REAL SURF TRIPS From 1235€ for 6 nigths

Situation

Playa Negra is located in Costa Rica, close to a town called Los Pargos. It has developed to be a small village catering to the active lifestyle featuring : a yoga center, adventures Tours, several small shops, surf shops, surf rentals and various cabinas and hotels.
The atmosphere in the streets is safe & laid back – maybe it’s the great surf of Playa Negra which puts this happy grin on the faces of most people you meet here.

From beginner surf packages to the most perfect waves for experienced surfers looking to progress to that next level; this is exactly what an all inclusive surf trip is supposed to be.
Whether you're looking to book a vacation rental for the entire family, or you just want to add in a few yoga classes to your Costa Rica surf trip, Real Surf Trips features every amenity and experience Costa Rica has got to offer !
Nestled deep in the confines of a quaint and comfortable community whose charm can't be duplicated, all you have to do is show up at the airport and we take care of the rest: first class accomodations, one-of-a-kind service and over 20 years of local surf knowledge, guaranteed to give you the Costa Rica surf Trip you've been dreaming of !

Services Included

• Two full-service kitchen
• Four Satellite TVs
• Air Conditioning & ceiling fans in every room
• Swimming Pool and Private patio
• Work desk & with free Wi-Fi internet

Services Included

• Spots transfers
• Airport transfers
• Wifi
• TV / Video / Games Room
• TV in Room
• Swimming Pool
• Air Conditionning

Other Activities

• Yoga
• Fishing
• Excursions

Lodging

The Real Surf Trips WaveHouse was completed in May ’09 after two years of meticulous construction. Luxurious in every detail, our property is an expansive hacienda with a gorgeous swimming pool all just steps from the beach.

Wavehouse Features :

Meal Plan

Two full-service kitchens are at your disposal in the Villa
Our food is healthy and high in protein, focusing on nutritional balance while utilizing fresh local ingredients catering to meat-eaters and vegetarians alike.

Playa Negra offers also several restaurants : famous Peruvian food at Cafe Playa Negra, French cuisine at Villa Deevena, Tex Mex at Jalepenos and Pizza at La Vida Buena.

Sport Services

Need or want photos or video of your surf trip? Professional photo and video packages are available through Tony Roberts Photography.Tony Roberts (TR) has worked with high profile clients such as: Surfing Magazine, Quiksilver, Sports Illustrated.

Packages

Beginner Surf Trip :
Learn to surf in Costa Rica! Our location offers some of the best learn to surf waves in the world. Daily trips to beaches plus 1.5 hours per day of surf instruction! Beginners Surf Camp includes:

• Daily surf lessons
• Board, leash and rash guard

Our location features one of the best learn-to-surf waves in the world and when it’s time for you to depart our surf camp, you will have the surf skills and confidence necessary to surf on your own.
Stay at the house and Real Surf Trips will take care of the rest.
We go to beautiful and safe beaches with mellow-breaking waves with a gradual sloped sandy bottom

The All Inclusive Costa Rica Surf Trip :
Surf Everyday. Your surf guide will help you to find the best spot given the daily conditions and tide. The typical day involves waking up early and hitting the surf followed by a big breakfast. Lounge around the pool our surf the reef out front of the house mid day and then continue on for a sunset surf session. Feast like a king for dinner and pass out early – ready to take on another day of intense surfing.
The Trip is set up around 17 surf spots on a 5 mile stretch of coastline featuring different wind, tide, swell angle, and lighting set-ups.
Every nook and cranny of this coast has a perfect wave and we have all the swell/wind/tide angle formulas worked out — of the 17 spots we surf, only 4 get crowded !

All Inclusive Costa Rica Experience :
 The following + 1 FREE night, and 1 activity per day, ALL INCLUDED !!
- Double occupancy in our 5 bedroom Ranch Style home in a private gated beach community at Playa Negra.
- 12 passenger van for airport pick ups, drop offs, travel destinations and any activities.
- Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner everyday, with delicious and nutritious meals.

ALL THOSE PACKAGES INCLUDE :

- Double occupancy in our 5 bedroom Ranch Style home in a private gated beach community at Playa Negra.
- 12 passenger van for airport pick ups, drop offs, travel destinations and any activities.
- Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner everyday, with delicious and nutritious meals.

