Originally Posted by
markle
Have a week's holiday in the Algarve with BAH booked for this August.
I realise that the flight we're on arrives on a Sunday morning, and is preceeded by 16 other UK arrivals in the 90 minutes before it lands. And the well publicised immigration queues last year have resurfaced this year as well.
I will be travelling with my family - so will have a five year old and three year old in tow. The thought of standing in 3 hours of queues with them does not spark joy.
Does anyone have any creative ideas on how we could avoid this? Rerouting so we clear passport control elsewhere? Travelling at an alternative time?
Or am I overreacting?
I travel regularly to Faro and in summer passport control can be slow. Even arriving at peak times, I don’t think it has ever taken more than an hour. But as someone else commented, they usually have a priority lane for families with young children. The nearest alternative airports are Lisbon and Seville - both a good two hours away. And frankly, passport control at Lisbon is often worse than Faro!