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Surf House or Surf Camp ?

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olgapamu started this discussion 11 years 9 months ago

Hi everyone!
I'm planning to start a hostel in Fuerteventura but I want it to be linked to surf because this is one of the major attractives in the island.
Can anyone tell me if there's a difference between a surf house and a surf camp?
I'm asking because I want to start my bussines plan and I'm not sure what option is best.
I would say a surf house is a hostel for people who likes surf but where you don't necessarly offer surf courses. And a surf camp is a place where both accomodation and surf courses are offered as a package.
My idea is to have a hostel where most of the customers will be people who like surf. I would like to be able to offer accomodation & breakfast, but also surf courses (surf, kite surf, paddle surf...).
I don't know if it's better to do a business plan for a hostel (surf house) and then another one for a surf school, or maybe do one single business plan for a surf camp.
Thank you!

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Rucksack Brian

11 years

I would say a surf house is a hostel for people who likes surf but where you don't necessarly offer surf courses. And a surf camp is a place where both accomodation and surf courses are offered as a package.

That sounds right to me.

If you plan to incorporate the surf courses at some point, then I would go ahead and put them into one business plan. Unless you want the courses to be a completely standalone business, in which case a second plan makes sense. It seems like a lot of people only write business plans to convince investors that they are serious, but it also helps you to plan out exactly how your business is going to work and grow. If you won't have two independent companies, then include when and how you would start to include the courses and how it will affect the hostel.

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Vocra

9 years

Hi olgapamu, hostel is similar to a lower grade type of hotel where a surf camp is usually more associated to a villa that is converted to offer a surf environment.

In the end of the day both are commercial designations and how you want to use them is really up to you and how u want to market them. You should look carefully to the destination you want to set it up as well. Perhaps, in Fuerteventura there may be too many surf camps and could use some hostels? or vice versa?

note that the hostels are often more associated to a more professional infra-structure than a surf camp so also customers may have higher expectations of the services you will end up providing.

You are correct, a surf camp is expected to have a surf school associated with where as a hostel can just have some surf theme and then have some partnership and cooperation with surf school, that it may end up with commissions on both side.

As for the business plan, you should consider very much the occupation, number or rooms, price per bed for the rooms revenue and then try to understand what other services you would offer (Food and beverage, lessons, transfers, surfaris, yoga, etc.) usually the main revenue driver is the rooms division but this can be too much of a dependence for you and we recommend to supply a little more than that, also it helps you to stay different than others and offering combo packages.

I hope this can help you out and please PM me or Surfinn if you would like to consider some help throughout the process as well as to associate your surfcamp to our brand.

Best
J.

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