There are two main large shopping complexes on the Algarve, the Guia Shopping Centre near Albufeira and the Forum Algarve in Faro City. As you would expect most resort towns such as Tavira, Vilamoura, Albufeira, Lagos and Portimao offer an excellent range of local shops, cafes, restaurants and other shopping facilities.
The Guia Shopping and Entertainment Complex can be found on the N125 just outside of Albufeira and is a modern shopping centre with an excellent range of well known shops, a multiplex cinema and an amazing range of cafes and restaurants on the top floor. If you fancy a coffee or something to eat head upstairs to the main food halls where all major fast food outlets such as McDonalds, Kentucky Fried chicken and Pizza Hut are located. If you have children and they are older than 2 then there is a crèche on the first floor, just behind the main selection of Restaurants. The main supermarket is called Continente which caters for most.
Guia Shopping also has a selection of pushchairs, pedal cars and various other toys available for free hire. There is no need to take your own pushchairs. All the restaurants have baby chairs and for the best parking head downstairs where your car will stay cool in the hot summer sun. The shops at the Guia on the Algarve include, Zara, Massimo Dutti, Paul and Bear and Benetton. The whole centre is open from 09:00 to midnight with the shops open between 10:00am and 10:00pm. Directly behind Gui shopping is a retail park which has a number of house furnishing shops to completely fill your algarve property.
The Forum at Faro is another large shopping centre, half in the open and half under cover. It has an excellent selection of recognisable shops, great parking facilities and a multiplex cinema. All the shops are spread out over just two levels with a large supermarket, Jumbo, which is located on the ground floor. As with the Guia Shopping centre the Forum has the same fast food outlets as well as further restaurants and cafes.
It is located on the outskirts of Faro City and is very easy to find. There is a huge selection of clothes, shoe sports and furnishing shops. They are open every day between 09:00 and 23:00 and in the summer months and leading up to Christmas they are open until Midnight.
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