Brilliant tour headed by Leuis who picked us up for the half day island tour at 0830 hours from our hotel. He was very chatty and helpful throughout, telling us... read more many anecdotes and interesting facts about the places we visited. Highly recommend this tour, a fantastic experience.

  We went on the 4x4 trip to the West of Madeira. It was a good mix of off road and sightseeing day, with very good cheap food, fish with bananas... read more was a bit weird to be honest, but the gorgeous red wine went drown a treat. The your guide/driver(Nuno) was great telling us about the places we visited and a good guy. We enjoyed it so much that we are going to book another trip with Discovery Island!

  An adrenaline fuelled trip - beautiful scenery, abseiling, jumping, clambering over rocks and dips in cold running water. Wetsuits, boots, helmets provided. Safe but good level of challenge.

We... read more took the Level 1 course 4 years ago which was a great intro to this more advanced experience

Excellent guides (three for a party of nine), made a real effort to make sure we had a great day. Over 600 excellent photos taken by the guides as a great memento of our journey down the river. The age of participants varied from 23 to 59, all of us had a reasonable level of fitness.

  Fantastic experience, making our trip to Madeira even more memorable. Our guide was knowledgeable, friendly and made us feel very safe. We can't wait to come back and do more... read more activities.

  Great East Madeira tour with Justin. Fun and educational. Six people. Lunch was very good. Loved the overlooks and the views. Sorry levada walk was nice

  Antonio our tour guide & fabulous driver gave us two amazing trips around the beautiful island of Madeira.
His knowledge of the island was exceptional and his friendly happy... read more demeanour made our experience very special.
The tours themselves offered great variety and fun off road experience. We felt that we really got to see some of the beautiful scenery the island has in abundance.
We highly recommend the trips with discovery island but Antonia made the trips even more memorable.
We only wish we could see more.

  If there was an option for 10 stars we would

The pick up was prompt and the journey was luxurious in a Mercedes van. Both Sandro and Filipe... read more were friendly and funny!

The journey up took about 30 minutes, when we got there we got changed in to our kit and got back in the van to the start. Definitely wear swimwear under your clothes for a quick and easy change.

We were shown how to use the ropes and we began. Even though this was the beginner option it was not slow or overloaded with instructions. We were explained how to keep ourselves safe and most importantly enjoy the experience.

The first waterfall decent was compulsory and a great way to build confidence. The first part of the route was 'more walking' but we didn't notice as it was still full of jumps and abseils.

The second part was more action packed, with slides, jumps and consecutive abseils. It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience and the two guides made it exceptional. They were very laid back and kept us all laughing in many different ways.

They showed us how to jump in to the pools to ensure we felt safe enough to go for it. There was another trip ahead of us and the one time we saw them on the waterfall they did not seem to be having as much fun as we were!!!

I would 100% recommend this company, not just for the journey, equipment or location but the two guides who made our day perfect. My only regret, we didn't do this sooner on our trip. If we could, we would go again tomorrow.

They also took photos throughout and emailed them to us within 4 hours of the trip finishing. They made sure to capture everyone's enjoyment and have meant we have lovely memories to look back on.

Thank you Sandro and Filipe, we appreciate your hard work to make sure we had a great time.

If we come back to madeira, we will be seeing you both again. Love, Diba and Danni

  An eventful day with a wonderful guide.
The rainforests in the mountains were a great experience.
Madeira in a nutshell makes you want more.

  Fantastic trip - west Madera. Very exciting. Atmosphere was friendly. Vieves were beautyfull. Miguel is realy positive person.

  Nice trip. We drive through the west side of Madera Island. Maybe the weather was not perfect (fog), but the the driver told a lot of interesting things about the... read more area. We take the hardly passable roads and we saw a lot of interesting things.