Some hotels you remember for what they offer. Others, for the way they make you see the world, while you’re visiting and after you leave. Reid’s Palace, A Belmond Hotel, Madeira, clearly belongs in the latter category. It isn’t designed to dazzle, per se (though dazzle it does). Instead, it places you in a context; a curated environment so well defined that even something as familiar as a game of tennis takes on a new dimension.
Every Belmond property has a way of inhabiting a place: observing, respecting rhythms, enjoying routines and small details. That ability to create a coherent framework–within which lucky guests can experience the world, if only for a little while–is what sets their hotels apart.