The Algarve

Reality|Bites said:
when I've been in the A&E most of the time I've seen doctors and nurses just standing around having chats and doing nothing, while I've been sat there waiting on a nurse or doctor what gives? :p
One time I actually spoke up saying a doctor was stood there chatting to three nurses and i'd been sat waiting for 2 hours...they replied that they were on a break....yeah they really deserve that pay rise they want huh :p
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Well your experience and knowledge of hospitals during a pandemic just can't be matched can it.
 
Dr House said:
Or is it more Set up like the Turkish resorts Where you basically just stay in your hotel with the odd day trip to the town?
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We did 10 days in Albufeira a few years ago and it was pretty much that. Did rent a car for a few days to explore, spent the rest of the time chilling. Some trips into town to get a meal out.
 
The Algarve is an acquired taste, I found the majority of the place to be very agreeable, with occasional spots that just didn’t suit me.
Carvoiero, (to me), was more than okay, good restaurants, relaxed bars, the very rare drunken Brit, I’d recommend it, but there again, perhaps tea as mum makes it, English breakfasts and wall to wall bars with Coronation Street or English football are your thing, head straight to Albufeira, do not pass Go, do not collect £200.
Lagos is okay, Silves even better, but this is all through my eyes, Quarteria, maybe okay now, but was a mini Albufeira.
Portimao I found okay, lots of shoe shops and decent bars, I wouldn’t hesitate to try it again.
I would recommend trying somewhere east of Faro, Tavira, Conceição de Tavira, Monte Gordo, Vila Real de Santo António.
Mostly visited by the 40 plus crowd, but all with excellent restaurants and bars.
 
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Do you not have to pay stupid amounts on tests and quarantine hotels to enter and leave, I read somewhere that for amber countries you need to stay in a quarantine hotel for days at a cost of £1750,?
 
just go a cycle to the country and save the hassle and home for dinner? lol
Why go abroad in the first place if you've settled down and not after drunk girls?
Just to tell people you've done so or you enjoy spending time in a hotel complex scared to mingle with the native population incase they mug you?
 
jsmoke said:
Do you not have to pay stupid amounts on tests and quarantine hotels to enter and leave, I read somewhere that for amber countries you need to stay in a quarantine hotel for days at a cost of £1750,?
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Portugal is currently green, which is why it's so popular right now.

@Dr House - The algarve can be as busy or quiet as you want. There's the usual tourist (drinking) towns like Albufeira to samll towns like Tavira, which are really quiet but have nice places to eat.

My mum is Portuguese and we have a house in Faro and one on one of the islands just off from Faro (which make for nice beach day trips). Try restaraunts 5-10 mins away from the busier streets, most of the staff speak some English and most menus are translated and the food is a lot better / cheaper. Have a walk about at around 8-9pm (when the Portuguese eat their evening meal) and see what places are busy with locals - they are the ones you want.
 
Reality|Bites said:
just go a cycle to the country and save the hassle and home for dinner? lol
Why go abroad in the first place if you've settled down and not after drunk girls?
Just to tell people you've done so or you enjoy spending time in a hotel complex scared to mingle with the native population incase they mug you?
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Are you OK?
 
Dr House said:
Thanks so it sounds like my plan was not a bad one. The GF was keen to drive around but I did not think it was that sort of place.
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I disagree with him, having been to Portugal 6-7 times.

Dr House said:
I’m completely burnt out due to Covid / work so I just booked 8 nights in the Algarve leaving next week. It’s not a place I’ve ever consider visiting but it’s on the green list and the weather looks ok.

Is it the sort of Place I should just find a cheap place to stay and move from place to place with a rental car visiting small towns like you do in Italy?

Or is it more Set up like the Turkish resorts Where you basically just stay in your hotel with the odd day trip to the town?

I have a refundable booking for the Anantara for the first 4 nights and PESTANA BLUE ALVOR for the next 4.

other than keeping a close eye on my kid anything I should not miss out on?
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I'd drive around, there's lots of little villages and towns dotted around that aren't too touristy, have great beaches etc.

I'd avoid Albufeira, it's nice enough but definitely geared towards tourists.

Going inland a bit as well there's a lot of hiking trails/nature if you were into that kind of thing. Some great roads as well.

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robfosters said:
Lol, stupidest post ever :cry:
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I would expect nothing less from him.
 
Josh said:
His inane drivel posting has been going on for a while.

Maybe the posts sound better in his head
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Yeah, seems to have appeared suddenly in the last few months and contaminates most threads. Hopefully once things have opened back up he can go back to whatever he was doing pre-lockdown.
 
Been a fair bit over the last few years, though we usually get a Villa with friends/family. Cant be doing with hotels/complexes and the British obsession with sunbeds.
 
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