Tour Overview
6 Nights Hotel & 7 Days Car - This package allows you to stay in choice Horta properties while exploring the rich culture, fauna, and flora of the blue island. Take an enjoyable drive through Faials's main towns and villages. Enjoy the local culture and the great hospitality of the "Faialenses". Days can be added or subtracted from itinerary. Please let us know during the process of submitting the reservation if you would like to customize this package, and we'll provide you with a quote.
Please Note
We created self-drive packages to provide our customers with pre-planned services that include accommodations, rental car, ferry and air tickets. We do not provide daily planning and itineraries. However we do recommend that you check information such as we have on our pages (click here) or purchase a guide book (click here). We also recommend you check our guided tours (click here) which are more descriptive of specific itineraries and places to visit.
Itinerary:
Day 1
Arrival and pick up the airport. Check in at the hotel for the next 6 nights.
Day 2-6
Free days to explore the island. (Please use the links above for more recommendations)
- Cabecao Gordo – Located in the centre of the island with an altitude of 3422 feet (1043 meters), Cabecao Gordo offers amazing views of the neighboring islands of Pico and Sao Jorge.
The Caldeira – Also a great attraction, an enormous crater with 6560 feet (2 km) diameter and 1300 feet (400 m) deep. This area is classified as a natural reserve.
- Monte da Guia – A mountain from where you can have a look over the town; also a protected natural reserve.
- Ponta dos Capilinhos – One of Faial’s main tourist attractions. Here visitors can see the results of the eruption of 1957/8 which transformed the landscape, burying fields and houses. The old lighthouse can still be seen.
- Lajinha and Ponta Furada – Great attraction for their caves and strange lava arches, where the sea crashes violently against the rocks.
- Vale de Flamengos – Attractive area full of colorful plantations, flowers and picturesque houses.
- Scrimshaw Museum – This is a private collection belonging to the owner of the popular Peter’s Cafao. Over a hundred pieces are exhibited here, engraved with beautiful sailing boats, mermaids, images of whale-hunting, among many others.
- Horta Museum – Housed in the former Jesuit College, the museum is noted for its collection of fig wood, one of the island’s traditional handicrafts.
- Port of Horta – Built in 1876, this important sea-port is a principal port-of-call for many transatlantic yachts. The sea wall is of special interest as it is covered with hundreds of paintings and messages left by the sea-travelers who call in at the port.
Day 7
Return the car at the airport.
What's Included
Included
- 6 Night Accommodations
- Breakfast
- 7 Days Rental car
- Automatic transmission vehicle
- Unlimited kilometers
- Airport Taxes
- CDW and TP basic insurance
- 24 Hour assistance
Dates & Rates
| 2/23/2025 - 3/23/2025 | $1542 | $1151 | $868 | $724 | $1715 | $1324 | $891 | $739 |
| 3/24/2025 - 4/10/2025 | $1981 | $1509 | $1082 | $866 | $1715 | $1324 | $891 | $739 |
| 4/11/2025 - 5/23/2025 | $1981 | $1509 | $1082 | $866 | $1935 | $1463 | $1001 | $812 |
| 5/24/2025 - 5/28/2025 | $2475 | $1929 | $1317 | $1023 | $1935 | $1463 | $1001 | $812 |
| 5/29/2025 - 7/3/2025 | $2475 | $1929 | $1317 | $1023 | $2602 | $2056 | $1335 | $1092 |
| 7/4/2025 - 9/24/2025 | $2475 | $1929 | $1317 | $1023 | $3237 | $2690 | $1652 | $1381 |
| 9/25/2025 - 10/12/2025 | $2475 | $1929 | $1317 | $1023 | $2602 | $2056 | $1335 | $1092 |
| 10/13/2025 - 10/31/2025 | $2475 | $1929 | $1317 | $1023 | $2025 | $1479 | $1046 | $842 |
| 11/1/2025 - 12/31/2025 | $1704 | $1232 | $949 | $778 | Contact Us | Contact Us | Contact Us | Contact Us |
General
Booking your vacation
- While prices are shown in USA dollars, we can also charge in Euros at the prevailing currency conversion daily rate.
- Early booking is advised. Availability of accommodations
and
inter-island flight is limited especially in summer months.
- If hotels named in itinerary are not available at time of booking, alternate similar
same rating properties will be confirmed, and subject to new quote.
- Order of islands visited may need to be altered due to
flight schedule changes.
- Quotations with different hotels have a non refundable deposit
of $50. Deposit will be credited towards final booking price.
Booking your Vacation with Air
- International airfare for this package is additional to
price shown on Rates table. Departure cities are limited to those serviced
by SATA International (Azores Airlines).
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Booking Conditions
- A non-refundable, non-transferable deposit of $350 per
person per vacation is required to book and hold both land and air for you.
- Final payment is due 50 days before departure.
- Option to pay full price up front is available.
Cancellation Policy - Land Portion
- $350 per person if canceled up to 50 days prior departure.
- 25% of total reservation if cancelled 49-39 days prior departure plus any other additional fee.
- 50% of total reservation if canceled 38-31 days prior departure plus any other additional fee.
- No refunds if canceled less than 30 days prior departure.
Cancellation Policy - Airfare
- Airfare cancellation terms and conditions will be provided to you before ticket is booked.
Refund Fees
- A 3.9% credit card assessed fee will be subtracted from any refunded payment, including deposits refunded due to services requested not available for date of booking.
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Booking Changes
- A fee of $35 per person, per transaction, will be charged
for any revision or alteration made to a reservation after the booking
is confirmed.
- If the change increases the value of the booking, the $35
per person fee will be waived.
Travel Insurance
- We strongly recommend you purchase travel/cancellation
insurance.
Hotels
Comfort Hotels
Horta - Hotel Horta
Located in the old Azorean town of Horta, the newly-renovated Hotel Horta offers views of Pico Island. It features rooms with balconies, a large garden and an outdoor pool.
Horta’s rooms are decorated in neutral colors, and have wooden furniture. Each of the air-conditioned rooms has a cable TV and a private bathroom with a hairdryer.
The hotel’s panoramic restaurant offers international and regional dishes. The bar and the lounge offer views of the outdoor pool, the pool bar and the garden.
Guests can rent a bicycle to explore the surrounding area. Horta is famous for the whale watching and the volcanoes of Capelinhos and Caldeira.
Horta Airport is 4.3 mi away, and the hotel provides free private parking on site.
Superior Hotels
Horta - Pousada Forte da Horta
Just an 8 minute walk from the beach, The Pousada Forte da Horta is set in a 16th century fortress with a view of Horta Bay and Pico island. This Pousada features air conditioned rooms, a swimming pool, and a regional restaurant. Most of the rooms offer a view of the marina.
Classified as a National Monument since 1947, the Pousada Forte da Horta offers modern rooms with cable TV and a minibar. Each private bathroom is stocked with a hairdryer and bathrobe.
A breakfast buffet is served daily on the poolside veranda terrace. Guests may taste fried pork, tuna and passion fruit pie in Pousada Forte da Horta’s restaurant.
The swimming pool area is furnished with sun beds, tables and parasols. Indoors, there is a lounge with various seating areas and a bar with a piano.
The 24-hour reception offers car rentals and free on-site parking. The Horta Airport is just 5.4 miles from the Pousada Forte da Horta.
