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8 Day Surf Camp with 5 Day Intensive Beginners Surf Course on Gran Canaria
Soledad Big Waves, Ctra. la Costa, 35413 El Pagador, Las Palmas, Spain
Spain Authentic Surf Camp
Beginner difficulty
Instruction in English
Maximum 5 participants
Airport transfer available
Come join this unique surf hostel on Gran Canaria! Personal attention is a central concept of Atlantis Surf Hostel's teaching philosophy. Therefore, the surf classes take place in small groups or as private surf lessons. With this package, your instructors will help you get started. You will learn how to get into the wave, you will learn the take-off technique in the white water, and, finally, the right position on your board.
Meet the instructors
Ruyman
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Highlights
- 5 days, 3-hours surf lessons (Monday to Friday)
- Surfboard, wetsuit, and accessories
- Snack at the beach (fruits, juice, and cereal bar)
- Videos and photos of you upon request with surf analysis
- Transfers to the surf spot
- 7 nights accommodation
- Weekly hike
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
Styles
5 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: French, German, Spanish
Group size: Maximum of 5 participants
Airport transfer available:
Gran Canaria Airport (US$ 53 per person)
Gran Canaria Airport (US$ 53 per person)
Accommodation
Check-in Time:
14:00
Check-out Time:
12:00
Facilities
- Dining area
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Lounge
- Multilingual staff
- Terrace
At Atlantis Surf Hostel, you will find an ambiance of old, thick walls of a former Finca: chill out in the large inner courtyard and enjoy an after surf afternoon on top of the roof terrace with a sea view. Get a chance to meet nice people!
The Soledad Big Waves is a restored Finca from the 1900 century. It is a listed building and has been artistically worked up with great attention to detail. A backdrop from a different era: colorful and in love with wood, modern and old combined. Dreamlike.
The Hostel has a huge lounge, which is a patio, where you will find a cozy sitting area as well as the kitchenette, where you have a stove with oven, toaster, kettle, coffee maker, and two refrigerators. Here you can supply yourself with fresh mangoes, papayas, and avocados for breakfast. At lunchtime, they will hand you a packed lunch and in the afternoon and evening, you can go to the restaurant right next to the hostel to feast.
At the hostel, they have separate men's and women's toilets and a bathroom with separate showers. Everything's spacious and with a lot of light and love.
Here you can rent, inquire and book everything to do with surfing. From beginner courses to advanced courses and mental surf coaching, they also offer yoga, Thai massages, and surf skating.
The hostel has a single room, a double room, and a large room with 10 beds with individual lockers.
In the area, they do not only have great waves for surfing: El Paso, El Bunker, La Derecha del Roque, El Picacho but also many other possibilities for activities: the sea swimming pool of San Lorenzo is less than 4 minutes' walk from Soledad Big Waves, there can you sunbathe and swim.
Program
*Atlantis Surf Hostel takes individual teaching seriously. That’s why in their courses you won’t find more than five students in the water at the same time. You can count on individual feedback in order to maximize your learning success.
Surfing is a complex sport, which requires strength, endurance, and above all, coordination. In order to make progress quickly, you need personal supervision and control. Learning to surf with us means learning individually and methodologically.
During the surf lessons, you’ll be at the beach daily for 3 hours. Out of those 3 hours, two hours are intensive surf lessons with a lot of individual feedback. To prevent being out of energy right after the morning session, you’ll take a short lunch break at the beach. After that, you’ll have the chance to apply everything you’ve learned during the day on your own, but always under the surveillance of the team, of course.
What you get during the surf lessons:
- Proper execution of a functional standup technique
- Instruction for beginners and advanced right in the water
- The perfect board for your level with the possibility to try different shapes
- The team will choose an adequate beach for your level (e.g. with easy entries and long white water rides)
- Video and photo analysis to allow for optical feedback
- Introduction into surfing theory
About the teaching methods: in general, all activities are done on soft boards during the first three days. Your surf coach chooses the board that best suits your level and allows for the best possible learning progression.
