Who coaches
Three coaches, and all of them grew up surfing these spots. Abdul, the head coach, holds the ISA Level 1 surf coaching certificate (International Surfing Association) and runs the coaching at both hostels: the tide table at breakfast, the spot for each group, the video review in the evening. Hicham grew up in Tamraght with Banana Point and Devil's Rock as his playground and coaches at the Tamraght hostel, where most first weeks happen. Yahya is from Taghazout, learned on Panorama and Hash Point before the points, and coaches there. You keep the same coach for the week, so the feedback builds instead of restarting each morning; the about page introduces all three.
How the groups form
Eight people per coach at most, split by level on the beach on the first morning. Beginner means you have never surfed or have had a few lessons and still need help choosing waves; intermediate means you paddle out on your own, catch unbroken waves and turn. You pick the level when you book, because it sets the price and the group, and if you sit between the two you book beginner and say so in the notes. Children from 10 have a coach of their own, six to a group, with softboards, rash vests and a session capped at ninety minutes; a week with children, room by room, is in a family surf holiday in Morocco. Groups form by level, not by sex, and our women's surf camp article explains the women-only dorms and the week for a woman travelling alone. Nobody is taken to a point break to make the photos look better.
Devil's Rock and Banana Point, by tide
The coach reads the tide table over breakfast and picks the spot before you have finished your coffee. The beach breaks are best around mid tide; the points work on the push from low to mid. Devil's Rock, the sand-bottom beach break at the south end of Tamraght beach, has a channel you can stand in and works best from 0.5 to 1.5 m, and the headland beside it takes the size out of a big swell, so there is a lesson-sized wave there on the biggest winter days. Banana Point, the long soft right off the river mouth, is at its best from 1 to 2 m and is where a beginner who can stand rides for five, eight, ten seconds and starts to feel the board turn.
The size decides the rest. Below 1 m, everyone surfs the beach breaks. Between 1 and 2 m, beginners stay at Banana Point and Devil's Rock while intermediates go to Crocro or the points. Above 2 m, the points belong to advanced surfers, and beginners still get their session at Devil's Rock. Both spots are eight minutes from the hostel in the van, or a twenty-minute walk down the hill; the surf spots guide describes every break on this coast by level and by month.
Softboards and wetsuits
You start on a soft 8-foot board in waist-deep water, and the board changes as you progress: narrower and shorter as you catch your own waves, smaller again for intermediates working on turns. The wetsuit follows the month, and the hostel hands it out: a 3/2 full suit from December to February, a 3/2 or 2 mm in March, a 2 mm in April, a 2 mm or a shorty in May, October and November, a shorty in June, a rash vest or shorty from July to September. Board and wetsuit are yours for the whole stay, so you bring neither.
A lesson day inside the stay
Breakfast is on the roof at 09:00. The van leaves after it for the spot the coach has chosen, and the session runs two to three hours: the pop-up on the sand on day one, the coach in the water beside you pushing you into whitewater, then, from day two or three, reading a wave, turning the board, paddling three strokes and standing before it breaks. Lunch is packed by the hostel kitchen and eaten on the beach. The afternoon is a second session if the wind allows, a swim, or a nap; mornings are glassy or offshore most of the year, and in summer a sea breeze arrives from about 13:00. Daily yoga is on the roof terrace. The video review is before dinner at 20:00, which is one long table and one menu a day. On a 5-night stay or longer, one day in the middle goes to the excursions instead of a surf trip.
What a lesson costs on its own, and what the day costs with us
A lesson bought on its own on this coast is sold by the session rather than by the week, with the board and the wetsuit for that session, and you add the bed, the meals and the ride to the spot yourself. We do not sell lessons that way, and we will not print another school's price here. What we sell is the day inside a stay: at the Tamraght hostel a beginner pays €150 for 3 nights, and that is the bed, a surf trip with coaching every morning, the board and wetsuit for the whole stay, breakfast, lunch and dinner, daily yoga and the airport transfer both ways; for 7 nights it is €350. Intermediates pay €180 and €420, because their days run to the points with a coach in the water and smaller boards. A private room is €20 per room per night, and from five people 5% comes off the total. Weighing Taghazout against Tamraght, or 5 nights against 7? What a stay at SurfsHUB costs, all in sets every total side by side.
The whole of that first week, from the whitewater to the first unbroken wave at Banana Point, is in learn to surf in Morocco, day by day. Our Tamraght surf camp describes the hostel and the rooms, and when you have your dates you can book the Tamraght hostel and tell us on the form that you have never surfed.
