29 Jun 2025
I booked the West tour of Madeira with Ilha tours from a very nice British lady.
She told me that the mini van with up to 16 guests would arrive between 08:40 and 08:50.
About 09:10 a man arrived on foot to the hotel, because we were now travelling in a huge 55 seater coach and it couldn’t turn around at my hotel.
By the time we went to many other places to pick people up, it was 09:45 by the time we left Funchal for our days touring.
Travelling on these small roads on a coach this size had its problems.
We had a good day out but didn’t get back until 18:00, yet we were supposed to get back at 17:00.
I suppose the late pick up and the time that it takes to manoeuvre a large coach around these small roads, impacted on our scheduled.
The tour of the West of the island is good, but I wouldn’t have gone if I knew that it was going to be on a coach.