This is a tentative step into the foreign market for LFH founders Nigel Chapman and Nicholas Dickinson. While they have had one season running the Meriski resort in the French Alps, this is their first proper foreign hotel venture. But rather than open their own property they have sought out a hotel with a similar appeal to those in the LFH stable and cut a deal through new company Four Winds Holidays to invest in and run children's facilities and market the hotel to their kind of punter. The hotel they have formed that partnership with is the five-star Jardins do Lago, just outside Funchal, Madeira's capital.