About Algarve Tours

Who we are

The site is written by Algarve Tours editorial, a small group, not a named guide. A named Algarve-based author, a licensed guide or a coastal naturalist, is being recruited; until that person is on the page, the site claims no field visits it has not made.

Every figure on a page is taken from the operator's own page or an official source and carries the date it was read. Pricing is checked against operator rate cards, never against aggregator listings. What cannot be checked is left out.

Why this exists

The coast between Sagres and the Spanish border holds three quite different Algarves, and a visitor with one week has to pick one. Search for help with that and you mostly get listing pages ordered by commission, where every activity is excellent and nothing is ever wrong for anyone. That is not advice, it is a shelf. This site is the other thing: someone who lives here saying which is which, and who each one is not for.

We started this site because we got tired of friends booking the wrong activity for their trip. A €25 Benagil speedboat is incredible for someone with one cruise port-day - and underwhelming for someone who came specifically to photograph the cave at sunrise. We tell you which is which.

How we work

• Coverage across the 3 Algarve regions - West (Sagres / Lagos), Central (Carvoeiro / Albufeira), East (Faro / Tavira). Each major activity is compared on what operators publish: licence, group size, duration, inclusions, price and cancellation terms, read on the date shown on the page.
• Prices re-read from operator websites. The last-verified date on every activity, town, and price page says when each price was read.
• We never accept hosted trips without disclosing them. If we ever review a comped trip, you'll see "comped" tagged on that review.

How we make money

We earn affiliate commission when you book through GetYourGuide or Viator links on this site. The commission is paid by the platform, not by you - your price is identical whether you click through us or go direct. We disclose this on every page that contains affiliate links.

What we don't do: take bookings, arrange trips, broker introductions to operators, sell ad placements, accept cash or comped trips for placement, or rank operators by commission rate. No operator can buy a position here, and none has ever been offered one.

Editorial policy on operator listings

Every listing is editorial. An operator appears because we paid for its trip and checked its licence, and for no other reason. There is no featured tier, no sponsored slot and no way to buy one, which is why the counter on the front page reads zero and is meant to stay there.

Trust + accuracy

Every activity, town, operator, and guide page shows a "Last verified" date and the verifying author. If you find something out of date - pricing changed, operator closed, link broken - we want to know.

Use the contact form; the site has no mailbox. A correction with a source is applied on the page and the verified date updated.