By visiting the Portuguese "golden coast", the Times' Vincent Crump promises that Britons can "cherry-pick" their favourite beach holiday experience by kicking back and relaxing on one of the 12 or so beaches lining the coast.

Speaking of the beaches at Amado and Bordeira, he claimed that they were "magnificent, linked to civilisation by cranky back roads lined with eucalyptus trees and just the odd dune-sheltered diner where you can kick back and congratulate yourself for finding the undiscovered Algarve".

And Britons who book cheap flights to Faro can also discover the wildlife of the region by visiting the Ria Formosa lagoon nature reserve which provides a home to the hundreds of different species of birds during the spring and autumn migratory periods.

All of this under an almost consistently sunny ski may mean that Faro is the perfect destination for Brits to get away from it all this summer.

Book cheap flights to Faro online from Jet2.com, the low cost airline.