Christmas & Latitudes

Christmas wears luxurious scents of discovery this year at Le Méridien St Julians Hotel & Spa. The creative management team has taken out a compass and drawn bridges across oceans, showing their clientele directions to festive traditions and countless rituals all over the world. The hotel will be unfolding all their menus, Christmas-related activities and decorations around one unique – yet inspiring - focal point: the many customs and traditions celebrated under different latitudes at this time of year.  

Year after year, Le Méridien St Julians Hotel & Spa always strives to present a new refreshing angle to its Christmas and New Year’s Eve options. Everything is carefully thought through to provide visitors with a renewed and enchanted experience. With this in mind, and throughout the past Christmas seasons, the hotel has in turn invited us to a Christmas Factory, engulf us magically in a fairy tale atmosphere and inspire us with a musical approach. Le Méridien’s inspiration goes across borders this year with a merry season entitled “Christmas & Latitudes”. 

 "Our Christmas & Latitudes brochure has been conceived like a boarding pass, opening doors to a multitude of new horizons", explains Melissa DeGabriele, Senior Marketing Executive at Le Méridien St Julians Hotel & Spa. "It presents our menu options of course, all articulated around the selected theme, but it is also filled with fun facts, quotes and QR codes, allowing the reader a dynamic and interactive approach to his selection process." Indeed, Le Méridien Christmas & Latitudes brochure invites the reader to learn about myths and dishes, dances and customs, unusual tastes and colourful folklore. Whilst flicking through this extensive list of dinners, lunches and parties; one can also unveil some interesting cultural facts and inspiring quotes that join the dots of true international celebrations. This is a wide-range theme that allows space for the expected traditional Christmas spirit, but taken to a whole new and different level. 

LE MERIDIEN SUMMER BACKDROP

Food is the common ground. Summer is the backdrop. Le Méridien St Julians Hotel & Spa embraces the island’s peak season with exclusive culinary-related events. Unveil Le Méridien’s summer calendar and celebrate summer in style.

 

ROOFTOP DINING

The ideal place to surrender to a magical experience is on the rooftops of Balluta Bay. La Bajja outdoor restaurant opens every evening throughout summer with a great à-la-carte menu. Perched on the 12th floor of the hotel, you will enjoy fantastic views whilst indulging in Le Méridien creative cuisine.

CORK & FORK

There’s more to wine that meets the eye. For only 45euros per person, you can spend an evening in culinary delight at La Bajja rooftop restaurant with wine specialists and Le Méridien kitchen brigade. These Cork & Fork events include an exceptional 5 course dinner and selected quality pairing wines provided by the suppliers involved.

MYSTERY. CURIOSITY. DISCOVERY.

Le Méridien Venetian Ball

This coming Friday 8th of February 2013, Le Méridien St Julians Hotel & Spa is organising its first Venetian Ball at the hotel in Balluta Bay. Tickets are available in Malta at 202 Jewellery Le Méridien outlet (Mon to Sun from 10am to 10pm) or from 202 Jewellery Outlets in Bisazza Street Sliema, Merchants Street Valletta, Zabbar Road Fgura & Victoria Gozo. (Mon to Sat from 9am to 7pm)

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For the occasion, we will have many surprises for you:

1. A Pair of Crystal TRESOR PARIS Earrings will be given to all Ladies on Entrance. Earrings to be worn during the Event to be eligible to win Grand Prize.

2. By attending Le Méridien's unique masquerade ball, guests automatically enter a poll to win a 2 night stay at the Westin Europa & Regina in Venice!

3. The runner-up will get a complimentary Valentine's dinner for 2 people. 

Price per person is €30.00 including finger food, welcome drink and entry ticket.

You may get a FREE ticket when purchasing a Tresor Paris Watch or Jewellery for €99 or more at a 202 Jewellery outlet. 

Overnight stay for Venetian Ball participants: €60euros per room per night in a Classic Room.

Dress code: Guests are expected to wear period costumes or fancy dress/black tie with mask. 

We are looking forward to sharing one of the fanciest evenings of the year with you!

