Museums and entry tickets
23 museum options, and from €9 the cheapest category on the island.
- CR7 Museum, Funchal (Cristiano Ronaldo) — cheap on its own ticket, guided themed tours from about €95. There are 27 activities built around it.
- MAMMA — Museu de Arte Moderna, ticket with concert and a drink from about €25.
- IMOM — Immersive Museum of Madeira, from about €22, one hour.
- Museu de Arte Sacra, from about €10, 50 minutes — for Madeira’s Flemish panel paintings from the sugar-trade era.
- Banana Museum, Ponta do Sol, from about €9, two hours. Sounds odd, is good.
- City Pass with 50+ attractions, 1–5 days.
- Madeira Guitar Nights — guitar quartet concert, from about €25, one hour, 4.9 stars.
Gardens and parks
44 options, from about €33 combined with a tour.
- Monte Palace Tropical Garden — the spectacular one, with a Japanese garden and a mineral collection, at the top cable-car station.
- Funchal Botanical Garden — 30+ combination options, mostly by tuk-tuk.
- Quinta do Palheiro Ferreiro, Jardins do Lago — cheaper at the gate than through a portal.
Every garden can be visited independently; what you actually book here is the ride up.
When it rains
17 bad-weather activities — on an island of microclimates, the shortest and most useful list.
- Pastel de nata class, from about €40–70 (see food and wine)
- Honey cake workshop
- Diving with sharks at the Porto Moniz aquarium, from about €135
- Museums, above
- And the classic: drive south or west — on Madeira rain is usually a location problem, not a day problem.
With children
96 family-friendly options. The most reliable:
- Catamaran with dolphins (shade, toilets, bar) from €35
- Monte toboggan from €31
- Hop-on hop-off bus from €19 — more transport than sightseeing
- Pastel de nata baking from €40
- Porto Moniz aquarium
- The natural pools at Porto Moniz and Seixal — free, and better for children than any beach on Madeira
Water and adrenaline oddments
- Jet ski, 3 options: Calheta from about €89 / 30 min, a Funchal circuit from about €60 / 15–30 min, private from about €200. Priced per craft.
- Big-game fishing, 3 options: from about €214 (shared) to €648 per boat. Madeira is known for blue marlin, season June to September.
- Zip lines, 2 options — only as an add-on inside jeep tours, no standalone course.
- Stand-up paddling and windsurf hire, from about €30.
- Coasteering, from about €70 (see canyoning).
Quieter
- Yoga by the sea, 7 options: Paul do Mar and Caniço, from about €18 an hour — the cheapest thing on this page. Also as private yoga with a sound bath, or “wing yoga” for two.
- Horse riding, 3 options: Porto Santo on the beach from about €53, Caniço from about €115.
- Ponta de São Lourenço water taxi, from about €16.
- Fajã dos Padres — transfer with a swim and a meal, from about €33.
On wheels
19 options around scooters and motorbikes:
- Trike tour from about €110 per vehicle, two hours
- Sidecar tour with optional toboggan ride, from about €109 per vehicle
- Vespa Primavera 125, 24-hour hire, from about €65
- E-bike tours: north coast from about €65, levada trail from about €70, Cristo Rei / Garajau from about €50
The e-bike tours are the underrated option: Madeira’s gradients make an ordinary bicycle a penance, and with a motor they become the nicest way to ride a coast road.
Multi-day and private
- 32 multi-day trips, mostly west + east with a night away, from about €70
- Private Mercedes tours, from about €110 per group for eight hours
- Private jeep up to 6, from about €220 per group
- 138 “hidden gem” tours — mostly standard routes with one extra stop. Check the stop list before paying the premium.
Accessible
GetYourGuide filters for wheelchair-accessible options. In practice that means mainly the large catamarans (level deck, accessible toilet), the hop-on hop-off bus, and some private transfers. The Monte cable car is accessible; the toboggan ride is not.
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