Couples outside Funchal, west or east. Estalagem da Ponta do Sol, from about €225 with breakfast, if you want monochrome design and a clifftop infinity pool; Sentido Galomar, from about €220 room only, if you would rather have adults only, sea-view saunas and the airport 12 minutes away.
A minimalist black-and-white design hotel built around an old quinta on the cliff above Ponta do Sol, with an infinity pool on the clifftop facing the sea.
€€From about €225 a night
Choose Estalagem da Ponta do Sol if
Design lovers
Couples
A quiet base for the west
Walkers on the levadas
The catch
The hotel is layered down a cliff: reaching a room can take a lift, a footbridge and several flights of steps, which is hard work with limited mobility or heavy luggage
Couples outside Funchal, west or east. Estalagem da Ponta do Sol, from about €225 with breakfast, if you want monochrome design and a clifftop infinity pool; Sentido Galomar, from about €220 room only, if you would rather have adults only, sea-view saunas and the airport 12 minutes away.
Good questions about Estalagem da Ponta do Sol vs Sentido Galomar
Estalagem da Ponta do Sol or Sentido Galomar?
Couples outside Funchal, west or east. Estalagem da Ponta do Sol, from about €225 with breakfast, if you want monochrome design and a clifftop infinity pool; Sentido Galomar, from about €220 room only, if you would rather have adults only, sea-view saunas and the airport 12 minutes away.
Is Estalagem da Ponta do Sol worth it?
The hotel to book for design and the view: an old quinta with monochrome modern wings, an infinity pool on the clifftop and the village five minutes below. Check availability for an Estalagem Double Sea View. A small, quiet design hotel where the architecture and the cliff are the point, in a village base on the far side of the island from the airport. Good value for a hotel this distinctive.
Does Estalagem da Ponta do Sol have a pool or a beach?
It has indoor and outdoor pools. A public beach is within walking distance.
Is Sentido Galomar worth it?
A clifftop adults-only building with a seawater pool, sea-view saunas and the Atlantic at the foot of the lift, for couples happy to share dinner and the lido with the family side of the resort. Check availability for the Double Room Sea View Balcony. A quiet, modern adults-only building on a cliff, where the seawater pool, the saunas and the sea below are the point. Funchal is a short drive away, and dinner and the lido are shared with the family side of the resort.
Does Sentido Galomar have a pool or a beach?
It has indoor and outdoor pools. A public beach is within walking distance.
The design one
