Our third visit to this hotel.
The hotel is located within fabulous gardens and is simply wonderful. With the old manor house, the Italian pool, the banana plantation and so many different species of plants and trees, the hotel itself is a holiday.
It was lovely to see that breakfast in the Garden Pavilion had started again after covid, it is always a perfect way to start the day, wide choice and excellent service, and an al fresco breakfast in January overlooking the gardens is a real treat, compared to Atlantic gales in Cornwall. There is also a sizable enclosed by the garden outside swimming pool.
All the staff at the hotel are all excellent. They are friendly, attentive and tried their utmost to make our stay as perfect as possible. We were particularly pleased to see many familiar faces from previous stays, a true sign of a good hotel.
We have stayed in two types of their bedrooms and both offer good size, facilities and quality accommodation. We have not yet stretched to a stay in the manor house suites, but they look impressive.
We had a few days were we relaxed, late long breakfast, reading books, walking the gardens, etc and the rest of the time we spent in Funchal town and along the coast. Funchal is walking distance from the hotel (25 mins) and we did not submit and get a bus or taxi back up the steep drag from the town. The last hill is challenging on the way back but you can get a bus!
