Vila Gale Santa Cruz

The one night stay was to avoid the crush of travellers at the airport on a Monday. The room was adequate for our needs and the buffet breakfast was excellent. Staff were friendly, polite and considerate giving exceptional service.

We loved the view to the ocean, the proximity to the airport, the inddor swimming pool (the outdoor swimming pool looked great too, but it was too cold outside to use it). It was quite special to wake up to the sounds of the ocean. The breakfast is very good, with many options. We also liked Satna Cruz, which is a lovely small town. All in all, we recommended this hotel.

The lobby was nice and the staff welcoming. I liked the pool, sauna, and gym. I liked the ping pong table, chess board, and trampoline. I like how close the ocean is to the hotel. It's nice to have hotel shuttle service to downtown Funchal. Lots of fruits at breakfast.

The room was spacious and clean, the hotel exceeded my expectations. In May I did not see any children in the hotel, it was very quite. Breakfast was ok, but without fireworks. I had expected more fresh vegetables to do vegge salat, some feta or other white cheese, there was nothing except tomatoes. Here a huge disappointment. Spa centre small but nice. Hotel very close to the airport, 5min by taxi - cost 10EUR with tip, few lovely local restaurants (with fish with banana!) close to the hotel, the village small, very quite and relatively flat, comparing to Funchal. On weekend few performances in the village by the local singers and dancers. I loved this quite place.

Very close to the airport (4 minute cab ride). Very nice buffet breakfast with omelette bar and lots of fresh fruit and a variety of other breakfast items. Nice pool. Right off the ocean. We walked to a nice restaurant for dinner. We got lucky because our flight was cancelled and we needed a place to stay and they were great.