Praia dos Careanos

fantastic rock formations, white sand, water at a nice temperature, not too crowed, walking distances to town and if you go there early in the morning you may even have a chance to have the whole beach to yourself, there are lifeguards and some wooden shacks where you can buy a drink, also the beach is impeccably clean, not a piece of plastic to be seen, which these days is a sad...

Definitely the place to go for a quieter beach trip. Loved going there in the morning and late evenings. The water is a lovely temperature (often yellow from the sand at the shore), with great rock formations.

Do make a note of which exits are and are not available. If the tide comes in, and you're next to an exit which is out of order, you might be stuck there...

Great place, nice sandy beach. Watch out for the paid sunbeds and umbrellas. They charge you for half a day but they don't say it a schedule time from 8 to 14 and 14 onwards. We arrived at 13 and asked if we can get half a day offer stating then, just to be asked to pay another 10e at 14:30.... very bad management...