We’re Lindi and Justin, and Cape Town is home
A brother and sister, born and raised here, who happen to love this city and this game in roughly equal measure.
We’re not a travel company that added padel to the brochure. We’re two South Africans who play, who know these courts and these roads, and who kept meeting people from abroad who’d never thought of Cape Town as somewhere you could come and play.
So we built the week we’d want to be on.
We’ve watched this game change people’s lives
Padel has grown faster here than anyone expected, and we’ve had a front-row seat. What surprised us wasn’t how quickly the courts filled. It was what happened on them.
People arrived for the exercise and stayed for everything else. Families started playing together. Strangers turned into regular fourths. Whole friendship groups formed around a Tuesday evening booking.
For some people the court is the one place in the week where they have company. Where somebody knows their name, notices if they don’t turn up, and asks how they’ve been.
That isn’t a small thing, and it’s not something we expected to find in a sport.
It’s the reason we do this.
How we built it
Planned carefully, because we’ll be there too
Every court, every route, every restaurant on this itinerary is somewhere we’ve been ourselves. Nothing is on the list because it looked good on a map.
We kept the group small on purpose. We built in free afternoons because a week of back-to-back activities isn’t a holiday. And we made nothing compulsory, because the guest who wants to sleep through the sunrise hike shouldn’t feel they’ve missed the point.
Small groups, always
Sixteen guests. Level-matched on court, and small enough that everyone knows everyone by midweek.
Local, not imported
We live here. That shows up in the courts we choose, the timing of the days, and what we do when the weather turns.
Honest about the price
Every activity and entry fee is covered, and we tell you exactly what to budget on top. No surprises when you arrive.
Padel first
22 hours on court across the week, with coaching every day. The city is extraordinary, but you came here to play.
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