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 €

A trampoline and play park in the Jardim Panorâmico above the Lido, roofed but open at the sides, with a restaurant along one edge.

• Partly covered
• Ages 3-12
• No price published

Seven separate play zones in central Funchal with a real brunch café attached, plus Laser Limbo - a laser-dodging arena game booked by the hour.

• Indoors
• Ages 1-12
• No price published

A staffed indoor playground of 450 square metres in central Funchal with a proper café, sold in two-hour slots for children aged two to ten.

• Indoors
• Ages 2-10
• Children from 12.5 €

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

A role-play space inside the São Martinho Continente where children work a mock fire station, police post, pastry kitchen, science lab, supermarket and hair salon.

• Indoors
• Ages 3-12
• No price published

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