Venere.com, Expedia-owned specialist travel portal, has awarded the 5-star Hotel Phoenicia with their Top Overall Ratings 2013. This award is exclusively determined by Venere users' feedback and only 5,000 properties out of 135.000 across the world have qualified for this prestigious award. In addition, the Expedia-owned site has also awarded the Hotel Phoenicia with its Top Clean 2013 award. One of Europe’s leading online hotel reservations sites, Venere.com, attracts users with its user-friendly, free online search and booking services, multilingual detailed descriptions and information, high quality images, and exclusive interactive maps.
Hotel Phoenicia was also recently voted one of the top three most romantic hotels on the island by leading global portal TripAdvisor. With nearly 20 years of experience, Venere is a leading hotel reservations website in Europe. Founded in Rome in 1995 as an Online Travel Agency focused on exclusive deals for Italy, Venere was acquired by Expedia Inc. in 2008. As a brand of the world’s largest online travel company, Venere has grown as the reservation specialist for Southern Europe. Venere.com has progressively added a host of new properties, and today provides a choice of hotels, B&Bs, serviced apartments, and other accommodation solutions in 30,000 destinations worldwide attracting travelers with its detailed hotel descriptions translated in 11 languages, high quality images, reviews from authentic guests, and great deals worldwide.
Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said, "I think Venere is the most distinctive hotel web site out there. There is a certain same-ness that has settled into the industry and I really like the unique look and feel and mapping that Venere has built. We are also very interested in Venere’s terrific inventory in Southern Europe." Of which Hotel Phoenicia ranks in the top segment.
Micaela Zanarini, PR Manager at Venere.com said, "Well done to Malta's Hotel Phoenicia, these awards are exclusively determined by Venere users' feedback and only a number of properties across the world have received them."
The hotel is set at the entrance to Valletta and surrounded by 7.5 acres of lush gardens. This Art Deco designed hotel offers spacious suites, fine cuisine in Pegasus, plus, conference and wedding facilities for up to 1200 people in the Grand Ballroom function venue. Built in 1939, The Hotel Phoenicia was Malta’s first luxury hotel, giving it a wealth of history and a unique charm sustaining 128 bedrooms and 8 suites, affording some truly majestic views from most rooms and terraces. The stunning 7.5 acre garden allows guests to stroll through ornamental as well as working gardens, including a dedicated kitchen garden on over 5 tumoli that supplies the Pegasus restaurant exclusively with fresh produce, along with enjoying lush plants, flowers and trees on the way to the hotel’s magnificent pool shaded by the Valletta bastions that frames a panorama to breathtaking harbour views below.
“It is a great privilege to be given both the Top Overall Ratings and Clean award from Venere for 2013. Hotel Phoenicia is very proud of all of our staff who have worked so hard to make this award achievable. It's also nice to see the same guests coming back year after year and still finding the time to show their appreciation in this way, we are all absolutely delighted.” says Charles Azzopardi General Manager of Hotel Phoenicia.