Funchal Design Hotel

4.0 star property
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Interior
Restaurant
View from room
Interior
Suite | Private kitchen

Reviews

8.2 out of 10

Very good

Popular amenities

  • Bar
  • Room service
  • Parking available
  • 24/7 front desk
  • Breakfast available
  • Housekeeping

Explore the area

Map
Rua da Alegria 2 e 2 A, Funchal, 9000-040
  • La Vie Shopping Center
    2 min walk
  • Funchal Municipal Garden
    4 min walk
  • Alves Los Primos
    1 min walk
  • Funchal (FNC-Cristiano Ronaldo)
    18 min drive

Room options

Standard Room

  • Sleeps 1
  • 1 Twin Bed

Apartamento

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed

Suite

  • Sleeps 2
  • 2 Queen Beds

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About the area

Funchal

When you a stay at Funchal Design Hotel in Funchal, you'll be near the beach, just steps from Holy Trinity Church and La Vie Shopping Center. .This boutique hotel is 0.2 mi (0.3 km) from Funchal Municipal Garden and 0.3 mi (0.5 km) from Santa Catarina Park.

What's nearby

  • Town Square - 7 min walk
  • Funchal Marina - 8 min walk
  • CR7 Museum - 10 min walk
  • Funchal Farmers Market - 14 min walk
  • Madeira Botanical Garden - 6 min drive

Getting around

  • Cristiano Ronaldo Airport (FNC) - 18 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Opan La Vie - ‬2 min walk
  • ‪Fugacidade - ‬2 min walk
  • ‪Castelo dos Hamburguers - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪360º Sky Bar - ‬2 min walk
  • ‪Trigal - ‬2 min walk

About this property

Funchal Design Hotel

Hotel in Funchal with a 24-hour front desk and a restaurant
Funchal Design Hotel offers 16 accommodations with safes and slippers. This Funchal hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access.

Bathrooms include showers and hair dryers. Business-friendly amenities include desks, desk chairs, and phones. Housekeeping is provided daily.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
Make yourself at home in one of the 16 guestrooms. Complimentary wireless internet access is available to keep you connected. Bathrooms feature showers, hair dryers, and slippers. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
Make use of convenient amenities such as complimentary wireless internet access, babysitting, and tour/ticket assistance.
Enjoy a meal at the restaurant, or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours). Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge. Continental breakfasts are available for a fee.
Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and multilingual staff. Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.
Continental breakfasts are available for a surcharge.
Funchal Design Hotel has a restaurant on site.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.

Languages

English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and public transport

  • Self parking on site (EUR 12 per day)

Food and drink

  • Breakfast available for a fee: EUR 15 per person
  • 1 restaurant
  • 1 bar
  • Room service available

Family friendly

  • Babysitting services
  • Laundry facilities
  • Soundproofed rooms

Conveniences

  • Lift
  • Front-desk safe

Guest services

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Dry-cleaning service
  • Laundry facilities
  • Luggage storage
  • Multilingual staff
  • Tour/ticket assistance

Accessibility

  • Lift

More

  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Air conditioning (climate-controlled)
  • Bed sheets

Bathroom

  • Hairdryer
  • Shower
  • Towels

Entertainment

  • TV

More

  • Desk
  • Desk chair
  • Phone
  • Safe
  • Slippers
  • Soundproofing

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2 PM; Check-in end time: midnight
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before noon

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

Pets not allowed (service animals are welcome, and are exempt from fees)

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Payment types

Important information

Fees

You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property. Fees may include applicable taxes:

  • A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 2.00 per person, per night, up to 7 nights. This tax does not apply to children under 13 years of age.

We have included all charges provided to us by the property.

Optional extras

  • Fee for continental breakfast: approximately EUR 15 per person
  • Self parking fee: EUR 12 per day

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts major credit cards; cash is not accepted

Property is also known as

Design Hotel Funchal
Funchal Design
Funchal Design Hotel
Funchal Design Hotel Madeira
Design Hotel
Funchal Design Hotel Hotel
Funchal Design Hotel Funchal
Funchal Design Hotel Hotel Funchal

Funchal Design Hotel Reviews

Reviews

8.2

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 25 out of 65 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 29 out of 65 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 4 out of 65 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 4 out of 65 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 3 out of 65 reviews" "

9.0/10

Cleanliness

8.8/10

Staff & service

8.0/10

Amenities

8.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Mervyn

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Small hotel.Room was almost L shaped but included small kitchen, dressing area, seating area, shower room as well as bedroom so plenty of space. Breakfast had a good choice, was of excellent quality and staff were very friendly and helpful. There is no communal area or rooftop terrace so this is a hotel for those who want to be out and about for most of the day. In the respect the location is very good for central Funchal and is sufficiently close to the sea front as to not involve much of a hill climb on the return journey.
Stayed 3 nights in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

Frederick

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A great stay for solo traveler.
Great location close to the mall and city center. Friendly helpful staff. I look forward to a future stay when I visit again. Thanks Maryluz for the great hospitality!
Stayed 15 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Alison

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Walking distance to overnight inexpensive parking and to Aerobus back to airport. Breakfast buffet with a la carte options very good. Large grocery store within a couple minutes walk. Easy walking to main center of Funchal.
Stayed 9 nights in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Nicholas

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Interesting design, spacious room. Small hotel.
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2023

