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(No availability) 8 Day Sun and Salt Surf Camp in Ericeira, Lisbon Area
Amazing Surf Camp in Portugal
If you have never surfed before, want a quick recap, or already have some experience, this surf holiday is ideal for you. Magikvanilla Surf Camp will give you a first approach to surfing, and by the end of the week, you will be standing on a surfboard for the first time and hooked for life. If you already have some experience, you will be catching some green waves out the back (conditions allowing) and improving your skills to make you a better surfer.
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Highlights
- 4 surf lessons (2 hours each)
- Surfing equipment during lesson hours, insurance, and beach transfer
- 1 video analysis session and 1 photo session
- Tea and coffee available all day
- 7 nights accommodation
- Breakfasts
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
Types
4 days with instruction in English
Accommodation
Magikvanilla is a converted traditional Portuguese house with spacious common areas, sundecks, chill out spots, and balconies. Located a few minutes’ away from beaches and the town center but secluded enough to give you privacy, you just need to go down the road to find a pharmacy, supermarket, or restaurant.
The house offers dorms up to five people, double, and twin rooms. You’re welcome to use the kitchen, barbecue, TV lounge, as well as the chill out areas, sun decks, and terraces at any time.
The camp has double and twin rooms, and dorms up to five people. Each three rooms share a bathroom – apart from the bungalows, ‘The Duke’ and 'Captain Jack' which have their own.
You have at your disposal a fully equipped kitchen, five bathrooms, all with showers or bathtubs, sunny balconies, a barbecue, TV room with cable TV and DVD player with a selection of classics that you can play, indoors and outdoors dining areas, hammocks, sunbeds. If you want to team up or / and challenge a friend, you can always use the billiard or the football table, everything to make you feel at home.
Program
You'll be assessed and grouped according to your experience and coached in small groups. Magikvanilla Surf Camp keeps a ratio of 5 or fewer guests per instructor to guarantee quality, safety, and fun. They always aim to teach on a beach break (sandy beach) even if they need to drive further along the coast.
Overall they will be looking to learn / improve your pop-up and paddle techniques, front side and backside turns, and help you with wave timing. With the video analysis session, you will be able to watch and talk through the areas you are already smashing and the ones you can improve.
Surf
You will have 4 surf lessons during this week. The times depend on the sea conditions, which vary daily. So, every day, they check the forecasts to choose the best timings. Throughout the week, you may have from early sessions to sunset surf. All lessons are two hours long at the beach and include gear, insurances, and transfers.
Unless you’ve signed up for intermediate or advanced classes, you won’t need any experience. Just to be able to swim comfortably in the ocean, be eager to learn and keep a positive attitude. They have a lot of experience with beginners, and they’re stoked to share the first wave with you.
Instructors
Steven Ross Painter
Steve is from the UK and he fell in love with Ericeira in 2004 in one of his surf trips. He moved to Portugal in 2008 and in 2013, he founded Magikvanilla Surf Camp. He is a Level 2 Certified Surf Instructor by ISA, as well as a qualified lifesaver through the Royal Life Saving Society GB and Surf Life Saving GB. He is a dedicated surf coach and gets a genuine buzz when you stand up for the first time. You will most definitely hear him cheer for you. He loves surfing and football, so you will hear him every so often singing football songs honouring Luton Town FC.
Location
Magikvanilla sits in one of the few secluded properties in Ericeira. Right next to it, the community garden and a picnic park give it a feel of being surrounded by nature and sea. Within minutes, you can walk to different beaches or pop down the town center. You just need to go down the road to find a pharmacy, supermarket, or restaurant.
This beautiful seaside town, once home for the Phoenicians, became the county of Ericeira in 1229. By then, seafarers, royalty, and wanderers already enjoyed the same beaches, valleys, and bays as people do today.
In 2011, Ericeira became the first World Surfing Reserve in Europe, second in the world. It is a place praised for eight kilometers of shoreline brimming with world-class surf spots and one of the most preserved surf-havens on the planet. It is a small town but full of life. Especially in the sunny seasons, when days and nights are warm and long-lasting.
The center is bubbling with people, street fairs, lovely shops, and a great variety of bistros, cafes, and terraces. The evening starts slow, with plenty of restaurants serving dinner until late, pubs, bars, folk parties, and even a club open until the early hours in the summer.
All of this is so close to the main capital, Lisbon, that offers frequent flights from all the major cities in the world and a must see if you travel to Portugal. Magikvanilla Surf Camp is 35 minutes away from one of the most beautiful towns in the world, a UNESCO World Heritage Site called Sintra and the camp often organizes trips to this location.
