6/10 Okay
Antonio, Miami
Travelled with group
3 Jan 2025
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Amenities
Location! - the Casino Park is without a doubt the best located hotel in Funchal - you get out and walk to all major sights. That comes with a curse - NOISE, LOUD INCESSANT NOISE ALL NIGHT LONG - which is not their fault but rather the municipality of Funchal, that somehow believes that absolutely insultingly and preposterously loud concerts of horrendously mediocre bands and music is what tourists that stay in 5 star hotels want.... in any case, the Casino Park - which 40 years ago was the Grand Dame of Funchal is clearly dated, not a 5 star hotel, at best a 4 star - needs renovations/dire improvements in a few areas: there are no coffee/ tea machines in the room, the breakfast buffett is a disgraceful display of bad, processed, garbage food, they have four coffee machines for 200 people: it takes 15-20 minutes in a line to get a cup of coffee for breakfast. There are 3 very small elevators for the entire hotel - so in a busy period, it is impossible to get one, prepare to go up and down 5 or 6 flights of stairs - which is not that bad after you ate that horrendous breakfast food... now let me mention some great things - the staff is awesome, truly concerned about the clients well being - the problem is that Grupo Pestana, who has bought all the largest hotels in Madeira, is not up to international standards, they are a cost cutting, accounting driven corporation from stingy owners who will replace 20 humans with one bad coffee machine in a heartbeat. SHAME ON PESTANA
Antonio
Stayed 4 nights in Dec 2024