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Holidays Algarve  -  Travel information Algarve.

The Portuguese Algarve is a good place to visit all year round.

Albufeira, Armação de Pêra, Carvoeiro, Almancil, Lagos, Montechoro, Portimão, Praia da Rocha, Vilamoura

Capital City Algarve : Faro.


car hire, holiday homes, hostels, hotels & inns, travel agency, travel guides, transportation / travelling to the algarve

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Camping & Caravanning

Campings  -  camping, motorhomes, mobile homes, caravans etc.

Car Hire Algarve

 Sixt  -   
Pick-Up Station / Return Station: Faro, Lisbon and Porto

 Holiday Autos  -    
Holiday Autos offers the best fully inclusive car hire prices. Get cheap car hire quickly and securely online with holidayautos.co.uk, the experts in online car rental.

   
From Enhanced Hertz Driving Directions to Emergency Roadside Assistance, check out the many reasons why Hertz is #1 in Car Rental

Holiday Homes / Apartments

James Villas  -  Villas and villas with pools to rent with James Villa Holidays

Interhome  -  Holiday homes Algarve
All properties are checked on a regular basis. All homes can be booked on-line. Properties are shown by destination.

 Euro Relais  -  Holiday Cottages in Portugal
Charming chalet, villa, castle or mill? Country cottage, mansion or farmhouse? Discover their special holiday homes and book online!

 Portugalvacances.com  -  Villas and holidays in Portugal at affordable prices
 Holiday Rentals

Hotels Algarve

 Hotels in Algarve
Hotels in Albufeira, Faro, Lagos, Tavira, Vilamoura, Almancil, Quarteira, Alvor, Portimão, Armação de Pêra, Praia da Rocha, Carvoeiro, and more ...

 Grande Real Santa Eulália Resort & Hotel Spa *****, Praia De Stª Eulália, Albufeira
Award winning Spa - Thalasso on the beach in the Algarve.
Set on lush gardens and situated right above the famous Santa Eulália beach, the Grande Real Santa Eulália Resort & Hotel Spa benifits from a unique and privileged location in Albufeira and offers an exceptional view over the Atlantic Ocean.

 Sheraton Algarve *****, Praia da Falésia, 8200-909 Albufeira
Encircled by pine trees and overlooking a white sandy beach and clear blue waters, this hotel offers the ultimate in comfort and leisure facilities.
Spend your time on the 9-hole golf course or mini golf, or take time out to relax in the health club or outdoor pools.
Try something different with the water sports facilities, or use one of 5 tennis courts for a energetic morning.
Drive along the coast to Olhos de Agua or Albufeira to see more of the Algarve's impressive coastline before returning to your comfortable hotel and its wealth of facilities. Choose how to spend your evening from a number of restaurants serving different types of cuisine.

 

More Hotel? See the page Hotels

Hostels / Budget Accommodations

  Somewhere2stay.com   -  Cheap Holiday Accommodation Algarve

 
Hostelbookers.com is one of the worlds largest online booking services for hostels. All hostels you see here are offering realtime prices and availability.

 Pousadas Juventude  -  click on 'Contactos e links'
 Youth hostels in Portugal

Travel Agents / Tour Operators

 Cosmos  -  Algarve
Cosmos is UK's largest independent tour operator.

Sovereign Premium Holidays [ ATOL 230 ]
Destinations : Carvoeiro, Olhos d'Agua, Porches, Praia da Falesia, Santa Eulalia, Vale do Lobo and Villamoura.
As well as all the usual watersports, most of our hotels offer tennis and all are near some of Europe's finest golf courses where we can pre-book your tee times. Opt for one of our family selections and we promise no squabbles as they all have a full programme of children's events, games and competitions. After dark - it's up to you - dress for a night out at the casino, go on to a sophisticated jazz club, or just walk barefoot down the beach to that little fish restaurant where they know just how to chill the vinho verde and serve the freshest sardines.
Sovereign is a specialist tour operator with more than 30 years experience.

My Travel  -  Sun Holidays

Cresta Holidays 
Cheap Breaks Algarve.

  -  Create your perfect trip to Algarve  -  Flight, Hotel and Car



James Villas  -  Algarve villas and villas with pools to rent with James Villa Holidays

 Secret Destinations Holidays  -  Sandy beaches; Quiet coves; Golf

Travel Guides Algarve / Related books

Travel Guides Algarve [ Amazon.co.uk ]

Algarve Insight Pocket Guide 
This 104-page book offers an expert's guide to the Algarve, with 19 itineraries and excursions taking in sights ranging from Faro's cobbled back streets to the region's sweeping, sandy beaches. It also includes a chapter detailing Algarve's history and culture, as well as leisure-time suggestions and a comprehensive information section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus dozens of full-colour photographs and detailed maps, including a detailed pull-out regional map.
Paperback 104 pages (October 29, 2004); Publisher: Insight Guides; Language: English; ISBN: 9812580301
Algarve - Landscapes Countryside Guide - Brian Anderson, Eileen Anderson
Away from the busy beaches, the Algarve has a countryside full of interest and beauty, quietly awaiting discovery. From flowers and fountains, hilltops and history, to windmills and water-mills, this book will set your feet wandering to find them all. There are car tours, too, to get you out and about, searching out little -known points of interest-like the huge rose compass (rosa dos ventos) on the barren promontory of Sagres, where Prince Henry the Navigator founded his school of navigation, or the Moorish castle and old Roman bridge at Paderne. But don't think for one moment that we have turned our backs on and ignored the beautiful and rugged western coastline. Wherever it is still unspoilt and free from development, the authors have incorporated it into a walk.
Paperback 136 pages (November 1, 2004); Publisher: Sunflower Books; Language: English; ISBN: 1856912582.
Portugal - Rough Guide 
By Mark Ellingham, Graham Kenyon, John Fisher, Jules Brown, Matthew Hancock.
Paperback 640 pages (March 31, 2005); Publisher: Rough Guides; Language: English; ISBN: 184353438X.

