Surfing Holidays to France and South Africa
South Africa Surfing Holiday - May 2013
May 2012 holiday NOW FULLY BOOKED. now booking for may 2013. Book by 1st july 2012 and save 10%
ABOUT OUR HOLIDAY
Jeffrey’s Bay is on every surfer’s wish-list. With peeling right-hand point break waves giving rides of 200m plus, it has near perfect sections to suit all levels of surfer from beginners through to experienced surfers. Our surf camp is based in a beautiful guest house located on the beach front overlooking Supertubes in Jeffrey’s Bay (also known as JBay). The house has private lawns with access onto the beach. It has excellent facilities such as decked sun-terraces, a well equipped kitchen, large lounge with views of the surf and a terrace with BBQ. There are also gardens surrounding the house, hammocks on patios, laundry facilities plus the rooms are serviced daily. There are three different styles of room to suit any budget.
This is a fully guided surfing holiday. Two of our UK-based professional and experienced surf coaches host you on location. They will surf with you every day and give you coaching sessions both in and out of the water to help you improve your surfing techniques. They will ensure you surf at the right time of day and tide, on the best waves to suit your ability. This holiday is hosted by two expert surf coaches and tour guides with a maximum of 8 guests.
We will also take trips out to eat, shop, and more. With every holiday there is a complimentary trip to the stunning Addo National Park with the chance to see many of South Africa’s wild animals in their natural habitat.
The surf camp is open from 27th April to 12th May 2013 inclusive
our jbay surf holiday Package includes:
- Guest house accommodation overlooking Jeffrey’s Bay (3 levels of room available)
- Nutritious breakfasts every day
- 3 healthy home-cooked dinners and/or barbeques (vegetarians/vegans or special dietary requirements catered for)
- Professional surf coaching and advice to help you learn and improve your surf skills, at no extra charge
- Fully accompanied surfing holiday with our UK-based & Surfing GB qualified surf coaches and tour guides
- Daily guided surfing on the best point breaks in Jeffrey’s Bay
- Trip to the stunning Addo National Park with elephants and more!
- Use of our laptop for photos/video analysis and emails etc
- Copies of all the photos and videos taken of your holiday
- Airport transfers each way (Port Elizabeth airport)
ITINERARY
Each day our surf tour guides find the best place to surf, and take you there. We teach you in a variety of ways – using video-analysis for surf coaching, as well as one-to-one coaching in and out of the surf. We maintain a relaxed, friendly and sociable atmosphere at out surf camp with the perfect balance of surfing/activites and rest time.
As surfing is weather-dependent there is no set itinerary, but we do have a pattern to each day. For breakfast you can choose continental or cooked, with British tea, coffee and juice. If the conditions are right we will surf in the morning. Then we may take a trip out together and aim to surf more later that day, depening on the surfing conditions. Evenings can be spent at the guesthouse or eating out in one of the many cafes locally. There is a cinema in Jeffrey’s Bay, and several surf bars and cafes nearby. There are plenty of other sporting and relaxing activites you can do locally, and if you’d like to discover more of South Africa we can advise you.
The surf camp is open from 27th April to 12th May 2013 inclusive. Our holidays usually run from weekend to weekend for 7 or 14 nights, but we would be happy to accommodate you for any length of stay, so please contact us for a quote. We travel to South Africa in April/May because we consider it to be the best time of year to ensure consistent, clean surf, pleasant water temperatures (around 18C) and typically mostly warm sunny days.
We have advice on what to pack on your surfing holiday.
Surfing
The reason we travel all the way to Jeffrey’s Bay is that the surf just so good! The waves at ‘Point’ (where we surf most of the time) are absolutely the best for learning and improving your surfing. They are nice and mellow, and peel for 200m plus, giving you time to practise your surfing turns and techniques. It’s an uncrowded, friendly place to surf, with many more surf breaks further along the Bay.
Beginners – We will familiarise you with everything you need to know to start surfing; surfing equipment, ocean awareness and safety, and surfing techniques. As you progress we tailor our coaching to your needs and help your surfing improve.
Improvers – Our expert surf coaches have years of surfing knowledege and experience to share. Whether its learning new or complex manoeuvres, or any other aspect of surfing, we can help you progress to the next level, and excel at surfing.
The surf here really is world-famous….. These South African waves became legendary amongst the surfing community as the home of the ‘perfect wave’ by the film Endless Summer. The film follows 2 surfers travelling the world in search of the perfect wave. After a long search they find it in South Africa at Cape St Francis, near to Jeffrey’s Bay. In the second film they return to South Africa and find Jeffrey’s Bay, where the waves are even more superior to the waves in the first film!
Our guest house overlooks the best waves in the Bay (West to East) which are:
1. Dolphin beach – this beach break has a sand bottom and nice mellow peaks.
2. Kitchen windows – this is mellow lefts and rights
3. Magnatubes – a right hand reef break suitable for intermediate surfers
4. Boneyards – fast, challenging waves….which connects into……
5. Supertubes – is a long section with fast walls, and tube sections
6. Tubes – another section of the point with good, fast and often hollow waves
7. Point – the perfect wave for the less experienced surfers. Excellent peeling mellow waves, with very long rides. Excellent for practising your surfing techniques.