Le Méridien goes greener than ever

St Julians, Malta – February, 1st 2013

Le Méridien St Julians Hotel & Spa received the prestigious Green Key Award, rewarding the hotel's management for their tremendous and fruitful efforts in eco-related initiatives.

Le Méridien St Julians Hotel & Spa is the first hotel in Malta and the ICM region within Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide® to receive the Green Key Award. The Green Key is an international eco-label tourism facility: it aims at contributing to the prevention of climate change and it encourages sustainability in tourism with recognised awards and the promotion of eco-friendly initiatives. Awarded to over 2,000 establishments in 38 countries worldwide, the Green key is recognized and supported by the World Tourism Organization and UNEP. It is presently the largest global eco-label for accommodation and hospitality services.

Health & Safety Week

As in previous years, Le Méridien St Julians Hotel & Spa in Balluta Bay has organised a very successful Health & Safety week, with an array of interesting related activities spread out between the 10th and the 15th of October 2011.
The Health & Safety committee of the hotel, led by Health & Safety Manager Joseph Zammit, has once again come up with great initiatives primarily aimed at offering a safer workplace to the hotel’s employees. This series of events is strongly encouraged by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, the mother company of Le Méridien St Julians Hotel & Spa. During the week, talks on various themes were organised: manual food handling, health & safety at the workplace, the importance of recycling waste, etc. Workshops for Le Méridien associates were also put together to present subjects such as food handler’s training and HACCP training.

Mr. Joseph Zammit, Health & Safety Manager at Le Méridien (second from the left)
during blood donation campaign with Le Méridien associates.

“It was a very rewarding and eventful week” states Joseph Zammit who instigated the full organisation of the week. “We had a great turn-out to most of the events and an even better feed-back! After a couple of years of hard work to get everyone involved, mentalities have changed and we can now witness a true interest from both our staff and our local community”.

Le Méridien Malta paints it purple for SPG

The launch of the SPG awareness week started with a bang this Monday at Le Méridien Malta, with a Guest Cocktail Party proudly representing the colours of SPG and involving our dedicated Management Team, available to present customers with all the advantages the program has to offer. All throughout the week, our hotel guests checking in at the front desk will be greeted by enthusiastic receptionists wearing SPG T-shirts purposely printed for the occasion. All arriving customers are being offered a delicious home-made SPG cupcake as a welcome treat, prepared with passion by Le Méridien kitchen brigade. Our maintenance and housekeeping departments worked hand in hand to bring the SPG theme alive throughout our premises: countless purple balloons filled up with helium are nicely covering up the ceiling of our lobby, whilst the façade was decorated with a huge Starwood Preferred Guest banner hanging down from the top of the building. Last but not least, guests and associates alike can’t stop talking about the impressive highlight of the week… As soon as the sun goes down, passers-by on Balluta Bay Promenade can indeed enjoy an unusual sight: the entire facade of the hotel prettily lighting up with a distinctive purple halo...

... your island wedding

Malta Cultural Institute Concert

The third concert of the Malta Cultural Institute season 2010/ 2011, will be held on the 13th December 2010 in the Grand Exhibition Hall of the Hotel Le Meridien, St. Julian’s, at 7:00pm. Special guests for the evening will be the Piano Duo Franco Foderà and Giovanna Mirrione, who are travelling from Trapani, Sicily, to perform for the MCI. They are not new-comers to Malta and have performed on the MCI platform some years ago.

40% drop in Le Méridien St Julians’ organic waste

First local hotel to achieve GreenPak certification in waste management

Thanks to Le Méridien St Julians Hotel & Spa’s decision to embark on Starwood’s Green Project, the hotel has been awarded GreenPak Malta’s certification in waste management, the first local hotel to achieve this certification.

Revamping the Sales Team

Sales and Marketing Director Appointed

Le Méridien St Julians Hotel & Spa have promoted Sales Director Mark Muscat De Celis to Sales and Marketing Director, engaged the services of Michael Zammit Marmarà as Leisure Sales Manager and made three further internal promotions to revamp its sales team.