Well organized with lockers for your cameras etc. Prepared audio-visual presentations were quite effective and I liked how the images wrapped around the second room so everyone could enjoy it, not just the "people in front". Hand held speakers were a bit awkward, perhaps lanyards could be supplied. The site was fascinating and the info given just enough and useful. But our guides were world-weary and there was no energy from the front desk. Suggest pairing this with the Tarxien Temples, a short walk nearby.

The hypogeum is a magical place, unique in the world. It is thought that it was originally a sanctuary, which became a necropolis in prehistoric times. It is older than the famous three pyramids of Giza. We booked the visit online well in advance. For obvious conservation reasons, it can be visited every hour in groups of 10 people with audio guides, overshoes and without cell phones. The ticket price might seem expensive, but it's worth it. The site staff is friendly and knowledgeable. Highly recommended if on holiday in Malta.

There are 10 in each group per hour and it can be very intimate in the small spaces underground. The audio guide features a lot of bingy bongy music, which gets a bit irritating. Feel very privileged to have got a spot to visit it. Feel it could be a bit more informative, have the skeletons been dna examined? What are the latest theories on the reclining woman? Maybe mock ups of what it may have looked like in film or model.

This is amazing. But, you MUST book tickets months in advance. There is a tour for 10 people every 30 min. No reservations? You likely wil; not get inside. You can line up 2 hours before an office in Valletta opens for standby tickets- but most tours are booked full months ahead. It is unlike anything you will ever see.

I didn't know much about Malta when I was planning a last minute trip there. This small island has some amazing history including this Hypogeum which is older than Stonehenge in England. Like Herculaneum in Italy it's underneath a modern small town and it's a surprise that it's there and accessible. They intentionally limit the number of visitors here to help preserve the site. There are tours on the hour for ten people which need to be booked about 6-8 weeks in advance for 35 EUR. You can also buy tickets for the next day from two locations in Malta for 50 EUR. I turned up at Fort St Elmo at about 9:10am and was pleasantly surprised to get tickets for the next day at 4pm. The tour uses audio guides to cater for multiple languages on a single tour. It starts with a short video and a second immersive video installation. As another reviewer notes, the background sounds are a bit grating. I think these are meant to recreate the sound of people at work with hand tools digging out the underground rooms. No photography but there's plenty online and you can buy postcards. It's a little frustrating as the lack of written records leaves so many unanswerable questions. As a chance for a tourist to hazily peer into the lives, art, rituals and deaths of our neolithic ancestors from over five thousand years ago it's unrivalled. It makes you wonder how many more places there are like this waiting to be discovered. Many of the artefacts are displayed in the National Museum of Archaeology in Valetta. The (bronze age) Tarxien Temple ruins are a short walk away and well worth pairing with a trip here.

Very impressive to visit this place. It is tucked away in the town, there is nothing special to see from the outside. But inside, you're transported back a few thousand years. A people who buried their dead here, thousands have been found. Three floors underground, carved out of the rocks. First you get to see a movie, then you get to see more details in a room. Then follow the guided tour and audio tour. Something not to be missed when you are in Malta.

Surreal site and atmosphere, if you love the ancient civilization, you must come and visit this site when you in Malta on top of other ancient temples! The whole tour is educative, so you could come in not knowing a thing and learn about it there and then, but of course it help to read and research it before you enter because an hour would fly by and you dont want to spend the first half an hour wondering what's going on... Recommend visit the Tarxien temple and the museum of Archaeology on the same day to have a full experience..

I amazingly made it in by going to the ticket office early in the morning. The first group of the day happened to have an extra ticket they weren’t using, so I was so so lucky. There is an air condition gift shop just as you enter, so you can at least get in there, and look at what they have in the shop if you don’t have a ticket. Knock on the door if it’s not open, they generally only opened it on the hour to let the times ticket holders in. You can’t take photos within the hypogeum. I went after to the nearby Tarxien Temple, made for a great paring and you can take photos as Tarxien.

We have visited this site twice, once about 15 years ago and again this month. It is amazing and if you don't think so you are not getting what it is. I have read reviews to try and address some grumbles - you have a recorded guide - yes this enables everyone to have their own language and they can mix nationalities. Expensive - just think how much it costs to maintain - and you do need to book in advance. I got tickets in advance and don't know about any last min tickets - can't comment on that. But seriously it is an amazing site and we are so lucky to see it.

Booked tickets months ago and so glad I did. Many people were turned away while we were waiting to enter. The project to make the hypogeum possible for visitors to see it has been very well done. Two videos to start with set the scene for how the site was discovered in 1902, and for what it was used. Set on three levels with railing bound walkways the tour involves use of talking virtual phones in one’s own language. The site is mind boggling in terms of what was achieved using only stone and wooden tools and huge local limestone boulders.Atmospheric and impressive.