Surf camps in Taghazout

Taghazout is a village of point breaks, and that single fact decides which camp is right for you. Anchor Point, Boilers, Killer Point and La Source all break over rock, and none of them is a place to learn. A camp here earns its price on the morning it reads the forecast and sends a beginner to the sand at Banana Beach while the rest go to the point.

So the question to ask is not how many stars the rooms have. It is which break, for which level, on which tide. A camp that answers with a spot name is telling you it works that way. A camp that answers "we go surfing" has a minibus and a timetable.

What a week costs here, and what moves it

The entry rates we have read off operators' own pages run from 21 € a night at Surf Berbere to 95 € at Hashpoint, the widest spread of any village we publish, and it says less about quality than about what is inside. A week that includes three meals, board hire, transport to the break and coaching is not comparable to a bed with breakfast, and the two are advertised with the same word.

Compare whole weeks. Over seven nights the gap between the cheapest and the dearest camp in this village is smaller than a board in the hold of your flight.

Who each kind of camp suits

The communal camp puts everybody around one table at a fixed hour. It is the reason people who arrive alone leave with a group, and it is loud at seven in the evening, which is the same sentence read twice.

The guesthouse that sells lessons gives you a room, a breakfast and coaching when you want it. Better if you are travelling as a couple or working during the day, and quieter than you may want if you came on your own.

The house on the point puts you within walking distance of Hash Point and Anchor Point. Worth it if you are at the level those breaks ask for, and not otherwise: waking up next to a wave you cannot surf is an expensive view.

What we publish, and what we do not

Six camps in Taghazout carry a sheet here, out of the forty-two in our Moroccan inventory. A camp is published once the operator puts a price on its own site, which is slower than copying a directory and is the reason there are six rather than forty. Where the operator also publishes a room grid, the sheet carries the rooms; most do not, and the sheet says so instead of filling the gap.

The ones missing are not judged and rejected; they are unread. Where an operator publishes no price at all, we leave the sheet out rather than invent a range.