Included excursions
- Weekly hike around the area to discover the canarian fauna & flora
- Try some cactus fruits and know more about the local plants of the beautiful valley!
Instructors
Ruyman
Ruyman is our local surfer with many years of experience in Gran Canaria. He knows all the spots inside out and can give you lots of tips for our beautiful island. Already as a child he learned buggyboarding in the most beautiful waves. Let yourself be infected by his positive Canarian way and look forward to surfing sessions with him.
Location
The indigenous north coast of Gran Canaria, blessed with great, sandy beach breaks in summer, offers waves all year round. Enjoy the tranquility of Canarian life in the Endless Summer after a long surf session and feel its unique energy.
Mass tourism has not made it this far, which means that you can surf here all year round and feast in local restaurants with jacket potatoes with a salt crust in red mojo sauce. Green valleys invite you to climb and hike along small waterfalls up to Firgas, experience a surfing holiday differently, uniquely, because you dive into the quaint and authentic Gran Canaria.
There are two beautiful valleys with climbing rocks that invite you to meet Gran Canarias nature just 45 minutes away from the hostel. After walking for 2 hours, you will get to Cenobio Valerón, the biggest archaeological excavation of Gran Canaria.
A little bit hungry? Taste a unique delicacy: Queso de Flor from Santa Maria de Guia. You can go there by bus or car within 15 minutes. The ancient caves in Galdar are very interesting and tell stories about the guanches, the old natives.
Gran Canaria (the miniature continent)
Gran Canaria offers a vast amount of diverse landscapes, which are only waiting to be explored. Especially the north of the islands can surprise you with scenic views, jungle-like canyons, and spectacular ravines. The central highlands are dominated by conifers, particularly, the well-known canary pine, which has adapted itself perfectly to the volcano landscape.
The special feature of Gran Canaria is that all the different zones lie very close together. Therefore, you usually pass several climatic zones on every trip, which shine with entirely distinct vegetation.
If you’ve got a rental car, you’ve got the possibility to visit the more isolated places, like the west coast with its natural reserve Tamadaba and the steep cliffs with its adventurous winding road all the way to La Aldea de San Nicolás. Further inland, you’ll find idyllic towns every now and then, which invite for a break.
Features
Activities
- Surfing
General
- Dining area
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Lounge
- Multilingual staff
- Terrace
Food
On the surf course days, you'll take a break between surf lessons with a lunch snack at the beach: they are offering you delicious fruits, a juice, and cereal bars. The lunch snack will be gluten-free, vegan, or vegetarian.
There are many restaurants nearby with typical Canarian food, new style food, and surfer´s hunger adapted menus.
The following meals are included:
- Snacks
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Lacto-ovo Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten Free
- Lactose Free
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
What's included
- 7 nights accommodation
- Transfers to the surf spot
- 5 days of 3-hour surf lessons
- Surfboard, wetsuit, and accessories
- Snack at the beach (fruits, juice, and cereal bar)
- Videos and photos of you upon request with surf analysis
- Weekly hike
- Beach raid (check out our project through our website)
What's not included
- Airport transfers
How to get there
Recommended Airports
LPA
Gran Canaria Airport
29 km
Transfer available for additional US$ 53 per person
Arrival by airplane
From the Gran Canaria Airport (LPA), you can take line 60 which has a stop called “JUAN XXIII” that you have to go to. Atlantis Surf Camp recommend you to stop at that bus stop and from there, you have the lines that travel to the North Coast, so you will only be about 20 minutes away from us. Bus lines 116, 117, 103, 105 all stop in front of the surfcamp, so you would need to get off at "El Pagador" bus stop, also called “Cruce de San Felipe”. From there, just walk 2 minutes and you have arrived ;)
Airport: Gran Canaria Airport
Airport transfer available:
Gran Canaria Airport (US$ 53 per person)
Additional charges may apply. You can request this in the next step.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 14% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.
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