Algarve skydiving offers a tandem jump from up to 15,000 feet for first-timers. We compared two tours from $195, with free cancellation, and the top option rates 4.9 from 423 reviews. Your booking covers the free fall above coastal towns and villages.
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Tandem jump$195
Today's lowest jump fare across all 2 tours
Average rating
All 2 tours49
664 verified reviews across 2 tours
Your time
Shortest to longest120min
Every jump on this page
runs about the same length
Both jumps you can book here
Two listings, and that is the whole choice here. Both are two-hour tandem jumps from the same airfield near Alvor, both exit between 10,000 ft and 15,000 ft, and both are written for first-timers. What differs is the fare, the review count and the rating.
★ 4.9 · 423 reviews
★ 4.8 · 241 reviews
Two questions
There are only two tandem jumps to book here, from the same airfield near Alvor. Both climb to 10,000 ft and go up to 15,000 ft, both take two hours end to end, both are built for first-timers. Two things actually differ: the fare and the number of reviews. Pick one and we will point at a listing.
See it before you pay for it
There is no film here: we only publish video we can check, and for these two jumps there is none. Four pictures instead, in the order the day runs.
Freefall over open sea, nothing underneath but water and haze.
Instructor and jumper close up, both grinning, wind pulling at their cheeks.
A selfie over the sandbar, turquoise water and the coast tilted behind.
The canopy down on the landing field. Jumps move to another slot in bad weather.
Side by side
There are two bookable jumps and that is the whole choice. Both name the same altitude, the same two hours and the same airfield, so the $6 between them is most of what the table has to show.
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| TOP PICKSkydive Seven: Tandem Skydiving 10,000 ft (up to 15,000 ft) | Skydive Algarve: Tandem Skydiving 10,000ft (up to 15,000ft) | |
|---|---|---|
| Fare per person | $195 | $201 |
| Total time, door to door | 2 hours | 2 hours |
| Altitude the listing names | 10,000 ft rising to 15,000 ft | 10,000 ft rising to 15,000 ft |
| Rating | 4.9 out of 5 | 4.8 out of 5 |
| Reviews | 423 | 241 |
| Experience needed | None needed, the description says first-timers | None needed, the description says so plainly |
| Where it leaves from | The one airfield near Alvor | The one airfield near Alvor |
| City on the listing | Algarve | Alvor |
| Best for | The lower fare, and most of the reviews | A second date option at the same airfield |
| Book this one→ | Check dates |
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Verdict
It is the lower fare of the two at $195 and the one people have actually booked — 423 reviews against 241. Both listings name the same 10,000 ft to 15,000 ft, the same two hours and the same airfield near Alvor, so the $201 one is the same jump under a second listing.
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A jump is weather-dependent and can be moved to another slot or another day, and that is the one thing no fare changes. The descriptions are also silent on how long the freefall lasts, on weight and age limits and on what you wear; those details live on the booking page. Leave a spare day behind your date and a reschedule stays a change of plan.
Two-minute check
There are only two jumps here, and two things tell them apart. Answer three questions and the page points at one.
How many days are you on the Algarve?Jumps are weather-dependent and can move to another day
Does the town on the listing matter?Both jump from the same airfield near Alvor
What decides it for you?The fare and the review count are the only differences
You’ll get the one that fits your answers, and the thing about it that catches people out.
What the ratings say
Two listings from one airfield, 664 reviews between them, and almost nothing between their ratings. Here is what each one is, in plain terms.
★★★★★
Based on 664
verified reviews
Both Algarve jumps on this page, rated by the people who booked them.
Read all 664→Skydive Seven: Tandem Skydiving 10,000 ft (up to 15,000 ft)
From $195 · 423 reviews
★★★★★
423 of the 664 reviews on this page sit on this listing, rated 4.9. Two hours from start to finish, freefall from up to 15,000 ft, and Algarve views with coastal towns and villages below.
Skydive Algarve: Tandem Skydiving 10,000ft (up to 15,000ft)
From $201 · 241 reviews
★★★★★
Rated 4.8 across 241 reviews. The same airfield, the same height and the same two hours as the listing above; $6 more, and 182 fewer reviews behind it.
Two hours, both of them
Both jumps · 2 hours
★★★★☆
Both listings say two hours. That is the whole outing, not time in the air and not time in freefall. Neither description breaks those two hours down any further.
Both listings · 2 hours
What the listings leave out
Both jumps · before you book
★★★★☆
Jumps are weather-dependent and can move to another slot or another day. Neither listing publishes seconds of freefall, weight or age limits, or what to wear — those questions belong to the booking page.
What it really costs
Two tandem jumps are bookable here, and $6 separates them. Both climb from 10,000 to 15,000 feet, both set aside two hours, and both leave from the same airfield near Alvor. What changes is the fare and the reading behind it.
