Your Madeira trip, planned day by day by a local family

€149 for trips of up to 5 days and €199 for 6 to 8 days. You pay once, with a link, after we have confirmed we can help. For longer trips, tell us in the form and we send a price.

My family and I, by hand. I build the days from places we know, my mother, who has a degree in Tourism and plans trips for a living, checks them, and my father, who drives the island’s roads for work, checks the routes and the food stops. The plan is not generated from a template.

It can write you an itinerary, and it is fine for a first idea. What it cannot do is know which trail is closed this week, how long the drive really takes behind a slow lorry, where the hour without a queue is, or which restaurant is only good on a weekday. We check the facts against official sources, date them and plan around them. And you get more than text: a private page, a PDF, a map for every day and a call.

Tell us what to change within 7 days of delivery and we send a new version. If the plan still does not work for you, ask within those days and before your trip, and we refund the full amount. We also refund you if we find we cannot make the plan.

No. You book yourself, and the plan tells you what to book, when and where, with links. Some of those links are affiliate links, so we earn a commission if you book through them, at no extra cost to you. We only recommend what we would send a friend. You can read the details on our How we make money page.

Our family is working on a service where flights, hotel and car are booked for you through a licensed travel agency. It is not open yet. Tell us in the form if you would like to hear when it is.

Yes. We plan around buses, transfers and day tours, and say honestly what that changes. Some days that work with a car are not possible without one, and we tell you which.

Yes, and it is one of the most useful parts. We work out which trails to book on SIMplifica, in which slots, and how to get back from the end of a one-way trail like the PR1.

The plan takes 48 hours once you have paid. Ask any time before you fly, but for trail slots and popular tours earlier is better, because some sell out weeks ahead.

We use what you send only to make your plan and to message you about it. Your private plan page is not listed in search engines, uses only your first name and dates, and is deleted a few months after your trip. More in our privacy policy.