Spots Type

Our Surf trip accomodation are steps from the most consistent and perfect wave in Costa Rica : Playa Negra… an wave that works on all tides and is still breaks even with onshore winds.
Every other wave in the Guanacaste region of Costa Rica is fickle and dependent on particular tide and wind conditions.
There are about 17 surf-spots close to Playa Negra, many spots are perfect — lonely waves that go unridden… Playa Negra is an old coral volcanic reef break that is a perfect reeling right. All around Playa Negra are amazing spots, many still are not surfed.
At high tide, Playa Negra is an easy wave with a dry-hair paddle out. At this tide it is common to see 20-30 surfers out — many being beginner surfers. At low tide a slamming barrel forms over a shallow reef leading to a ramp section. The paddle out (rock dance) at this tide looks frightening to beginner surfers (but is basic). At this tide and especially with a little onshore wind it is uncommon to see more than a few surfers taking advantage of these amazing waves.

Spots

With some of the most consistent waves and surf breaks in the region Playa Negra is an incredible surf spot in the northwestern region of Guanacaste. This dark sand beach holds a reef break making it ideal for the beginner surfer as well as the expert surfer.
The pristine beaches of Playa Negra are dark-colored and rocky in many parts. For sun-bathing and swimming there is a stretch of sandy, protected beach some 100m south of the famous break.

Playa Negra is unique in that it breaks on all tides, picks up most all swell directions and holds almost any swell. It is the area’s swell magnet, therefore super consistent. Conversely, Playa Negra is the first to pick up swells and hold them the longest, a surfer’s dream.
Playa Negra may be a little harder to get to, and in some cases even find — by driving through local dirt roads without directional signs but worth the adventure, but dont worry, you are with us. Plus, we are strategically poised to go explore some of the lesser-known spots that will go nameless. Let’s just say they are close by and no one wants to show you where they are.

Weather / Temperature

Air temperature : 30°C (Summer) / 27°C (Winter)

Water temperature : 25°C (Summer) / 24°C (Winter)

Wave Level

Morning winds are light offshore and there are many surf breaks (some of the best in the world) with plenty of perfect peaks to choose from. The beach breaks only work with favorable wind conditions so we tend to focus on these spots during mornings, when the wind is good.
One spot in particular faces south and is open to a lot of swell and wind making it one of the most fickle spots on the coast, but when it’s on it’s ON!. It can get crowded out but there are a lot of peaks to choose from. There are numerous other breaks that are rarely surfed, except by us— people just don’t know about them.
Every variance in swell angle opens new possibilities in where we surf. We have reef breaks for every swell angle and condition, from a wave very similar to Playa Negra (never seen more than 6 surfers out there) to outer reefs reminiscent of the Eastside of Oahu, to a perfect A-frame reef setup that comes to life when the swell is too far south for Negra- only 5 minutes from our location).

Surf Story

Many American champions have been on its shores, immortalized in Endless Summer II : the witch rock, Tamarindo and its beachbreaks, wild beaches of Guanacaste and many more exotic spots.

A paradise for ecotourism, surftrips looking for all kind of waves on the beaches often deserted, in a Latino atmosphere and a completely safe country.

History

« Pura Vida! » This fetish expression from Costa Rica best describes this country overflowing of life in every way.
The “Ticos” kindness and their warmness is nothing compared to the huge wealth of nature.

Going to Costa Rica, first is going on a trip to act like Indiana Jones within a true wild paradise! A paradise that have everything at the same time: dreamy beaches and high summits, the thicker forest and moon-like bushes, underwater bottoms worthy the most beautiful fish tanks and huge breathe taking forests, inextricable mangroves and two oceans with impressive waves…
The whole is packed into a tiny territory of barely 51 000 km². But Costa Rica is especially about meeting people, an open-minded population, sensitive and welcoming…A country that have given away its army to first take care of health and education and did not wait for the growth of the lasting development. A place where it is easy to be a happy and pleased traveller-surfer !

Geography

Demarcated by Nicaragua in the North and Panama in the South, Costa Rica hugs the Caribbean Sea in the East and the Pacific Ocean in the West.
A volcanic chain splits the country, from the Nicaraguan frontier in the Northwest to the Panaman frontier in the Southeast.
A high plateau divides the American cordilleras in the centre, bordered with low coastal lands in the East and in the West.
More of half of the population live in this plain, with a volcanic fertile soil. Mangroves, marshlands and sandy beaches characterize the Caribbean coast, 212 long. More cut and rocky, the Pacific coast spreads out 1 016 km, dotted by gulfs and peninsulas.

