Surf, Yoga and Wild Camp Weekend in Cornwall
Learn to surf on beautiful beaches and enjoy some restorative yoga in the Cornish woodland
What's Included?
Small Like-minded Groups
Solo-friendly by design, join our small n’ sociable groups of up to 12 like-minded, active and outdoorsy people…
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What's it like?
Hit the Cornish coast for some expert-led surf lessons tailored for beginners and avid surfers alike
Relax, unwind and recharge with some restorative, outdoor yoga at an awesome woodland retreat
Sleep beneath the stars in canvas bell tents surrounded by a peaceful, natural setting
Key Information
Day 1
Wild Woodland Camping
Meet at your host's Headquarters in Newquay and transfer to your wild camp. Head into the woods and settle into your luxurious bell tent for an evening around the campfire.
Day 2
Fistral Beach
Surfing
Yoga
Fuel up on a hearty camp breakfast and head to Fistral beach, home of some of the best waves in Cornwall, and your first surf lesson. Lessons will be tailored to both the group and you as an individual and whether you’re a first-timer or looking to build on your skills, your coach will make sure you get the best from your time on the water. Learn how to manage your board, paddle and that all-important wave timing and return to your woodland wild camp where your yoga instructor will be waiting in an open-sided barn.
In this peaceful setting, you'll be guided through stretches and poses that relax and recharge your muscles and mind; if you’ve never tried yoga before, you’ll be a convert for sure. Suitably chilled, it’s time for food, drinks and laughs (there’s a handy supermarket across the road from the beach to stock up) followed by some axe throwing and games before getting cosy in your bell tent.
Day 3
Put your skills into practice
Yoga
Surfing
Start the day with another delicious breakfast, followed by a morning yoga lesson to the sound of birdsong. This morning’s session will focus on awakening your body and recharging your muscles ready for more surfing. Energised and focused, head back to the beach and build upon yesterday’s session as you develop your skills to the next level. Whether you’re practising turning, or paddling out back for some bigger waves, today is all about progression whatever your level. You’ll be handed your towel at around 13:00 as a great weekend adventure in the woods and on the water comes to an end.
The Area
Logistics
Starts
Host's Base: Central Newquay
18:00 on Day 1
Ends
Host's Base: Central Newquay
13:00 on Day 3
Transfers
Your adventure begins at your host's base in central Newquay which is easily accessible by car or train. If you arrive by train it’s only a 15-minute walk (1.2km) from the station to the start point. Alternatively, you can also travel by air to Newquay Airport, and get a 20 minute taxi to the start point. If you're arriving early or staying on after you trip - feel free to ask your local host for accommodation suggestions in Newquay.
Your adventure ends in at your host's base in central Newquay at 13:00.
Travel options
There are regular trains and flights to Newquay from across the UK.
Day 1
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Day 2
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Day 3
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
What is the food like?
Newquay has a range of restaurants for any budget, as well as a supermarket across the street from the surf shop. You'll need to buy ingredients for dinner at the camp - simple is best as you will be BBQ’ing and cooking over the camp fire. Given the diversity of food available in town, all dietary requirements can be accommodated including vegetarian and vegan diets. You will be provided with a basic camp breakfast that should be enough to keep you going but please bring some extra snacks if you're an extra hungry morning person.
What is the accommodation like?
Newquay
You’ll wildcamp on untouched private land 11 miles outside Newquay. Home for the weekend is a spacious canvas bell tent, arranged in a tranquil woodland setting with festive banners and twinkle lights. Each bell tent sleeps 4 people and comes with simple carpet and airbeds. You'll need to bring your own sleeping bag & pillow (or you can rent a sleeping bag from your host if you prefer to travel light - see Optional Extras). There are composting toilets, washing-up facilities and rustic gas showers, all outdoors in the peaceful countryside.
Upgrades
Friends or couples wishing to stay in their own two-man bell tent equipped with an air bed can request this after booking (unfortunately solo occupancy is not available in the bell tents). See Optional Extras for prices.
Loved this trip away to Cornwall. The Campsite was gorgeous and very eco-friendly. It was a nice change of pace of life and loved sitting around the campfire chatting. Victor and Willow were fantastic guides and Victor was an excellent surf instructor. I loved Amiee's yoga classes - these were exactly what you needed to stretch out after surfing.
A super fun weekend surfing (or trying to!) and the perfect way to use an extra bank holiday. As it was my first time surfing I didn't realise how tiring it would be and I think a top tip is to book a hotel Sunday night with a spa to let your body recover!
