reservations before you commit.
To the extent the law permits, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of this website or your visit, and we are not liable for gambling losses. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for death or personal injury caused by our negligence.
Use of the gaming rooms is subject to our host responsibility policy, including limits, time-outs and self-exclusion. The full policy is on its own page.
These terms are governed by the laws of Malta and disputes fall to its courts, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer protection available to you where you live.
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