Room was good, nice common spaces.

Price is relatively expensive for what you get. No breakfast in price, no toiletries in bathroom (even no shower gel!), no hotel service employees at all, rather messy and long reception in restaurant. Restaurant pricelist at least 30%-50% more expensive than in other Madeira places or Porto center (soup above 5- 6 euro, while in other places under 3 euro, main courses above 20 eiro). We regretted going to this place in forests, could have prolonged other much nicer hotel for cheaper price, luckily it was only 1 night stay.

It had the look and feel of an alpine resort, with the main building being wooden and nestled in the hillside, with excellent views. Great atmosphere in the restaurant having our evening meal, with everyone chatting about their day’s walk. We received a warm welcome from Dinarte, who also spoke excellent English and Paula couldn’t have been more helpful in ensuring our stay was enjoyable - thank you. We would definitely recommend Mary and Ian

Beautiful location in the mountains. Stayed there while hiking Madeira from east to west. Spacious and immaculate clean room, big and comfortable bed, good shower, shared kitchen in perfect comdition, nice and clean shared lounge/living room, you check in at the restaurant right next to the rooms, the hosts are absolutely lovely, and I can recommend dinner and breakfast at their restaurant, they close at 7 actually, but some people arrived later and got dinner from the menu, too. So the hosts are an absolute delight.

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The place looks way better than the photos. The rooms are new, well-decorated and clean. The bathroom is spacious. Quite well equipped shared kitchen but remember to bring your food for dinner/breakfast as there are no grocery stores around. The restaurant next door (where you pick up the keys too) closes at 7pm. Once all the tourists are gone you have the entire area for yourself and it's pretty charming. Dinner and breakfast on the outside patio with the view of the valley and the low clouds was pretty cool. The location is perfect if you want to do some Levada hikes in the area or if you want to be nice and early at Pico do Areiro to enjoy the sunrise and start the hike to Pico Ruivo.

Spacious rooms in a modern house. Shared use of a fully-equipped modern kitchen and attractive lounge area. Meals available at adjacent restaurant. The main reason to stay here is the location, high up in the hills. THe weather is temperamental so, if you stay over you have opportunities to visit the neighbouring viewpoint evening and morning, so more likely to avoid the cloud. Little honey cake in the room for a treat.

The advertised 'mountain view' was a limited glimpse of a scrubby hillside rising steeply behind the building. The adjacent restaurant is pretty good but kitchen closes at 7 ( and the only other option to eat up there closed at 6), leaving a long evening with nothing much to do but watch bad Hollywood films. Breakfast options (not included in room) at the restaurant are pretty limited

Super nice guesthouse, really clean, everything feels fresh and new. The kitchen is huge, rooms and bathrooms are perfect. Very friendly staff.

It’s next to a busy road (under construction) and not the most beautiful view for a place in the mountains (car park) But that’s just a small thing, because the stay was more than perfect to me :)

Love this place. Everything was perfect. We were in the separate room with own entrance. At first we didn't like that it's without a mountain view but we always came back at night so this was really not a problem. There is a heating in the room! Bed is comfortable, bathroom clean. WiFi is strong, parking available for free. The kitchen is huge and equipped. The owner speaks English and is very nice person.

As there is not a shop nearby I would appreciate to have some basic food available (sugar, salt, tea, oil...)

This accommodation was perfectly situated in the interior of Madeira and had so many incredible sights within minutes of it. We were at Pico De Arieiro in about 19 minutes, drove 10 minutes down the road for the best best dinner on Madeira at Abrigo do Poiso (the Ribeiro Frio restaurant on site was a very close second), walked 5 minutes down the road to the best levada walk on the island, walked 7 minutes down a trail next to the property to the Balcoe Overlook, stumbled on to an incredible area to camp just miles down the road at a stunning meadow filled with sheep and enjoyed the very comfortable bed inside the rental.

The shower was draining just a little too slowly and water backed up in the pan of the floor

Ok so we went in February and the weather was.... interesting ... but the hosts and the restaurant were spot on! We had the top apartment (number 5) which meant we had cooking facilities in the room and I was VERY grateful having picked up a virus on the plane. The view was... foggy beyond expectation but if you are going to the mountains and some great walks, it's just spot on! I will return but perhaps not in February. The host and his team were utterly rushed off their feet when we arrived at 2.30 but the food and apartment were great. If you book, I'd go for the one that has the private facilities (I think we may have been upgraded due to us being there for 4 days). On reflection, I'd do that...

All the great walks and mountains would be spot on... perhaps on a clearer month. Not the fault of the place though as they were superb in looking out for us.

Paula the host was amazing so helpful and kind The room was spotlessly clean and very comfortable The restaurant next door was very good and had great staff If you choose "Casa do Ribeiro Frio" you will not be disappointed 🇬🇧 🇵🇹

If the restaurant had a small breakfast menu it would make things even better