A surf camp website, from the first wave to the last light
Someone booking a surf week wants very specific answers before paying: whether it works for someone who’s never stood on a board, how many hours of lessons a day, whether the board and wetsuit are included, how you get to the beach and whether rooms are shared. A clip of big waves answers none of it.
Forest tells a day at your camp through six of your photos: the place from outside as the day starts, four moments — the lesson on the beach, lunch, the afternoon, the sunset session — and the house lit up at night. Each one gains depth, and for each moment you write what happens at that hour, from the warm-up on the sand to dinner together.
The card at the end carries your price from per week, the arrival day, the nights and how big the groups are, with a button that opens your booking page. The site doesn’t hand out places or take payments; it tells the week and sends people off to book it.
What your site shows
The house at first light
Your photo of the camp from outside in the morning opens the site: the house, boards against the wall, the path to the beach. Over it go the name and your headline, with a line saying where you surf, for which levels and which months you’re open.
The lesson
The first moment is the beach where lessons happen, boards on the sand. Say how many hours in the water a day, how many students per coach, how groups are split by level, and what happens on days with no waves or too many.
Lunch
The photo of the terrace or the dining room at midday. Say which meals are included, whether cooking is done in the house, what there is for special diets, and whether lunch goes down to the beach on double-session days.
The afternoon
Third photo: the garden, the chill-out area or the skate ramp mid-afternoon. This is the moment for everything that isn’t surfing — yoga, reviewing the sessions on video, a trip out, a siesta — and for what costs extra.
The sunset session
The fourth moment is the beach as the sun drops, the last surfers out or the sand empty; the hour you give it sets the tone of its light. Tell how the day ends: dinner together, a fire, an early night if the morning starts early.
Booking the week
The card comes up over the house lit at night: price from per person per week, arrival (“Saturdays”, say), nights and group size. The button opens your booking page, where dates, room and level are chosen.
Have this ready
- Six photos, all six needed: the house in the morning, the lesson beach, lunch, the afternoon at the camp, the beach at sunset and the house lit at night. All at 1,600 px or more on the longer side.
- If students appear in the water or at the house, their permission to use the photos.
- The camp’s name and a short tagline: they head the page and give it its title in Google.
- Where you surf and who it’s for: levels, ages, adults, families or groups of friends.
- What the week includes: hours of lessons, board and wetsuit, lodging, meals, transport to the beach.
- Four moments of a day at the camp: its time, a title and what happens.
- For the card: price from per person per week, the arrival day, the nights and students per group; and the link to your booking page.
- Your coaches’ qualifications and who runs the camp, in a few lines for the footer, and your legal details: name, tax number, address and email.
Worth knowing
Level before price
Someone who has never surfed wants to know, before anything else, whether they’ll keep up. Say which levels each week suits, how groups are formed and what gets learned in seven days, without promising everyone will be standing by the end.
The waves set the timetable
Lesson times follow the tide and the forecast, not the clock. Put the usual hour in the lesson moment and explain that it shifts day by day, so nobody is surprised when Tuesday’s session is at seven in the morning.
What’s in, and what isn’t
In the line under the card’s title, list what the price covers — lessons, kit, lodging, meals, transfers — and what it doesn’t, like flights or insurance. That way two weeks can be compared without an email.
Boards in the foreground
For the lesson photo, lay boards on the sand close to the camera with the sea behind: with something near, the 3D shows. A shot of someone surfing far out on a flat sea has hardly any depth.
Questions
- We’re a surf school with no lodging. Does it still fit?
- It fits a day of lessons: the school, the beach, the water, the sunset. The card is built for stays, so leave the fields that don’t fit — stay, guests — empty, and use the price from for a course or a single lesson; anything left empty doesn’t appear.
- Can people book particular weeks on the site?
- Not on the site, which has no calendar. The button opens your booking page, where the weeks with places show; if you still take bookings by message, it can open WhatsApp or a form instead.
- And out of season?
- Change whatever needs changing in the wizard — winter photos with thick wetsuits, the prices, the arrival days — and download the site again; there’s no second payment. If you close for some months, say so in the line on the card.
- Where do I show the rooms?
- You have four moments, and the lesson and the beach take two of them. If rooms weigh on the decision — shared or private — give the afternoon photo to one of them and describe the rest in its text.
- Do I need to upload the photos to a server for the 3D?
- No — your own browser does it. Each photo is brought to 2,048 px at most, rewritten without its location data and analysed right there to work out its depth; the model behind it, about 46 MB, comes from promti.app just once. On a recent computer it takes seconds; without WebGPU, about 4 or 5 seconds a photo.