A22 tolls’ fiasco
Updated: 23-Feb-2012
We returned from the Algarve on Saturday, February 18 confused and bemused by the A22 tolls. We arrived a week earlier and had picked up a local newspaper at the airport.
While flicking through the letters page suddenly made crystal clear what the blue taxas signs were all about.
My husband finally paid up in Lagos Post Office and was behind a Swedish couple who wanted to pay but couldn’t because:
1) the previous occupant of their car hadn’t paid
2) they hadn’t let the 48 hours elapse.
By this point we were really ticked off with the car hire company who had made no mention of the tolls or how to pay and then it dawned on us ... we couldn’t pay the return toll because we would have left the country and you can bet there would be a fairly steep admin fee for failing to pay on time.
So what did we do - we returned along the EN125 of course. At 8am on a Saturday in February, it was lovely and quiet.
We’re coming back in August. Can anyone tell us what the EN125 will be like on a Friday about 8am? I think I can guess.
Janet Leicester, by email
Editor’s note: Dear Janet, it is difficult to tell but we can presume that leaving Faro at 8am in August will be fairly easy but as you drive through the main towns on the EN125 and considering it will be rush hour, you may experience slow bumper-to-bumper traffic.
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As a regular visitor to the beautiful Algarve, I was trawling your related stories about the new A22 tolls to plan my hire car visit in March.
It’s obviously a fiasco - as you would expect - so I linked to the Estradas website for some more information and checked my trip from Algoz/Pęra to Faro Airport.
When I switched to the English translation, my trip was from ‘Algoz-Pear to This Faro’ (East presumably). You couldn’t make it up, could you?
Laurie Frowde, Algoz
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