Great all round trip for the peferect Cornwall get away/experience! Cosy camping spot with fresh water lake along with nice kitchen and social area with awesome fire pit area. Activities were really well organised and the staff were just fantastic.
100% would recommend👌🏼
So great! Highly recommend.
I had a great time and would recommend the trip. But I'm not sure it's value for money. I would also recommend hiking boots for the camp! If the weather is wet and you just have runners then your feet will get wet!
10/10 do recommend! Everyone on the team is great. Surfing is great. Yoga is great. And the campsite is super cute. What more do you want?
I had great fun here- the instructors were very helpful about my disability- turns out it's hard to start surfing if you can't see the waves coming... (and no you can't really wear glasses while surfing either...) And the yoga and campsite was gorgeous- being able to see the stars at night was fabulous, absolutely no light pollution at all!
Highly recommend to anyone.
Nourishing, wonderful, enjoyable weekend. Felt really well looked after and the campsite really was magical. So so special. And the surfing instructors were fab
Really fun trip. Greg, our surf instructor was great! Lovely camp hosted by the fab Aimee. Loved the yoga. Only thing missing was a shower but doable for one night.
Camp site and Amy the yoga instructor were great! Overall recommend the trip. Recommend bringing a car so you can transport yourself to/from campsite so you don’t have to rely on others from the trip. Surfing was a bit crowded and hard to practice and 1 instructor for 5/6 people. Overall great trip and bring bug spray and as not on kit list!
The surfing was fantastic great equipment fun guides the yoga was not too stressful and the wild camping was amazing.
We went on the yoga and surf wild camp holiday, it was so much fun trying surfing, our surf coaches were really attentive and super helpful. The yoga afterwards was restorative and the teacher Aimee was lovely. The tents and the camp as a whole were really clean and it was a great experience!
Great weekend. Beat part by far is the surfing. Instructors are great and is the highlight. The wild camp was cool and yoga was ok. Nice for a weekend break
I had a great time on this trip. The staff were so accommodating and easy to get on with. From the moment I arrived it was a good vibe. We weren’t sure initially if we’d get to surf due to the conditions but luckily there were waves to get us going as beginners.
Max was a great instructor and created a fun environment for us to learn together. As the surfing continued he offered tips to help progression which was appreciated (and needed).
The campsite was easy to get to and had everything we needed from it. The tents were spacious - more than enough room for me as a solo traveller.
Yoga in the evening sun and then the following morning was enjoyable. I wasn’t specifically there for the yoga side and had never done it before, but Zoe took us through different movements re ability. So whether beginner or experienced everyone was able to participate.
All in all it was really fun and I feel great value for money. I’d certainly book other trips with Much Better Adventures and Cornish Wave. Thank you to the team for providing a great weekend.
Had an amazing adventure ... Phil the surfing coach was amazing , I've never surfed b4 and I've learnt so much from him ... Amy the yoga instructor is amazing at what she does and again learn more than expected about yoga...I loved our wild camping stay such a beautiful setting ...I will definitely be using cornish wave/muchbetteradventures again
We had a fantastic time, the staff are friendly and supportive. Would definitely recommend
The trip was very good a lot of fun with some very nice people.
The trip was very good a lot of fun with some very nice people
Fantastic! Everything was well organised and we enjoyed the activities - we were apprehensive about the surfing beforehand, as total newbies, but the instructors were great. Would definitely recommend.
This is a great trip, ideal to get an intro to surfing. The hosts and surf coaches were great, incredibly friendly and enthusiastic, the wild camp is a lovely space, and the yoga was a dream.
Great weekend! Fantastic team!
Would recommend much better adventures to anyone it's great value for money, well organised and good fun. Ideal for ppl looking to do something different for the weekend!
The instructors, area, organising of it all, the camp and the time outdoors were great!
Really fun, well organised. Good balance of hard work and downtime. The campsite is amazing and the surfing was great fun. Really friendly and easy-going instructor.
Great way to improve my surfing.
Everything was great from start to finish! Lessons were fun & the camping was ace!
We really enjoyed the surfing weekend, the instructors were helpful and clear and it was a lot of fun! The wild camp set up is really cosy with lots of games and a firepit. Thanks Victor and Greg for a great weekend!
Everything about this trip was great! The equipment, facilities and organisation of the whole trip is excellent. The hosts and instructors are all wonderful; really helpful, great instructors and best of all just awesome people to be around. I had an injury during the trip (not related to the trip, long term back issue) and they could not have been more helpful. Everything was great about this trip and I will definitely be back to complete the other adventure weekends they are offering!
