Albufeira Sightseeing Open Top Bus

Giro is a public transport service to assist or provide travel to and from specific places, the red bus service is an informative tourist service showing area's that would likely interest tourists, you're comparing apples with pears.
I think if you're offering "..our guided tour," it's a little unfair to be dissing a competitor or alternative option.

Despite visiting Albufeira well over a dozen times we have never been on this Sightseeing Tour Bus.

What sort of cost is it ? is there any commentary on route. Is it an hour long trip that's repeated over and over or does it visit different places

And most important of all, Is it value for money ?

Spot on from Dicey. The open top bus runs only every 60 minutes except in summer and they do not tell you when it might arrive at any given location. It's a pretty poor means of seeing anything, even though it goes to some places outside town that GIRO buses do not reach.

Thanks.
Looks like it's regular now then but there's absolutely no indication on any of the bus stops as to what time you can expect one to turn up so it's really pot luck if you want to go on one.
It says the frequency is every 60 minutes but without knowing the actual time that it arrives at a certain stop, you could be waiting for anything between 1 minute and 59 minutes.

So 2 years after the Sightseeing Bus Tour bus stop signs were put up between Acoteias & Albufeira, I can report that I have seen the first such bus to make it out here.
Spotted at 1pm this afternoon heading back to Albufeira with several passengers on it.
Perhaps the driver had got lost because their website still says nowt about this new route extension which of course will be the highlight of anybody's visit to the Algarve
But then it does say on their website, and I quote, "Tour runs daily excluding 4 Dec. 2016 to 15 Jan. 2018" () so I suppose you really can't go by what it says on there.
Just hope that the person who runs the website isn't the same person who drives the bus.
Anyway, will report any further sightings made before we go home on Saturday.

Very strange indeed. But who would stand around and wait for a sightseeing bus if you don't know when it's coming (never mind if) nor where it's going to?

None of their stops has this information even where there do already run and the website has no timings.

And what is there to see over there, except perhaps Chateau Dicey?

Just be thankful you spend time away from the shambles guys. The grass isn't always greener, as you know.

I won't even expand on my visit to the IMT (the equivalent of the DVLA) last week, where a two and half hour wait in two separate offices ended in me walking away with two forms the first bloke I saw could have given me in twenty seconds...    

Just to update that despite having been here for 5 weeks and despite the numerous new "sightseeing bus stops" between here and Albufeira, I have still not seen one of these buses out here in Acoteias.
However, I have seen, and talked to, many people who were patiently waiting to catch such a bus at the local bus stop where the new signs have been erected fully expecting a sightseeing bus to turn up at some time, even though there is no timetable.
It seems very strange that a bus company is allowed to put up these signs, for their own particular service and in exactly the same spot as the normal Eva bus stops, without giving any indication that no such service currently exists.
In addition, when going to & from Albufeira on the normal Eva bus, on numerous occassions the bus has been flagged down at these stops along the route by people looking for the sightseeing service.
Not only does this disappoint the visitors, who quite rightly are expecting a sightseeing bus to put in an appearance every now & again, but it also pi**es off the Eva drivers who have to keep stopping unecessarily.
It's a shambles