The marina, which can berth about 1,000 vessels, is surrounded by big hotels and holiday homes, a casino and lots of bars and restaurants. Visitors have the chance to charter fishing boats, go jet skiing and parascending. Several sports clubs, a shooting range and night clubs are also close to the hub of this resort.
The town enjoys a variety of activities, usually on Tuesdays, Thursdays and weekends and these include touring the local caves along the coastline by boat or travelling between resorts on one of the local “trains on wheels”.
There are two lovely sandy beaches for enjoying the year round sunshine or some prefer to take advantage of the many golf courses for which the Algarve is so famed.
For history buffs there is a well-preserved Roman site and museum which gives an insight to the area's past since the area was originally a Roman fishing town. The ruins include the baths in which the seafarers used to bathe.
Like most places in Portugal and its regions, there is a wide variety of accommodation available.
The resorts have ratings from 3* to 5* which is higher than surrounding areas. Being privately owned, the town is very richly designed and opulent. The Algarve region is popular all year round and there is no part of the year which is “out of season”, making it a popular place for extended winter holidays.