Hosts Jay and Max were great guys who were very professional but also a good laugh.
Guides
Experienced, certified surf coach and a qualified yoga instructor
Accommodation
2 nights of woodland camping in luxury bell tents
Equipment
All your surfing and camping equipment
Meals
Basic camp breakfasts
Our trips are hassle-free by design. We include all the activities and equipment, as well as many of the meals, so you can simply rock up with your rucksack and share the adventure with your new pals.
Personal Expenses
You know your own spending habits best, so please budget an appropriate amount for things like optional meals and drinks, shopping, optional activities, and laundry.
What's included?
- Surfing: Surfboard and full-length wetsuit
- Yoga: yoga mats
- Camping: Tent, air bed
What do I need to bring?
- Sleeping bag (also available to hire - see Optional Extras)
- Swimwear
- Shoes for the beach
- Towel
- Sun protection (hat, sunglasses, sunblock)
- 1 litre of water per person
- Rain jacket
- Spare warm clothing and a hat
- Warm hat
- Torch
- Suitable footwear for a night in the outdoors (the farm entrance can be very muddy - wellies can be hired on site)
- Toiletries, toothbrush and toothpaste
- BBQ food and drinks for dinner (this can all be picked up after your surf session from the supermarket across the road)
Optional 2-Person Tent Upgrade (2 nights. Min. 2 people)
Payable Before Departure
Optional 2-Person Tent Upgrade (2 nights. Min. 2 people)
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We partner with the World Land Trust to ensure this trip achieves Net-Zero emissions. We also support their Buy an Acre programme, helping local communities to buy and protect natural habitats in perpetuity.
What's the number?
It works out on average at 17kg of CO2 emissions per person, including all local transport, accommodation, food, activities, guides, staff and office operations.
The only thing it doesn’t include right now is flights and travel to the destination. We do make an overall estimate across all our customers separately, but as we don’t book flights, have customers from all corners of the world, and no way of reliably knowing their travel plans, we simply can’t include an individual number in the figure on display here. We’ve got a goal to fix that, so that when you book, there is a way to measure and mitigate the carbon emitted by your flight too.
But what does the number mean?
Yep, hard to picture eh? To give you an idea:
- Driving 1000miles/1609km would be approx. 281kg of CO2 in an average car (or 140.5kg per person if there was 2 of you in it).
- A return economy class flight London - New York would be approx. 1,619kg (1.66 tonnes) per person.
- 10 trees in a temperate forest are estimated to remove approx. 250kg of CO2 from the air in a period of 5-10 years.
What are we doing about it?
Our trips are relatively low-carbon by design, and we're working with all our hosts to develop long term carbon reduction plans. We partner with the World Land Trust to ensure this trip achieves Net-Zero emissions. We also support their Buy an Acre programme, helping local communities to buy and protect natural habitats in perpetuity, ensuring the protection of the reserve and its wildlife.
Want to know more?
Amazingly, no international travel company has ever publicly published their carbon measurements before, as far as we know. We believe that must change, quickly. So we’re openly sharing the method we used in the hope that other companies will be able to more easily follow suit and build on what we've done so far. You'll find it all here.
In an open-sided barn nestled in the woods near the campsite - a lovely setting for some relaxing yoga.
The surf camp is a place to immerse yourself in the peace of an untouched forest or just have a good chat around the campfire.
Hone your campfire BBQ skills, challenge your friends to an axe throwing contest and practice your balance on the slack line. You’re welcome to do as much or as little at you want. Relaxing in your bell tent with a good book is always an option.
Your camp has a large covered BBQ area suitable for cooking in all weathers. There’s also a basic camp cooker and all the utensils, plates, cups etc.
Of course. Each surf session is roughly 1.5 hours long, however, you're welcome to keep the board afterwards and surf on your own.
If you feel that you'll struggle to see without your glasses, then please do wear them, however, we'd suggest securing them with a piece of string so you won't lose them. Daily throw away contact lenses are the best option for surfing.
Whilst most of our trips are exclusive to Much Better Adventures, due to the nature of this destination and the design of the trip, this particular host also sells this adventure via other channels. This means that it’s possible that your group may consist of people who haven't booked through the Much Better Adventures website. But rest assured, anyone booking this trip is in search of an active, outdoors adventure, just as you are!
Sure can! Over 70% of our travellers travel solo, it’s a great way to meet like-minded people.
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It’s this camaraderie that has so often turned a great adventure into a life-changing one.
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