A group lesson on the south coast runs from about EUR 10 to 15 for ninety minutes, and a private lesson from EUR 20 to 40. What changes between them is the number of students per instructor, the state of the boards, and whether anyone is watching you in the water.
Updated September 19, 2026
| Group Pack | €28 per person, per lesson · 3 lessons (1h30 each) |
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| Kids Pack | €30 per lesson · 3 lessons (1h each) |
| Beginner Pack | €35 per lesson · 2 lessons (1h30 each) |
| Intermediate Pack | €40 per lesson · 4 lessons (1h30 each) |
| Private Pack | €55 per lesson · 1 lesson (1h30) |
Every price on this page matches this school's own package data, figure for figure. What a lesson can cost beyond this school's own five packages, and how that range compares, is answered directly above in this guide's own answer; nothing below repeats those figures, because they describe a market this site holds no data on, only prices it knows for certain. What follows is this school's own price list, package by package, and what each number actually buys.
A surf lesson's price is really three things bundled into one number: how many people share the instructor's attention, what board is underneath the surfer, and how closely someone is watching them once they're in the water. This guide's own answer above names exactly those three factors, and each is worth taking in turn, because "cheaper" and "worse" are not automatically the same word — but they are not automatically different words either.
Students per instructor is the most direct of the three, because it sets a hard ceiling on how much attention any one surfer gets during a lesson. An instructor coaching one student can correct a stance, time a push and call a wave for that person alone. An instructor coaching several people at once is dividing that same lesson by however many people are sharing the water with them. Nothing about that math changes with price — it's arithmetic, not opinion.
Board condition is easy to underrate before a first lesson and hard to miss during one. A soft-top built for a young beginner, a board suited to someone already standing and turning, and a board built for someone refining technique further are not interchangeable tools, and which one ends up under a surfer's feet is not incidental to how the lesson goes.
Supervision is the least visible of the three, and it isn't really a separate number from the first one — it's what "one instructor, at most two students" actually buys in the water: someone watching one person's technique closely rather than splitting attention across a much larger group. Board condition and that same ratio are what this school's own five packages can actually show, pack by pack, in the two sections below.
Here is the same information as the table above, in full sentences. The Group Pack costs €28 per person, per lesson, across three lessons of ninety minutes each — a price built around a small group rather than one-to-one time. The Kids Pack costs €30 per lesson, spread over three one-hour lessons built for ages six to twelve. The Beginner Pack costs €35 per lesson across two lessons of ninety minutes each, built around a first time standing up. The Intermediate Pack costs €40 per lesson across four lessons of ninety minutes each, the longest package on offer, built for a surfer who can already catch waves and wants to refine what they're doing. The Private Pack costs €55 for a single ninety-minute lesson — one instructor and one student, start to finish.
Those five numbers are not five versions of the same lesson at different prices; they are five different lessons, different in length, group size and level, and the price moves with all three at once rather than with any single one of them alone. Lining the five prices up side by side and reading only the euro figure skips over what the figure is actually attached to: the Beginner Pack's two lessons, the Intermediate Pack's four and the Private Pack's one are not interchangeable units.
Every one of the five packages lists what it includes, and exactly two items appear on all five of them: an ISA certified instructor, and free tuk-tuk transport to and from the lesson. Those two are the only features that are genuinely universal — everything else on the list varies by pack, and it's worth being precise about which is which rather than rounding up to "everything is included in every package."
That transport feature covers more ground than a pickup at the door. This site's own data is specific about it: when a lesson happens somewhere this school drives to rather than teaches from day to day — Weligama or Mirissa, for example — that transport is covered the same way, and it is never billed as an extra on top of the package price.
One more feature sits on every pack's own list, and like the board it differs by pack rather than being universal: where the lesson itself is built to run. The Beginner and Group Packs each list a Beach Break location. The Kids Pack lists a Shallow Beach Break. The Intermediate Pack lists a Point Break location. The Private Pack lists Any Beach of Your Choice — flexibility written into the one-on-one package's own feature list rather than left as an assumption.
The board itself changes by pack rather than being one fixed item. The Kids Pack includes a kid-sized soft-top board. The Intermediate Pack includes a performance board, built for a surfer already turning rather than just standing. The Private Pack includes a premium board, the one-on-one package's own equipment line. The Beginner and Group Packs each list a surfboard and rash guard together as a single included item — and those two are the only packages, out of the five, where a rash guard is named as part of what's included at all. Neither the Kids, Intermediate nor Private Pack lists one.
What happens after the lesson also splits along package lines rather than running the same for everyone. Four of the five packages — Beginner, Intermediate, Group and Private — end with a post-surf coconut drink. The Kids Pack ends with a post-surf fruit snack instead, a small swap that fits the age group more than it changes the value of the package.
Photos and videos follow a similar four-and-one split, just with a different pack standing apart this time. Beginner, Kids, Group and Private all include photos and videos from the lesson. The Intermediate Pack replaces that with a video analysis session instead — footage reviewed for technique rather than kept as a souvenir, which fits a package built around refining an existing skill rather than capturing a first wave.
The number most worth asking about, more than any single price, is how many students share one instructor at a time. At this school, one instructor takes at most two students, and that ratio holds across the Beginner, Kids, Intermediate and Private Packs — the Private Pack itself is one-on-one, one instructor and one student for the full lesson. Even the Group Pack, the package built specifically for a small group, keeps that same ratio in place at a larger scale: it takes up to four surfers into the water together, taught by two instructors rather than one, so each instructor takes at most two students.
That ratio is this school's own stated answer to a fair question: why does a lesson cost what it costs? This guide already named the three factors that answer rests on — students per instructor, board condition and supervision — and what this school's own data can show is only its own side of that: the ratio never rises above one instructor to two students at any level, from a first lesson up to the one-on-one Private Pack, rather than the ratio being loosened on the package where the price is lowest.
None of that makes a cheaper lesson on any given beach the wrong choice by default — this guide isn't in a position to say what any other lesson actually buys, because nothing in this site's own data describes it one way or the other. What this school can say with certainty is what its own five prices buy, package by package: an instructor who takes at most two students at a time, a board matched to the pack booked, transport included, and extras that vary by level rather than being promised across the board where they aren't real. A price on its own — €28, €30, €35, €40 or €55 — is a starting point for that question, not the answer to it. Reading the price list against what each package includes, not just against what it costs, is the more useful way to compare five lessons that were never really the same lesson to begin with.