About Surf Tank Portal & how we check

How data is gathered

• Prices, capacities, session lengths: official pool websites and their public booking pages or booking-platform data (for example FareHarbor, DSRT's booking backend, Wave7 shops), fetched on Oct 29, 2026. No logins were used.
• Discovery, location, pipeline status, target years: surfparkguide.com park pages, used as a secondary source and labelled "per directory". Directory price claims are never used as prices.
• Blanks mean blank. If an official page doesn't publish a figure, Surf Tank Portal shows "Not published". Nothing is estimated or filled in.
• Every pool page lists its sources and the date each was checked.

Skill levels

The Skill level switch under the header (All, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert) filters every price on the site: cheapest and most expensive figures, the ticker, the lineup table, the value leaderboard, the charts, pool pages and Financials. Your choice is kept in the page address (?level=expert) and on this device.

Each session is mapped once, in data/skill_levels.json, from the operator's own session names and descriptions (for example DSRT's skill field, Revel's Level I–III, Palm Springs Surf Club's “ADVANCED/EXPERT WAVE”). A session can belong to more than one level, and is never guessed into one.

All counts surf sessions and lessons only: the union of the four levels plus All levels sessions, genuine public surf sessions or lessons (including kids' lessons) whose operator states no level. Everything else is Not counted: rentals, passes (beach, pool, wave or reform passes), packs, packages and bundles, memberships, gift cards and vouchers, cabanas, waivers, events and parties, registrations, boogie sessions and private sessions. Not-counted products never enter a cheapest or most expensive figure, the ticker, tables, leaderboard, charts, price moves, tracked price history or Financials; pool pages list them under Other products (not counted).

What the numbers mean

• Cheapest session (USD): the lowest listed price for one counted surf session or lesson (see Skill levels: no rentals, passes, packs, memberships, boogie or private sessions), usually a public session. Where a pool only publishes a coached-session price, it is marked with an asterisk.
• Most expensive session (USD): shown next to every cheapest figure, on the same basis: the highest listed price for one counted surf session or lesson from the same set (public sessions where published, otherwise coached sessions). On tracked pools the live figures are the cheapest and most expensive open (not sold out) slot of a counted session type in the latest daily check.
• Price per minute: for each pool, the lowest published price ÷ published minutes across its public sessions. Lessons, private buyouts, packs, add-ons and non-surf passes are excluded. Some session lengths include briefings (for example, O2 Surftown's 70 minutes include a 15-minute briefing), so this is a rough value guide, not a measure of waves ridden.
• Prices are shown as published, before local tax unless the page says tax is included. FareHarbor totals include the booking fee shown by FareHarbor (6% at Palm Springs Surf Club and Revel Surf).
• Many prices are "starting from" or dynamic. DSRT Surf uses demand-based pricing, so the dataset records the minimum and maximum seen across sampled slots.

Currency conversion

USD conversions use ECB euro reference rates dated 2026-10-29, cross-rated to USD via EUR/USD 1.1130. The ECB publishes these rates for information only. AED and SAR conversions use open.er-api.com (AED 3.6725 and SAR 3.75 per USD, last updated Oct 28, 2026, 17:02 PT). Rates By Exchange Rate API.

Ratings & reviews

Ratings come from Tripadvisor's public aggregate rating and review count, read once on Oct 29, 2026 at 14:41 PT. We show the source, the review count and the check date. Ratings based on 12 or fewer reviews are flagged "Small sample". No review text is copied or displayed.

Google Maps and Yelp ratings are not shown: their terms prohibit scraping and require their official APIs. Ongoing collection from any of these platforms will use official APIs under their terms.

"Automated tracking" badge

• Yes: prices and availability are exposed as public structured data (JSON or tables) without login.
• Partial: prices are readable only from HTML, or only some prices are exposed.
• Unclear: the booking flow wasn't verified and may need browser automation.
• No: no public prices or booking data (private clubs, pipeline projects).

Several of these endpoints are undocumented. Before Surf Tank Portal polls them on a schedule, we'll check each platform's terms and ask for permission or partner access where needed.

Caveats & known gaps

• This is a one-day snapshot (Oct 29, 2026). Prices, seasons and promotions change. Always confirm on the booking page.
• Not yet researched: The Wave Fuerteventura and any Al Ain project.
• Not published on the official pages we checked: SRF Park TLV prices, Surfland Brasil prices, the Surftown Pointbreak single price, the Alaïa Bay guided-session price, and prices at Kelly Slater Surf Ranch, Thermal Beach Club and private clubs.
• Riyue Bay: only agent-listed prices exist, so none are recorded.
• Where directory and official pages disagree (for example Atlantic Park and SRF Park TLV), the official page wins and the difference is noted.
• Wave technology labelled "per directory" comes from surfparkguide.com and is not confirmed by the operator.

What's in scope

Surf Tank Portal covers surf lagoons and wave pools. Standing or river waves and similar attractions are left out: Citywave Hadera, Citywave Monteux, Citywave Tokyo Sakaimachi, Citywave Vienna, Citywave Vilnius, Flow Moscow, Heroes Paradise (EpicSurf), Honna Surf Hub Madrid, Irie Surf Freiburg, Jochen Schweizer Arena, Lakeside Surf (Chelan), LT Hasewelle Osnabrück, Oana Surf Lucerne, Rheinriff Düsseldorf, Surf Langenfeld (UNIT), Surflux (Arlon), The Glassy House, The LineUp at Wai Kai, Trifecta Surf Club Singapore, Urbansurf Zürich, Wakeparadise Milano, Wellenwerk Berlin, YourWave (NZ), Southern Shores (UNIT, private), Three Bridges Utah (UNIT), East Point Reef Club (Ka'ana standing wave), Floating Wave Hamburg, Surf Lounge PopStroke (The Colony TX), plus the River Wave at Revel and the FlowSurf at ADRENA. Nomadas Surf Park (a 65 m continuous-wave pool, up to 4 surfers) is borderline but included.

Independence

Surf Tank Portal has no paid placements and isn't affiliated with any pool or booking platform. Booking links go straight to each pool's own booking page.