Calheta Beach

Super all inclusive hotel, serving drinks at the table. staff is super friendly and look for a solution for everything. entertainment every night, such as live music, karaoke, dance .. enough sun beds, enough food, enough drinks .. and between breakfast, lunch and dinner there is a snack corner with delicious snacks. A large supermarket across the street from the hotel .. We would like to come back here and would like to thank the management, @tui and all the staff for a wonderful time in beautiful Madeira Room 300❤

We came to Calheta beach to celebrate our recent wedding and we were extremely satisfied with the place. The staff went beyond our expectations and all of them very polite and helpful. Zita from Reception gave us wonderful welcome and was very friendly and professional and Benoit from the Anination team was keeping us entertained the whole time. The hotel is very clean and beautiful. The facilities are very well maintained and the food is absolutely delicious with great variety and different meals every day. Highly recommended.. and by the way we fell in love with Madeira- a heaven on Earth.

We just arrived back from a week staying at Calheta Beach. The weather was absolutely amazing, much better than the forecasts. The hotel is much better in person than in the photos, it’s always very clean both in the public areas and the rooms. A credit to the cleaning team. The food was good but not amazing. We personally found breakfast ok, not the best we have had. Lunch we always found was very good, the salads are brilliant. The dinners were hit and miss and we have no idea why they do themed nights because they aren’t really themed at all, rather random in all honesty. We always found something nice to have, it just wasn’t amazing. We got two meals in the ala carte restaurant which I booked and was initially very worried about after reading the reviews. The food was lovely, I had the fish skewer and my partner had the steak-he said it was chewy. But it was a nice quite break from the hustle and bustle of the buffet. The drinks were plentiful, you can up grade but we didn’t need to as what they offered was suitable. Rui and Andre on the bar were always friendly. The hotel itself is about 40 mins from the capital Funchal, we didn’t mind this as we went on a walking holiday. Great for kids as they had a kids club that did lots of activities. But if you have young adults with you or you don’t like laying around the pool and aren’t a big walker then I advise you get a car to explore the island or stay nearer to Funchal. We did the trip to Funchal which left 10am and the pick up was 6pm. This gave us plenty of time to get the cable car to the tropical gardens for the day and then time to have a look round Funchal. There were a few things that could be improved such as the friendliness of the restaurant and bar teams, they often came across quite miserable. I even had one kitchen members say the “normal” people eat meat when I asked if the soup was vegetarian or not. They are some of the most forward facing teams in the hotel, yet their manner did not match that of the reception and housekeeping teams who were always so friendly. People hogging the sun beds, this really started to wind us up as it is so rude to other guests. They would use the day beds and then go off and have lunch or drinks for hours leaving them with all their belongings on. It is noted in the hotel documents that management don’t allow this, but they don’t do anything about it. Children running wild, we couldn’t use the indoor pool as it was full of young children left by their parent to run wild. They were screaming and bombing into the pool consistently. You never saw an adult go near. Also there were children at the buffet picking up handfuls of cheese and eating it it, chucking back on the buffet what they didn’t want. Children going to the self service machines playing with them and creating mess. At no point did staff intervene and speak to the parents, they shouldn’t have been left unattended. The hotel was lovely, we had a great stay and we would definitely be back.