This hotel is off the beaten path, but still fairly close to everything. It's probably the cheapest 5 star hotel on Madeira and one of the most charming ones. This hotel is so idyllic and the location makes it excellent for a romantic getaway. It's a bio hotel so everything is based on an organic concept where luxury is combined with sustainability that actually makes sense.

THE ORGANIC PROJECT AT HOTEL QUINTA DA SERRA

The Hotel Quinta da Serra, located in the parish of Jardim da Serra, in the upper areas of Câmara de Lobos has a strong historical, social and botanical component associated with luxurious facilities. Taking advantage of these valences is the ambition of the current Administration to preserve and enhance the natural resources characteristic of the island of Madeira.

In this sense, this establishment was equipped with technology that aims at economic sustainability and above all environmental, fulfilling the norms defined by the program Green Key (https://greenkey.org.uk/ or https://greenkey.abae.pt/) having obtained the Green Key Award for Hotel Establishments from 2016 until this year.

As an example of the environmental technologies used, we have solar panels and a WWTP that allows the use of wastewater for irrigation, thus increasing the efficiency in the management of water resources. In addition, of its 9.6 ha of land, Quinta's administration opted to convert the entire area with agricultural aptitude to the organic production method (MPB), that is, more than 25,400.00 m2 of land. Among these 2,300.00 m2 are cultivated with vegetables; 18,700.00 m2 with various fruit trees and 4,400.00 m2 with vineyards of the Sercial variety. This is one of the so-called "noble castes", which contributed a lot to what we know today as Madeira Wine.

The Quinta also has more than 30.000,00 m2 of forest area, mostly reforested with species belonging to the exuberant Laurissilva forest, initially destroyed by the first settlers for the construction of cultivated areas. In the end, we returned to Mother Nature what was already hers.

It was also on this property that the first tea plants (Camelia sinensis) were introduced, by the founder of this property, the English consul Henry Veitch. With the passage of the years and with the abandonment to which the Quinta was subject, this species was lost. With the renovation made in our Quinta in 2013/2014, new plants were introduced, in order to preserve this historical aspect.

In order to give consistency to the valorization of regional products and to organic farming itself, we certify, as organic, the Hotel's restaurant. In this way, customers can taste dishes exclusively prepared with "bio" products, produced in the place where the restaurant is inserted, a particularity that guarantees an unequaled freshness.