Meet the Royal Travel team: from left: Stephanie, Pierina, Louise (behind), Lilly, Margaret

Lilly Muscat was born on the 19th September 1970. She completed her studies at St Monica's school. In 1987 after a year at the higher secondary school she found a job at Wings Travel in Floriana thinking it was just for the summer. When it was time to go back to 6th Form she decided to stay on and completed the Iata International Travel Consultant course.

Since then she has worked a few months at Brittania Travel Services, seven years at A. & V. Von Brockdorff and three years at MBL. In 2001 she resigned from her job as Travel & Cruise Executive to start a family.

In the meantime she missed the contact with people and the excitement of organising holidays. In 2002 she decided to set up Royal Travel. She bought a computer and started working on her own at home contacting friends. She decided that it had to be a travel agency with a difference so decided to specialise in honeymoons, an area she knew well from past experience.

Seven years later, Lilly, Managing Director and Sole Proprietor of Royal Travel Ltd. is very proud of her achievements. She is thrilled with the idea of selling honeymoon packages and luxury cruises.

Lilly is married to Jason and has two lovely children, Sam 8 years and Paula 2 years.

Favourite colour: red
Favourite Travel Destination: Mexico. Why?: good food and fun place
Favourite city: Barcelona
Special attributes: ambitious and optimistic
Person she admires: Mother Teresa
A dream in the closet: to travel around the world

                                                                    
Pierina Marston is 35 years old and has been married to Fabian for 4 years. She has two children. Pierina started working in the travel industry fifteen years ago and worked with three other companies focusing on business travel and package tours before joining Royal Travel in July 2003. She loves assisting couples in planning their ideal honeymoon. Her greatest reward is when a couple comes back with wide smiles on their faces recounting every minute of their "holiday of a lifetime"! For her each couple is different. She is very patient and does her best to accommodate everyone's wishes!

Like anyone who works in the travel industry, Pierina loves travelling. Since having her children she is somewhat constrained to where she can travel. However she has managed to fit quite a few destinations on her travel planner starting from Greece and the Greek Islands, Netherlands, Canada experiencing Niagara Falls both in winter and summer, Quebec City (still have memories of those narrow streets paved in snow), Cuba, Italy, Austria and Spain. Not to mention a relaxing week in the Lake District and short breaks in other European countries.  One of her favourite places is definitely Andalucia in Spain. Lately she has been on the inauguration of the cruise ship Independence of the Seas from Southampton and a familiarisation trip to Dubai where she experienced three nights of luxury at the Atlantis Hotel!

Her next destination?? No idea,  but her dream is to show her children as many countries as possible to make them realise what a beautiful place our world is. 
 

Louise Bailey is 48 years young and has been married to Mark for 21 happy years. Louise started in travel in 1991 and has worked with two other companies before joining Royal Travel. One company specialised in business and corporate travel and the other concentrated on package tours/cruises and individual travel. Louise joined Royal Travel in December 2005 and is now immersed in the specialised field of travel to exotic destinations, cruises and honeymoons. She is very passionate and dedicated about her work. Her greatest satisfaction is establishing a friendly relationship with the couple, feeling their enthusiasm and organising an unforgettable honeymoon!

Louise loves going abroad and has travelled extensively with her husband since 1991. She feels that a travel consultant should constantly strive to improve one's knowledge and broaden one's horizons. Since March 2008 she has been to Argentina (taking in the glaciers at El Calafate, trekking in Patagonia, the impressive Iguazu Falls and experiencing a jungle lodge), Jamaica (educational visiting the Sandals resorts), Mauritius, Vienna, Egypt (Cairo and Nile cruise), Ireland (exploring beautiful County Kerry), Dover to take part in a cruise convention with her manager Lilly and also to Southampton for the inauguration of the cruise ship Celebrity Equinox. She visited Namibia and Dubai in September/October 09. Her latest experience in March was a trip to Costa Rica which besides taking in beautiful scenery and exotic bird-watching gave her the opportunity to undertake some adventures like white-water rafting, canyoning and ziplining. Her next trip is planned for July where she will be visiting Syria...

After that?? Eyes are on Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Vietnam, The Gambia or Sri Lanka :-) ....

                                                                   
Margaret Abela  is 49 years old.  She has been married to Joseph for the past 15 years and they have two young boys.  Margaret started working in the travel industry around twenty-nine years ago and has worked for two other well-established companies before joining Royal Travel in July 2007. Still in the process of bringing up the children, Margaret works reduced hours and focuses mainly on holiday travel for families and small groups, and business travel.  Clients are treated warmly and Margaret does her utmost to find them the best deal.

It was an interest in travelling that first drew Margaret to working in the travel industry, but family commitments placed limitations on frequent travelling. She has however been on long-haul trips to Venezuela and Thailand, and visited some cities closer to home in European countries.  Last summer Margaret spent an active but relaxing holiday on a camp site in Interlaken in Switzerland, an ideal place for families with young children, with visits to nearby cities thrown in for the cultural aspect.

Margaret’s plans for the next holiday with her family is a cruise on board the MSC Splendida.


Stephanie Mercieca is 38 years old and has been married to Herman for 9 years. They have one daughter, Victoria. Although not part of the front desk sales Stephanie is our "behind the scenes" team member. She started with Lilly initially just helping out with the accounts. You will always find her at our Open Weekends and on our stand at the Weddings Fair, smiling and happy, the perfect hostess welcoming our couples and making them feel at ease.

Stephanie is an outdoor person and likes walking and meeting friends. She has also done her fair share of travelling: she spent her honeymoon in Cancun and now recently has been to Tuscany, Eurodisney, Brighton and Sicily with the family. She is hoping to plan a cruise for her next family holiday.