Divine Luxury at The Vine Designer Hotel in Madeira

Situated in Funchal, a large, stylish city facing the Atlantic on the Portuguese island of Madeira,  the five star Hotel the Vine is the ultimate if you’re hoping for your holiday to provide cool, sophisticated comfort, right in the middle of the city but overlooking the ocean.

The Hotel

Designed by world-famous Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill and award-winning interior designer Nini Andrade Silva, no detail has been omitted in the creation of this chic and modern city hotel.

Expect all modern comforts and luxuries - ambient lighting, impressive showers, slippers and bathrobe for your use and large, comfortable beds for a great night’s sleep. Free wi-fi is available in each of the individually designed rooms.

There is a roof-top infinity swimming pool with views out to the bay, the city, and the mountains behind the city. Here you can relax on enormous sun beds and plan your evening.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner is available in the Terra Lounge, a vineyard-inspired Gaudi-esque creation of a room, or dine on food cooked by 3-star Michelin star-winning chef Antoine Westermann in the UVA restaurant, while viewing the city and the sea through the ceiling to floor windows.

The spa features vinotherapy sessions for the face and body (in keeping with the vineyard theme of the hotel) as are clay wraps, hot stone massages and reflexology (and much besides). Then relax in the rooftop jacuzzi or watch the world go by with a cocktail in Bar 360°.

Outside the hotel

Funchal was settled five centuries ago by Portuguese explorers, in an area where fennel (funchal) grew in abundance. It has grown to be the largest city on an island nicknamed the ‘Floating Garden’ on account of it being full to bursting with plants and tropical flowers. Funchal itself houses the 80,000 square metre Madeira Botanical Gardens with its 2000+ types of plants.

Enjoying the best of the sunshine on the island, the climate in Madeira is very agreeable. Do expect some rain - the greenery of the vegetation will tell you that it does get some, but the temperature averages 24° in summer, and drops only 4° in winter.

There’s a great choice of things to do in the vicinity. Go fishing or dolphin and whale watching, play golf, or take a levada walk on man-made tracks running alongside canals dating from the 16th century - made to carry water from the rainy north of the island to the sunnier south.

Eating outside the hotel will give you a great choice of restaurants serving Portuguese and Madeiran specialities - try the bacalhau (salt cod) or espada com banana, scabbard fish with banana. And of course you must try the famous local sweet wine.

Why stay at the Hotel the Vine?

For a relaxing stay in contemporary surrounds on a beautiful, green island, make Funchal on Madeira your choice, and the Hotel the Vine your base. With the famed Portuguese hospitality and good food you won’t be disappointed! 

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