{"id":670,"date":"2026-08-17T12:23:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/buggy-and-quad-tours\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T12:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:23:39","slug":"buggy-and-quad-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/buggy-and-quad-tours\/","title":{"rendered":"Buggy and quad tours on Madeira"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What you drive<\/h2>\n<p>Almost all routes run on forestry tracks into the <strong>Laurissilva<\/strong>, the UNESCO laurel forest. That is precisely the kind of track an ordinary hire car is not permitted on \u2014 so here the premium genuinely buys access rather than comfort.<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Area<\/th>\n<th>Duration<\/th>\n<th>from<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Cani\u00e7al \/ east<\/strong>, Laurissilva<\/td>\n<td>2.5 h<\/td>\n<td>\u20ac125<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Porto da Cruz<\/strong>, Laurissilva forest<\/td>\n<td>2.5 h<\/td>\n<td>\u20ac120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>S\u00e3o Jorge<\/strong>, north coast<\/td>\n<td>2 h<\/td>\n<td>\u20ac150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Funchal<\/strong>, half day<\/td>\n<td>3 h<\/td>\n<td>\u20ac135<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Porto Santo<\/strong>, 90 minutes<\/td>\n<td>1.5 h<\/td>\n<td>approx. \u20ac90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>There are versions with a <strong>guide in a lead vehicle<\/strong> and self-drive tours with radios. Quads (ATVs) are rarer than buggies, mostly around Porto da Cruz.<\/p>\n<h2>What to watch for<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A driving licence<\/strong> is required, usually category B, and the driver must be 18. Passengers often from 6 or 8.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You will get filthy.<\/strong> Dust in summer, mud in winter. Old clothes, and a change of clothes in the car.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Helmet and goggles<\/strong> are provided.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Noise and nature<\/strong>: these tours cross protected areas on permitted tracks. If that sits badly with you, a <a href=\"\/en\/mountain-hiking-tours\/\">walk<\/a> in the same forest is the better option \u2014 at a third of the price.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Contact lenses<\/strong> rather than glasses if you can.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The price in context<\/h2>\n<p>For two people, 2.5 hours:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Buggy<\/strong>: about \u20ac125 per pair = <strong>\u20ac62 per person<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Full-day jeep tour<\/strong>: \u20ac67 per person, but <strong>eight hours<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Guided walk<\/strong> in the same forest: \u20ac41 per person<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So the buggy is not expensive \u2014 it is short. You book it for the driving, not the distance.<\/p>\n<h2>Book it or do it yourself?<\/h2>\n<p>Book. Buggies are not rented out bare on Madeira, and the forestry tracks are off limits without a permit anyway. For the same landscape more cheaply: a <a href=\"\/en\/jeep-4wd-tours\/\">jeep tour<\/a> for the overview, a <a href=\"\/en\/mountain-hiking-tours\/\">walk<\/a> for the quiet.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 <a class=\"wom-aff wom-aff--getyourguide\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getyourguide.com\/en-gb\/madeira-l67\/quad-atv-tours-tc38\/\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See all buggy and quad tours on GetYourGuide<\/a> <small class=\"wom-aff__flag\">(Affiliate link)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Next: <a href=\"\/en\/jeep-4wd-tours\/\">Jeep and 4WD tours<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"\/en\/canyoning\/\">Canyoning<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"\/en\/more-activities\/\">More activities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 tours, two to three hours, and the important sentence first: the price is per vehicle, not per person. A two-seater buggy starts around \u20ac120 \u2014 which is \u20ac60 a head for two of you, and \u20ac120 on your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}