Cape Town Padel Retreats

Day 1 · Sunday

From 12:00: Check in at the villa. Make your own way, or ask us to arrange a transfer when you book.
Afternoon: Yours. Pool, terrace, coffee, or a lie-down if the overnight flight caught up with you.
16:30: First session on court, under Table Mountain. Relaxed and social. A chance to shake off the flight, and for your coach to see everyone play before groups are set.
19:30: Dinner. The whole group together for the first time.

Entirely optional, all of it. If you land at three in the afternoon and want to sleep, sleep.

Day 2 · Monday

07:00: Breakfast at the villa
08:00: Three hours on court at Camps Bay. An hour of coaching, then match play in your group.
12:30: Long lunch on the Camps Bay strip, Atlantic in front of you
14:00: Walk it off on the beach. Swim if you’re brave. The Atlantic here is properly cold.
16:00: Cable car to the top of Table Mountain
17:30: Sunset from the summit
19:30: Dinner

Day 3 · Tuesday

04:45: Depart for Lion’s Head. Headtorches provided.
05:15: The climb. Around 45 minutes, with a short scramble near the top.
06:00: Sunrise from the summit. Atlantic on one side, Table Mountain on the other.
07:45: Back at the villa
08:15: Late breakfast, no rush
Morning: Free. Sleep it off, or sit by the pool.
13:30: Lunch at the house
16:00: Three hours on court at Clifton, ocean in front of you and the best light of the day.
19:30: Dinner out

The hike is optional and nobody counts heads. It’s a real climb, and the lie-in is a perfectly good alternative.

Day 4 · Wednesday

07:00: Breakfast at the villa
08:00: Three hours on court. Match play, rotating partners.
12:00: Lunch at the house
13:30: Depart for Simon’s Town
14:30: Boulders Beach. A colony of African penguins a few metres from the boardwalk.
15:30: Beach afternoon. False Bay runs several degrees warmer than the Atlantic you’ve been swimming in all week.
19:30: Dinner at the house

Day 5 · Thursday

07:00: Breakfast at the villa
08:00: Three hours on court
11:30: Depart south down the peninsula
13:00: Picnic on the cliffs. Laid out somewhere with the Atlantic beneath you and nothing between you and the horizon.
14:30: Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope. The old lighthouse, the boardwalk to the viewpoint, and a funicular if you’d rather not walk it.
16:30: North again, home along Chapman’s Peak Drive. A hundred and fourteen curves cut into the cliff face, ocean straight down on your left.
19:30: Dinner at the house

Day 6 · Friday

07:30: Breakfast at the villa
08:30: Depart for the Durbanville hills
09:30: Three hours on court at Meerendal Wine Estate, vines on every side
12:45: Wine tasting. Meerendal has been making wine here since 1702.
13:45: Long lunch on the farm
15:30: Free time. Vineyard walk, or another glass in the sun.
17:00: Head back
19:30: Something light at the villa, for anyone who wants it

We drive, so nobody has to hold back.

Day 7 · Saturday

08:00: Breakfast at the villa
09:00: The retreat tournament. Four hours, level-matched draws, everybody plays through to the end.
13:00: Lunch out, and prize-giving
Afternoon: Free. Beach, pool, packing, or nothing at all.
18:30: The farewell braai. Fire, food, South African wine, Cape gin and cold beer. No set finish time.

Day 8 · Sunday

Evening flights from Cape Town land across Europe the following morning, so most guests take the day.

Seven nights. Seven days. One extraordinary city