Madeira Bus & Touring Map

Really useful, accurate, bus and travel map, includes contours so you can get a good sense of geography as well as road and bus routes. Great for our recent visit to the Island. Accurate and useful information on buses, routes and where to get tickets. Funchal city map on reverse was useful too. If you are updating it please consider using laminated/ tough paper as with some walking maps - the only improvement would be for it to be slightly more durable.

I recently use this map on a walking holiday based in Funchal where we used buses a lot. It packs a lot of data into a small package and is generally accurate and very good value . I found it very useful in planning walks but it needs to be used with up to date timetables generally available on the online bus websites quoted. The bus stop locations in Funchal are especially useful. If you are walking in the country a good walks guide is also essential and some contain similar information. . However to be nit-picking there are one or two imperfections e.g the route description for bus 22 suggests a walk to Romeiros but this has been closed since 2011 after a major forest fire. The key does not include all the symbols used (e.g the white and black trails such as the coast path from Camara de Lobos into Funchal) . The map of Funchal is simplified for space reasons and you will also need the more detailed town maps available free from the tourist office On balance I think it deserves 4 stars because it is very good but it could be improved further.

An excellent aid to bus routes, how to use the Giro card, where to catch buses etc. It also shows walking routes, though you may require a more detailed guide for those if you are a serious walker. A good addition to those who enjoy using public transport.

Usually we hire a car, but with the help of this excellent map we used public transport - which is good and cheap. Most places on the island are accessible. Best tip - buy a carnet from shops or vendors opn main streets and save money.

This was ok but I used Google to find the buses when I was in Madeira, and it gave me the bus times and showed me where the bus stop was.

When planning my walking holiday to Madeira, for which I would not use a hire car, I bought the Waterproof "Super-Durable" Tour & Trail Map, the paper version of that map, Volume 1 of the Tour & Trail book as well as this map. With the benefit of hindsight I should have bought this map instead of the paper version of the map. Note that this "Bus & Touring Map" is 1:60,000 (to allow box panel info on bus routes and an excellently detailed map of the Funchal municipality) rather than the 1:40,000 scale of the paper or waterproof Tour & Trail maps (which have half the island on each side). As the paper and waterproof versions of the Tour & Trail maps are exactly the same (except for the paper stock it's printed on), this is the map to buy in addition to the waterproof version. The bus system on Madeira is far more difficult to navigate (especially on very rural routes), but this map can help to make sense of it all - though I still recommend asking locals and checking route progress with GoogleMaps on your phone to make sure you get where you want to be.

I bought this map for my wife who went to Madeira with a friend. She found the map extremely useful as the planning aide for the week since they spent their time there exploring the island by bus.

An excellent product for travelling on Madeira using public transport. This replaces an earlier edition which is now out of date.

Map is clear and concise. Shows everything you need for taking buses on a visit to Madeira.

It takes a little work to figure out but well worth the time invested.