PRIVATE CUSTOM SURFARI TRIP
A Fully Customized Wingfoil & Windsurf Trip, Built Around You
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Duration
3 Days minimum
Meals
Your Choice
Transport
Your Choice
Group
1 - 6 max.
Difficulty
Advanced Beginner +
What is the Private Wingfoil Surfari Trip?
The Private Custom Surfari Trip is a fully customized wingfoil and windsurf holiday, tailored to your dates, destination, group size, and skill level, from $1,500 NZD for a 3-day minimum. Water Nomads plans and organizes everything – accommodation, transport, and meals are built around what you choose – suiting solo travelers through to small groups of up to 6, from beginner level up.
Custom tailor your perfect private wingfoil or windsurf holiday with Water Nomads. Contact us with your dreams, and see what we can make happen.
Water Nomads Private Surfari Trips take you to a new spot where you can focus purely on your water sport! Be it is few days on the water during your holiday of a lifetime in New Zealand or the watersport dedicated holiday you are looking for, where you barely need to lift a planning finger and everything is tailored just for you.
We offer personalised wingfoil and/or windsurf camps to a variety of destinations. Water Nomads does all the planning and organising – you don’t need to do a thing except book the trip.
Highlights
Built Entirely Around You
Your dates, your destination, your group size, your skill level - we plan it all.
Actual On-Water Coaching
The only Water Nomads trip with real coaching included - not just spot advice.
Solo Travellers Welcome
From a group of 1 to 6, this is the trip built for going it alone too.
Any Corner of New Zealand
Northland, Taranaki, the Central South Island Lakes or Southland - your call.
A Photographer, Just For You
Not shared shots from the group - a personal photographer on your holiday.
Four Ways to Do It
From bare-bones guiding to fully catered, chauffeured luxury - pick your level.
Book It Whenever Suits
Available year-round, not locked to a fixed Surfari calendar.
Who Is This Trip For
- Private Surfari Trips are suitable for advanced beginners, intermediate, advanced and expert wingfoil and windsurfers.
- Wind conditions can be anywhere from 12-25+ knots. Water Nomads manage spot locations to optimise wind conditions.
- Water state can be anything from buttery-flat or choppy through to large rolling swells, this is dependent on the location chosen and wind strength/direction.
What is Included
Expert local spot knowledge and weather advise.
Professional photographs included and available for socials sharing.
Coaching included for skills advancement if desired.
Choose period - options from 3 nights.
Choose accommodation - options include campervan luxury home.
Choose catering - options include self catered to chef provided meals.
Choose transport - options include self-drive to driven shuttle van.
Surfari Trip Date
Choose January >>> December 2026
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Surfari Trip Prices
Customise from Basic to Gold Packages
Basic Private Trip Package
Ideal for the traveller that likes freedom and independence by motorhome or campervan.
What's included:- Guide for the day (minimum 6 hours of activity per day)
- On-water coaching
- Professional Photographer will provide social media images free of charge.
- 1 guest: $500 NZD per day
- 2 guests: $800 NZD per day
- 3 guest and more: + $300 NZD per additional guest.
Standard Private Trip Package
Ideal for a certain degree of independence and assured comfort.
What's included:- Everything from the Basic Private Trip
- Comfortable 3-star accommodation with your own private room and bathroom. *
- 1 guest: $800 NZD per day
- 2 guests: $1500 NZD per day
- 3 guest and more: + $550 NZD per additional guest.
Premium Private Trip Package
Ideal as the no fuss get me on the water package, your sailing spots, accommodation and all snacks and meals are all sorted.
What's included:- Everything from the Standard Private Trip
- Breakfast (excluding the first day), lunch, dinner (excluding the last day) and snacks provided every day.
- 1 guest: $1000 NZD per day
- 2 guests: $1800 NZD per day
- 3 guest and more: + $750 NZD per additional guest.
Gold Private Trip Package
Ideal for the fly in - fly out, your pick up and drop off is arranged complete with your sailing spots, accommodation and all meals and snack catered for, how good is that!
What's included:- Everything from the Premium Private Trip
- Transportation as arranged *
- 1 guest: $1300 NZD per day
- 2 guests: $2000 NZD per day
- 3 guest and more: + $850 NZD per additional guest.
*please contact us regarding your transport needs as these might occur additional charges.
Secure payment via Stripe using a credit card or your favourite digital wallet.
Equipment Rental Add-on
- $200 NZD per day for 1 windsurf or wingfoil board + 3 wings / sails.
