Women + Waves Portugal Women’s Surf Camp – Spring 2028
Spend seven nights improving your surfing on Portugal’s Algarve coast during the Women + Waves Portugal Women’s Surf Camp, taking place from 29 April–6 May 2028.
The camp brings together structured coaching, accommodation, video analysis, surf-skating, yoga and a relaxed social environment specifically for women.
Participants can join as complete beginners, progressors or low-intermediate surfers. The Women + Waves approach is not based on pushing the entire group through the same lesson. Coaches select the best available beach and adapt instruction to the individual surfer’s ability and development goals.
The week includes five days of professional surf coaching with ISA-qualified, lifeguard-trained instructors. The ratio of approximately three instructors for ten guests creates opportunities for individualized correction in and out of the water.
Beginners can learn:
🏄 Ocean awareness
🏄 Correct board handling
🏄 Efficient paddling
🏄 Pop-up fundamentals
🏄 Stable riding position
🏄 Catching and riding broken waves
More experienced progressors may work on:
🏄 Paddling out back
🏄 Catching green waves
🏄 Wave selection
🏄 Line-up positioning
🏄 Maintaining speed
🏄 Better directional control
🏄 Becoming more independent
Coaches use photo and video footage to analyze each participant’s surfing throughout the week.
Surf-specific workshops reinforce practical skills and can cover forecasting, surf travel, equipment selection, ocean safety, pop-up development, speed, paddling, turtle rolls and surf etiquette.
A Women + Waves surf logbook gives participants a structured way to record goals and progress.
Two yoga sessions are included for recovery and mobility.
Two surf-skating sessions simulate surfing movements on land and focus on balance, body positioning, turning mechanics and speed generation.
Participants stay for seven nights in self-catered apartments in Lagos.
The accommodation provides:
✅ Equipped kitchen
✅ Outdoor pool
✅ Heated indoor pool
✅ Gym
✅ Wi-Fi
✅ Towels
✅ Bedding
Limited private or twin rooms may be available.
Five packed lunches are included for the five surf days.
Scheduled transfers between Faro Airport and the Lagos accommodation are included at the official times. Flights, breakfast, most dinners and optional activities remain separate.
The organizer schedules Portugal trips in spring partly because May can offer consistent playful surf, longer sunny days and fewer crowds than the height of summer.
✅ Seven nights accommodation
✅ Five surf coaching days
✅ Small coach-to-surfer ratio
✅ ISA-qualified coaching
✅ Surfboard and wetsuit
✅ Photo and video analysis
✅ Take-home photo/video package
✅ Surf logbook
✅ Technical workshops
✅ Two yoga sessions
✅ Two surf-skate sessions
✅ Five packed lunches
✅ Pool access
✅ Gym access
✅ Scheduled airport transfers
Lagos
Algarve, 8700-407
Portugal
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