Cornwall

Your coastal
adventure

The Surfing
Capital
of the UK!

Newquay is where British surfing began. From a 4* hotel on the headland above Fistral Beach, your group surfs every morning, coasteers the slate cliffs and paddleboards the coves, and spends a day with lifeguards learning the rescue skills the RNLI teaches.

WHY CHOOSE CORNWALL

Coasteering, super SUP
and beach games

Trips from
April to November

4* hotel two minutes
from Fistral

Atlantic waves
all year

Ocean safety day
with lifeguards

Explore the coastline

Newquay’s coast is slate cliffs, dunes and small coves you reach on foot or from the water. Grey seals pass through most days, dolphins with a bit of luck, and at low tide the rock pools fill with crabs and anemones. Coasteering, surfing or paddleboarding, the group spends the week outdoors on one of the best stretches of coast in the country, with guides who explain the geology as they go.

Ocean Education

Spend a day with qualified lifeguards learning how to look after yourself and each other in the sea, using the rescue techniques the RNLI teaches. Through games and challenges on the beach, students learn to spot a rip current, the cause of most rescues on British beaches, get through the waves, carry out a basic rescue and give first aid. They are skills they keep for life and use on every beach after Cornwall.

All-inclusive packages

Everything is arranged before you arrive. We work with the hotel, surf school, activity providers and restaurants in Newquay to put together one price that covers the lot, and our Trip Leader is with you for the whole trip, so if the surf moves to the afternoon or a student needs something, there is someone there to sort it.

SURFING IN CORNWALL

Waves for all levels

Our learn-to-surf programme at Fistral is built around time in the water and catching waves. First-timers learn to pop up and ride the whitewater; students who already surf work on turns and reading the sets with their instructor. Everyone surfs every day in a Rip Curl wetsuit and rash vest, and the confidence lasts well beyond the week.

Reliable conditions

Fistral faces west into the Atlantic, so the swell that reaches it has crossed thousands of miles of open ocean before it breaks on sand. Summer waves are smaller and ideal for learning, while spring and autumn bring bigger surf for groups who want it. Newquay has hosted Britain’s biggest surf contests since the 1980s.

Local knowledge

Your instructors have surfed this coast for years and know what the tide and wind are doing before the group reaches the sand, and all of them are DBS checked, coaching qualified and lifeguard trained. Most sessions are at Fistral, with Great Western round the headland when it is the better call that day, so students surf the beach that suits them and pick up how to read the sea along the way.

ACCOMMODATION

You stay at the Esplanade, a 4* hotel above Fistral Beach, two minutes’ walk from the sand. Bedrooms are spacious, with modern en-suite bathrooms. Students share rooms of two to six, and staff have twin or private rooms.

There is plenty of room to spread out in the evenings: a games room, a cinema room, a heated indoor pool and a private outdoor terrace with pickleball. Breakfast, packed lunches and a two-course evening meal are served in the hotel’s sea-view restaurant, with a lounge next door and reception staffed around the clock.

As a teacher, it’s a stress-free experience thanks to the great communication through our rep and overall quality of everything on offer.

Harrow School

We have used this company for our year 8 school trip for the past two years and are returning to Cornwall for our third year running. I cannot speak highly enough of all of the staff. Will and Robbie are super organised and communication is fantastic. They make booking, organising and running a school trip a very easy experience. I would highly recommend

Harrodian School

WHAT TO EXPECT

Beachfront Location

A 4* hotel on the Pentire headland, two minutes from Fistral Beach, with a heated pool, a cinema room, a games room and a terrace, so the whole group has space in the evenings.

Outdoor Adventure

Coasteering and super SUP take you along the coast at sea level: into caves, off the rocks, through gullies, rapids and whirlpools, with cliff jumps for those who want them, an eye out for seals, and guides who explain the headlands’ geology as you go.

Varied Activity Options

Alongside the surfing there is coasteering, super SUP on giant eight-person boards, beach games and the surf survivor course, our ocean safety day. Evenings are sunset beach games, a jewellery workshop, a film night at the Lighthouse Cinema and a silent disco.

FOOD & DRINK

Meals are simple and plentiful, and we cater for dietary requirements once you have sent them to us. Continental or full English breakfast at the hotel, a packed lunch for the beach, a two-course evening meal in the sea-view restaurant, and one pizza night at The Stable on Fistral Beach.

beach games

Beach volleyball, rounders, cricket and football on the sand, usually between surf sessions and again after dinner as the sun goes down over the Atlantic. They get competitive! It is where the whole year group ends up playing together.

what’s included

Our prices cover everything from the moment you arrive in Newquay: the hotel, all meals, surfing and equipment, coasteering, super SUP, the evenings and our Trip Leader. Coach hire from school can be added on request.

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health and safety

We write a risk assessment for every destination and a health and safety audit for everywhere we stay, and send both to you before you travel, so your own trip paperwork is covered.