Surf Hotel
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About Surf Hotel in Morocco
A surf hotel is a hotel that has taken surfing seriously: board storage, a rinse area, breakfast early enough to make the dawn tide, and usually an in-house school or a standing arrangement with one.
That last detail is the whole category. A normal hotel with a nice beach will serve breakfast at eight, have nowhere to put a wet suit, and look puzzled when you ask about the tide — none of which is a problem until you are on a surf trip. A surf hotel solves the small frictions that a camp solves by being a camp.
Expect daily housekeeping, private bathrooms, a pool and a front desk, and expect to pay for them. Agadir has most of the conventional hotel stock on this coast; Taghazout and Imsouane are smaller-scale. Confirm the distance to the actual surf, because an Agadir beachfront hotel is twenty kilometres from the points.
Who it suits
Travellers who want a hotel standard with surfing attached, families needing predictable service, and anyone combining a surf trip with non-surfing companions.
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