25 Sep 2025
HORRIBLE experience. Jeep driver was 20 minutes late and then complained about traffic and other issues and drove horribly the whole way to the boat. I had a little disagreement with the Jeep driver as I was departing his vehicle and so then he went to the boat tour guide and instructed him in Portuguese to give me a hard time on the boat ride. That tour guide singled me out twice once to look me straight in the eye and say to me and everyone there how horrible immigrants are for Portugal, knowing all the while that I am an immigrant. He also bitched a lot about tourism and the decline of fishing in the Algarve as a tourist and actually caused the decline and fishing which is not at all true. I sat there just minding my own business never said a word even after he made those nasty remarks right at me about immigrants. When he wasn’t able to get a rise out of me with those comments several minutes later, he came over and sat down right next to me and asked me what was wrong with me. I asked him if he really wanted to know to try to warn him that he wasn’t gonna like what he heard and he said yeah yeah I wanna know. When I told him I didn’t appreciate his remarks about immigrants and tourists, he spent the next several minutes bitching his little ass off at me and also threw in a very inappropriate comment about Americans coming to the Algarve and buying houses and ruining things for the Portuguese. I have reached out to the company about getting a refund and they are just ignoring me. There are plenty of tour companies in the Algarve. Do yourself a favor and choose another company.