Serial Number: FP0291
Status: Display
Description:
Reid’s Palace Madeira Black and silver barrel , silver clip and tip
Belmond Reid s Palace (a.k.a. Reid s Palace) is a historic hotel located to the west of Funchal Bay in Madeira (Portugal), in an imposing position looking out over the Atlantic Ocean. The hotel has beautiful sloping gardens. William Reid, the son of a Scottish crofter, originally arrived in Madeira in 1836. He hired out quintas to wealthy invalids and moved on to hotels, but died before his Reid s hotel was completed.The hotel was designed by the architects George Somers Clarke and John Thomas Micklethwaite. It opened as the New Hotel in November 1891 and later became the New Palace Hotel, then Reid s Palace or just Reid s . The hotel was acquired by Orient-Express Hotels Ltd., which changed its name to Belmond Ltd. on 10 March 2014. At that time the hotel changed its name to Belmond Reid s Palace.
