Yellow Bus Funchal

• Partly covered
• From 4
• Children from 9.5 €
• Just turn up

Open-top hop-on hop-off buses on two or three Funchal routes, out to Câmara de Lobos and the Cabo Girão skywalk, on 24-hour, 48-hour and five-day tickets.

For a family it works less as a tour than as transport with a view: the top deck keeps children occupied on roads that are unpleasant to drive, and a 48-hour ticket covers several runs out to the Lido and back rather than working out the city buses. Buses bunch, so a twenty-minute headway becomes forty, and the commentary is wasted on younger children. Yellow Bus and City Sightseeing both run these routes and their tickets are easy to confuse when buying.

Worth knowing: Sit on the seaward side going west, and take hats - there is no roof and no shade on the upper deck, and Funchal is hot by eleven. Pushchairs have to be folded; only the lower deck is step-accessible.

Opening hours

The operator publishes no opening hours. Phone before you drive.

Prices

2-in-1 Funchal and Câmara de Lobos, 24h or 48h: adult from 11 years 19 €, ages 4-10 9.50 €. 3-in-1 with Cabo Girão, 48h or five days: adult 24.50 €, child 12.25 €. Combined with the Funchal cable car: adult 41 € down to 35 €, child 19.50 € down to 17.50 €. Combined with catamaran whale watching: adult 61 € down to 46 €, child 30.50 € down to 23 €. Adult tickets include a glass of Madeira at Blandy's and entry to the Bordal embroidery factory. No fare is published for under-4s.

Getting there

Prices and opening times change without notice, and on this island they change often. Everything here carries the date it was checked in our research notes; if a place has moved or closed, tell us and we will fix it.