Portugal

Madeira

Name: Madeira
Address: Portugal

Neighbourhoods

Câmara de Lobos
The north coast

Where to stay

3 hotels

An aerial view shows the hotel's pink buildings and gardens on a cliff above the sea, a pool terrace at its foot, with Funchal and the mountains behind.

Grown-up & family

Reid's Palace, A Belmond Hotel, Madeira

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Madeira, Portugal

From the pink hotel the Reid family opened above Funchal Bay in 1891, a lift runs down the cliff to a diving board over the Atlantic.

A rooftop infinity pool lined with palm trees and sun loungers, with two swimmers in the water and the ocean beyond.

Grown-up & family

Saccharum Resort and Spa

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Madeira, Portugal

A copper pool in the spa stands for a tank of honey, and an infinity pool runs along the eighth floor, at a design hotel on the site of a Calheta sugar mill.

A hillside of white buildings with terracotta roofs and covered terraces, seen past a bank of blue and white hydrangeas with tall trees and a blue sky behind.

Grown-up & family

Yeotown Madeira

££££

Madeira, Portugal

A 17th-century farmhouse above Arco da Calheta that takes twelve guests at a time and sends them out along the levadas and into the cold sea pools of the coast.