Built for children

Three escape rooms at Vale da Ajuda where a team of two to five has an hour to get out - and two of the three are horror.

• Indoors
• From 12
• No price published

A covered 400-metre kart circuit at Água de Pena by Machico, where children drive their own kart from seven and smaller ones ride belted in beside a parent.

• Indoors
• From 7
• Children from 13 €

Porto Santo's kart track at Penedo do Sono, and the only motorised attraction of its kind on the smaller island.

• Outdoors
• Any age
• No price published

A full-size 1040-metre outdoor kart circuit on the north coast at Faial, run with the island's karting association, which rents karts by the fifteen minutes.

• Outdoors
• Any age
• Children from 16 €

A virtual-reality venue in Funchal with twenty-six titles, gaming rooms and a free-roam arena, taking players from five upwards.

• Indoors
• From 5
• No price published

The only ten-pin bowling on Madeira: four lanes inside the Camacha Shopping centre, with pool tables, darts and arcade machines beside them.

• Indoors
• From 5
• No price published

Funchal's Christmas ice rink in the Jardim do Almirante Reis - real ice, not a synthetic panel, four euros for twenty minutes.

• Outdoors
• From 3
• Children from 4 €

A racing-simulator centre that ran in Funchal near the Jaime Moniz school. It is gone.

• Indoors
• Any age
• No price published

Funchal's blacklit laser-tag maze, in the basement of the João de Deus building - and showing no sign of life.

• Indoors
• Any age
• No price published

Funchal's original escape room on Rua da Fábrica, an hour-long mystery set in Zarco's day. It has stopped.

• Indoors
• Any age
• No price published