PLEASE COULD SOMEONE TELL ME WHERE THE GUIA SHOPPING CENTRE IS.

IKEEP SEEING IT COME UP QUITE A NUMBER OF TIMES. I AM COMING OUT IN SEPTEMBER AND WOULD NOT MIND A TRY THERE.

Its at Guia

It's on the EN125, just past Zoomarine - you can't miss it. There is also Makro opposite and Conforama, Nike, Casa etc next to it at the Albufeira Retail Park - I think there is a large Shoe World there now too.

Might try a visit there as well in September allways meant to but never got round to it yet. Anyone know if there is a shop that sells Lacoste gear anywhere ?

No, but if youve got big feet there's a large shoe world

Thnks for all the replies. I will definitely take a visit when next in CVO.

Explain to me why you wish to travel to such a beautiful and diverse location as Portugal/The Algarve yet in your heart you prefer the shops at
Arndale/Bluewater/MetroCentre/MiltonKeynes/MeadowHall/TragoMills.
Enjoy the change in scenery/culinary delights/weather/relaxation/beer........more beer, sardines,frango piri piri etc etc etc !!!!! Treat yourselves, ask Shearings or Saga to organise a "shopping centre special".

What is your problem NORBRID, get a life. What do you do on your holidays. Drink, drink and more drink, get drunk, drunk and more drunk.

Portugal is a lovely place and this is my third time I will be taking my holiday there. The only reason I ask about the shopping centre is because I have oftern seen other people talking about it, and sometimes a break from the relaxing in the sun makes a change. I will also be going to Lisbon for a 3 day break whilst there, is that forbidden as well.

I ahve never been to the shopping centres that you mention and do not want to go there. This will be something new to me.

I am still going to go there you will not change my mind.

Enjoy it at Guia. I love it and go everytime I visit Portugal!

Sometimes its nice to go shopping for a change and as the shopping centre is nothing like those mentioned by NORBRID (apart from the ubiquitous phone shops) its a very pleasant change. Some of it is outside too so you are not missing out on the lovely weather whilst you are there either.

I really like going to Guia shopping too, and as its open till at least 10.00pm, it makes a nice change one evening. The food court is also vastly superior to anything we have in the north of england and the quality of food very good for lunch or a snack.

Tricky

There is a cinema too that sometimes shows english speaking films so if the weather is (heaven forbid) dodgy you can nip in there

Last time I went to Algarve Shopping, I had really very good lunch, much better than UK shopping centre stuff, realistically Portuguese. My wife said, I think, that on her last trip the restaurant had closed.
Another important shopping centre advantage is air conditioning. It was 44 degrees outside at the time, so we happily spent the whole day!

Our portuguese friends use the Algarve shopping centre in the evening during the winter. ( why shop in daytime when its warm outside ) and of course in the heat of the day in the summer.

I expect to find them loitering by the cold cabinets in continente, dried cod does whiff a bit when its 40 degrees outside though.

For pm - I think the restaurant your wife probably referred to as being closed is one doing "tipico" stuff from Serra da Estrela - this is just being "refurbed" and will reopen soon - thats the only change in the food area that I know of (ps we live only 4 miles away and do all our shopping there - so we should be pretty up to date)

Went there yesterday...Great place,very clean and col...Good shops and food..