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A family-owned 1844 manor-house hotel above Funchal, set in subtropical botanical gardens with bay views, classic antique-filled rooms and fine dining.
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Need To Know
- Eighty-nine rooms and suites, from garden-view doubles to Manor House Junior Suites and a penthouse
- Set in an 1844 manor house, a hotel since the early 2000s, in 25,000 sq m of botanical gardens
- The Manor House fine-dining restaurant, Avista Navios for breakfast and dinner, and a pool bar
- A heated outdoor pool, sauna, jacuzzi, tennis court, gym, and yoga and massage on request
- Owned by the Ornelas family since 1900; free parking and a courtesy shuttle into Funchal
- Above Funchal in São Martinho; about 20 minutes from Madeira airport
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The Manor House — the original 1844 house at the heart of the hotel, holding the fine-dining restaurant and four Junior Suites among restored antiques; the place to feel the old Quinta.
- The gardens — some 25,000 square metres of subtropical botanical planting, with trees from around the world, magnolias and jacarandas, lakes and a century-old garden pavilion.
- The views — balconies and terraces looking out over the botanical gardens, the bay of Funchal and the mountains behind, the city lights spread out below by night.
- The family — owned by the Ornelas family since 1900 and still run by them, a genuine Madeiran quinta passed down the generations rather than a corporate hotel.
- The pool and the quiet — a heated outdoor pool among the gardens, a sauna and jacuzzi, a tennis court, and the calm of a residential hillside above the bustle of Funchal.
Key Features
Book Your Stay at QUINTA DA BELA VISTA
€212.90 for 1 Night
Location
Address
Caminho do Avista Navios, 4 Funchal, Madeira 9000-129 Portugal
Travel Info
Quinta da Bela Vista sits on a residential hillside at São Martinho, above Funchal, about 20 minutes from Madeira airport. Central Funchal is roughly a 30-minute walk downhill, with a free courtesy shuttle and taxis on hand; free parking is available, and a car helps for exploring the island.
Last Updated: 2026-06-11
Expert Review
Origins
Quinta da Bela Vista is one of the old garden estates of Madeira — a quinta, in the island's term — on a hillside at São Martinho, above Funchal, with the bay below and the mountains behind. The manor house at its heart dates to 1844, built in the era of the great Madeiran sugar and wine estates, and it has belonged to the same family, the Ornelas, since 1900, passed down the generations rather than sold on.
The turn to a hotel came under Dr. Roberto de Ornelas, a noted Madeira surgeon who took the property in hand in 1979 and, in the early 2000s, opened the manor and its grounds as a luxury quinta hotel — keeping the old house, its antiques and its art, and building discreetly around them. On his death the family carried it on; his son Gonçalo, who grew up in the manor house, is among those running it today. The result is a hotel with a genuine family story behind it, not a brand exercise.
What sets the place apart is the setting and the sense of the past. The grounds run to some twenty-five thousand square metres of subtropical botanical garden — trees from around the world among native Laurisilva, magnolias and jacarandas, lakes and fountains and a garden pavilion from 1870, now the pool bar. The original Manor House holds the fine-dining restaurant and four Junior Suites among restored antiques, the prize rooms of the hotel; the rest spread out around the gardens with their balconies and bay views. It is traditional, old-world and proudly so — a classic Madeiran quinta rather than a contemporary design hotel.
Top Secret
Ask at reception about seeing the Manor House Junior Suites and the penthouse, even if you are not staying in them — the four suites on the top floor of the 1844 house, among the family's antiques and art, are where you feel the real Quinta, and royalty and notable guests have stayed in them over the years. The other quiet find is the pool bar: it occupies the Casinha dos Prazeres, an 1870 garden pavilion built as a retreat for reading and tea, with one of the best views over Funchal in the grounds.
The Review
Quinta da Bela Vista is a hotel for those who like their luxury old-world. A Madeiran garden quinta on a hillside above Funchal, built around an 1844 manor house that has been in the Ornelas family since 1900, it trades contemporary design for genuine heritage: classic Portuguese architecture, restored antiques, art and vintage furniture, and the unhurried air of a grand private estate. The setting is the great asset — some twenty-five thousand square metres of subtropical botanical garden, with views over the bay of Funchal and the mountains from balconies and terraces.
The pleasures here are traditional and unhurried. There is fine dining in the Manor House restaurant, breakfast and dinner at Avista Navios with its piano bar, and a pool bar in an 1870 garden pavilion with a view over the city; a heated pool among the gardens, a sauna, jacuzzi, tennis court and gym; and the gardens themselves to wander. The four Junior Suites in the manor house are the rooms to ask for, full of period character, though the eighty-nine rooms in all mean this is a larger hotel than its quinta intimacy suggests.
It suits travellers who want classic comfort, gardens and a sense of Madeira's history over modern minimalism or a beachfront — a family-run estate above the city, calm and green, with Funchal a shuttle-ride below and the island's Laurisilva forest and levada walks within reach. The style is old-school and the scale larger than boutique, but for old-world charm and one of the loveliest garden settings on the island, it has few rivals in Funchal.
