Coworking spaces in Biarritz: an overview

For the past ten years, Biarritz has been drawing people who refuse to choose between Paris and a hammock. You can write code here, sell, raise money, and still be in the ocean at lunchtime. This overview goes through the coworking spaces in Biarritz area by area, with the criteria that matter when you want a place that helps your work rather than slowing it down.

It is written by a Biarritz local who has spent around ten years building several companies from the town, and who has tried most of the options on offer.

Why Biarritz became a coworking hub

The short answer: geography. The longer answer comes down to three things.

A real business community. Between the founders who moved here during and after 2020, the lifelong locals, and the investors who spend part of the year on the Basque coast, Biarritz has more freelancers, founders and operators than you would guess from the outside. It does not compete with Paris or Lisbon on numbers, but the quality of the encounters here is remarkable.

Good enough infrastructure. Fibre everywhere, an international airport nine minutes from the centre, the TGV (France's high-speed train) running direct to Bordeaux and Paris, and Spain just down the road. You can keep a demanding diary here without the logistics becoming the problem.

A setting that clears your head. This is what really sets it apart. In Biarritz, a good coworking space is more than a room with desks: it is a place where your working rhythm follows the ocean. You come out of a meeting, walk to the Villa Belza or the Port Vieux, the old fishing harbour, and come back with a clear idea. Few towns let you do that.

The main kinds of space

Before you get lost in addresses, it helps to know there are several kinds of space, and each one suits a different need.

Spaces open to the public

Classic coworking spaces, paid by the month, with no particular commitment. Ideal if you are new to Biarritz or want to try before settling on something. Good value for everyday work, but the atmosphere can change from one day to the next depending on who turns up.

Small, friendly coworking spaces

Here you are not just renting a desk: you see the same faces every day. The furniture matters less than the people around you, people whose days look like yours and who have often already solved the problem you are stuck on. If your work moves faster when you can talk it through, this is your category. Bibi House is one of them, at the Côte des Basques, and you are welcome to come and see it before you decide.

Private offices in a coworking space

A private office inside a shared building, on a flexible lease. A good fit when you have a team of two or three and need privacy for client calls.

Working from a café

Not to be dismissed: Biarritz has a strong café culture, and some places are happy for you to work there for a few hours. Handy for breaking the routine, less so for a full day.

Choosing your area

Biarritz is small. You can cross the town on foot. But each area has a distinct personality, and that matters when you are choosing where to work every day.

The Côte des Basques. The beach on the town's southern side, below the cliffs, and the area most closely tied to surfing. Bright and airy, with the ocean right there. It is also where a good share of the newer generation of entrepreneurs has settled. If you want to step out of your office and check the swell before heading back in, this is the obvious choice.

The town centre. Busier, with more shops. Practical for meeting clients who are passing through, well served by transport, with plenty of places to eat. You lose a little light but gain services.

Saint-Charles and around. More residential, calmer. Very good if you prefer quiet to bustle, as long as you do not mind being a little further from the restaurants in the centre.

Les Docks. The area around Biarritz railway station. Its main strength is getting in and out of town quickly, by train or by plane.

Anglet. Strictly speaking a separate town, the next one along, with its own coworking spaces. Often better value, and further from the airport and the station.

The criteria that really matter

I have tried the vast majority of spaces in Biarritz and elsewhere, and here is the checklist I use when people ask me for advice.

How quiet it is

You judge a coworking space by what you hear when nobody is talking. Do the ceilings absorb noise? Are phone calls taken in a dedicated booth or in the middle of the room? If you do deep work, this is the number one criterion.

The community

Who works there? A general space welcomes everyone, and sometimes that is exactly what you want. A small coworking space brings together people who understand your days. Decide which of the two you are after before you sign.

Taking calls

Do you have video calls every day? If so, how many private booths are there? How do you book them? How do they sound? What is the light like inside? A bad video call hurts your credibility more than you might think.

The extras

Showers, lockers, changing rooms, a gym, a board rack. In Biarritz these are not optional if you really want to fit surfing and work into the same day. A coworking space without them leaves you carrying your gear around everywhere.

Contract flexibility

Monthly or yearly commitment? A way out? What seems minor when you sign becomes critical when your situation changes.

How people who work here plan their week

A typical week for someone working from Biarritz rarely looks like a week in Paris. It is organised around two things you cannot see from Paris: the tide and the light.

Before 9am, the ocean is often at its best. Plenty of people here start with a surf, then move on to focused work until 1pm. The afternoon is more reactive: calls, meetings, conversations.

This rhythm only holds up on one condition: your workspace is less than ten minutes' walk from the beach. Otherwise the hassle of getting there breaks the flow. That is one reason a coworking space at the Côte des Basques works better in practice than one at Les Docks if this is the rhythm you want.

Mistakes to avoid

Three common mistakes I see among people arriving in Biarritz.

Signing too quickly. Biarritz is a small town. The spaces have been around for years, and they are not going to vanish in the next three weeks. Try before you commit. Most of them offer a trial day or week.

Choosing on price alone. The real cost of a coworking space is not its monthly fee. It is the time it makes you lose to noise, travel and failed calls. A space at €200 a month can end up dearer than one at €600 if it costs you two hours of productive work a day.

Underestimating the community. In Paris, you can afford a solo office because your network is everywhere. In Biarritz, the town is small: your coworking space makes up a large part of your working social life. If the people there do not suit you, you will end up isolated.

Bibi House, a coworking space at the Côte des Basques

I wrote this overview because I went round them all myself before setting up Bibi House. What I could not find, we built at the Côte des Basques, at 11 rue Lamartine: a small, friendly coworking space with quiet offices, lively open-plan spaces, a gym and a surf room under the same roof, and a community that stays the same in January as in August.

Two plans, with no minimum term: Flex, a hot desk in the open-plan spaces, at €299 a month excl. VAT; Fixe, your own desk in a private office, at €399 a month excl. VAT. The gym and the surf room are included in both. Bibi House opens on 1 November 2026 and is open Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm; you can already book your place. The homepage sets out what Bibi House brings to coworking in Biarritz, with details of the spaces and the plans.

What next

The right coworking space in Biarritz is not the same for everyone. For a founder who codes alone, it might be a quiet, anonymous space near home. For a salesperson on back-to-back calls, it might be a place with plenty of phone booths. For someone who wants to surf, work and meet people, it will be a place that brings all three together at one address.

If you are planning to work from Biarritz for a few weeks or for good, two other articles on the blog will help: coworking at the Côte des Basques for that particular area, and renting an office in Biarritz for settling in for the long term. If you have practical questions about Bibi House, the FAQ on the homepage covers most of them.