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As arule I prefer to avoid places of mass tourism, I can tolerate off season if the diving is good. I see the damage in Algarve and it's not pretty. It tends to affect the diving as well, for example clubs in these areas tend to have many poorly experienced divers, i.e holidaymakers who dive rather than someone going for a diving holiday. That is why I want to make sure I choose the right dive club.
Now the most annoying piece of news for me is that it is cheaper to get a cheap flight from England than getting one from Spain or Portugal! The diving infrastructure in UK is so much stronger that often it is cheaper to go to UK than arranging anything directly from here. It's a mad mad world...