Pestana Promenade

The Pestana Promenade is one of the tallest hotels on the Lido shoreline — a four-star oceanfront address with direct access to the seafront promenade that runs unbroken from the Lido pools to Praia Formosa beach.

Below the tower spreads what the brochures rightly brag about: one of the largest hotel swimming pools on the island, set in mature palm gardens, joined by a heated indoor pool, spa, jacuzzi, sauna and treatment rooms.

Rooms look over the gardens, the pool or straight down the Atlantic coast. The Lido's restaurants and the hotel zone's cafés are steps away, and Funchal's centre is a thirty-minute promenade walk — or ten minutes by the bus that stops outside.