Most surf camps in Taghazout are a booking desk. They sell you a week, then buy the pieces from other people — the beds from one, the lessons from another, the driver from a third. We went the other way and built the pieces.
How it started
BigBlue began in 2018 with one building and a simple frustration: guests kept asking for things we had to send them elsewhere for. A lesson. A lift to the airport. A scooter. Somewhere quiet to take a call. Every time we outsourced, we lost control of the thing our name was attached to — and guests do not blame the subcontractor, they blame the camp.
So we added them, one at a time, in the order guests kept asking for them. The surf school first, then transport, then a second and third address, then the scooters, then the coworking space. Eight years later the list is long enough that people assume we are a chain. We are not. We are one team, in one village, who happen to own the whole chain of a guest’s week.
What we operate ourselves
This is the part that matters, and the part most operators cannot say. Everything below is staffed, equipped and insured by us or by a company in our group — not bought in on the morning.
| What | What that means in practice |
|---|---|
| Four places to sleep | BigBlue Surf Hostel, BigBlue Surf Guesthouse, BigBlue Bay Studio and BigBlue Bay Duplex. Dorms through to private apartments, in and around the village. |
| The surf school | Certified coaches on our own payroll, our own boards and wetsuits, and our own vans to reach the spot — up to 40 km along the coast. |
| The coworking space | 200 Mbps fibre, ergonomic desks, two soundproof call booths. Open around the clock to residents with a personal door code. |
| Excursions | A fixed seven-day programme — Paradise Valley, the Timlaline dunes, Souk El Had, the Agadir Kasbah, quad, hammam — run by guides we work with all year, not by whoever answers the phone. |
| Transport and transfers | Licensed tourist transport, with flight tracking and a driver who waits. |
| Scooters | Our own fleet, our own contract, our own insurance terms. |
| Meals | Breakfast every morning, packed lunches on surf days, and long tables at dinner — which is where most of the friendships on a BigBlue week actually start. |
The companies behind the brand
BigBlue Surf Experience is the brand you book with. Behind it sit three Moroccan companies, each licensed for what it does, working under partnership agreement. We put this in writing because it affects who is responsible for what — and because a company that hides its structure is usually hiding something else.
| Company | What it operates | Identifiers |
|---|---|---|
| Auberge Lespot S.A.R.L. (A.U.) | Accommodation, the surf school, the coworking space, meals and excursions. This is the contracting party for your stay. | R.C. 39203 · I.C.E. 002095379000017 · I.F. 26123724 |
| BigBlue Scooters Rentals S.A.R.L. (A.U.) | Scooter rental, with its own rental contract, insurance and deposit terms. | R.C. 66077 Agadir · I.C.E. 003814081000057 · I.F. 68775861 |
| Mamoune Travels S.A.R.L. (A.U.) | Tourist transport, airport transfers and excursion logistics. | R.C. 118255 Marrakech · I.C.E. 002894496000053 · I.F. 50527993 |
Which company is liable for which service is set out in full in the booking conditions.
How we think about a guest week
Nobody gets passed around
Whether it is a room, a lesson, a transfer or a scooter, it is the same team and the same WhatsApp thread. You should never have to explain your booking twice.
Including when it is no
If the swell is wrong for your level, we say so. If a group is too big for us to host well, we decline it. A disappointed guest costs more than a booking we turned down.
So we can fix it
Owning the vans, the boards and the beds is not about margin. It is about being able to change something at seven in the morning when the ocean does not cooperate.
Why Taghazout
A fishing village on the Atlantic coast north of Agadir, with a dozen surf breaks within reach and a swell that works most of the year. It is small enough to walk end to end in ten minutes and busy enough to have a skatepark, a Friday beach party and a souk run down the road in Agadir.
We are not a resort on the edge of a village. We are inside it — which is why our guests end up in the same cafés as the people who live here.
The beach we work on
Our livelihood depends on a coastline staying worth travelling to. We run beach clean-ups, we buy locally where we can, and we employ from the village rather than importing a season’s staff and sending them home in November. None of that is remarkable — it is the minimum for a business that takes its name from the ocean.
Talk to us
Questions about a stay, a partnership, press or investment — all of it reaches management directly.