{"id":680,"date":"2026-08-17T12:23:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/monte-toboggan-and-tuktuk\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T12:23:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:23:45","slug":"monte-toboggan-and-tuktuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/monte-toboggan-and-tuktuk\/","title":{"rendered":"Monte toboggan and tuk-tuk tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>17 options<\/strong> from around <strong>\u20ac31<\/strong>, mostly as a <strong>tuk-tuk tour with the toboggan ride<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>How it works<\/h2>\n<p>Getting up: the <strong>cable car<\/strong> from Funchal&#8217;s seafront to <strong>Monte<\/strong> (about 15 minutes, superb views), or by tuk-tuk, or on bus 20\/21.<\/p>\n<p>At the top: the <strong>church of Nossa Senhora do Monte<\/strong>, with the carreiros starting alongside. The ride ends in <strong>Livramento<\/strong>, not in Funchal \u2014 from there it is a taxi or bus back, or a 20-minute walk downhill.<\/p>\n<p>The toboggan itself costs about <strong>\u20ac30 on the spot<\/strong> for two people, \u20ac25 for one. That is the number against which the combo deals do or do not add up.<\/p>\n<h2>The combos<\/h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Option<\/th>\n<th>from<\/th>\n<th>Duration<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Tuk-tuk to the toboggan + old town<\/td>\n<td>\u20ac33<\/td>\n<td>1.5 h<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Monte Tropical Garden + toboggan (tuk-tuk)<\/td>\n<td>\u20ac110 per pair<\/td>\n<td>3 h<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Nuns&#8217; Valley, Monte and toboggan<\/td>\n<td>\u20ac44<\/td>\n<td>4 h<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Private: cable car, toboggan and skywalk<\/td>\n<td>\u20ac195 per group<\/td>\n<td>4 h<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The four-hour tour to <strong>Curral das Freiras<\/strong> (the Nuns&#8217; Valley) with Monte and the toboggan has over 2,000 reviews at 4.7 \u2014 it pairs the ride with the Eira do Serrado viewpoint, which makes a whole day of it.<\/p>\n<h2>What to watch for<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The toboggan is often not included<\/strong> in the combo price. The commonest complaint in this category: the tour takes you there, the ride is extra. It is in the details \u2014 read them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Photos<\/strong> are taken en route and sold afterwards. No obligation.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>not a bobsleigh run<\/strong>. It is unhurried, braked, on a public road in traffic.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Queues<\/strong> on cruise-ship days. Go early morning or late afternoon.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>cable car<\/strong> (about \u20ac12.50 one way, \u20ac18 return) is worth the trip on its own.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Book it or do it yourself?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Yourself<\/strong> is easy here: cable car up, pay for the toboggan at the top, add the <a href=\"\/en\/more-activities\/\">Monte Palace Tropical Garden<\/a>, bus back. One morning, no booking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book<\/strong> the tuk-tuk version if you are unsteady on your feet \u2014 Monte is steep \u2014 or the Nuns&#8217; Valley combo, because Eira do Serrado is awkward to reach without a car.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 <a class=\"wom-aff wom-aff--getyourguide\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getyourguide.com\/en-gb\/madeira-l67\/tobogganing-sledding-experiences-tc2168\/\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See all toboggan and tuk-tuk tours on GetYourGuide<\/a> <small class=\"wom-aff__flag\">(Affiliate link)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Next: <a href=\"\/en\/funchal-walking-tours\/\">Funchal walking tours<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"\/en\/cabo-girao-and-viewpoints\/\">Cabo Gir\u00e3o and viewpoints<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"\/en\/funchal\/\">Funchal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men in white trousers and straw hats push a wicker basket on runners down the tarmac road from Monte, braking it with the rubber soles of their boots. About two kilometres, roughly ten minutes, since 1850. It is the Madeira clich\u00e9 \u2014 and it still works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-festivals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","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=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonmadeira.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}