By all accounts there has been some organisation in England London based who have organised one big bash which is mainly made up of Inner London groups.

People say there are up to a thousand of them.

Made up of darker skinned people if you are over here you will have seen groups of them wandering around mainly on a night.

The robbing bit of the link is true we were talking to a shop owner this morning who was physically attacked when she confronted some "females" term used lightly.

On a brighter note the bash is due to end tomorrow after a a 11pm to 6am party tonight/tomorrow. Avoiding the strip tonight might be advisable.

Unless something radical is done Albuferia is going to be the next Magaluf.

He said during the week one of this group was dancing and waving a gun about, no doubt not real, most likely been lucky he never had his head blew off.

Not quite as bad but not what you want to hear if you have kids in tow or are easily offended. Down the Old Town 11.30am last Saturday morning a mob singing show us your v****a to the tune of Delilah.

Albufeira is maybe the place to head for with the cheap flights. Daughter going home July 5th and booked yesterday price was only £19.95 to Newcastle.

As you say Dave needs to be stopped if Albufeira wants to keep attracting families.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?       

 

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.

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.

What can the authorities realistically do? They can suggest to people like MGM that licencing may be delayed a bit, but people like MGM are very rich and have good lawyers. They can suggest that hotels don't take large group bookings at weekends, but that is all they can do - suggest it.

Another part of the problem is that the "limited number of outlets" are owned by people who are very influential in a small town like Albufeira. 

As I wrote earlier in the thread, unfortunately the families simply don't spend enough, too many on all inclusive deals or tight budgets (through no fault of their own, I understand that). For bars and restaurants to stay open, they need more than Julie, Steve and the two kids coming in once during their stay and having burger and chips and a couple of drinks.

The one thing that can be done is that when drunken behaviour does occur, it gets dealt with swiftly by the police. But they cannot be everywhere.        

Holiday companies are really pushing the Algarve because it is cheap for Brits and seen as safer than Egypt, Turkey, Tunisia etc. The fad will pass once the profiteering starts and hotels etc push up their prices.

Now then sir, just move along quietly please, doesn't enter in their vocabularies I am sure.

Given the total disrespect for our nice British policemen, I would also prefer order to be kept by men with guns, water cannon and teargas if necessary, not a little baton.