The Journal
This is where we write about padel, the complementary seasons, and the villas with a private court on the property.
What makes a private padel court a good one?
A court that looks right in a photograph can play like an afterthought. None of the things that decide it are visible in the picture.
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Portugal, coast by coast
Most people start this search in the Algarve. The best padel weeks in Portugal are on the coast above it.
Choosing the right villa
The villa is the easy part. Matching it to the group you actually have is the work.
Spain, villa by villa
Five on Ibiza and one above the west coast of Mallorca, with the questions worth asking before you take one.
Where to take the executive offsite
Where to take the team, what a night costs each person, and what an executive assistant needs to settle before anyone books.
A week on a Cape wine estate
Vines to the fence line, mountains behind every point, and a court nobody else can book.
Who specialises in padel villas
A padel court of your own, inside the gate, is still one of the harder things in travel to find, and a handful of companies now specialise in finding it.