About
Built on the water, not in an office
towfoiltrips started as a towfoil retreat on Portugal's Alentejo coast. Guests kept asking the same question: 'where else can we do this?' — and it turned out we knew every answer personally.
Towfoiling is the smallest, most logistics-heavy discipline in foiling — a jetski, a trained driver, safety protocol, the right waves. That's exactly why it's magic, and exactly why finding a serious operation as a traveler is hard.
We run our own retreats in Vila Nova de Milfontes, Portugal — six hours a day on the water, an authentic quinta, a private spa, and drivers certified at Nazaré. That operation is the standard we hold everyone else to.
As a travel agency, we list only operations we know and rate: their drivers, their safety setup, their waves. You book through us at the same price as direct, with one deposit and one thread from first question to confirmed trip. The operator pays our commission — you pay nothing extra.
Towfoil Trips is operated by Time 2 Wing Limited. You'll mostly talk to the two people below.
The team
Your drivers & curators
Lars van der Veen
Certified Nazaré tow driver · Armstrong dealer
Founder. Waterman since 2007 (founded Surfana), certified Nazaré tow driver. Has towed foilers on the Alentejo coast through every kind of Atlantic winter day.
Tomaz
Certified Nazaré tow driver · Big-wave safety
Head driver and the operational backbone of the retreats. Certified Nazaré tow driver with big-wave safety training — the reason guests relax the moment the rope goes tight.