Surf Today — forecast that gets you
Wave height, period, wind, water temp — but tagged by surf level. The same conditions can be a green light for advanced and a no-go for beginners. We do that math for you.
Real-timeFor Surfers
Find your wave. No lesson required.
Check the forecast, log your sessions and follow your progress. When you want to learn with a school, find available lessons. Your contacts stay inside SurfBooking — schools never get your email or phone unless you book with them.
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Multi-role platform
Each role sees only what it should
SurfBooking is one platform with three independent surfaces. A school never sees another school's customers. An instructor's CV travels across schools but their reviews stay separated. For surfers who book here, only the school teaching that lesson gets their contacts, never the school next door and never other surfers.
- I surfFind spots, book lessonsYou are here
- List your schoolManage lessons & payments
- I'm an instructorPortable CV, school invites
Your passport, your bookings, your contacts — none of it is shared with other schools without your tap.
Built for surfers
Everything you need, nothing you don't
Forecast, lessons, progression, gifting, reviews — one app, every wave.
Find your spot
Browse 132+ spots across Portugal and beyond. Filter by level, distance, conditions. See which schools operate there, when, and at what price.
GPS-awareBook the lesson
Pick spot, day, level. The app shows every available slot from every school there, ranks them by reviews and conditions, takes Apple Pay / Google Pay / card.
InstantEquipment that actually fits
Tell us your weight, height, foot. We translate that into wetsuit, board volume, leash, boots. Schools see only the size — never the body data.
Auto-sizedSurf Passport
Every lesson auto-stamps your passport: date, school, country, instructor signature. Cross-school progression certificates. Your CV as a surfer, owned by you, transferable everywhere.
Yours, transferableReviews you can trust
Only people who actually took a lesson can review. School AND instructor scored separately. No fake-account farms — every review is bound to a paid booking.
Verified buyerGift surf
Send a gift voucher to anyone — they pick the school and date later. Personal message, custom amount, redeemable across every SurfBooking school.
Any schoolDirect chat with your school
Need to ask about gear, change a date, check parking? Direct message, in-app, with the school you booked. Other schools can't message you out of the blue.
Anti-spamLive status before you go
School-published live conditions: 'open / surf is firing / closed today'. No more driving 40 min for nothing. Updated minute-by-minute by who's actually on the beach.
Live
Some days you just want your board, your peak and nobody else. This is built for those days too.
Your privacy is the product
Three hard rules, baked into how the platform works — not a privacy policy promise. A school never sees another school's customers. Of what you book on SurfBooking, only the school teaching that lesson gets your contacts: no school can search for you in here, and nobody pulls lists out. Reviews are public, but your full name and contacts stay private.
Your contacts
Booked through SurfBooking: email, phone and tax ID go only to the school teaching that lesson. Until then, you're a UUID. If you reached the school some other way — its own site, the counter, another system it uses — you were already its customer: that data is theirs, and it's with them you sort it out.
Other surfers
Reviews are public, but we never expose your full name or contacts to other surfers. Your reviews show 'Maria S.', not the rest.
Health data
Allergies, medical conditions — only checked into the lesson where the instructor needs them. Encrypted at rest.
Frequently asked questions
Is the app free?
Yes — downloading and using SurfBooking costs you nothing. You only pay when you book a lesson, and the price you see is the price you pay.
Do schools see my email and phone?
Only the school you actually book a lesson with gets your contact info, and only for that booking. No school can search the platform for surfers — that path is closed by design (audited 2026-05-07). One honest note: if you booked with the school outside SurfBooking — on its own site, at the counter, or in another system it uses that only shares its calendar with us — that data was never ours to hold. It has been theirs from the start, and it's them you ask to correct or delete it.
Can I cancel a booking?
Yes, with refund tiers based on how close to lesson time. 100% refund if cancelled more than 96h before the lesson, 75% at 48–96h, 50% at 24–48h, no refund under 24h (unless the school cancels for dangerous sea — then you always get 100%).
What if conditions are dangerous?
If the school cancels for safety (red flag, storm, swell over your level), full refund automatically. The system flags weather over your level — schools can also auto-cancel lessons that don't make pedagogical sense for the day.
Can I gift a lesson?
Yes — the Gift Voucher. You pick the school and the lesson or pack, pay, and add a personal message; whoever receives it redeems it with a code. Works as a Christmas / birthday / anniversary gift.
Ready to surf?
Download the app. Open Surf Today. Find a school. Book in seconds. The wave is waiting.
SB rules
The same rules in every lesson.
- SB ratiosWe advise at most 6 beginners, 8 intermediate or advanced surfers and 4 children per instructor. The system warns the school when a lesson goes over.
- Schools approved by usSomeone on our team approves every school before it appears. New ones only get in with their licence number.
- Digital waiverLiability waiver signed on the phone. Minors co-signed by guardian. Every signature is kept.
- Reviews from people who took the lessonOnly people who actually took a lesson can review. School and instructor are scored separately.
- Free cancellation up to 4 days before
ONE UNIVERSE · THREE DOORS
Surfers, schools and instructors. Under one roof.
For surfers
The right lesson, in the right sea
Book with schools and see the forecast for that break before you decide. After the lesson the record is yours: what you surfed and how you grew.
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For schools
An operating system, not another tab
The whole day on one screen: who is coming, what gear goes out, what came in, and the sea you are going to get. Kai answers by voice and does the work with you.
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For instructors
Your CV is yours, and it travels with you
Certifications, languages and levels in a profile that belongs to you, not to a school. Schools find you, and you choose who you work with.
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Three doors, one house. The lesson a school creates is the same one a surfer books and the same one an instructor teaches: one record, one truth, nobody copying anything across.