THIS is the shocking moment partying British tourists stripped naked and formed a bizarre conga line on top of a bar counter.
Footage of the drunk men in the raucous Algarve resort of Albufeira went viral today reigniting the debate over the type of visitors who travel to the town.
Footage filmed by onlookers shows the starkers on their hands and knees in a line on top of a bar counter.
One of the revellers can be seen slapping the bare backside of a pal as they form a bizarre party train.
Eight British holidaymakers were identified by cops who initially failed to catch them in the act with their pants still down.
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The jaw-dropping scenes happened at Route Caffe 66 on the Oura Strip, Albufeira’s equivalent of the infamous Punta Ballena party strip in Magaluf.
The sports bar promotes itself on social media with videos showing punters having booze poured down their throats in ‘dentist chair’ drinking games.
It describes itself as the ‘home bar’ in Albufeira with “music and cold pints”.
The bar was closed this morning and no-one could immediately be reached for comment.
The astonishing naked display laid on by the British men is said to have happened at the weekend, although the footage only surfaced in the last few hours.
Speaking yesterday to Portuguese TV station SIC, Albufeira mayor José Carlos Rolo said: “It doesn’t make sense for us to have a strategy and spend money on promotion here and abroad only for incidents like this to happen, which are deeply negative and don’t dignify anyone.”
He added: “I ask business owners to take responsibility for how customers act within their establishments.
“They must create a series of internal rules for themselves, their own rules, in the sense that when people are served, they are served with dignity and with rules to avoid these problems.”
The council later said it would be asking for police reinforcements.
The unsavoury incident comes as Albufeira tries to distance itself from its party image and move upmarket.
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This means removing the dependence on British tourists.
Two months ago the council presented a diversification strategy with the motto ‘Albufeira is part of your life’.
Mr Rolo said sun and the beach would always be at the centre of the resort’s tourist product but added: “We want to focus also on diversifying the offer, in order to contribute to reducing seasonality but also to attract new tourist markets from other nationalities.”
Reports at the time said one of the main issues Albufeira Town Hall was trying to address was to change the image of the resort as an area for tourists with “low purchasing power”.
This includes tourists who come for short stays and only care about topping up their tans and going drinking and partying at night-time.
Residents in Portugal’s neighbour Spain have been protesting about low-quality tourists flocking to holiday hotspots.
Demos have been held in the Canary Islands and places like Majorca and Ibiza with a mass protest planned for later this month across the Balearic Island archipelago simultaneously.
