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 Base Surf Lodge
located: Newquay, Cornwall, UK
website: Base Surf Lodge
Lodge overlooking Fistral beach and a short easy walk to the centre of Newquay, with its buzzing nightlife, shops and restaurants. Offering comfortable dorm-style accommodation with bed and continental breakfast; most rooms have views of Fistral or Newquay Bay beaches. Also secure surfboard storage, a chilled-out atmosphere, med-style lounge, free hot drinks and a sun-trap/BBQ patio.

 Beachside
located: Gower, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK
website: Beachside
Almost right on the golden sands of the vast Blue Flag beach at Caswell Bay, Beachside apartment is ideal for surfers. This third floor apartment has one double bedroom, plus a sofa bed in the lounge making it suitable for 2–4 people. Its balcony offers panoramic views, over the beach and the breakers.

 Bluesy Beach House
located: Widemouth Bay, Bude, Cornwall, UK
website: Bluesy Beach House
Self-catering holiday home for six (in three bedrooms) just a stone's throw from the beach at Widemouth Bay in Cornwall, and in an ideal position for many watersports. The house benefits from a wet room with two showers and direct access from the beach; ideal for washing off the sand and salt after a day on the surf. There is also an outside storage shed for surfboards.

 Breaks
located: Newquay, Cornwall, UK
website: Breaks
Quality, contemporary, 4-star guest house in an excellent central location in Newquay, just a short walk from the world famous Fistral Beach. This stylish accommodation caters for couples, seeking funky individually designed en-suite rooms. Surfing tuition can be arranged with a premier Newquay surf school.

 Carnmarth Hotel
located: Newquay, Cornwall, UK
website: Carnmarth Hotel
Hotel with superb sea views over Newquay's famous Fistral Beach. The hotel boasts an on-site surf school and is within easy reach of the best beaches in the area. It has a modern bar with terrace, offering coffee, cocktails and informal meals, and which some evenings hosts specialist nights with music, barbecues and themed menus. Carnmarth Hotel is within walking distance of Newquay town centre.

 Croft Acre - Maize Cottage
located: Port-Eynon, Gower, W Glamorgan, Wales, UK
website: Croft Acre
Choice of three self-catering holiday homes sleeping up to eight, at wave-packed Port-Eynon on the Gower Peninsula, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and one of the UK's top surf destinations. With uninterrupted views over Port-Eynon Bay, these seaside holiday cottages are ideal for keen surfers. Surf and boogie boards and can be hired from the village and surfing tuition is available nearby.

 Escape Surf School (The)
located: Newquay, Cornwall, UK
website: Escape Surf School
Budget, bunk-style shared accommodation; prices include 1 surf lesson per day. Rooms are mostly en-suite with sea views and sleep 4-10. Escape Surf School is located on the premises of St Christophers Inn, overlooking Towan Beach, with perfect ocean views. Surfing lessons are 2.5 hours each with all equipment included, (board, wetsuit, gloves, boots), coaching is provided by qualified coaches.

 Falmouth Surf School Accommodation
located: Falmouth, Cornwall, UK
website: Falmouth Surf School
Cottage-style rooms, with full catering facilities, in Falmouth. The apartment is suitable for a couple or a group of 2-5 sharing. There's a bedroom sleeping four and a sofa bed/single bed in the lounge area. There's also free transport offered to the surf beach at Porthtowan. This flat is run by Falmouth Surf School, who also offer instruction; guests receive a discount on tuition and board/wetsuit hire.

 Harlyn Inn (The)
located: Harlyn Bay, Padstow, Cornwall, UK
website: Harlyn Inn
Situated just metres from Harlyn Beach, the Harlyn Inn offers restaurants, bars, spacious guest rooms, free parking and free Wi-Fi. For surfers the Harlyn Inn features a small surf school and a beach shop with board hire. The two lively bars have a range of local ales and host regular live music.

 Hotel Sunnyside
located: Newquay, Cornwall, UK
website: Hotel Sunnyside
Upbeat budget hotel above Towan Beach, a stone throw from some of the best surfing in Newquay. The hotel offers a range of affordable private and bunk rooms for single travellers, couples and groups. They offer surfboard and wetsuit storage, a surf centre for hire and tuition, plus Wi-Fi for checking wave conditions.

