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by joeysoap
Tue Aug 21, 2018 4:11 pm
Forum: Restaurant reviews
Topic: Restaurants on visit
Replies: 4
Views: 5493

Re: Restaurants on visit

Must have overlapped, family and me there for 3 weeks until 15 August!! Useful comments about your experiences. Never been to Chef's Kitchen, O Albatroz or Pashmina yet. Totally agree with Jomar, we do lunch and dinner there (not on same day I'd add!!!) Twice went to the Gurka place, verdict? Jury ...
by joeysoap
Sun Aug 19, 2018 2:20 am
Forum: Restaurant reviews
Topic: Restaurants on visit
Replies: 4
Views: 5493

Restaurants on visit

Just returned home from a 3 week stay in CVO Restaurants we visited on this trip, Pashmina: excellent, fresh food with with really good flavours, service was good. Taste: so good we went twice. Outdoor setting close to the road but still very nice outdoor space. Cyprian and Nicola have have improved...
by joeysoap
Mon Jul 30, 2018 12:51 am
Forum: Buy, sell or exchange
Topic: Baby matress and cot for sale
Replies: 0
Views: 2749

Baby matress and cot for sale

As new. Used twice - one week in 2017 and again one week this year.

Cost was about €150 for both. No reasonable offer refused.
by joeysoap
Sat Mar 31, 2018 1:58 am
Forum: Restaurant reviews
Topic: Rising prices
Replies: 29
Views: 23965

Re: Rising prices

I worked in a shop many years ago. 2 reasons then for the 99p on things. They thought it would look 99p cheaper as people would only look at the £ amount. More importantly in the times of a manual till, the till had to be opened to give the 1p change so shop assistants were less likely to pocket th...
by joeysoap
Fri Mar 30, 2018 4:40 pm
Forum: General Carvoeiro
Topic: Train to ferragudo
Replies: 7
Views: 8800

Re: Train to ferragudo

Anyone know when the little train starts again?

And if there’s an Easter parade ?
by joeysoap
Sun Mar 25, 2018 12:59 pm
Forum: Restaurant reviews
Topic: Taste
Replies: 7
Views: 7278

Re: Taste

Excellent on Tuesday night. Ciprian was on Chef duty, but still had a word with everyone.
by joeysoap
Sun Mar 25, 2018 12:54 pm
Forum: General Carvoeiro
Topic: New Security Scanners at Faro Airport
Replies: 11
Views: 9120

Re: New Security Scanners at Faro Airport

Went through security yesterday, lots of staff on duty. Confess I didn’t notice there was automatic scanners but as I was taking I my iPad out of the case, one of the security stand said to leave it in the case, ( not in cabin bag, but small bag with iPad, phone, keys etc). They have the same system...
by joeysoap
Fri Mar 16, 2018 1:07 pm
Forum: General Carvoeiro
Topic: Algarve Driver
Replies: 5
Views: 4880

Re: Algarve Driver

Are you supposed to book another rental starting in CVO and ending at the airport for the other end of your visit? Thanks Richard. You collect the car as normal at airport and they collect it at your accommodation xx days later. Free if 6 days or more €15 for under 6 days. No other company offer th...
by joeysoap
Thu Mar 15, 2018 5:51 pm
Forum: General Carvoeiro
Topic: Algarve Driver
Replies: 5
Views: 4880

Re: Algarve Driver

i intend to use Algarve Driver for the first time this summer as they allow you to pick up the car at airport and they collect it in cvo my query: they are offering airport transfers for people like me who wont have a car for the return journey to the airport the price is sort of in-between, not as ...
by joeysoap
Thu Feb 15, 2018 2:33 am
Forum: General Carvoeiro
Topic: Bus from Lagoa to seville
Replies: 8
Views: 7071

Re: Bus from Lagoa to seville

Hi Tricky, long time no see, It looks like there is only one bus from Lagoa daily at 07:05 until 31/06, and the ticket office is not open at that time so ticket has to be a bought online or day previously. The service from Lagoa looks pretty poor even during the summer. http://www.algarvebus.info/00...
by joeysoap
Wed Feb 07, 2018 12:35 am
Forum: General Carvoeiro
Topic: Resort Hoppa
Replies: 14
Views: 12628

Re: Resort Hoppa

Always use Faro shuttle bus - cheapest and less hassle than ANY of the others - did you know Ryanair is a shareholder? If you fly RY and book transport that's who you get and they are def.the cheapest Afaik Faro bus shuttle, Viages Rusadir, and Escudo are one and the same. They share a desk at Faro...
by joeysoap
Thu Feb 01, 2018 4:56 pm
Forum: General Carvoeiro
Topic: Resort Hoppa
Replies: 14
Views: 12628

Re: Resort Hoppa

Hoppa have changed their suppliers from Greenbus to Escudo ( from last November). Apparently too many complaints about the long wait at the airport last year. Bit more here The company Escudo Tours Agencia de Viagens Lda was set up in 2013 and is a Portuguese subsidiary of Spanish bus tours and excu...
by joeysoap
Wed Dec 06, 2017 7:34 pm
Forum: General Carvoeiro
Topic: Taste Restuarant
Replies: 10
Views: 9447

Re: Taste Restuarant

Passed by both premises today. Both undergoing a lot of renovation.

The workmen at the ‘old’ Taste appear to getting working on a roof terrace and some walls appear to be being knocked.

The ‘new’ Taste is undergoing a lot of work and it is taking shape but a lot still to do looking at it today.
by joeysoap
Wed Dec 06, 2017 7:27 pm
Forum: General Carvoeiro
Topic: Faro Airport
Replies: 83
Views: 75491

Re: Faro Airport

To answer my own question; there is only an ‘automated’ post office at Faro airport: No staff and no WiFi top ups available. None in the newsagents either.


Still work being carried out, in the entreance hall to the side of the stairs/escalators before passport control.
by joeysoap
Sat Dec 02, 2017 12:44 pm
Forum: General Carvoeiro
Topic: Faro Airport
Replies: 83
Views: 75491

Re: Faro Airport

Agreed, a vast improvement. Still room for more though, seating area close to the transfer kiosks (greenbus, hoppa etc) is required. ( during the busy season there’s customers standing everywhere waiting for their transfers) The chemist is closed, I would have thought at an airport this was a basic....