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Portimão Tandem Skydive 10,000ft & Certificate

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Duration2h

GroupUp to 10

LanguagesEN · DE +3

Mobile ticketAccepted

Jump from 10,000 Feet Over the Algarve Coast

You arrive, get fifteen minutes of instruction, then jump tandem with an instructor who has thousands of skydives. You experience freefall at 135 mph from 10,000 feet, then land under parachute. The jump takes minutes; the whole experience fits a four-hour window. Equipment, insurance, and a certificate are included.

Step-by-step itinerary

Tandem Skydive in Algarve

Arrive for the activity
Receive 15-minute instruction
Perform tandem skydive jump

The Experience

The instructor at Skydive Seven in Alvor doesn't waste time with nerves. He walks you through the gear in fifteen minutes flat — harness, altimeter, how to position your body when the door opens — and somehow it clicks. You're not thinking about the height anymore; you're thinking about the next step. Then you're in the plane, climbing to 10,000 feet, and the coast below gets smaller and smaller until it's just a thin line of sand and blue.

When the door opens, the wind hits different than you expected. Your instructor taps your shoulder, you lean out, and then you're falling. Not dropping — falling at terminal velocity, around 135 miles per hour, which your brain doesn't quite process as real until you've been doing it for ten, fifteen seconds and you're still falling. The freefall lasts long enough to feel it, short enough that you want more. Then the parachute opens and suddenly you can breathe again, and the Algarve spreads out below you in a way no photo will ever capture.

The whole thing — instruction, jump, landing — fits into a flexible four-hour window, so if your group needs to shift the time earlier or later to match flight schedules, they work with you. You get Skydive Seven branded sunglasses, all the equipment, skydiving insurance, and a certificate to prove you actually did it. Weather can cancel, but if it does, you get either another date or your money back. Bring a valid ID (passport or photo ID works, and a digital copy on your phone counts) and a contact number when you book.

What’s included

Your jump includes all skydiving equipment for the tandem skydive, activity insurance, a Skydive Seven branded sunglasses, a tandem jump certificate, and all taxes and handling charges. The experience is based in Alvor, a coastal town near Portimão, and operates within a flexible four-hour window to accommodate group and flight schedules.

Good to know

Easy physical levelPublic transport nearbyNot for pregnant travelers

Operated by Skydive Seven

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to try skydiving without committing to a course — the fifteen-minute instruction and tandem format mean you jump the same day, and the flexible timing window is what makes it work around travel plans or group schedules.