Experience the charm of Madeira

Travellers booking a Madeira break with Prestige Holidays this year are being given complimentary chocolate spa treatments and educational tours of one of the island’s historic tropical gardens. The promotion is the first of a range of added value initiatives designed to reward customers in what the operator recognises will be a tough year for many.

Holidaymakers booking a seven night Madeira break at Charming Hotels’ Quinta Das Vistas will receive a 50 minute Chandra Chocolate Sugar Temptation treatment per booking and those staying three nights or more at Quinta Do Monte will be given a complimentary tour of its gardens. This will include a history of the gardens and information on the use of its plants in food, beauty treatments and even as agricultural tools.

Both offers are valid for travel until 31 October 2009. A week’s stay at Quinta Das Vistas starts from £775 per person in March including return flights from London Gatwick, private taxi transfers and seven nights BB accommodation. A four night weekend break at Quinta Do Monte in March starts from £495 per person. For bookings , log on to Prestigeholidays.co.uk.

Quinta Das Vistas is a beautifully refurbished manor house located on a hill top overlooking Funchal with 71 rooms. Its Chandra Spa offers an extensive menu of treatments including new age massages and shower rituals. The hotel also has a panoramic restaurant, two outdoor pools and 9 hole mini golf.

Quinta Do Monte is an oasis of calm just 10 minutes from the centre of Funchal. It has just 36 rooms and facilities include a restaurant, gym and swimming pool. The hotel is also the ideal place to begin a levada walk and is close to the start of the traditional toboggan ride in a basket to Funchal. The modern cable car located moments from the Quinta goes directly to the old town of Funchal.