SALTY JACKAL SURF SCHOOL

Definitely the best hostel I have ever stayed at. Beautiful place, super cozy + a very VERY helpful and adorable team. It is authentic and well organised. In addition to that you never get bored thanks to the activities the team organises every week. I had such a nice time here and I would recommend it to everyone!! (+++ my food did not get stolen here during my 9-nights stay, contrary to other hostels I have stayed at ;))

One of my favorite hostel I had the chance to visit in my travels. I highly recommend it.

Had high expectations for this hostel based on previous reviews but I think we had unfortunate timing. The young woman who checked us in was extremely rude about wanting to get to her plans later that evening (even though we had arrived 30+ minutes before her shift ended). She rushed through the tour and explanation of the hostel in about 3 minutes and it felt like she was trying to shoo us out of her way. We stayed in the door room and while the space was nice and the beds were clean and comfortable, the room was quite dirty. There were multiple old, dirty cups laying around and food that clearly needed to be thrown away. The 3 other guests had splayed their entire belongings across the room leaving minimal space for my friends and I to even put our bags down. The staff from the hostel went out that night and came back at 3:30am SCREAMING outside the house/dorm room for over an hour. The staff member who was working the following morning was clearly extremely hungover and laying on the couch with headphones in and took a bit of arousing to get him to assist us with check out.

Not necessarily a huge problem, but the bathrooms are not connected to the dorm room and you have to walk outside the room and then back into the house to use the bathroom. Just would've liked to know this detail before booking.

I didn’t stay at the hostel but joined the surf guiding for a week and it has been just great ???? Viktor, the surf guide, is incredibly supportive, encouraging, and just a real hype person. For whatever level you’re in he sees potential improvement but also smaller progress and is able to give you a really good and confident feeling on the water.
Marta, who is the manager, really has her stuff together and has been suuuper helpful, especially when I first got in contact with them and wanted to plan my trip a little.
Everything is really well organized while at the same time all employees and volunteers are being super friendly and fun to be around.
Just two things that could use some improvement are the quality of longboards and the pricing strategy for people joining for more than 5 days. There is a pack for 5 days but afterward I had to pay the full price again for the next days, which is a bit unfortunate.

Other than that: all good, really lovely people - had a great time. Missing it already ????

We stayed here for three nights and since it was our first hostel we were inexperienced and somewhat unsure of what to expect. But on the first day already we were warmly welcomed by the staff, got told about all the things to do and places to visit, they organized tours for us, and we had our first surfing lessons with them. We booked 1 dorm bed and 1 private room and were very pleasantly surprised by the accommodation, in both rooms. We also had a big Braai (BBQ) on our last day and left the hostel with new friends made. We couldn’t be happier. Must visit place in Swakopmund.