Kids are welcome, too: there is childcare for children of three and over, and surf courses for those of six and above.
Gruet nonvintage chardonnay-based brut -- dry, spare, lightly fruity, delicately yeasty, bright with racy applelike mouth-watering acidity and tiny bubbles -- is an aperitif and dinner-long wine, especially with surf courses.
€425 for surf course, yoga, seven nights accommodation, surfboard and wetsuit, excluding flights, wavesisters.com Ski Goddess trips to Chatel in the Portes du Soleil combine intensive lessons with a fun holiday.
Book before 30 April to travel in July, and a family of four gets a seven-night package, including a three-day surf course and accommodation, for £958, excluding flights.
Alternatively, why not go surfing with the fully insured and British Surfing Association-approved Abersoch Surf School, which runs half-day learn-to-surf course for beginners aged eight and older?
The next 10-week South Africa surf instructor course starts on 9 September and costs from £5,445pp.
There is surf, of course, but the ocean, they say, is too cold and stormy for surfing.
Don't just surf the course, but keep a constant watch on where the next wave is coming from, he advised him.
Surf camps run courses for beginners (the mighty Salsa Brava break tosses even experts off their boards), and a visit to either the Jaguar Rescue Centre at Punta Cocles though jaguars aren't always on view, or the Sloth Sanctuary, a short drive north in Cahuita, is almost obligatory.
A surf movie, of course, though one with almost no surfing.
Napa Valley Grille's executive chef Taylor Boudreaux's Valentine's Day tasting menu begins with a Prosecco toast followed by four-courses including: satsuma and Fuji apple salad with goat cheese, mizuna, marcona almonds and yuzu vinaigrette; shared surf and turf course with Maine lobster and filet mignon with confit fingerling potatoes, oyster mushrooms, brown butter and bordelaise sauce.
