7-day Claude Code bootcamp + retreat · Haad Yao, Koh Phangan
From $1,200 / week · all-inclusive · 10 cohorts · Aug 2026 – Jan 2027
An independent camp for builders using Claude Code. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Anthropic.
Seven days on the west coast of Koh Phangan, nine other people building at the same long table, and nothing on the calendar that isn't your product. The sea is ninety seconds away. That isn't a perk — it's the reason the work goes faster.
Last demo of the week. The thing that has been sitting in your notes app since March is up on the one shared screen at the end of the table. Someone reaches over with their phone, types the URL, and it loads.
Not a mock. Not localhost. The real thing, on the real internet, open to anyone who has the address.
Friday you are on the ferry with salt still in your hair. It stays up after you land.
The sun comes down right in front of the house. People stop what they're doing and watch it.
The bay faces west, so it happens every evening. That's why we sit at half six.
Two build blocks a day, bracketed by things that move your body. Nobody codes for fourteen hours here — that's how weeks get wasted. You work hard between nine and four, and the island takes the rest. Read down this column and you already know what Wednesday feels like.
Every one of these is in the price. None is a bolt-on wellness upsell — they are the schedule. Notice what happens by Wednesday: you stop treating them as breaks from the work and start noticing they are why the work holds up.
Ninety minutes on the deck, six mornings out of seven. Vinyasa and yin, taught by a shala teacher who has lived on the island for a decade. Beginners welcome — half the room is one.
Twenty minutes straight after yoga, still on the deck. Slow nasal rounds, a few harder ones, then stillness. You will feel the difference in the first build block on day one — that is not a claim about wellness, it is what a settled nervous system does to your attention span.
Five afternoons at a working Thai gym two minutes up the road. Wraps, pads, clinch drills, conditioning. Thai trainers who teach tourists and fighters with the same patience.
Two or three minutes, straight off the pads, heart rate still up. The first one is genuinely horrible and the whole group laughs at each other through it. By day four you will be first in — and you will understand why people keep doing this long after they go home. Optional, every single day.
Haad Yao is a shallow, calm, west-facing bay — you can walk out a hundred metres. Midday swim after lunch, a longer one on the free afternoon. Snorkels and fins live in the house.
Thirty minutes on the sand, every evening, as the light goes. Guided breathwork the first three nights, then silence. The one habit most people take home and keep.
Nobody checks your credentials at the door. You tell us which sentence below is yours, and the week gets pointed at that.
The idea is old and it has never once been real.
You know exactly what you're making. You've just never had seven uninterrupted days to make it.
Koh Phangan has two reputations and only one of them is deserved. Haad Yao sits on the far west shore — a long shallow bay, jungle hills behind it, and a sunset that lands directly in front of the house every evening at around 18:40.
Picture your second morning. Breakfast on the deck with the whole bay underneath you, and food that leaves you sharp instead of heavy — real Thai cooking, three times a day, balanced on purpose because a heavy lunch quietly costs you the afternoon. Tell us about allergies or anything you don't eat when you book. The kitchen plans around it. That's a normal conversation here, not an awkward one.
The connection is fibre with 5G standing behind it. You will not think about the internet once all week — and that's the whole point of paying for the redundancy. A week is short. None of it should go to a spinning cursor.
Same laptop you brought. Different week entirely.
Three hours, guided, on your own product. Then lunch, then the water.
We don't survey the ecosystem. You learn one stack properly, ship on it by Friday, and keep using it on Monday morning at home.
Writes and refactors while you steer. You leave with your own CLAUDE.md, project rules, and a loop that actually works.
Postgres, auth, storage, and row-level security set up so the wrong person can't read the wrong row. Not a toy database.
Products, prices, checkout, and webhooks that unlock access when payment clears. Tested with a real card before you leave.
Connected to your GitHub, deployed to your own domain. Push to main and it ships. No more "works on my laptop."
Founding-cohort pricing — the lowest this will ever be. Ten cohorts between 28 August 2026 and 28 January 2027, ten beds each. Everything below is included: your bed, all meals, yoga, breath work, Muay Thai, the ice bath, meditation, and the full Claude Code program.
Not included: flights, your Claude subscription — around $20 a month, billed by Anthropic — and somewhere between $30 and $80 of API and hosting across the week. Those sit on your own accounts on purpose. It is the difference between watching a demo and owning the thing afterwards.
Cancellations are written out in full on the booking policy: a full refund less a $75 administration fee up to 60 days out, half or a free transfer between 30 and 60 days, nothing inside 30. We would rather you read that before you pay than after.
Friday to Thursday — seven nights, seven days of build. Ten beds each week, five Beginner and five Builder, and we don't add mattresses.
The house rests from 18 December to 7 January. The waitlist for the next season opens in February 2027.
Claude Camps runs the AI Ninja Academy curriculum. English and Thai, taught by the people who wrote it — not a platform, not a rotating bench of contractors. Every credential below is published on aininja.academy and you can check it before you pay us anything.
"I started as a computer systems designer. COVID took everything, and I spent the years after that learning my way out. I still build every day. That is the only reason I can teach this."
"I studied Computer Engineering at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, then continued in the United Kingdom. If Thai is your first language, you learn this in Thai — same curriculum, same week, nothing lost in translation."
There is a version of next year where the idea is still an idea. Still in the notes app. Still described at dinner in the future tense, still waiting for a quieter month that has not arrived in three years and will not arrive now.
And there is the version where it went live on a Thursday afternoon on the west coast of Koh Phangan, and everything you built afterwards stood on top of it. Same person. Same idea. The only thing standing between those two years is one week you either took or did not.
Bring whatever you have. A half-page idea, a side project stalled since March, or something already earning money that you want to move faster. Small, medium, awkward, ambitious — none of it is a problem, and Monday morning we cut it together into a thing that genuinely ships by Thursday.
And if you are not sure yet, do not book. Message us on WhatsApp or email hello@claudecamps.com and ask the awkward question — what it costs, whether your idea is too big, whether your English or your Thai is good enough. A person answers, usually the same day. Nobody has ever been talked into a week that was wrong for them, and we would rather lose the booking than do that.
You came here because you have something to build. Seven days on the west coast of Koh Phangan is long enough to ship it — first commit to live URL — alongside nine other people doing exactly the same thing, in the same room, with the same sea outside it.
New to Claude Code, or still shaping the idea? Take the Beginner track. Nobody arrives here fluent, and the five Beginner beds exist precisely for that.
Choose the cohort that fits your dates. Ten beds only, and no waitlist theatre.
The form takes about five minutes. One paragraph about your idea is plenty.
We reply within 48 hours with a Stripe link for the deposit. Balance is due 30 days before arrival.
You'll have a URL by now. Go swim.
Ten beds a week, ten cohorts, then the house rests for the season. Pick a week and bring the thing you've been meaning to finish.