8/10 Good

Patrick, Culver City

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nice, clean boutique hotel conveniently located near the heart of Funchal. The airport shuttle dropped us off at the La Vie Shopping Mall, a 5 minutes walk to the hotel. The staff are super-friendly and helpful.
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2022

10/10 Excellent

Claire

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely hotel and very friendly and accommodating staff.
Stayed 7 nights in Apr 2022

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The style and design of the hotel suited us. Furniture, lights etc were interesting and obviously chosen with care to suit the style of the place. We appreciated it. Maybe a bit too much black paint, but photo murals of dancers in common areas were a lovely touch. Restaurant was good for breakfast and evening meals. They also supplied take away lunches for trips. Service was very good (good english spoken). Very good location near main west part of town centre, and near stop for Aerobus.
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2019

8/10 Good

Geoffrey

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Holiday apartment with kichen
Room was fine plenty of space, bathroom was fine apart from not keen on the painted floor, would be good if it had been tiled. Could not get a picture on the TVs, but did not pursue, Wfi was fine. Good Central position close to the centre in the old part of the city. Breakfast was very good, staff friendly and helpful, English speaking. Hotel information states Airport shuttle incorrect, booked taxi for us at our expense. Would stay again
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2018

10/10 Excellent

Howard, Midlands, UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely Retro Hotel
Right in the town within walking distance of Funchal attractions. Quirky retro design decor. Lovely staff for which nothing is to much trouble. Would definitely recommend this hotel and visit again.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2018

6/10 Okay

George, London

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Room comfort
Great design, but some choices ... stink
As happens too often with design, form takes precedent over function at this hotel. The great amount of thought that went into aesthetics would have been better spent on small, functional improvements. The most basic being the uncomfortable bed and pillows. Next, a bathroom with angled-wall, and downward-facing mirror and sink that you couldn't quite lean over due to that angle, made simple tasks like brushing your teeth difficult. The shower -- great to look at -- leaked all over the bathroom floor. A strange "closet" with no hanging hardware of any type (for gimp storage?). And in what has become one of the strangest fads in boutique hotel design: only a (n unfrosted) glass wall between the bed and the toilet. Great if you're one of those "open door policy" couples, but otherwise only good for recreating those awkward moments avoiding eye contact with your dog while taking it out for a walk (we turned on the sink, turned up the radio, while the other busily unpacked while facing away, then we celebrated a strange, unwanted milestone in our relationship). The staff was excellent, and the breakfast was above average for a hotel. Great location, but street parking only, metered from 8-8 available right across the street. If you look up the location on Google Maps, it's wrong as of 6/2016. The location marked on the confirmation email, was correct. Room was on offer, so we felt we got what we paid for. We would have been disappointed at full price.

8/10 Good

Lady, London

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Convenient, clean, good breakfast.
Efficient helpful staff, but a liittle dark and clinical for us oldies. Excellent breakfast and good location.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very Nice and convenient
This hotel is located in an Extremely convenient location Very close to the centre of the city close to all the restaurants. The room was very nice and clean with the exception Of the shower that leaked. Breakfast was okay and staff were nice but would have helped if they actually told you that hot breakfast(eggs) was also available other than the other stuff at the time of breakfast instead of having to find out for yourself. hotel Lobby is very small and painted in Black so makes the place look even smaller and harder to see especially at night. Overall we were very happy with our stay at this hotel.

8/10 Good

Simon, Cambridge

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Modern hotel
Nice room but quite small, good location.

8/10 Good

Sarah, Minneapolis, MN

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
Great Hotel, Poor communication
The Hotel itself and staff working the days we were there were very nice and accommodating. However, there was a burst water pipe on our floor the week before we arrived and our room was out of commission when we came to check in. No one had communicated this to us so we were unable to make other accommodations. The Hotel Management did make arrangements for us to stay in another hotel, but it was a large chain hotel which was much different then the small boutique style hotels we prefer. After several back and forth discussions, they were able to move other guests and make room for us at the original hotel we had booked on a different floor.

10/10 Excellent

Amynah, Lisbon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
fabulous staff
fabulous staff who were helpful and went out of their way to make it great

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good hotel
Only down side is bathroom door is glass and person on toilet can be seen clearly from the bed

10/10 Excellent

NewfHalifax, Halifax, NS, Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A reconceptualization of space
Funchal Design Hotel is conveniently located relative to downtown (0.5km) Funchal. Walking distance to Old Town and Farmers Market. Many restaurants within 5-10 Minutes walk. 3 minutes walk to Dolce Vita Shopping Centre. About 5 minutes walk fro English Church where we saw 2 concerts. Internally the hotel space has been redesigned so that there are no square rooms except the restaurant. The angular rooms, black and white decor and large murals of dancers are quietly stimulating. The design and decor were complemented by very pleasant and helpful staff.

10/10 Excellent

Natasha, Toronto, ON

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent hotel for the money
Very modern hotel. The room looked like large one bedroom apartment. Spacious bathroom. Two TVs. Walking distance to everything. Walking distance to a mall and grocery store. On a quiet street. We can't complain about anything.

10/10 Excellent

SAMUEL, Toulouse

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Point de chute idéal à Funchal vec un hôtel offrant de belles prestations et une équipe aux petits soins pour les clients
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2024

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Este hotel não deveria ter 4 estrela, 2 ou 3 no máximo. Muitos problemas no quarto.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

8/10 Good

Amy van

Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

4/10 Poor

Setareh

Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

SAHAR

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024

8/10 Good

Luísa

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2024