Hotels with padel courts in the UK

While tennis normally spikes in popularity around the time of Wimbledon, it’s cooler sibling padel now appears to be in high demand all year round.

Blending the fast-paced excitement of tennis with the strategic elements of squash, the game appeals to players of all ability levels. According to Sport England, at least 50,400 people in the UK played the game at least once in 2023 with celebrity players like David and Victoria Beckham, the Prince of Wales, Stormzy and Elle Macpherson spotted with a padel racquet in recent months.

As the game has surged in popularity, the appetite for top-notch facilities has grown, leading to an increase in hotels integrating padel courts into their amenities.

Whether travelers are looking to improve their padel skills with coaching or simply want to hit a ball around for fun at the end of a leisurely day, there are more options than ever across the whole of the UK, from Devon in the south of England to Perthshire in central Scotland.

There are options catering for all types of holidaymaker with both modern resorts and traditional manor houses now including a padel court as part of their wellness facilities. It doesn’t have to break the bank to stay in one either, with padel courts popping up at three-star hotels as well as four and five-star resorts.

Here are the best UK hotels where you can smash out a game while away from home.

Estelle Manor, Oxfordshire

This Oxfordshire manor house hotel is a haven for wellbeing, offering a 3,000 square metre spa with five different pools as well as two padel courts and a state of the art gym. Children are allowed to use the padel courts under adult supervision from the age of three so you can introduce them to the joys of the game while they’re young. However, there is also a fully-supervised kids club if you’d rather have a more serious knockabout. Double rooms are availble from £525.

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Gleneagles, Perthshire

Famous for it’s golf with three championship courses that have hosted the Ryder and Solheim Cups, Glenagles has long been a destination for sporty travellers. Now racquet sports are catered for with three padel courts alongside eight tennis courts. The padel courts are inside so that they can be used all year round and there are two doubles courts and a narrower singles…