 Ocean Backpackers
located: Ilfracombe, Devon, UK
website: Ocean Backpackers
Hostel with private rooms, dorm accommodation and a very laid-back atmosphere. Facilities include a lounge, a self-catering kitchen, a car park, free internet access and surfboard storage. Ilfracombe is close to the villages of Braunton, Croyde, and Saunton with their big sandy beaches and great surfing.

 Oceanside
located: Croyde, Devon, UK
website: Oceanside
Great for a family surf break, this child friendly holiday home for 6 (in 3 bedrooms) is located in the picturesque West Country seaside village of Croyde, an easy walk from the famous surf beach, as well as local pubs, shops and restaurants. Croyde is one of the UK's most popular surfing beaches and plenty of board hire and instruction is available. Surfboards can be stored in garage adjacent to the house.

 Offshore Hostel
located: Newquay, Cornwall, UK
website: Offshore Hostel
Private rooms and dorm accommodation for surfers, overlooking the famous Fistral beach, described as England's surfing capital. The hostel also has a bar, large decked beer garden, limo service, pool table, wii, summer food service, discount taxi and club entry, hen & stag groups welcome. Surf instruction is also available from the Offshore surf school, with flexible start times and easy access to the waves.

 Pearl
located: Newquay, Cornwall, UK
website: Pearl
Luxury modern accommodation overlooking Fistral Beach. Pearl apartments are close to Newquay's famous surfing beaches and include surf board storage. Newquay's lively town centre and nightlife are a 10-minute walk. The apartments have private balconies, flat-screen TVs, secure entry and free parking, all boast a large, private balcony with outdoor seating and fine views.

 Pitton Cross Camping & Caravan Park
located: Rhossili, Gower, W Glamorgan, Wales, UK
website: www.pittoncross.co.uk
Family run touring park and campground on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales. Pitton Cross is member of the Surfers Welcome scheme and hires and sells surfboards, bodyboards and wetsuits. Most of the Gower's beaches offer good waves.

 Porthtowan Backpackers Hostel
located: Porthtowan, Cornwall, UK
website: Porthtowan Backpackers
Hostel accommodation a few yards from one of the best surfing beaches in Cornwall, ideal for surfers and body boarders. The accommodation offers a four beded room, a six beded room, a private double room and a four beded family room. Surfing tuition and the hire of bodyboards, surfboards and wetsuits available.

 Reef Surf Lodge
located: Newquay, Cornwall, UK
website: Reef Surf Lodge
A surf lodge with sea views, 200 m from the beach in Newquay. It offers private dorms and standard hotel rooms, restaurant, lounge with 50inch TV playing music and surf videos, secure wetsuit drying and board-storage room and a bar with regular live rock and reggae. The Reef also offers surfing lessons, the Surf School is open all year round and can provide equipment and instruction.

 Ruda Holiday Park
located: Croyde Bay, Devon, UK
website: Ruda
Family or small group surf accommodation offering apartments, lodges and caravans, some with surf storage. As well as a host of water based and dry land activities for all ages the park offers surfing lessons and offshore hire. Ride the waves at Croyde beach, several times host to the British Surfing Championships.

 Silver Spray Surf Lodge
located: Newquay, Cornwall, UK
website: Silver Spray
Basic budget bunk room accommodation with no curfews, in the heart of Newquay, catering for between two and twelve people per room. Silver Spray Surf Lodge is in a central location for both beaches and nightlife. A light breakfast is included and the kitchen facilities can be used between 11 am and 9 pm.

 The Park
located: Mawgan Porth, Newquay, Cornwall, UK
website: The Park
A choice of modern, self-catering and environmentally friendly holiday homes in a rural parkland setting. This comfortable accommodation sleeps from 2 to 12 and is just a few hundred yards from the surf of Mawgan Porth beach, where there is also a surfing school. The Park offers a huge range of facilities including an outdoor pool and activity equipment, indoor leisure centre, heated indoor pool, sauna and steam room.

