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Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Why car rental in the Algarve is the best decision you’ll make I almost made the mistake of not booking a car. The resort looked walkable on the map, the EN125 coast road was marked in orange — how far could the beaches really be? The answer, on day one, was a forty-minute walk along a road with no pavement and nothing on either side. I turned back, pulled out my phone, and had a Renault Clio reserved at Faro airport for the next morning. The rest of the week was a completely different holiday. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Cheap Flights from London to Faro: The Algarve Gateway I nearly booked Lisbon by mistake. I’d been staring at flight calendars for twenty minutes when I spotted it — Faro, £23 in late October, with the golden cliffs of Ponta da Piedade already playing in my mind. A friend had told me the Algarve in autumn is a completely different country to the August version: the same warm light, the same terracotta rock stacks rising out of the Atlantic, but without the queues and the noise. The Ria Formosa lagoon practically to yourself. A table at a seafood restaurant without a reservation. All of it hinging on one cheap flight from London to Faro. ...