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The bars on the strip are reaping what they have sown over the last 20 years, shutting down family bars in favour of "youth" bars, pushing out cheaper drinks to attract even more "partygoers" , I can understand that the bars have to make money, but they and the local authorities haven't learnt the lessons of other resorts around Europe that have become tainted with bad reputations because of the similar problems.
I love Albufeira and have been coming out there for 25years, we have 6 weeks booked there for next year, but you can sense problems spreading, if the local authorities do not crack down soon it may well be too late to save what is a brilliant resort populated on the whole with wonderful people.
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Originally posted by DICEYUK DICEYUK wrote:

Somebody in Albufeira knew about this in advance.
You don't book hotel rooms for 1,000 people anywhere without someone asking a few questions. 

It seems like MGM are allowing a lot of this to happen. It was their hotels used for the Spanish student break a few weeks back mainly the Forte Da Oura and now it seems CPO was the main choice for this lot.
Seems like they could not give a hoot as long as their hotels are full.
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MGM should be held accountable for allowing this the council should be sorting this with a firm hand .
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Originally posted by Betsian Betsian wrote:

We have only been coming to the Algarve for the last 6 or 7 years, but I asked on here a couple of years ago questioning if the ethos of Albufeira was changing, because as a family we had seen quite a rapid rise in the amount of stag and hen parties in the Albufeira area. It now looks like its evolving to the next level with huge groups of party animals turning up.

Short term the bar and club owners must be rubbing their hands together at a vast influx of people only there for 1 reason, cheap booze and lots of it, but what effect will this sort of on the longevity of Albufeira as a Family resort.

Would a family considering Portugal as this years holiday destination be put off by National Newspapers screaming such thing as "Rampage, Drunken Louts, Shots fired and Rubber Bullets"?  It's not exactly the type of advertising a beautiful friendly resort like Albufeira needs.


I hope that things like as have happened in the last week or so don't evolve into a epidemic and end up being seen as the norm, as it is now in Magaluf and Marbella etc.
Betsian we first started coming to albuferia 14 years ago when our Daughter was then 8 years old. I said in a previous topic if Albuferia was like it is now we would never have come back.
We never had any qualms taking her down down the strip for a few hours on a night we don`t even go down there at all on a night now. Daytime is bad enough.
We are lucky? enough to now spend most of the year here now but the place is fast going downhill. For instance getting woken on a morning by some drunken a***hole from 2.30am to 7.30am is now more the norm than the exception.
Would I personally now recommend Albuferia to other people?...Sorry to say no. Our only problem is we now have that many good friends here it would be hard to leave the place.
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Luckily this particular problem seems to have been a one off. Andrew is so right about the organisers as is Tonisdad about the MGM group. I don't know what the Daily Heil article said as I will not click on any link to their site, but I did see the Mirror's version yesterday and the owner of Libertos was bemoaning the behaviour, yet he owns a string of bars that dish out free shots and encourage these idiots, and he puts them up in his hotels. (Not necessarily this particular mob, obviously, but other stag and hen dos). 

Hotel owners who have been moaning to tour operators about some of the behaviour of guests have been told by the tour operators that they should stop accepting 3 or 4 day bookings over weekends. AI does not help of course. 

And, as I have said before, rightly or wrongly, 20 stags in your bar for three hours will often spend more than five families will in a week. And the large majority of them are well behaved - like anything, it's only the bad 'uns that get the headlines. Plenty of businessmen on here, what would you do?       
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Originally posted by Andrew Andrew wrote:

As any other sane, fair minded person, I totally abor this but what really narks is the organising company issuing a statement "We don't condone this sort of behaviour" (or very similar) that exonerates them does it? I don't think so!
Put a 1000 strong party together for a weeks long rave, booze up.. whatever, locate them in the most likely place for it to kick off anyway, call it "Portugal Invasion", how arrogant is that? how dare they?, then when it does kick off, take a side step with a simple "we don't condone" statement!
I find this company as responsible and as guilty as the actual perpetrators, what are the morals of an organisation putting this together? Very low if at all existent IMHO.
If you want 1000 people on a bender enjoying the best of London's DJ's why locate them in the middle of one of the major family tourist resorts of another country? More arrogance. Hire a private venue!
Thank goodness it finished today or yesterday, good ridance to them, kindly do not return and heaven help the cabin crews on the flights back that were unfortunate enough to cop for them.
 
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By the look of it the trouble didn't end in Albufeira it is reported that it continued at Faro Airport.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/821994/portugal-invasion-british-tourists-fight-faro-airport-police
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Anyone got links that don't involve right wing propaganda rags?
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Didn't seem to be anything in Socialist Worker or National Enquirer.
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We always stay in Olhos anyway. It is quieter and has the stunning cliffs and Falesia beach. 
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Originally posted by Betsian Betsian wrote:

By the look of it the trouble didn't end in Albufeira it is reported that it continued at Faro Airport.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/821994/portugal-invasion-british-tourists-fight-faro-airport-police

Think that was scraped off facebook Daughter was on about it last night.
Think it was a couple of birds from different `hoods. Think that is what their type refer to it as.
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I have to say that none of the newspapers I read had a single word about this.

Attention seekers getting their fix of it in trashy rags, job done for them.

Massive profit for the hotels and organisers, job done for them.

No morals required, let's make a quick buck. Next year, somewhere new and unsuspecting.
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Agreed, we picked up several yesterday and not a word.
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Is that today's paper Pete? Nothing in yesterday's so if it is it's taken two days to report?
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