It is a surf hostel
Sayulita’s main break is a hundred steps away and forgiving enough to stand up on. When it is crowded, flat or too small, the van goes somewhere better.
Every day
From $25, leaving most mornings.
A trip goes out most days to whichever break is working — most often La Lancha, twenty minutes down the road, where a ten-minute walk through the jungle puts you on a long, clean right that beginners can ride all the way in.
Where it actually goes is decided on the morning, by the swell. That is not vagueness; it is the difference between a good session and a wasted one. Ask at reception the night before and you will know where you are waking up for.
Trips run subject to the swell and to enough people wanting to go. What a given morning includes — which break, how long, whether a board comes with it — is confirmed at reception the evening before, because promising it a month in advance from a website would be making it up.
Within half an hour
What is around Sayulita, who each one suits, and roughly how long it takes to get there.
The end of the street
A soft, forgiving right that breaks over sand in front of the town. It is where nearly everybody in Sayulita caught their first wave, and it is busy for exactly that reason. Best early, before the day trippers and the rental boards arrive.
Punta de Mita, through the jungle
A long, clean right reached by a ten-minute walk down a jungle path from the highway. Peels for a long way and stays friendly at most sizes, which is why it is the trip beginners are sent on. Bring water and shoes you do not mind getting sandy.
Punta de Mita village
A slow, rolling right off the point at the end of the bay, with restaurants along the sand behind it. Gentle enough to learn on and long enough that a good wave feels like an achievement. Works best on a winter swell.
The road to Punta de Mita
Another long right point, mellower and usually emptier than Sayulita. A good second stop on a day when the town is crowded and the swell has enough size to wrap in.
The next town north
A punchy beach break with a shore break that does not negotiate. Not a beginner wave and not a lesson spot — go when you have a few weeks behind you, or go for the beach and the tacos and watch.
Boards
From $6 a day, and free if you are volunteering with us.
There are boards at the hostel — soft-tops for a first week and longboards for after that — so you do not have to negotiate with the rental stands on the beach every morning. Take one down, bring it back, and rinse it off in the yard.
Sayulita is one of the friendliest places on this coast to stand up for the first time: a sand bottom, a slow right and a lot of people in the same boat. We rent the boards and can point you at an instructor in town — we do not teach the lessons ourselves.
There is something to ride all year. The bigger, more consistent swell arrives with the summer and autumn; the winter is smaller, cleaner and the easiest time to learn. The point breaks up towards Punta de Mita come alive on a winter swell.
No. Boards rent from $6 a day at the hostel, and there are stands on the beach as well. If you are volunteering with us, the boards are free.
About a hundred steps. You can see whether it is worth getting up for on the way to breakfast.
Dorm beds and private cabins, breakfast included.
