Albufeira Sightseeing Open Top Bus

What on earth is there to see in either place where their double-deckers can get to? Lots of hotels...

It could be useful as a means of transport given the lack of buses after 8pm.

At 20 Euros for a 4 day ticket and if you can figure out what time it leaves the various stops, it should work out cheaper than taxis to and from town and without the long waits in summer.

cubsur wrote: At 20 Euros for a 4 day ticket and if you can figure out what time it leaves the various stops, it should work out cheaper than taxis to and from town and without the long waits in summer.

The website is very confusing - if I click on "Timetable" (and BTW there is no timetable), as Tom says it quotes €20 for a 4 day ticket & €13 for a 24 hour ticket.
However, if you book in advance online the prices come out as €40 for a 4 day ticket and €15 for a 48 hour ticket so there appears to be a huge discrepancy here.
And why would you pay €40 for a 4 day ticket when 2 x a 48 hour ticket works out €10 cheaper.
Presumably they have used some sort of Portuguese formula to work these prices out - either that or they think we're all stupid.
I shall keep my eyes open over the next 5 weeks while I'm here & report any sightings of these buses in this neck of the woods.

Just to add even more confusion.
I picked up a City Sightseeing Algarve leaflet this afternoon from our local newsagents and it has yet another different pricing structure on it.
Strange because it's the same leaflet (apart from the prices) that you can download from their website.

24 hour ticket = 15 Euro
4 day ticket = 30 Euro

As the leaflet is clearly dated 2014, presumably these were the prices for last year.

So that means you can either pay, depending on what source you use at the moment, one of the following -

* 13 or 15 Euro for a 24 hour ticket
* 15 Euro for a 48 hour ticket
* 20, 30 or 40 Euro for a 4 day ticket

Looks like they need to get their information options actually in line with each other and given their inability to get their prices right, it doesn't really fill you with confidence that they actually know what they're doing.

If the route is being extended, and from the new bus stop signs you can only assume that it will be, then no doubt there will have to be a new leaflet for 2015.
And, as the route will be considerably longer, no doubt there'll be another set of prices to take that into account.
The way things are going, a tour in a bus around Albufeira will soon cost more than a flight to get here.

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

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...    

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?

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.