Private Surf Trips
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About Private Surf Trips in Morocco
A private trip is the same coast with the schedule handed back to you: your own guide, your own vehicle, and a plan built around your group rather than around whoever else booked that week.
The usual reasons are practical. A family with mixed abilities cannot run on a group timetable; a group of friends wants to start later; somebody has five days and needs every one of them to count. Private also means the guide can move you on a forecast at an hour's notice, which a fixed group session cannot do. Instruction is usually one-to-one or one-to-two rather than one-to-six, which is where most of the progress difference comes from.
It costs more per person, and the gap narrows the larger the group — four or five people splitting a private guide and vehicle often pay close to group rates. Listings priced per group rather than per person say so on the card. Check what is actually private: some listings mean private instruction but shared transport, which is a different thing.
Who it suits
Families, groups of friends travelling together, surfers on a short trip who cannot afford a wasted session, and anyone who has outgrown group lessons but is not ready to go unguided.
What to check before you book
- Coached hours per day, and how many people per instructor. Above eight to one you are being supervised rather than taught.
- What the room actually is. A dormitory bed and a private double are often quoted under one headline price.
- Which meals are included, and what happens on the days nobody drives to a spot.
- Whether transfers from the airport and to the surf are in the price or added later.
- The cancellation policy in writing, and what it says about weather.
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