How to organize your hollidays in the Azores

How to organize your hollidays in the Azores

1 – How many days to stay in the Azores?

The first decision you have to make when you decide to travel to the Azores is to know how many days you will stay.

As the islands are not very large in size, there is a lot to see and do, especially on the 3 largest (S. Miguel, Pico, and Terceira).

Ideally, 14 days would be the number of days needed to visit some of the islands, in this example, 5 of the 9 islands.

In 14 days you could stay 5 days in S. Miguel, 6 days in Pico (2 of which would be to visit the islands of Faial and S. Jorge), and 3 days in Terceira island.

This is probably the best plan for visiting the Azores.

In case you are limited to one week, then you would spend 3 days in S. Miguel, 3 days in Pico (possibly cutting the trip to S. Jorge), and 1 day in Terceira.

For a week you cannot get to know the islands in depth, but it allows you to get a good idea of the best that each island has to offer, as long as you organize what you should see on each of the islands.

Monte Brasil, Terceira. Image: myazoreshome

2 – How to fly to the Azores?

The second step is to choose a trip to the Azores, the cost of which normally consumes a significant portion of the total travel budget.

Therefore, you should be familiar with the solutions that we explain in the article: HOW TO TRAVEL TO THE AZORES in order to save time and money.

It is from Lisbon and Porto that there are more routes with direct flights. There are 5 islands that receive visitors directly from the two largest Portuguese cities: S. Miguel, Terceira, Pico, Faial, and Santa Maria.

The other 4 islands always require two flights. The flight lands on one of the 5 islands mentioned above, plus an inter-island flight operated by the Azorean airline, SATA.

If you are going to visit the Azores in summer, you will have more flights and routes available, while in winter, there is less choice of routes and flights.

Entry to the Azores via S. Miguel or Terceira from Lisbon or Porto still includes Ryanair, which for now only flies to these two islands.

There are also direct international routes such as those from the United States of America and Canada, also with destinations to S. Miguel, and Terceira.

SATA Azores Airlines and TAP also work in partnership with other companies, such as AirFrance, so you can book your trip with another company and come on a SATA or TAP plane.