Cost Sharing - Heading to Malta in Jan (help with dogs/car)

As you apparently have not checked it out, perhaps you should look at the cost of bringing a car in to Malta! Use the search box!
You will find that, as you will not have owned the car more than 2 years, you will have to pay a registration fee here which will probably mean it would be cheaper to buy one once you arrive.
Use this link to find out what it would cost you to register a car here.

http://www.valuation.vehicleregistratio … hicle.aspx

Ray

Foxglove - I have checked - it's still cheaper to buy a car in the UK and drive it up AND pay registration tax on it in most cases. Cars that sell for 2k in the UK are 6-7k in Malta (with about 2/2.5k adds it works out cheaper still). Some cars have a much higher registration tax than others, some are relatively cheap.

And dont forget you can only buy here once you have a ID card. Ie. Months after arriving.

It's best to bring your own if you can afford it.

If you intend driving over in January you may find the ferries from Sicily will not be running, this often happens when they take the boats out for servicing.

Yeah, I had noted people talking about that. I'll have to make sure we get the tickets all sorted beforehand, so we don't get there and nobody is going across, lol.

Having a ticket doesn't help. Bad weather which often the problem around December doesn't care for your piece of paper

I thought servicing was the problem? Surely weather isn't that bad for a modern ferry boat so often?

At least they blame it on the weather.. There was a thread somewhere on the forum about this last year, when the ferry didn't go for 2 weeks or so, if I remember correctly.. But that was because the ferry had crashed in the port in Italy.

haha - guess closer to the date I'll check the weather forecast