Surfing Holidays

Living the Dream on a Surfing Holiday

"Living the dream" is a cliché used to describe the Surfer's lifestyle but many people around the world live the cliché. They work to finance travel to the best destinations and waves. They organize their lives around the tides. They surf, they party and they have established a global network of surfers. For them, surfing holidays are part of the lifestyle, for beginners surfing vacations are the opportunity to experience what it is about the activity that creates such extreme passion amongst its devotees.

Surfing Vacations around the globe

There are many surfer hotels and surf camps around the world catering specifically for surfers and the Activity Holidays Guide lists a huge choice of tour operators specialising in surfing holidays. Errant is an established, award winning surf holiday company, who offer holidays suitable for a wide range of abilities from beginners to experienced surfers.

If you can't tell a dolphin from a shark, or recognise a rip, you might benefit from local knowledge; it can keep you safe while showing you where to find the best waves.

Learn to Surf

Beginners should consider taking a holiday at a surf school with an accredited instructor. In two weeks, a beginner can learn enough to be able to call themselves a surfer.

Live surf reports

A whole industry exists to provide live surf reports and webcams for surfers.

GlobalSurfers provide the surfing community with worldwide information about surf spots including what to do on a surfing holiday when the waves are flat, how to get there and loads of other info.

And a good site for UK surf forecasts and weather reports with links to other global forecasting sites is .

• coastalwatch.com serves Australia, USA, Hawaii and New Zealand
• surfbells.com is specific to Bells Beach on Australia's Victoria surf coast
• Hawaii's SurfingLive is a subscription service for Hawaii surf
• Surflink is home of the free California network of live surf cams
  and you can also get surf reports around the USA from surfxtc.com
• European sites are and Fistral SurfCam monitors the surf at the UK's famous Newquay surf beaches.

Looking for where to surf or where to go on Surfing Holidays? Try the preceding link.

Surfing Associations

There are many national surfing associations around the world providing useful information. Surfing's World Governing Authority is the International Surfing Association (ISA).
A few of the member organisations represent

• Australia
• Maldives
• South Africa
• UK
• USA

Will I need my own board?

You can hire, and most holidays for beginners include all the equipment needed. If you own your own equipment and take it with you, remember that you will need to package your board in a flight bag; also, airlines will add a surcharge.

Seek the advice of holiday providers.

Surfing Vacation listings in our guide include Surf Schools, check them out by clicking the link below

Surfing holidays (vacations)