Product Description

Make the most of your time with Rough Guide DIRECTIONS Madeira. Slim, stylish and pocketable, the guide is an up-to-date, authoritative and user-friendly companion to this stunning Portuguese outpost. Full-colour and richly illustrated throughout, the guide highlights the best Madeira has on offer from wild mountains to precipitous valleys and the most beautiful walks on which to adsorb it all – giving you inspiration for things to do, 24 hours a day. You’ll find accurate information on the regions top attractions from exploring the streets of the islands historical capital, Funchai, to the vast expanse of superb sand on Porto Santo as well as the regions leisure highlights and most unspoilt, architectural and child-friendly attractions. The guide features up-to-date listings of all the hottest new places to stay, eat, drink, club, shop and enjoy the wide array of leisure activities on offer to suit all budgets, and comes complete with comprehensive maps to help you find your way around.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18064 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

About the Author
aMatthew Hancock is author of Rough Guide DIRECTIONS Madeira, Lisbon and The Algarve and co-author of the Rough Guide to Portugal.

Customer Reviews

Handy guide to Madeira
I spent a week in Madeira in February and this was an ideal pocket sized guide which helped us plan a fulfilling week. Highly recommended. PS get a big map to complement it!

Not bad..

My husband and I used this guide on holiday, and were not overly impressed with quite a lot of the recommendations given-

We spent 10 euros each on entry into the Royal Botanical gardens in Monte, described as the best in Funchal, and we found the experience really disappointing. Almost all of the plants we saw were ones that you could find along roadsides, paths and walks in Madeira (rhododendrons, hydrangeas, ferns) and lots of trees. There was also an exhibition with African art, a collection of semi-precious stones (quartz etc), and lots of tacky Japanese replica architecture.

We were also not overly impressed with some of the restaurant suggestions, including 'Arsenios'. (Bad bad music, puddings from the 70's, and singing waiters = lots of embarrassed tourists robbed of a good night, and with substantially lighter pockets!)

We didn't like a lot of the suggestions, and if you're not overly into touristy gimicks, then you're probably best off giving this book a miss; follow your nose, buy a good walking map, use your imagination and you won't go wrong!