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| What you book | Price | How long | What the listing names |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tandem jump, 10,000 to 15,000 ft | $195 | 2 hours | Freefall, then the Algarve coast, its towns and villages |
| Tandem jump, the same heights | $201 | 2 hours | The same climb and coastal views, from the same airfield |
The honest answer
On the evidence, yes: 664 reviews sit across the two jumps, weighted to 4.9. The harder question is which one, because $195 and $201 buy the same climb, the same two hours and the same airfield. Four things tell them apart.
How the day runs
Both listings set the same two hours aside for the outing. Neither names a time of day or a place to meet, so the one on your booking is the one that counts.
You jump attached to an instructor, and that is what tandem covers. Both descriptions say the same thing about experience: you do not need any.
Pairs board together. Neither listing names the aircraft or how many go up at once, so what the day looks like there depends on the day.
This is the part both descriptions do publish: the climb runs from 10,000 feet to as high as 15,000. Most pages about this coast leave the number out.
The door opens and the pairs move to it in turn. It is the frame that fills the photographs, and it is over in moments.
Freefall is what both listings put first. Neither says how long it runs, because that follows the exit height, and the height is a range rather than one number.
With the canopy out, the Algarve lays out underneath: the coast, its towns and its villages. Those are what the descriptions name, and what you see depends on the day.
Two hours covers the outing end to end. Nothing in either description mentions a ride back, so work out beforehand how you are getting away from the airfield.
Best time of day
Neither description names a time of day, and that is the honest answer: the slot you are offered at booking is the slot. What both listings leave to the day is the weather, and a jump is weather-dependent — it can be moved to another slot or another day. So the only timing that is really yours to choose is the date. Put it early in your stay, with a spare day behind it, rather than on the morning you fly home. Both listings are quoted at two hours door to door, not two hours in the air.
On the ground
The sea and the sandbar, straight down.
Canopy out, the estuary flat and small below.
The town arrives slowly under an open canopy.
Back on the ground, a minute afterwards.
What it's like
Most pages about jumping over this coast read as though there were a catalogue to choose from. There is not. Two tandem jumps are bookable here, they cost $195 and $201, and between them they carry 664 reviews weighted to 4.9. Everything below is about which of the two to book.
The honest headline is that they are nearly the same jump. Both climb from 10,000 feet to as high as 15,000. Both set aside two hours. Both are tandem, which means an instructor is attached to you for the whole descent. And both leave from the same airfield near Alvor, because the two listings sit on the same coordinates.
That altitude is worth dwelling on, because it is the one number both descriptions publish. 10,000 feet to 15,000 feet, in writing, on both. Pages that compare jumps along this coast usually leave the figure out and talk about the view instead. Here you can read it before you pay, which is the whole reason this page quotes it.
The $195 jump is the one most people end up on. 423 of those reviews sit against it, it rates 4.9, and it is also the cheaper of the two. Its description promises freefall from up to 15,000 feet, a professional attached to you, and the Algarve coast with its towns and villages underneath as you come down.
The $201 jump carries the other 241 reviews at 4.8. Its description names the same climb, the same coastal views and the same reassurance that no experience is needed. The listing is filed under Alvor rather than the Algarve, which is the nearest thing to a real difference between them.
What neither description sets out is an age, a weight, anything to wear, or whether photos and video come with the jump. Those questions belong to the booking page rather than to us, and a page that answers them from somewhere else is guessing. Both do say the same thing about experience, in almost the same words: you do not need any.
The other thing to plan around is weather. Jumps depend on it and can be moved to another slot or another day, which is ordinary in this business. It does mean a jump booked for the morning you fly home has nowhere left to move to, and a booking early in a trip has room that a booking on the last day does not.
So the choice is narrower than it looks. Same heights, same two hours, same airfield. One is $6 cheaper and carries 423 reviews at 4.9; the other carries 241 at 4.8. Read both descriptions once, pick the one whose dates suit you, and the page has done its job.
While you're here
These two are the whole page. Same climb to as high as 15,000 feet, same two hours, same airfield near Alvor. The cheaper one holds 423 of the 664 reviews; the other holds 241 and costs $6 more.
Practical
Four things decide it: which of the two listings you are reading, what both of them leave unsaid, where the jump sits in your trip, and how you get to the airfield.
The more reviewed of the two: 423 reviews at 4.9, and the cheaper fare as well.
241 reviews at 4.8, the same climb and the same two hours, filed under Alvor.
Both are tandem, both climb to as high as 15,000 feet, and both run two hours.
Four things only: $6 of price, 423 reviews against 241, 4.9 against 4.8, and the listing city.
664 reviews across the two, weighted to 4.9. For a niche with two products that is plenty.
Neither description says. It follows the exit height, and the height is a range, not one number.
Neither listing says whether anything filmed is part of the fare. Ask before you pay.
