Piscinas da Ribeira Brava
Ribeira Brava
A modern indoor complex with a heated 25 m pool and a shallow learning tank, sold by the 50-minute slot and cheapest in the middle of the day.
- Indoors
- Any age
- Children from 2.2 €
Lava pools, sea-water lidos, calm beaches and the water park - with which ones have a lifeguard and which of the identical-looking pools next door do not.
Ribeira Brava
A modern indoor complex with a heated 25 m pool and a shallow learning tank, sold by the 50-minute slot and cheapest in the middle of the day.
Machico
A heated indoor 25 m pool with a 500-seat gallery and a gym on the edge of Machico, run by the regional sports directorate.
Santa Cruz
The covered regional pool inland at Santa Cruz, with a gym attached - the rainy-day answer near the airport, and not the seafront bathing complex of the same town.
Câmara de Lobos
A 25 m six-lane covered pool at the head of the Curral das Freiras valley - the only indoor pool in the Câmara de Lobos municipality.
Funchal
The island's only 50 m pool, at Penteada above the university, in a four-pool complex that also has a 25 m pool, a diving tank and a children's learning pool.
Funchal
Two heated indoor pools, 20 m and 25 m, at the Clube Naval sports complex - the island's main children's swimming school, and open to non-members.
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.