Distances
- Praia dos Pescadores, 850 meters - 7 minutes' walk
- Furnas, 1 kilometers - 9 minutes' walk
- Praia do Sul, 1.1 kilometers - 9 minutes' walk
- Praia do Norte, 1.2 kilometers - 10 minutes' walk
- Praia de São Sebastião, 1.4 kilometers - 12 minutes' walk
- Praia do Matadouro, 1.8 kilometers - 15 minutes' walk
- Empa beach, 2.4 kilometers - 21 minutes' walk
- Praia da Orelheira, 2.4 kilometers - 21 minutes' walk
- Reef, 2.6 kilometers - 23 minutes' walk
- Backdoor, 2.6 kilometers - 23 minutes' walk
- Praia do Alibabá, 2.9 kilometers - 25 minutes' walk
- Foz do Lizandro, 3.1 kilometers - 26 minutes' walk
- Ribeira d'Ilhas beach, 3.9 kilometers - 35 minutes' walk
- Pontinha, 4 kilometers - 36 minutes' walk
- Cave, 5.8 kilometers - 50 minutes' walk
- Crazy Left, 5.8 kilometers - 50 minutes' walk
- Praia dos Coxos, 6.1 kilometers - 54 minutes' walk
- São Lourenço beach, 6.7 kilometers - 58 minutes' walk
- São Julião beach, 7.1 kilometers - 60 minutes' walk
- Mafra, 9.5 kilometers
- Sintra - 35 minutes
- Praia Azul, 25.2 kilometers - 36 minutes
- Praia de Santa Cruz, 25.8 kilometers - 34 minutes
- Estoril, 44 kilometers
- Cascais, 47.3 kilometers
- Lisboa, 49.5 kilometers
Surf conditions
Surf spot:
Ericeira
Monthly wave size
Monthly water temperature
Features
Activities
- Hiking
- Horse riding
- Massage
- Stand up paddle boarding
- Surfing
- Wine tasting
General
- Balcony
- Barbeque facilities
- Beach
- Dining area
- Garden
- Hammock
- In-room safe
- Kitchen
- Luggage room / storage
- Multilingual staff
- Night club
- Picnic area
- Yoga studio
- Patio
Services
- Board rental
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Hair dryer
- Laundry
Food
All accommodation includes breakfast and free coffee and tea all day. Magikvanilla Surf Camp runs it usually from 09:00 to 10:00 except on early surf days. And, yes, the camp can be flexible with the group after a barbecue night party.
Apart from breakfast and organized meals, the camp prefers to offer the barbecue area and an open kitchen to keep it homely. You’ll even have your own storage unit for groceries.
There are a lot of restaurants around. The closest one is about just steps down the road and within a couple of minutes you can pop downtown and find a great variety of restaurants, bistros, cafes, and terraces. You can also cook. Magikvanilla Surf Camp has a barbecue and a spacious open kitchen with fridges and individual storage units where you can keep your groceries. You only need to cross the road to go shopping.
They also have a big supermarket across the road (Continente) with a drug store, café, and ATM. And also Lidl, Aldi, and Intermarche nearby. If you prefer local shops, you have plenty in and around the village, near the camp.
Barbecues
Guests love to mingle on the bubbly Wednesdays' barbecues with plenty of meat and veggie options. Just get your name on the list so Magikvanilla Surf Camp has enough sangria for everyone.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Coffee
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
Things to do (optional)
Ericeira is full of life, especially during the sunny seasons. People on the street, lovely shops, an excellent variety of cafes, restaurants, bars, and even a club open until 6 am in the summer. So, you can either choose activities with them, or check out what to do in and around the village.
You will have 4 surf lessons during this week, but once you get back to the surf camp, there are plenty of things you can do. Chill at Magikvanilla, using the pool, catching some sun or fall asleep rocked by the hammocks' light swing.
Go for a stroll in the town center and enjoy the amazing cakes from the local bakeries, get ice cream from the local ice cream shop that will hook you for the rest of the week, go to the beach and work on that suntan. Book a yoga or Aerial yoga session, a massage, a SUP lesson, a bike tour, a wine tasting experience. You name it.
If you’re still pumped, you can rent your gear for the rest of the day, pop by the skate park, or go for a hike to explore beautiful beaches. If you prefer to relax, book a yoga class or a full body massage and enjoy some dolce fare niente on their sun-spots.
- Aerial yoga
- Clubbing
- Fitness workout sessions
- Full body Ayurvedic massage
- Go to music festivals
- Hiking
- Horse riding
- Music and surf events (every week from 25 EUR per person)
- Skating
- Stand-up paddleboarding
- Trips to Sintra (UNESCO Heritage Site), Obidos, Freeport (outlet), music, and surf events around Magikvanilla are organized every week (25 EUR per person)
- Visit castle-enclosed villages
- Visit giant Buddha gardens
- Watch the World Surf Tour
- Wine tasting
- Yoga
What's included
- 4 surf lessons (2 hours each)
- Beach transfer, equipment during lesson hours, and insurances
- 1 video analysis session
- 1 photo session
- 7 nights accommodation
- Daily breakfast
- Tea and coffee available all day
- Free use of the surf camp facilities
- Towels and bed cloths provided
What's not included
- Flight
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Transfer available for additional US$ 46 per person
Lisbon Portela Airport
31 km away from your destination
Arrival by airplane
Please book your flight to arrive at Lisbon Portela Airport (LIS). Magikvanilla Surf Camp has transfers from and to Lisbon Portela Airport (LIS) on check-in days at any time. You can request a transfer up to 48 hours before you travel.
Just please send Magikvanilla Surf Camp one email with all your flight details (in and out dates, flight numbers, departure, and arrival times). They will get back to you with a confirmation and you're good to go. Please avoid sending your details in different emails or attachments.
Arrival by bus
You can arrive by bus for less than 10 EUR per person. In this case, you’ll need to get on the tube to Campo Grande station and get the bus to Ericeira from there. That will take around 90 minutes and cost less than 10 EUR.
Arrival by taxi
You can arrive by taxi for 70 EUR on average.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 50% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
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