FLH Funchal Balcony Apartment with Sea View

Overall a great place to stay. We were here for four weeks and appreciated the convenience that a major shopping centre with supermarket was right on the doorstep. The bus stops were all within 200 metre. The appartment met all our basic needs and was reasonably well equipped. With a few minor improvements this appartment could go from very good to excellent. For example, a wall attachment for the shower would be welcome. Previous reviewers have mentioned noise, but we did not find this a major issue. Being near a major route makes some noise inevitable, but this did not spoil our enjoyment. We look forward to being able to book this appartment again next year.

The apartment was very true to others opinions. The only drawback was the balcony as we were unable to make use of its due to the traffic noise especially the aerobus ....

The location was very convenient for all services, shops, restaurants and buses around town. The apartment was clean and airy but there was no heat source for cool nights and kitchen equipment was poor.

Apartment is well furnished and equiped. For us, the location was perfect - directly opposite the Madeira Forum and almost on the promenade. Very handy for the buses and less than 100 metres from several excellent restuarants. Unusually, the garage is spacious and easy to manoeuvre in. The only significant downside is that passing buses and lorries can be quite noisy as the struggle up the hill adjacent to the apartment. Minor quibles are that only one tea towel was provided each week; for the first week of our two week stay no bathmat was provided; and there was only one pillow each with no spares. Communication with the managing agents could have been better: 1) In all correspondence prior to our arrival was the insistence that the balance of the rent had to be paid in cash on arrival. With some difficulty (due to limits on daily cash withdraws) we did manage to extract Euro500 from ATMs at the airport. However it turned out that the balance was taken from our credit card shortly before our stay but no notification of this was given. So we had rather more spare cash than was comfortable. 2) The access day/time for the cleaners midway through our stay was supposed to be negotiated with us. But this didn't happen - we arrived back one day to find that the cleaners had been - however they did do a good job.