Manta Diving Madeira

Seasonal.

• Outdoors
• From 8
• No price published
• Booking advised

A dive centre thirty metres from the water at Caniço de Baixo, on a marine reserve whose house reef a confident child can snorkel from the shore.

The draw for families is the location rather than a children's programme: the Garajau reserve starts at the doorstep, so nobody sits on a boat before they see a fish, and there are warm showers, changing rooms, toilets and a restaurant on the same site. Every published price is for scuba, not snorkelling, and no minimum age appears anywhere - third-party listings quote figures the centre itself does not, so a child's place has to be agreed on the phone. The site is German-only.

Worth knowing: It shuts for about seven weeks after the first week of January - the one window in the year when the reserve is easiest to reach and this centre is closed.

Opening hours

Mon

08:30-17:00

Tue

08:30-17:00

Wed

08:30-17:00

Thu

08:30-17:00

Fri

08:30-17:00

Sat

08:30-17:00

Sun

closed

Prices

Try-dive with equipment 95 €. Two guided dives in the reserve with full rental kit, guide and reserve fee 140 €, or 95 € with your own kit; boat surcharge 12 €. No snorkelling-only price is published.

Season

Open 1 March to the first week of January, closed from about the second week of January to the end of February, with shorter hours out of the main season.

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.