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Learn To Surf in Portugal

The Extreme sports | Surfing | Water sports programmes in Europe and Portugal

From Price: 699.00EUR / GBP585.00

Spend a week learning to surf (or improve) in Portugal. With amazing surfing conditions, the best beaches in Erope and cheap and easy access from the UK, this is the perfect programme to get fit and spend your summer (or a long weekend) surfing with the best of them.

Learn to Surf in Portugal Essential Info

Best surfing in Europe
Best beaches in Europe
Great weather
Only 2,40 minutes from London and cheap access from the UK.

Set on a cliff top in a national park, overlooking the vast golden sands of one of the finest secluded beaches in the Algarve, you will find the Xtreme Gap Surf Shack. Just over a kilometre from a laid back surfer town, Carrapateria. You could be mistaken in thinking this is the ultimate chilled environment, but you would be wrong, because the full force of the Atlantic hits Carrapateras beaches providing excellent waves, making it one of the best places to surf in Europe!
For this reason we have selected this area to run out learn to surf programmes and surf improvement clinics in Portugal. With endless waves, amazing weather, superb seafood and Europe´s best beaches to relax on after a hard days surfing, believe us when we say you are gonna love it!

Beaches and other activities

The Algarve has some of the best beaches in Europe, with golden sands backed up by epic cliff faces meeting the Atlantic ocean. Clear waters make great snorkel conditions, and you may be fortunate to spot a few whales along the way. Being based in Carrapatera you will have access to hundreds of little to die for beaches, many of them secluded and to die for.
One of the best ways to check them out its to hire a mountain bike, available locally, you can then head off and check out some incredible view points along the way.
There are also great treks to be had in the area, you will be living in a national park after all... For people able to Scuba dive there is also some fantastic diving spots locally.
Any trip to Portugal would not be complete with out sampling some of the local Sea food, amazing BBQ´s and fish so fresh it will melt like butter in your mouth.

Accommodation

We have a couple of options to choose from as standard we put you up in a surf bungalow based on 3 people sharing, on a bed and breakfast basis (Full board is also available), if you are travelling in a group we are also able to accommodation you in a private apartment (sleeps 5) – contact us for prices.

Night Life

The Night life in Carrapateria is limited to a couple of bars, beach parties and the Surf camp night bar, but for those that feel like venturing out further we also offer a shuttle bus to the the nightspots in Sagres.

Getting there & when to go

We run a group start dates on the 1st July, 15st August

If these dates don´t work for you, we also except bookings all year round except in November to March. Due to the short distance between Portugal and the UK, you can take a long weekend and go surfing.
Getting there is easy simply fly into Faro where you will be met at the airport and taken to the surf camp.

Included

Local representative on call
3 hours of surfing lessons a day with professional instructors.
Wetsuit and board hire for the duration of the trip
6 nights accommodation in a surf bungalow (upgrade to apartment or surf house available)
Breakfasts (Upgrade to full board available)
Daily transfers to and from the beach
Shuttles to Sagres for some extra nightlife
Airport pick up
Predeparture pack before arrival

Excluded

Flights
Insurance
Drinks

Price and Dates

One Week

€699 – Half Board in a (Bungalow)
€899 – Full board (Bungalow)
Shared Apartment – please contact us for details.

2 weeks

€1199 – Half Board in a (Bungalow)
€1399 – Full board (Bungalow) (13 nights Accommodation full board)
Shared Apartment – please contact us for details.

Weekenders.

These are tailor made please contact us with your dates for prices.

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Surf instruction levels

Depending upon your surf ability you will be put into groups of students with similar abilities.

Level 1 – Initiation (Surf)

- Ocean knowledge
- Warming up and stretching
- Paddling techniques
- Surfing broken waves
- The “duck-dive” or “Eskimo-roll”

Level 2 - Improvement (Surf)

- Warming up and stretching exercises
- Surfing green unbroken waves (wave approach)
- Initiation to take off, drop, bottom turn and trimming

Level 3 – Advanced

- Initiation to manoeuvres and other advanced techniques
- Advanced wave approach
- Priority techniques (rules when to catch a wave)

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