 Tides Reach
located: Polzeath, Cornwall, UK
website: Tides Reach
A four star, self-catering, beach-style cottage sleeping four, situated just 30 m from the beach at Polzeath. Ideal for activities such as sailing, surfing, wind surfing, water skiing, walking and golf. There are excellent surf schools locally. The cottage has an outside shower for rinsing sand and salt off when coming from the beach.

 Tolcarne Beach Apartments
located: Newquay, Cornwall, UK
website: Tolcarne Beach Apartments
Range of stylish, luxury apartments right on Tolcarne Beach ideal for watersports such as surfing or boogie boarding. Each apartment has a sea-facing balcony and is totally self-contained. The apartments are 3 to 5 minutes walk from Newquay town centre and 3 minutes from the train station.

 Tolcarne Surf Shacks
located: Newquay, Cornwall, UK
website: Tolcarne Surf Shacks
Simple basic accommodation at a great price, the Surf Shacks on Tolcarne Beach allow you to stay right on the beach and close to the waves. They offer two sets of cabin bunk beds with linen provided, a decked porched out the front, a shared shower block and shared kitchenette with sink, toaster, microwave, kettle and fridge.

 Waves
located: Watergate Bay, Newquay, Cornwall, UK
website: Waves
A modern, five-star holiday apartment for two in Watergate Bay, with surfing, kite-surfing and surf boating on tap, and with nearly three miles of beach at low tide. Offering a cosy dining/living room with French doors to a large balcony, a well-equipped kitchen area, double bedroom, sea views and secure surfboard storage.

 Westward Bed & Breakfast
located: Newquay, Cornwall, UK
website: Westward B&B
B&B close to the beaches and town of Newquay. All guest rooms are en-suite, well furnished and have freeview flat screen TV, Wi-Fi, tea and coffee making. For surfers there is a storage area for surfing equipment, wetsuits, bodyboards and surfboards, plus an area to wash and dry wetsuits.

 Whitebarn
located: Sennen, Cornwall, UK
website: Whitebarn
Barn conversion providing self-catering accommodation for up to six. Whitebarn is minutes from the rollers of Sennen Cove. Sennen waves are suitable for all standards and it's a good learners beach, there is a well equipped lifeguard team throughout the summer. There is also board hire and a surf school on the beach.

 Zinc – Apartment 10
located: Newquay, Cornwall, UK
website: Apartment 10
In a supreme location on the headland overlooking the legendary Fistral Beach this two bedroom apartment is an ideal base for surfers. This self-catering apartment has a large south-facing terrace with stunning views over the Atlantic Ocean. There is an allocated underground parking space and a surfboard store.

– More UK surfing hotels and surf accommodation –

 Banff Springs Hotel
located: Banff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
website: www.thebanffsprings.co.uk/.../...surf-package
Luxury hotel in Banff offering an 'Extreme Surf Package' which includes luxury accommodation, with breakfast and dinner options, together with surf lessons, equipment hire and instructor.

 Breakers B&B
located: Georgeham, Devon, UK
website: www.breakersgeorgeham.com
B&B for surfers in North Devon; facilities include a hot tub, swimming pool, wetsuit washing and drying area and secure surfboard storage. They hire out boards and equipment and the owner, a keen surfer for many years, can pass on advice and local knowledge.

 Hebridean Surf
located: Isle of Lewis, Hebrides, Scotland, UK
website: www.hebrideansurf.co.uk
Comfortable, informal accommodation at hostel prices for surfers keen to enjoy the rugged Atlantic coastline with its many empty beaches and top-class, pollution-free breakers. Bunk dorms, family rooms, twin, double, and single rooms are available and transport to the surf can be provided.

Merton Hotel
located: St Saviour, Jersey, Channel Islands
website: www.seymourhotels.com/MertonHotel
Family hotel offering excelent leisure facilities and aquadome, including a FlowRider™ Surf Wave for 'Flowboarding' with trained instructors. On the ocean the island offers some great surf beaches at St Ouen’s Bay, Plémont and Grève de Lecq.

