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About Guesthouse in Morocco
A guesthouse — often a riad or a family-run pension — is the least surf-specific option here and frequently the most interesting one: a few rooms, usually a family living on site, and breakfast on a roof terrace.
You are staying in someone's building rather than a business built for surfers, and the difference shows in both directions. The hospitality is better and more personal, the local knowledge is real, and the price is low. There will probably be nowhere purpose-built to store a board and no one to drive you to the beach.
That makes it a good fit for surfers who already have their own transport and equipment, and for travellers whose trip is not only about surfing. In Imsouane and Essaouira in particular, the guesthouses are often the better rooms in town.
Who it suits
Independent travellers with their own board and wheels, couples wanting somewhere with character, and anyone for whom the surfing is part of the trip rather than all of it.
What to check before you book
- How far it is from the water on foot, measured in minutes rather than adjectives.
- Whether meals are included, and whether the kitchen is available if they are not.
- Board and wetsuit storage, and whether hire is on site or a drive away.
- What the room includes: private bathroom, hot water, heating for winter mornings.
- Whether lessons and spot transfers can be added, and at what price.
Where to find this in Morocco
The coast this marketplace covers runs from Mehdia in the north to Sidi Ifni in the south. These are the places to start looking:
- Taghazout — The village that turned Moroccan surfing into an industry
- Tamraght — Quieter than Taghazout, and where most first lessons actually happen
- Agadir — Where you land, and a long city beach that works when the coast is huge
- Imsouane — The longest, gentlest wave in Morocco
- Essaouira — Wind city — a walled medina with world-class kite and windsurf