Porto Santo Line Makes Extra Trips on Sunday 12th June

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

This is all very good, but where are you going to stay??? The island is totally full. Booking. Com brings up 2 options and the same for Airbnb, screenshot below. So if you have upwards of €2000 for 3nights then you should be OK. With the high demand and all the new flights going to the island, the mayor of Porto Santo has already said that new hotels will be built in the near future. 

Porto Santo Line will open extra trips for the long weekend.

The extra trips for the 12th of June serve to encourage the search for the island of Porto Santo in a three-day weekend, explains Porto Santo Line, in a statement.

Therefore, the hours will be as follows:

Funchal – Porto Santo: 8:00 am and 4:30 pm (extra)

Porto Santo – Funchal: 1 pm (extra) and 8 pm

To change tickets (which are exempt from the respective fee), customers should go to the Porto Santo Line counters:

Avenida do Mar e das Comunidades Madeirenses, nº 20, Funchal: from Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 6 pm and, Saturdays, from 9 am to 1 pm;
Estrada Monumental, nº 175 C, Funchal: from Monday to Sunday, from 9 am to 12.30 pm and from 2 pm to 8 pm;
Rua D. Estevão de Alencastre, Loja 6/7, Porto Santo: from Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 12.30 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm;
Contact can also be made by telephone to 291 210 300: from Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 12.30 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm. And also by email to  infopsl@gruposousa.pt .

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5 Responses

  1. I repeat what I said yesterday, even though senhor Lamas will disagree as he always does, but Madeira is going to price itself out of existence. Thankfully we will be long gone before this happens.

    2. Well let´s agree to disagree then.

      Unlike Madeira, Porto Santo is an extremely seasonal holiday destination which runs basically from mid June to mid September. As any other holiday destination which is seasonal and focused on “beach type” holiday, Porto Santo needs to work in Summer to sleep in Winter so the great amount of visitors is only good news for the local population. Obviously, the main goal should be to sell Porto Santo from Mid-April to end of October but you can only do that if people get to know Porto Santo. Porto Santo is one of those islands you either get in love with or hate and it is not an island easy to sell on holiday brochures. People need to get there for a first time to feel the need to return even if not on a so busy month.

      As a general comment, the pandemic years were harsh but some people saw here a great opportunity to use this for political reasons and knock down governments. It happens that the local government in Madeira actually got stronger due to the way how it dealt with the pandemic. So, having that failed for the opponents, the economic disgrace and starvation following pandemic would be Plan B to knock down the government, But then again, suddenly the island is full of visitors, new companies, new investments, more employment, etc, and there goes Plan B. So, because the pandemic did not kill many people in Madeira, and the economy is not only withstanding but actually growing, there needs to be a Plan C which apparently is “the fact that not many people died of the pandemic in the island and the economy is actually growing will make Madeira actually price out of existence”.

  2. Suggest using Airbnb instead of the large hotel chains, generally the spend goes more into the local ecomony

    1. Nothing available as I pointed out, the island is drenched with package holidays, some hotels are not even accepting bookings from Madeira, Lua Mar being one of those. So all rental properties are boojed to the middle of September…

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