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Ocean Gardens

Name: Ocean Gardens, Portugal, Madeira, Funchal | Thomas Cook
Address: Estrada Conde Carvalhal, 321, Sao Goncalo Funchal, 9060-054, Portugal
Telephone: +351291790760
Price range: from £534.72 per person
Rating: 4.5

554 reviews

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The Ocean Gardens hotel is a 4 stars hotel with 85 twin/double bedrooms, situated at about 15 minutes from Madeira airport and 10 minutes from the city centre of Funchal. Offers to its guests, from Monday until Friday, a free shuttle bus to the city centre and is well served by an extensive public transport network.With a privileged location, on a cliff above the sea, all the rooms have a magnificent view to the Atlantic Ocean, and 50 with the particularity to have also view to the Bay of Funchal. Of its 85 rooms, 4 are Junior Suites, 38 are superior bay views, 11 are bay view and 32 are sea view.All the rooms have air conditioning, heating, WIFI (free), cable TV (98 channels), direct-dial telephone, mini-bar and safe (extra charge), hairdryer. Some of the rooms are equipped with bath and shower, and some only with shower.All the rooms are “non smoking”,.For smokers there is the room balcony.On the 4th floor, with a magnificent view to Funchal Bay, there is a Snack-Bar, a Swimming Pool, a Natural Solarium and a Sauna, all surrounded by beautiful gardens, that offers its guests pleasant moments of relaxation and tranquillity.Customers have at their disposal one bar with panoramic view at the Terrace and Montanha restaurant - where breakfast and halfboard is served. Apart from breakfast and halfboard, this restaurant serves “A La Carte” dishes and offers to its guests the opportunity to enjoy the typical and Mediterranean specialities from the A La Carte menu.Making part of the hotel facilities, there are two multi-function rooms, prepared for events: congresses, weddings etc. One of tese multi-functions rooms is located on the 3rd floor with a panoramic view of the sea, with a capacity to 200 people.- Distance To Airport: 17km to FNC

7 nights

Bed & Breakfast

from £535 pp

£1,069 total price

Facilities

Key facilities

Outdoor pool
Wifi

Other

Babysitting
Sauna
Solarium
24 hr reception
Bar
Café
Car hire
Car park
High chairs
Laundry
Lift
Located on a main street
Outdoor pool
Restaurant
Safe
Sun terrace
Terrace
Wifi
Clothes dryer
Library
Luggage room
Poolside snack bar
Private Pool

Location

Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

Address: Estrada Conde Carvalhal, 321, Sao Goncalo Funchal, Portugal
Phone: +351291790760

Reviews

Tripadvisor rating

4.5

Excellent

554 reviews

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Travelers' choice award

Lovely and restful

Feb 2023 | X2840FXjam

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.

A wonderful place to spend the New Year

Jan 2023 | Shaun M

I stayed here with my partner and her family for a week at the end of 2022 and had a fantastic time. For starters the hotel itself is absolutely beautiful, from the gorgeous ocean-side view out your window to the extremely high quality of the rooms themselves. The rooms are very large with a *huge* shower and, impressively, THREE USB ports on each side of the bed. Food at the restaurant is to a high standard and the portion sizes are very large for the money - I had a 20 Euro tuna steak and couldn't finish the sides. I recommend the hanging kebabs which are delicious and a lot of fun. Staff at the hotel are also very friendly and helpful. Because we stayed during the off-season reception allowed us to have a late check-out at 3pm for free (rather than the usual 12pm), which was a nice touch. Only real complaint is it'd be nice if the pool was heated in non-summer months because it was FREEZING and only the hardiest of swimmers will probably want to take a dip. A minor gripe though as I still had a lot of fun sunning myself by the pool. Location-wise you'll probably want to get a bus into Funchal town as it's about 90-120 minute walk otherwise and quite a perilous one at that. The hotel does lay on a shuttle bus but I found it easier to use the local bus service which was 2 Euros each way and incredibly easy to use. Overall I'd absolutely come back here again - it's a beautiful hotel with great, hard-working staff and incredible food/drink. If you stay over New Year's you'll have an especially fantastic time if you get the gala dinner and stay for the fireworks display.

Excellent views but be prepared for travel to town.

Nov 2022 | RobertHWine

I stayed for 5 nights in this good hotel. The views are splendid; my taxi driver said they were probably the best of any hotel in Funchal and he was right. I’d booked a superior bay view room which is in the newer part: good sized room, huge bathroom with walk in shower, lots of storage and wardrobe space and a balcony with brilliant views. Checkin was welcoming and efficient. The layout of the hotel is a bit confusing at first being on so many levels but once understood it’s fine. The garden and pool area on the roof is lovely to sit in: loads of different areas and a pool (which I didn’t try). And the views are awesome. I spent a morning working from the roof! Everything was really clean, the room serviced really well each day (mid afternoon for my 4th floor room) and I felt safe. The point to note (as other reviewers have) is that the hotel is some way outside Funchal. Walking isn’t really an option: busy roads, no pavement and extremely steep. The best way is by bus. The Hotel provides a shuttle 3 times a day (which I didn’t use) and also details of the local number 39 Bus (about 1 an hour). BUT there are lots of other buses that will stop en route to/from further away places. I’d say there is a bus every 20 mins or so most of the day- download one of the travel apps (Moovit worked for me) and follow that. I went into Funchal and back everyday, day and night and had no problems (the bus drivers will like you more if you have expect money or change, not notes!). Even getting a bus back we’ll into the evening after a dinner in Funchal was easy. My disappointment was over breakfast; perfectly decent (cereals, fruit, breads, cold cuts, cheese etc) just perhaps a bit boring after a few days. So- stay for the views which are amazing, and if you don’t need to be in walking distance of the town and are happy to use public transport. If you’re someone who likes to be in the thick of the action in a town, it’s probably not for you. Despite the boring breakfast, I’d stay again.