What Our Guests Say
I had a 2-day private trip with Water Nomads and I'm absolutely thrilled! We went winging in Rangiputa, and Heidi has perfect local knowledge of every spot in New Zealand. She always has the latest wind and weather data at hand and knows exactly how to interpret it in relation to each location! It was incredibly fun, and Heidi's tips on the water were perfect for helping me improve. Beyond winging, Heidi also gave me plenty of valuable tips and showed me many great places that are worth visiting! Highly recommended for watersports enthusiasts! And even when there's no wind, Heidi knows countless places worth exploring.
Thank you so much for the amazing time; I really hope I can do a surfari next time!
What to Expect
You are taken on a fully supported private windsurfing / wingfoiling adventure for a duration and location of your choosing. You can also pick from our standard Surfari Trips and customise to suit your dream holiday. The timing of our trips are tailored to the ideal weather conditions, maximising your water time, we can guide you on the choices.
Bring your own campervan, organise your own accommodation, or let Water Nomads take the hassle out of finding the right place – we book accommodation according to your specific needs.
Be independent at mealtime or let Water Nomads look after you with fresh, wholesome food. Our catering package includes a continental breakfast with locally baked breads and fresh coffee brewed (or tea!), a hearty lunch and a 2-course dinner either at your accommodation or in a local restaurant.
Water Nomads take professional action shots of you on the water which are available to share on your socials or to purchase at discounted rates.
We respect your independence throughout the surfari so self-drive is often preferred. However if you are flying in you may opt for our transport service to and from the main airport closest to the surfari location, and daily shuttles to and from your accommodation and the sailing spots.
We ensure you are at the right place at the right time. It is however ultimately your judgement on your ability to sail in the presented conditions.
Watersports Conditions
Aotearoa New Zealand has 16,000km of coastline, from stunning long sand beaches to wild rugged rocky stretches. There is a myriad of lakes to choose from in some of the worlds most stunning back drops. Whether you seek flat waters for freeriding or speed running, or rolling swell chasing, or epic wave breaks, we will help you find it.
Well known for its beautiful foiling and freeride conditions with its unbelievable clear water. Waves and swell riding can be found in stunning remote beaches. This is one of the best off season (winter) locations as it is the ‘Winterless North’, mild water and air temperatures and the wind conditions are reliable.
New Zealand’s legendary wave mecca with 270° of open coastline to the Tasman Sea and Southern Ocean swells. With breaks that can find nearly any wind direction it rates as one of the best windsurfing locations in the world, offering genuine cross-off conditions.
Incredible conditions, be it wing-foil, wind-foil or classic windsurfing, the lakes offer pristine deep blue waters with regular summer thermal wind conditions. The water state can be buttery flat to long rolling swells, making speed runs, swell riding or down-winding all available in the proverbial stones throw….
Rarely ventured to other than by the small local windsurf and wing foil communities. The Southern Ocean wave riding scene is there to be explored. Colac Bay, Monkey Island all resonate in wave-riding folk law. Ideal for storm and big wave hunters!
Frequently Asked Questions
Private Wingfoil Surfari Trip
You set the itinerary, you tell us what you would like to happen when, and we will endeavour to move heaven and earth. Water Nomads are also here to help with spotguide, weather forecasting, so no stone is left un-turned.
Contact us now and lets start planning!
Water Nomads Surfari group size is generally limited to 6 guests. But a Custom Surfari we can cater purely for one, or a couple, a pair of friends or more. You get to choose.
This greatly depends on where and when you would like to have your Surfari. Wind and waves are at their best generally in springtime. Early summer provides many superb thermal breezes. Winter can be cold and wild in many places, but is surprisingly pleasant in the very North of the country (Northland).
Water Nomads can help you with your location choice.
Again, this depends greatly on when and where you wish to have your Custom Surfari. Spring, Summer through Autumn you can be comfortable in most places in a 4/3 or 3/2 wetsuit. Winter in the South Island can be bracing though (suggest 5/3 with hood and booties).
Most of New Zealand is reasonably reliable with wind conditions, often it is just a matter of knowing where to be at the right time. This is where Water Nomads adds the greatest value to anyone with limited time and limited local weather knowledge.
New Zealand doesn’t experience trade winds, the climate is frontal driven, with additional thermal winds where temperatures climb inland verse the cooler coastlines.
We can arrange a Custom Surfari literally anywhere in New Zealand. The country is your oyster, just talk to us with what your dream is, and we will see to making it a reality! The only limitation is that it doesn’t clash with our preplanned Surfari Trips.
This is the tricky question, we will easily put together a price that will meet your adventure exceptions. The largest expenses are the accommodation, food and transport. Naturally in a group much of these costs become shared amongst the participants.
If you are seeking that personalised touch, this is the trip of a lifetime… then the Water Nomads Custom Surfari Trip is for you!
3 days from $1500 NZD
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3 days from
$1500 NZD
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