Infos

Formalities : For French nationals, a passport valid 6 months after your return home is compulsory, a return plane ticket as well.
No visa for stays of less than a month.
The capital is San Jose.
Language : the official language is Spanish. English is spoken only in major cities.
Health : No vaccine is required to enter Costa Rica. Nevertheless, think about taking a treatment against malaria if you wish to hazard in the jungle.
Time differences : -7 hours in winter, -8 hours in summer.
Weather : Costa Rica is a tropical country and only has two seasons: humid and dry.
The dry season usually lasts from the end of December to mid-April.
The wet season lasts the rest of the year.The Caribbean coast remains humid all year long. Temperatures not change too much. Only in heights, it is different. San Jose is 1 150 m high and this is where what the “Ticos” (cute nickname that the inhabitants give to each others) called the everlasting spring, with 15°C min and 26°C max.
The Caribbean coast is warmer, with an average of 21°C at night and more than 30°C during the day.Temperatures are even higher in the Pacific Coast. In low altitude, the humidity can be suffocating.
Driving conditions : For instance: San José/Tamarindo = 295 km/ 5 hours.
Environment : Here, there are no hollow promises but a true political will and a life reference. Everything has been settled for more than 15 years now, for a harmonious and lasting development.Ecology in Costa Rica is a position for the whole nation.
Water/Electricity : Do not drink the tap water and bring along medicine for intestinal problems.Use an American outlet with flat connections because the electric current is 110 V.
Currency : The local currency is Colon (CRC) but it is not exportable.
We recommend you to have US dollars in small denominations and change on the way there.Credit cards are not accepted everywhere.

Price from

1235€ for 6 nigths

Price includes

ALL OUR PACKAGES INCLUDE :
- Nights (supp nights available)
- Double occupancy in our 5 bedroom Ranch Style home in a private gated beach community at Playa Negra.
- 12 passenger van for airport pick ups, drop offs, travel destinations and any activities.
- Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner everyday, with delicious and nutritious meals.

Prices are per person on shared accommodation, private rooms available
Discounts available for groups of 3 or more
Single bookings additional fee to cover airport transfers expenses
Single bookings may share room with other solo travelers

Rates & Packages

ALL INCLUSIVE SURF TRIP PRICING (PER PERSON)

Surf Everyday. Your surf guide will help you to find the best spot given the daily conditions and tide. The typical day involves waking up early and hitting the surf followed by a big breakfast. Lounge around the pool our surf the reef out front of the house mid day and then continue on for a sunset surf session. Feast like a king for dinner and pass out early – ready to take on another day of incredible surfing.

Per person double occupancy Prix / Pers / Base Double	5 Days – 4 Nights	7 Days – 6 Nights	10 Days – 9 Nights	Extra Day
RST Casa Negra	$1295	$1795	$2195	$250
RST Casa Avellana	$1295	$1795	$2195	$250

Beginner Surf Package Pricing

Learn to surf in Costa Rica! Our location offers some of the best learn to surf waves in the world. Daily trips to beaches plus 2 hours per day of PRIVATE surf instruction! Beginners Surf Camp includes:

Per person double occupancy Prix / Pers / Base Double	5 Days – 4 Nights	7 Days – 6 Nights	10 Days – 9 Nights	Extra Day
Casa RST Negra	$1495	$1995	$2295	$250
RST Casa Avellana	$1495	$1995	$2295	$250

Prices are per person on shared accommodation, private rooms available
Discounts available for groups of 3 or more
Single bookings additional fee to cover airport transfers expenses- $100

Costa Rica Nicaragua Combo Trip

Explore both Costa Rica and Nicaragua! Start at our location in Playa Negra, Costa Rica for a week of surf around the Guanacaste Peninsula and then move up to Nicaragua for some killer surf at Playa Colorado! These are custom trips, please contact us for more info

Boat Trip

Time: 5:30am-4:30pm approximately.
28ft boat Price: $500+ $15 pp for Santa Rosa National Park fee.
27ft boat Price: $450 $15 pp for Santa Rosa National Park fee

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