Hotel Baia Azul

Amazing stay Booked this hotel only for 2 nights, but later we have extended our stay to 3 nights more, because hotel was worth it in almost every way. First of all, our room was upgraded to full sea view because of my birthday with no extra cost. When my birthday came, staff bring to our room a chocolate cake, what was amazing. Every morning in breakfast area there were few bottles of local champagne for nice start of the new day :) View from the room was more than breathtaking and the best thing was to sit on the evenings in the balcony and listen for the live music from the restaurant absolutely for free :) Every evening - different style of music was playing. Singers and musicians were in a very high class. Wi-fi worked super fast, A/C in the room was working very well too. Hotel looked modern and everything was in the highest class. Ocean looks just few meters from the hotel, but if you want to jump into the ocean, you must go on foot 5 to 10 minutes to reach where you can do it. Very mountainous area around. Everywhere you go from the hotel or you are or climbing up on a steep hill, or your are taking steep descent to the ocean. Prepare for taking sport in advance :) Not so good things (they always are): free shuttle bus to the city center of Funchal goes only 4 times per day. If you missed it, it could be boring to wait 2 or 3 hours until next bus comes. That's strange, because bus goes only 5-7 minutes until city center from the hotel. So it could be more frequent without problems. Another disappointment was pool. Yes, pool is amazing, big and so on, but in was VERY WARM (water temperature about +28 C) and not deep at all (deepest place in one side of the pool was maybe 110 cm or something). Both of us wanted it to be cooler and deeper. Breakfast was almost the same everyday (we were expecting more variety). And under COVID restrictions, you are not allowed to take food with your own hands - you must wait for an attendant and say him what to pick and bring for you. It was VERY strange for us. Sometimes attendants didn't understood correctly and bring us, for example, not pineapple, but orange juice. Of course, it's not a big deal, but anyway - if we were able to fill our glasses by ourselves, this problem wouldn't exists.

Its was a perfect choice,at the reception I was surprised whit a Madeirawine🍷. Everything was super clean,the room was very spacious whit a beautiful 🌊view...Even whit Covid I felt super save...The food was delicious,beautiful served...it was so good i decided to stay 3 more days.Friendly staff I want to thank especially to Dinarte Ribeiro and Marisa from the reception also Vitor from the bar 🍸and Humberto and Filipe (Jesus sem cabelo)🤣 from the Restaurant See u soon Patricia Silva

A lovely hotel and our room had super nice sea views. not all rooms have sea views. it is super clean and the hotel is nicely renovated. super good breakfast. The food at dinner was nothing for us, well good salat and deserts, thats all. TOO much noise in the dining area, should be divided into smaller spaces. Eat out. There is a super good french restaurant just below. Funchal is approximately 3 km away. There are buses right outside the hotel.