Padel in Ibiza

Ibiza has a real padel scene, and it is not the one the island is famous for. The courts sit away from the coastal strips people picture — clustered around Eivissa in the south-east and Sant Antoni on the west coast — and they are used year-round by residents, not just in August. If you are on the island and want a game, this is where you go.

This guide covers the clubs themselves rather than trips: who they are, where they are, how well they are rated by the people who play there, and how far they are from the hotels we work with. If you are looking for a holiday built around the padel instead, our Ibiza padel holidays page is the right one.

4 clubs we have matched and timed ourselves. Ratings are Google’s, from the players who use them. The journey times are ours — measured door to door from the 9 hotels we work with in Ibiza, not estimated from a map.

Arrive at: Ibiza (IBZ)

Ibiza is small and the padel is spread across it, so a car or taxis are effectively part of the plan. From Ibiza airport you are about ten minutes from Eivissa and roughly half an hour from Sant Antoni, and the two club clusters sit at opposite ends of that drive. Public buses run between the main towns but not usefully to a court booking at nine in the evening.

The practical consequence is that where you stay decides which club you play at far more than which club you prefer. Pick the side of the island first, then the club.

We do not publish a price per hour for court hire in Ibiza, and we would rather say so than guess. Rates differ between clubs, between seasons and between the middle of the day and seven in the evening, and a number written here today would be wrong by next summer. What does not change is how the charge works, and that is the part worth knowing before you book.

You hire the court, by the hour — not a place on it. The price is the same whether two of you turn up or four, so a game splits four ways as a matter of course, which is why padel works out cheaper per head than most racket sports. Peak slots, which in Spain means the evening after work, cost more than midday ones and are booked first. Rackets can normally be hired at the club for a small extra charge if you have not travelled with one, and balls are sometimes included and sometimes not — worth asking when you book rather than at the desk.

Bookings are almost always made through an app rather than by phone, courts are released a fixed number of days ahead, and they are open to visitors rather than members only. If there are only two of you, ask the club about open play or an Americano session instead of booking a court — being paired with two other players is the normal way to get a game, and it is how you meet people who play here. Playing padel with two people covers that in full.

The playing season is longer than the party season. July and August are hot enough that midday tennis-style exertion is unpleasant, and the courts are busiest with visitors, so games get pushed to early morning or after dark on floodlights. May, June, September and October are the sweet spot — warm, dry and far easier to get a court at the hour you want.

Out of season the island quietens dramatically and so do the courts. Clubs stay open for their local members, which for a visitor means courts are easy to get and finding a fourth is harder.

4 of these 4 clubs carry a Google rating we hold; where we hold none, we say so rather than leaving the gap looking like an endorsement. Every journey time on this page is measured from a specific hotel door, and you can see the full set, hotel by hotel, on our directory of hotels with padel courts.