Ocean Gardens

Hôtel très atypique qui a une vue magnifique sur la baie de Funchal. Un réel paradis pour moi car pas trop fréquenté, endroit calme et facile d'accès. Avantage aussi d'être a 10 min seulement Funchal. Le personnel aussi est à vos petits soins. 🥰🥰🥰

the best hotel in funchak

Very good location and facility. Old style but everything is well maintained. You need a car to be mobile, as public traffics is only bus line.

Excellent location! Staff very helpfull and professional. Nice breakfast.

We were booked here as part of a package to visit Madeira. Older 4 star hotel with delightful views of Funchal and the south coast. Rooms are nice, staff members were always courteous, friendly and helpful. Front desk was a wealth of information regarding the island and areas to see. Restaurant is equally good, priced similar to the expected island amounts. Again, staff there was friendly and helpful. The hotel has a city shuttle that even with a rental we preferred when going in Funchal because parking is atrocious as is traffic. We used it 3x when arranging to see Funchal or Monte. Road outside hotel is relatively busy, but few in town are not. Overall a great experience. I hope that the hotel will revisit bathroom/bathtub safety, as we found ours to have a great deal of wear, and in need of nonslip tub stickers etc. A big slip hazard for seniors. Housekeeping staff was incredible, and truly appreciated, making our stay comfortable.

Fabulous hotel with views to die for! We stayed in the newly renovated rooms and they were just stunning and again had amazing views. The hotel was super clean, the pool area was lovely. It is out of the centre so you do need to taxi which costs €10-15 or get the bus ( which didn't turn up when we tried so we found taxi better) we didn't mind being out of the centre because the hotel was worth it! The staff were great and the restaurant was beautiful with great food. The only thing I can fault the hotel on is that the water in our room was not replenished. Otherwise it was perfect. I would absolutely stay here again!

There are several things that really let this hotel down. The rooms have no tea or coffee making facilities, which means that drinks must be purchased from the hotel bar located in the restaurant. A pot of weak Tetley's cost us €8. For comparison, a pot of tea at the Ritz in downtown Funchal costs €4. The restaurant is shockingly overpriced, and has a serious ant problem. Consequently it is mostly deserted. Breakfast buffet is below average with a limited choice of food that runs out quickly. You can either go without, fill up on bread rolls or put it on your table and risk the ants getting it before you do. By 0830 the fried eggs were so dry they were inedible. Aside from the ant problem the hotel is spotlessly clean. We were situated in the accessible bedroom in the new wing. This offers stairs-free access via a number of elevators and long, gently sloping corridors. The bedroom has an ant problem. We were given bug spray by the receptionist. While in reception we saw a mouse running out; maybe it had seen the restaurant prices. The bathroom is spacious and clean, but has that 'drains smell'. The aircon was faulty, resulting in the capacitor discharging in the ceiling, making a loud buzzing noise every couple of minutes even with the power turned off. As this is a fire risk we reported this with the help of Google translate and a maintenance person turned up promptly. Hopefully it will be repaired because sleeping with the windows open is noisy and the mosquitos come in! The rooftop swimming pool is excellent, though unheated. Large enough for a decent swim. The poolside snack bar is sometimes open, sometimes not. When open, the lady plays very loud music, making relaxing a distant dream. Ocean Gardens is perched, vulture-like, on the hillside, with no pedestrian access except for the main road. If you have no transport you must rely on the free shuttle into town (weekdays only) or the local, hair-raising bus that stops outside the hotel (but only if you ring the bell to alert the driver when you want to get off). Fare into town is €2.20 one way. The views from the hotel and gardens are outstanding, but otherwise we felt this is a 2-star hotel masquerading under 4 stars.

Wonderful hotel perched on a cliff high above Funchal Town. With 88 rooms it is not too big and is the secret behind the top quality service. It is big enough to support a first class restaurant with the highest quality cooking. Do not miss the traditional fillet beef kebabs or the best garlic prawns I have ever had. The portions are generous so most dishes are ample for two to share. Visits to Funchal are easy either with the hotels complementary bus service or the local bus,39, that stops outside the hotel. The views are great. The only thing that is a bit of an issue is the very noisy, busy road at the front of the hotel. This means closed balcony doors at night. There is air conditioning.

Nice place for a relaxing stay. Relaxing hotel and nice staff. lovely and clean restaurant next door, bus service outside the hotel regular taxi service if required, quiet bar for evening drinks, pools lovely, would recommend.