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South Africa
Surf Holiday, South Africa
Download the Surf Tour Booking Form HereSURF IN JEFFREY'S BAY FROM £575 PP/PW
3 good reasons to surf in Jeffreys Bay with us...
1 - World-class waves to suit all abilities
2 - Stunning guest house right by the beach and waves
3 - Extensive holiday package
Your holiday includes:
- beautiful guest house accommodation overlooking the sea at supertubes (3 levels of room available)
- nutritious breakfasts/lunches at the guest house
- 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 the Bay
- a trip to the stunning Addo National Park with elephants and more!
- access to all the photos and videos taken of your holiday
- airport transfers each way (Port Elizabeth airport)
In the area there are large nature reserves, game parks and rivers. You can choose from a variety of activities, if you can fit 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.
Our surf camp
Our beautiful guest house is located on supertubes in Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Also known as J-Bay, it is situated at the end of the famous Garden Route; the scenic stretch of coast from Heidelberg to the Storms River.
J-Bay is around an hour's drive from Port Elizabeth airport, and 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, which surpasses the waves of the first film!
Our base for the holiday is in a beautiful guest house at Jeffreys Bay is set in its own gardens, with private lawns down to the beach a few meters from perfect waves. It has excellent facilities such as decked sun-terraces, a well equipped kitchen, BBQ, laundry facilities and much more. All the rooms are individually decorated and rooms and communal areas are serviced daily. Some rooms have their own private sun terraces and bathrooms. With a variety of rooms to choose from, there’s a room to suit your budget and requirements.
See our blog website www.globalsurfadventures.co.uk for lots of photos of the France surf camp.
Surfing
The reason we travel all the way to Jeffreys Bay is that the surf just so good! The waves at Point (the break where we surf the majority of the time) are absolutely the best for learning and improving your surfing. Point has nice and mellow waves that peel for 150m plus, giving you time to practise your surfing turns and techniques.
There are different world class waves close to our guest house. It’s an uncrowded, friendly place to surf, with more surf breaks further along the Bay!
Our guest house overlooks the best waves (West to East):
- Dolphin beach – this beach break has a sand bottom and nice mellow peaks.
- Kitchen windows – this is mellow lefts and rights
- Magnatubes – a right hand reef break suitable for intermediate surfers
- Boneyards – fast, challenging waves....which connects into......
- Supertubes – is a long section with fast walls, and tube sections
- Tubes – another section of the point with good, fast and often hollow waves
- Point - the perfect wave for the less experienced surfers. Excellent peeling mellow waves, with very long rides. Excellent for practising your surfing techniques.
- Albatross – another uncrowded quality mellow wave
Each day our surf tour guides get you surfing the best waves as often as you like. We can use video-analysis for surf coaching, as well as one-to-one coaching in the surf and on the beach. Surf coaching is optional so if you come with the group you can free-surf with us, and enjoy the relaxed, friendly and sociable surf camp atmosphere.
Activities
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 stunning park 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.
South African Climate
The climate in Jeffreys 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.
This important thing about travelling to Jeffrey's Bay in May is that this time of year brings consistent great waves! Constant swells wrap 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 suit 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 waves, day after day.
Accommodation and Prices
The ground and first floors have bedrooms for our holidaymakers. 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, sunsets and across the Bay.
If you are a solo traveller you'll be glad to know we don't charge single supplements. Instead we offer shared (same sex) rooms to keep your costs down.
Options
Bronze room - £575 pp/pw double shared room (sleeps 2) - smaller room for the budget traveller
Silver rooms - £645pp/pw – 2 twin rooms (each sleeps 2) - with garden balconies and sea views with lawn to the beach at supertubes
Gold room - £715 pp/pw – (sleeps 2) - private balcony, sea views at supertubes
Surfboard Hire - We can get the right board for you in J-Bay for £35 a week. Let us know what you normally ride. You might find it easier and cheaper to hire a board rather than travelling with one.
Discounts
- Book for 2 weeks and get a £50 discount off the total cost of your holiday
- Book for 3 weeks get a £125 discount off the total cost of your holiday
- Returning customers get a 5% discount off these prices too!!
Arrivals & Departures
FLY TO - PORT ELIZABETH (ZA) - VIA Johannesburg (ZA)
Our holidays run from weekend to weekend. You can arrive/depart on either Saturday or Sunday.
The nearest airport to Jeffrey's Bay is Port Elizabeth. We inlcude transfers to and from Port Elizabeth airport in the price of your holiday, but flights are not included. Return flights to Port Elizabeth from the UK are priced from around £650. There are lots of flights to South Africa from UK airports. Our holidays don't include flights but we can help you find a flight, please contact Dan on 07967 379939
If you can be flexible on dates, we recommend www.skyscanner.net to search for flights as it gives you the whole month in the results page, making it easy to find the cheapest time to fly. Or try www.kayak.com.
Travel Information
We inlcude transfers to and from Port Elizabeth airport (the airport is about 1 hour from Jeffrey's Bay) in the price of your holiday, but flights are not included. Flights are usually around £650 return, and many airlines fly to South Africa to choose from.
To search for a flight we like to use www.skyscanner.net as it searches all flights in a month. Or try www.kayak.com. We have found that searching for the 2 flights seperately - UK to Jo'burg and then Jo'burg to Port Elizabeth, brings up the cheapest fares.
See the travel information page on our blog website, for details of passport, visa and health insurance requirements for South Africa.
Payment Methods
Payment methods
We accept payment by;- bank transfer (bank details on request)
- cheque; payable to 'West Coast Surfari Tours and Holidays'
- cash (in person only, contact Dan on 07967 379939 to arrange)
Contact Us
For further surf holiday details and availibility, email us dan@westcoastsurfari.comor call our Surf Tours direct number 07967 379939 and speak to Dan
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