Transport / How do I travel to Algarve

 Airport Faro 

  Opodo  -   
Flight tickets Faro.

Freedom Flights  - UK seat only operator - Flight tickets to Faro [ May through October ]

 
Book cheap flights to Algarve / Faro at ebookers and benefit from discounted airfares. View their latest offers and book your flights, accommodation, car hire and insurance online

  Airline Tickets / Bargain Flights to the Algarve 

 TAP Air Portugal

  -  Ferry Portsmouth to Bilbao
P&O Ferries is one of the most well known and trusted brands. Wherever you are travelling to, on holiday or on business, P&O Ferries offers a wide range of routes: Dover to Calais, Portsmouth to Bilbao, Portsmouth to Cherbourg, Portsmouth to Le Havre, Hull to Rotterdam and Hull to Zeebrugge

  -  Eurolines  -  coach line to Portugal

 Portugese Railways

 Online Maps [ Uni Texas  -  Perry-Castañeda Library  -  Map Collection Europe ]


Links 

 Travel Insurance

 Algarve Tourist Board

 Faro
The long strip of dunes that separates the sea from the Ria Formosa is a paradise for anyone who enjoys sun, sand and sea. With the advantage that visitors can choose from a necklace of separate islands, and have mile after mile of sandy beaches all to themselves.
* Ilha de Faro: linked to the mainland by a road, this island has a small nucleus of beach houses, restaurants and other tourist facilities.
* Ilha de Barreta: this island is truly calm and solitary. Thanks to the fact that there are no regular ferry connections. It is an excellent destination for anyone who has hired a boat or is lucky enough to have their own and who wants to enjoy the pleasures of sea and sand undisturbed by other holidaymakers.
* Ilha do Farol: apart from a few fishermen's cabins, there is nothing on these islands but sand...
* Culatra: a former fishing village, until a few decades ago the houses of Culatra had wooden walls and thatched roofs. Fishing still goes on, and shell fish are harvested from the Ria. There is an extensive beach which is quiet, with a family atmosphere. Regular steam boat services run to the Farol and Culatra beaches from Faro [ summer ] and Olhão [ all year ].

 Albufeira
 Alcoutim 
 Aljezur
 Armação de Pêra
 Carvoeiro  -  Carvoeiro.com  -  Web site for Praia do Carvoeiro
 Castro Marim
 Almancil
 Lagos
 Loulé
 Montechoro
 Portimão  -  Marina de Portimao
 Praia da Rocha
 Vilamoura  -  Marina Vilanoura

 Aljezur Castle
 Cape of St. Vincent
 Forte da Ponta da Bandeira
 Ingrina Beach
 Lagos' Walls
 News  -  The Portugal News
The News is Portugal's largest circulation English language newspaper. Established for over 20 years, it is the only Portuguese newspaper on the net that covers all the major news about Portugal in the English language.
 Pele Park  -  Football Park
 Slave Market
 Zoo Marine

Cuisine

Each region of Portugal has its own traditional dishes, including various kinds of meat, sea-food, diverse and fresh fish (including the 365 ways of making cod dishes, a nationwide favourite dish).

 Virtual Portugal  -  Eating & Drinking in Portugal
Fish and Crustaceans; Meat, fowl and game; Cheeses; Desserts; Wines of Portugal [ a wealthy in good wines and, apart from the unique Port and Madeira - see map ]; Eating & Drinking places directories

Film / Movie

  Fado, Historia d'uma Cantadeira [1947] - Regie Perdigao Queiroga
Melodrama about a singer [ her love for Julio - a simple giutar player is hindering her singing career ]. Lots of music and singing. Leading role: Amalia Rodrigues. See MDB

History of Algarve

 History on Portugal - WikipediA
Portugal during the past 3,000 years has witnessed a constant ebb and flow of different civilizations. Phoenician, Greek, Celtic, Carthaginian, Roman, Barbarian and Arabic cultures have all made an imprint in Portugal. In the 15th century, Portugal also entered into world history. Remarkable discoveries by its maritime explorers led to the accumulation of an overseas empire.
 National Archeological Museum

Music, Culture & Entertainment

 Agenda Cultural Nacional
 Instituto Camoes  -  Portuguese Cultural Center
 Music Museum
The Music Museum is an institution under the Portuguese Institute of Museums (Instituto Português de Museus ), in which one of the richest instrument collections in Europe is housed, along with documents, an iconography collection and sound archive.
 Portugese Cinema

 MP3's  -  Portuguese Music

Web Portal / Search Engines / Directories

 Algarve.org
The Algarve.org website is aimed to be the most comprehensive information centre for anyone who wishes to visit one of the most beautiful holiday destinations in the world: The Algarve.
 Essential Algarve  -  Algarve magazine

 Portugal4you.com  -  Online Travel Guide for Portugal, Madeira und Azoren
 Portugal
 Portugalinfo
 Portugal Travel Guide

 Yellow Pages  -  English / Prtuguese
 Telephone Guide  -  English / Portuguese language


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