 Millhouse Hostel
located: Isle of Tiree, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK
website: www.tireemillhouse.co.uk
Hostel accommodation with dorms and private rooms on the outermost of the Inner Hebrides. The surfing takes place at Balevullin Bay and the hostel provides a wetsuit area.

 Western House Bed & Breakfast
located: Llangennith, Gower, W Glamorgan, Wales, UK
website: www.westernhousebandb.co.uk
Surfer friendly B&B in Llangennith, on the Gower Peninsula; just half a mile from the three miles of Llangennith beach. The owner is a keen surfer who is very willing to give advice.

Surfers accommodation in the Republic of Ireland

Ballybunnion Cottages
located: Ballybunnion, County Kerry, Ireland
website: Ballybunnion Cottages
Choice of two self-catering holiday cottages, sleeping up to eight people, in the Irish seaside town of Ballybunnion, one of Kerry's finest surfing destinations. These are part of a custom development in a delightful location just half a mile from the sea, with its four miles of blue flagged beaches and excellent surf.

Bundoran Surf Chalet
located: Bundoran, County Donegal, Ireland
website: Bundoran Surf Chalet
Two bedroomed self-catering chalet accommodation designed specifically for surfers and featuring facilities such as a wet room and surfboard racks. It's located off Bundoran main street, right beside the town's main surf shop and is just a few minutes from some of Europe's best year-round surfing.

Bundoran Surf Lodge
located: Bundoran, County Donegal, Ireland
website: Bundoran Surf Lodge
Hostel accommodation centrally located on the main street of Bundoran, just a two minute walk from two surfing beaches, with some of Ireland's best waves. Offering hostel rooms at hostel prices, but at hotel standard! There is a kitchen, common room, private parking and a patio for summer BBQs.

Donegal Self-Catering
located: County Donegal, Ireland
website: Donegal Self-Catering
A choice of three-bedroomed self catering cottages built in traditional stone and located on Donegal Bay. Here you can enjoy some of Europe's top surfing at Rossnowlagh and Bundoran beaches, and all of Donegal Bay; for beginners and improvers Rossnowlagh beach offers a range of water activities including a surf school.

Fin McCool Surf Lodge
located: Rossnowlagh, County Donegal, Ireland
website: Fin McCool Surf Lodge
Surf lodge directly on Rossnowlagh beach in Donegal Bay. This lodge provides dorm or private room accomodation for the Fin McCool Surf School. Their shop and changing facilities are situated right on the shorefront at Rossnowlagh. Look out for their 'specials' which include two nights B&B plus lessons.

Homefield Rock Hostel
located: Bundoran, County Donegal, Ireland
website: Homefield Rock Hostel
Music-themed hostel close to Bundoran's beach, town and nightlife. It offers on-site climbing and skateboarding, surfboard hire and surf lessons and is located next to Donegal Adventure centre. The hostel has both private and dorm rooms, free Wi-Fi, TV room, free parking, self-catering kitchen and an on-site Mediterranean restaurant.

Minard View
located: Annascaul, County Kerry, Ireland
website: Minard View
Self-catering holiday cottage its own grounds, sleeping up to 10 people, in a quiet location just seven miles from Dingle. The golden sands of Minard Beach are just a mile away and the miles of beach and surf at nearby Inch are ideal for surfing; Inch offers mellow, fun waves and is ideal for beginners or longboarders.

Revelation – The Old Rectory
located: Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland
website: Revelation
Secluded, architect designed home, sleeping 9 in 4 bedrooms, the house has a wet room for surf gear. Achill Island is the largest island off Ireland's Atlantic Coast and a bridge joins it to the mainland. The island has five Blue Flag beaches including Keel Strand, one of the most popular surf destinations in Ireland; perfect for beginners. Surf board hire and surfing tuition are available.

Strandhill Lodge & Surf School
located: Strandhill, County Sligo, Ireland
website: Strandhill Lodge
Hostel accommodation with its own surf school right beside the wide beach and close to pubs and restaurants. Accommodation includes twin bed private rooms, rooms for four, and a ten beded dorm, with complimentary breakfast plus self-catering facilities and offering a secure area for wet suit and surfboard storage. The hostel caters for singles, couples, families or small groups.