The trip by "savages" is more suitable for students or people who have a lot of free time for searches and trips to the authorities. A travel company is a kind of "one stop shop" where you come with your dreams and questions, taking your passport and payment (for issuing a visa 3 more photos and a certificate from the bank or from work) and the specialist will help you: - Determine the choice of the country,
- develop a travel route,
- choose hotels with the best price / quality ratio for the amount that you plan to spend on vacation,
- complete all documents for you,
- carry out all the necessary transactions, as well as go to you in the right instances, etc.,
- get a complete set of ready-made documents on hand.

In addition, cameraman travel companies form holidays for their tourists on holidays. At the same time, air tickets are booked in advance at special fares directly to the airlines. Therefore, the cost of your chosen tour is so profitable even with a comprehensive solution - flight a / to TAP-Portugal + transfers + accommodation in a hotel of the chosen category + health insurance + travel insurance.

This is exactly the answer to your visa question. The insurance against the death penalty provides for the risk of non-extradition or late issuance of a visa. It is impossible to make such insurance independently, only when buying a tour. And the visa itself is easier to get if you take it in a travel company, where the mechanism of correct submission of documents is debugged and the risk is minimized.

Excursions in Russian on Madeira are also very interesting .They cost a little more than excursions in European languages, but these are the rules, in the EU there are coefficients and the Russian language falls under the 3 group of languages ​​in complexity .If you are fluent in English or German - can save on excursions .Madeira is a very beautiful island, for good reason it is called a floating garden .In addition, the island's terrain is unusually expressive and when visiting distant excursions along the western part of the island or along the eastern part you will have the opportunity to descend into the gorges and visit the peaks and even swim in the present volcanic basins of Porto Monisha .

Also in the city of Funchal (the capital of Madeira Island) there are a lot of different museums, parks, tropical and botanical gardens, funicular, 2 large promenades, 3 large shopping centers, a city market, many restaurants, including fado.

As a rule, our tourists complain of returning ... that once it was sunbathing - there was so much beautiful around, that they studied the island with avidity, and there was no time for beach rest. So those who travel in the winter, when swimming in the ocean can not, will have something to do. Read more on our website.

About self-purchase of the tour and pitfalls
As I already said, there are 2 categories of tourists for whom a trip "savage" (with a good knowledge of a foreign language) is completely justified.

Students
Since the trip to Portugal is not cheap, and education in our days is expensive, it is necessary to save on something, this is understandable. For example, you can save money if you plan to rest modestly, with accommodation in hostels, flights to buy in advance, with transfers and with the participation of discount airlines with various restrictions, as well as using public transport instead of transfers, and you can save 10-15 EUR on the visa.

People with a lot of free time.
In this variant, if a tourist counts on a medium-high-level service with a minimum amount of risks, then with an independent reservation, it is hardly possible to save anything. Not many understand that travel companies book tours not on the same resources as private individuals, and at other, contract prices. If the resources are the same, then the conditions are different. It's just that people often confuse economy with risk.

But you can get pleasure from the process. This is a really exciting process - to study the country, read a lot of descriptions and reviews, study cards, plot routes, find out flights for flights, make plans, correspond with guides and hotels, schedule mandatory visits, etc Well, and, as not prosaic, prepare documents, fill out forms, and so on. Here, the tourist fully counts on himself, there is virtually no one to complain of a difficult situation, but it's a wonderful experience and some kind of interesting game.

Underwater rocks
It is recommended to buy an air ticket with one receipt at least on the route from the city of residence to the end point, and also back .Or choose a long dock .At the same time, you need to take into account that docking also requires costs - by taxi from the airport to the nearest city and back, for food (if it is especially expensive at the airport), overnight (if necessary), and these costs should also be taken into account .You also need to understand that the luggage will not go by itself, it will need to be received and then re-registered and handed over to .If you buy a ticket with one receipt, you pay a little over ... for insurance against delays, in which case the airline will take care of you to transfer for free to the nearest flight on the same route and also for convenience, because in this case luggage will follow up to the final travel point without your participation, you can relax and rest .

If you are going to make a visa on your own, then you need to correctly fill out a form, register with a pay phone at the embassy, ​​then wait in the waiting queue, if you are lucky, and you will be able to answer all the questions correctly, you will receive the documents the first time, and then you need to go to get documents. Beginners take 2-3 days to do this.