Much appreciated.

Thank you. Do you have a particular favourite among the Zest suppliers?

Does anyone have any recommendations regarding Zest's suppliers? I have used Drive4Fun with them in the past but they appear upper end in cost terms. Also, I buy an annual excess/top-up cover - anyone had any issues with Zest suppliers accepting this sort of insurance? I really don't want to get inv...

Not seeking to be provocative but I'd be interested to hear Steen's view on this. There are a lot of his customers here, me included, and I can see that there are issues for the car hire sector as a whole. However, I'd like to understand why his prices, generally very competitive, now seem more expe...

Thanks Gordon.
Shame. Mind you, l can't wait to give it a bash!

Even better.
Thank you for the info.

Well, that's cheered me up. When we first started using Jota Lita John ran it with his brother, who I understand became the town's mayor. They used to do some terribly transparent card tricks, completely deadpan, which kept all the kids in the restaurant spellbound. Happy days. We have met his siste...

Apologies - this might more properly go in the Restaurants section. However, I felt it might reach a wider audience here. I understand that Jota Lita has a sign on the door saying that when it re-opens it will be "under new management". Been visiting this restaurant since 1998 with my family, bringi...

Oddly enough, the beachcam appears to be back to normal, with no blurring! Maybe they read the email I sent them.

Which is perfectly sensible, but it makes it even odder that this camera, and many others at Algarve beaches, have been running for so long, with no blurring of any sort. And, if they are blurred, I can't see why anyone would want to set up and operate one anyway!

Now you mention it, that's it. I knew it wasn't actually Vaseline on the lens, and that the top bit remained in focus, but it just didn't occur to me that it might be deliberate. To be honest, the privacy issue was one I'd thought of on all of these cams in the past (imagine a night time beach indis...

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

Thank you - very helpful. As I say, not a deciding factor, but useful to know. Just have to make our minds up whether to bite the bullet now. Really missing our fix as we're ordinarily over three times a year. To make matters worse, someone seems to have smeared Vaseline on the lens of the beachcam,...

Toying with the idea of a break in October - our March/April holiday having been cancelled means this has been our first year since 1998 without a visit, and we're pining. Interested to know if restaurants, shops etc. are accepting cash. By no means a deal breaker but I'd bought Euros for trip to Po...

I paid with my Virgin debit card for some flights. Virgin were happy to consider a chargeback.