taxi price

[scottishstacey]

How much is a taxi from faro airport to carvoeiro?? We havent completely decided wether to hire a car, we probably will because we want to go day trips to praia da rocha etc but other than that we probably wont use it much. We got quoted around 300-400 for the car, dont know the exact price because it was dave that did it. its a lot of money to waste if we're only going to use it a handful of times but it depends on how much a taxi would cost

[Bristle Si]

Depends if you want a private taxi transfer or transfer by shutte bus/minibus. A private taxi will take you to your destination with no other drop-offs - a shuttle taxi/minibus will drop a number of people off at different locations and/or properties.

We always do private taxi, because we like to just come out of the airport and get to CVO - always book it online - we arrive Saturday 3rd Sept in the morning - booked with EasyGo (used them for years now) - it's cost me 90 euros return (2 of us) to take us to a private apartment in Monte CVO.

I think a shared shuttle with a co. like Resorthoppa would be around 20 euros each for a return.

Pay your money and take your choice, i guess.

Regards

[scottishstacey]

Cheers, theres just going to be the 3 of us and 2 suitcases. I'll speak to dave tomorrow and see what he thinks. Im more than happy just to spend the 2 weeks in town, on the beach etc but he'll get restless and want to go drives. Are there buses that go to praia da rocha and other places from carvoeiro?

[TomUK]

Stacey: there are a few posts on here if you search back which give details of many airport transfer options (one of them posted by me). We are paying a company called HolidayTaxis.com, £22 return for two us (i.e £11 each) for a shuttle bus transfer in September. We booked it through Travel Republic which was a couple of pounds cheaper than booking with them direct. I was expecting a minibus last May, but it turned out to be a luxury coach with just 16 people on it!
Have a browse back through the posts for about three pages and you will see a topic called 'Airport Transfers' - lots of advice there.

[scottishstacey]

WOW thats really cheap! is there some sort of catch? lol. is there a place in carvoeiro where you can hire a car or does it need to be from the airport. my idea was to hire a car for a few days and then do the trips we want to do

[TomUK]

algarvedriver.com are supposed to be good. They advertise on here (see top of page).

[scottishstacey]

i had a look at them other day and when i filled in the info form it came up saying they had no cars available for the dates we selected, ill keep trying though. we had a car for the two weeks last time but we stayed in a villa down a track road near benagil so we were far away from everything. i really dont mind not having a car this time but i guess its upto dave since hes the one that will be driving it! im going to see if i can find out about the bus services

[joeysoap]

Hi Stacey

this is an intermediary, they deal with loads of companies so maybe better chance

http://www.atlaschoice.com

I usually use http://www.bestdeal-algarve.com/ but they might not have a car available

€400 seems a bit rough for september.

you can also purchase insurance with atlasdirect , a sister company of atlaschoice for much less than with atlas choice - silly but true.

[natking]

I always use economycarhire. This is a website where you can choose from a number of suppliers. I have used drive 4 fun through this site for October. Got a seat Ibiza for €15 per day including insurance.

A friend of mine stayed in Ferragudo last summer, didn't have a car but visited a few of the nearby towns using local bus service.

[fmm]

Try www.economycarrentals.com
I've had a car for nearly 3 weeks in August for £360 - decent car as well.
There is a car hire place opposite the apartment, but I have never used them as I'd rather use the money to get from the airport towards car hire - whatever, it will cost you a minimum of around 50 euros for three of you (and likely more than that), so put it towards car hire!

[EMM]

We have been quoted 60euros each way in a private mini bus door to door no luggage extras ( watch out for this with taxis ) or late/early arrival departure time premiums.
If you re staying in town close to one of the big tranfer company " official "drop off points you should obviously get it for less.

[Polli62]

Try algarve-365.com they are based in Praia da Rocha, they quote 1-4 persons €50 one way from airport to Carvoeiro

[scottishstacey]

Thanks everyone. I have been quoted a good price of 100euros for return for all of us plus golf pickups. going to have a talk with dave when hes home from work. I think he'd prefer to hire a car but me and his mum have agreed that we're happy without one, we just wait to relax on the beach, go for dinner etc. Its a hard one!! Id hate to hire one and for it just to sit there, its quite a lot of money to waste. Could go towards good food and drink!

I'll have another look at car hire and see if i can find a better quote


What is the bus service like in carvoeiro? what places can you go to

[scottishstacey]

are there coach trips anywhere?

[logicbob]

There are two or three places in CVO that sell excursions to just about anywhere.