Surf Courses In Peniche and Baleal Portugal

Amazing instructors and exceptional service! 🤙🏄

Amazing experience with Special Surf 78! The instructors were incredibly kind, patient, and dedicated. They put a lot of effort into teaching, explained everything clearly, and gave everyone individual attention. I accidentally left my GoPro with them, and they are doing everything they can to arrange its return and send it back to me. I truly appreciate their exceptional kindness and willingness to help. Surfing with them was an absolute pleasure—highly recommended!

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Best surf school, amazing teachers

Special Surf 78 is the best surf school in Peniche - the teachers are all very socially competent, they give individual feedback after class and during lessons, which helps a lot to improve technique, and it is great fun too. The groups are not too big and everything is perfectly organised despite a lot of demand in the summer. I had a perfect experience both as a beginner and in the outside, big recommendation. They also do classes for children or people with special needs, great experience.

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Fantastic Shop

Short version: GO HERE. We had almost 30 lessons here over two months. You will be taken care of, you will get a good price, and you will have a blast. Everyone from the owner to the instructors are awesome. They can organize pick ups if close to the area and have good accident insurance too. Long version: My wife and I have used Special Surf 78 extensively. We came to the school complete beginners to surfing. By the end we were taking our own green waves and having a blast. Over the course of 2 months and almost 30 lessons, we saw tons of different weather conditions and we were guided through them effectively by fantastic instructors. We were staying a bit outside of Peniche and did not have access to a vehicle. THEY PICKED US UP. I mean come on, that is fantastic service. The rides with Francisco were a ton of fun- I think he can carry a good conversation with literally anyone. Francisco was also in charge of our beginning lessons and did a fantastic job keeping us motivated and enjoying ourselves. He helped us build the foundation of a good surf position and was great at giving feedback throughout the lesson. His advice was consistently effective and helped up improve quickly. We were happy to get an additional lesson with Nuno as well. He was super supportive, but pushed us to go to a smaller board and get outside. We were nervous BUT IT WAS THE RIGHT CHOICE. It helped us stay fired up and challenged. He could see it was time to push and it made our time at Special Surf even better. Trust the instructors judgement! They know what they’re doing. As we started going outside the whitewash, we were mainly paired up with Pedro. Pedro was great out in the green waves. He consistently helped us get on the waves when we needed it. At the beginning, we required a good amount of pushing… but he was there to help every time. Agustina was the instructor we had the least, but we still got to see her around the shop and she was always super sweet to us. She took us outside one day, but the waves were a bit too scary! So we headed in and she was super friendly about it and supported our decision to put our comfort first. She was also really supportive when my wife was accidentally hit by a surf board and hurt. When my wife got hurt it was super easy to work with the shop to get her checked out by a doctor. The insurance from the store was easy to use and covered the full cost of our visit. No one made us feel bad, everyone pushed us to be safe and get it checked out. So a long story to get to a main point: 🏄‍♂️SUPPORT THIS SURF SHOP🏄

Response from the operator: Thank you very much forthis amazing review guys!!!!!! Hope to see you again soon :)

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The Perfect Place to Learn to Surf

First of all, the place is fantastic and perfect for learning. I took some lessons during the very low season (mid-January) and had booked group sessions. For a few days, I was the only student, so I received one-on-one attention while still paying the lower group rate. Pedro and Cisco are excellent instructors—friendly and, above all, extremely patient. I highly recommend Special Surf 78, especially combined with the convenience and comfort of staying at the Hotel Star Inn.

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Amazing surf lesson!

The lesson was perfect. Great teacher, learned a lot! We were able to start surfing all by ourselves in just 2 hours (note: we did it once before). With the tips we booked lots of progress, amazing experience!

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