No limits and no kit list appear in either description. Take them from the booking page.
No transfer, pick-up or meeting point is named in either description. Arriving is your own arrangement.
The descriptions name the jump, not the aircraft or the crew. What they name is the climb and the view.
There is no long list to work through. Read both descriptions once and the choice makes itself.
A jump moved for weather needs somewhere to move to. Early in a trip it has that.
The $195 jump holds 423 of the 664 reviews, so its dates go first.
Both listings set two hours aside for the outing. Plan whatever follows it loosely.
Dates open and close on the listing itself, so what is bookable today is what it shows today.
The two listings sit on the same coordinates. Whichever you book, the jump happens in the same place.
All three are a drive away from that airfield. The jump itself does not change with the city.
Neither description mentions transport in either direction, so arrange the drive yourself.
Neither listing says where it puts you down. Both describe the coast on the way, not the ground.
The two hours are gone by the end of it, and a weather delay breaks whatever follows first.
Best time
Neither listing names a season or a time of day, so there is no month to recommend. What they do say is that a jump can be moved, which makes where it sits in your trip the decision that matters.
No season named
Neither description names a month, a season or a time of day. The live listing is the only place the open dates show.
Early in the stay
A jump booked in the first days of a trip has room to move if the weather closes in. That is the whole reason to book it early.
Weather days
Jumps depend on the weather and get moved to another slot or another day. Neither listing promises you a window.
The day you leave
A jump on your last morning has nowhere to move to. If it is pushed, it is pushed past the end of your trip.
Worth knowing
There are two jumps, not a menu. Both run two hours, both climb to as high as 15,000 feet, and the whole gap between them is $6. Anyone offering a third is selling something else.
The altitude is published. Both descriptions say 10,000 feet to 15,000 feet in writing. Neither says how long the freefall runs, because that follows the exit height.
It is one airfield. The two listings sit on the same coordinates near Alvor, so the place does not change with the fare. Only the listing city does.
No transfer is named. Neither description mentions getting there or getting back, so the drive to the airfield is your own arrangement whichever jump you book.
Weather moves jumps. A booking can be shifted to another slot or another day, so leave a spare day rather than a spare hour, and never book it for the morning you fly home.
The reviews sit on both. 423 against the $195 jump at 4.9, and 241 against the other at 4.8 — 664 together, weighted to 4.9.
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Common questions
Two fares, and that is the whole range: $195 and $201. Both climb from 10,000 feet to as high as 15,000, both set aside two hours, and both leave from the same airfield near Alvor. The $6 between them does not buy a different jump — it buys the listing with fewer reviews.
From 10,000 feet, climbing to as high as 15,000. Both descriptions publish that range in writing, which is unusual: most pages about this coast talk about the view and leave the number out. How long the freefall runs is not published, because it follows the exit height.
Two. Not a catalogue, not a dozen variants — two tandem jumps, both from the same airfield near Alvor. Between them they carry 664 reviews weighted to 4.9: 423 on the $195 one at 4.9, and 241 on the $201 one at 4.8.
Four things, and none of them is the jump itself. Price: $195 against $201. Reviews: 423 against 241. Rating: 4.9 against 4.8. And the city on the listing, the Algarve against Alvor. Same climb, same two hours, same place.
No. Both listings say so in their own words: one calls the jump perfect for first-timers, the other says no experience is needed. Both are tandem jumps, which means an instructor is attached to you for the whole descent, and that is what the word covers.
Two hours, on both jumps. That is the outing end to end, not time in the air. It is the number worth planning the day around, because anything booked tightly afterwards is the first thing a delay breaks.
Jumps depend on the weather and can be moved to another slot or another day. Neither listing promises a window. The practical answer is to book early in a trip, where a move still has somewhere to go, rather than on the morning you fly out.
The descriptions name the Algarve coast and the coastal towns and villages below you. Nothing beyond that is named, and what you actually see depends on the day, which is why neither listing puts a picture of it in writing.
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Why trust this page
Every fare, duration, rating and review count here is read off the live listing for that jump, and re-checked whenever this page is rebuilt.
Both bookable tandem jumps are on this page. There are two of them, so there is no shortlist and nothing left out. Nobody pays to be featured.
The coordinates on both listings are the same, so both jumps leave from the one airfield near Alvor. The choice here is between two listings, not between two places.
Freefall time, weight and age limits and what you wear are absent from both descriptions. We say so instead of filling the gap with numbers we cannot source.
The answer
It is the lower fare of the two and the one most people have booked — 423 reviews against 241. Both listings name the same 10,000 ft to 15,000 ft, the same two hours and the same airfield near Alvor, so the $6 between them buys nothing extra. Book a date with a spare day behind it.
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Skydive Seven: Tandem Skydiving 10,000 ft (up to 15,000 ft)
★ 4.9 · 423 reviews · Free cancellation