8. Albatross – another uncrowded quality mellow wave
Surfboard hire – You may find it cheaper and more convinient to hire a board in J-bay rather than bring your own. If so we charge £35 a week for surf board hire and we can source the right board for your requirements.
OUR SURF COACHES
Our surf tour guides are fully qualified Surfing GB UK (SGB) surf coaches and SGB members, and qualified beach lifeguards.
Dan, our Expert Surf Tour Guide is a SGB Level 2 Coach and has over 25 years experience surfing all over the world. He is also a member of Surf Coach UK. He has been surf coaching in Newquay for the last 6 years, as well as Morocco, and SW France. Dan has extensive knowledge of the surf breaks here, and will be able to find the right waves for you and help you learn and improve. Mark has been surfing in Newquay and the abroad for the last 8 years. He is a SGB Level 1 coach with over 6 years surf coaching experience.
Accommodation
Our surf camp is in a beautiful shared guest house in Jeffrey’s Bay overlooking the world-famous waves of Supertubes. It is set over 2 levels with the lounge and bedrooms facing the sea. The ground and first floors have bedrooms for our guests. The first floor also has a large open plan lounge and kitchen and an amazing balcony terrace that stretches along one wall. This terrace overlooks the surf and has BBQ facilties. This bright and comfy communal area will be for the exclusive use of our holidaymakers. As well as a well-equipped kitchen there are also laundry facilities, i-pod docking station and the gardens below have a fire pit for BBQs. The gardens have direct access onto the beach.
All the rooms are bright, comfortable and individually decorated. All sleep 2, have twin or double beds, and are serviced daily. (Twins can be provided to any room.) We don’t charge single supplements. Instead we offer shared rooms (same sex, max 2 people per room). But we can quote for a single-occupancy room if you would like one.
Room choices
Bronze room - £609 pp/pw – a smaller double ground floor room, with direct garden access
Silver rooms 1&2- £679pp/pw – two big twin ground floor rooms with shared balcony, hammocks, and sea views
Gold room- £749 pp/pw – a large room with private balcony on the 1st floor with exceptional sea views
The surf camp is open from 27th April to 12th May 2013 inclusive
Activities
There is plenty to do in the local area. You can choose from a variety of activities, if you can find time for them in between surfing! There are hiking trails, bungee jumping, river rafting, angling, boating, horse riding, swimming pools as well as museums, golf courses and much more. There are cafes, bars and restaurants around the town, a good cinema, and a few large discount surf stores for some good bargains.
Close to town you can go horse riding, sand boarding, white water rafting, canopy tours, marine tours, scuba diving, bungee jumping, fishing, abseiling, game parks, safari drives and much more.
We include a trip to the amazing Addo Elephant National Park in your holiday. Addo National Park is the 3rd largest in South Africa and covers about 180 000 hectares (444,700 acres) and includes the Bird and St Croix Island groups. This finely tuned ecosystem is sanctuary to over 550 elephants, lions, buffalo, black rhino, spotted hyena, leopard, a variety of antelope and zebra species, as well as the unique Addo flightless dung beetle! It’s a great trip out, and all part of your holiday.
PERSONALISE YOUR HOLIDAY
If you need a room to yourself, or would like to go horse riding, visit a beauty spa, or anything else we’ve not mentioned, let us know and we can give you a quote and organise it for you. We will be happy to help.
South African Climate
The climate in Jeffrey’s Bay is thought to be one if the most favourable to man because it has the mildest climate in South Africa, and the second mildest climate in the world, after Hawaii (according to the Guinness Book of Records). Temperatures rarely fall below 10°C in winter and rarely climb beyond 28°C in summer. This makes it a great place for a holiday!
May is a great time to visit Jeffrey’s Bay. It is late autumn in South Africa, and this usually means warm sunshine, and warm daytime temperatures, with highs of around 21C. We travel to South Africa in April/May because we consider it to be the best time of year to ensure consistent, clean surf, pleasant water temperatures (around 18C) and typically mostly warm sunny days.
This time of year brings constant swells wrapping into Jeffrey’s Bay, with average wave heights 3-5 ft for around 80% of the month. The water temperature is around 18C, so a 3:2 full wetsuit is adequate for surfing. The winds are also favourable at this time of year, normally there are light to moderate off-shores most of the time. All this adds up to good clean rideable waves, day after day.
Arrivals and Departures
Our holidays usually run from weekend to weekend for 7 or 14 nights, but we would be happy to accommodate you for any length of stay, so please contact us for a quote. We travel to South Africa in April/May because we consider it to be the best time of year to ensure consistent, clean surf, pleasant water temperatures (around 18C) and typically mostly warm sunny days.
Places available from 27th April to 12th May 2013 inclusive.
FLY TO – PORT ELIZABETH (ZA) – VIA JOHANNESBURG (ZA)
Full travel information can be found here
DISCOUNTS
Book for 2 weeks and save £50 off the total holiday cost.
Returning customers save 5% off the total holiday cost.
SPECIAL OFFER
Save 10% off these holiday prices. Bookings made and deposit (£100) paid by 1st July 2012 to qualify. Offer not valid with any other discount, apart from 2 weeks booking discount mentioned above.
Book your holiday
To book a place on this holiday please contact us to ensure availability, and complete a Global Surf Adventures Booking form We also require £100 deposit per person. See the Book Your Holiday page for full details.
Questions? – please contact us we are happy to help.
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