The smallest court on the club map.
Ten square metres beside the courts, booked like a court, staffed like a court — none. The post-match sauna is the social mechanic padel already runs on, given a room of its own.
Why it works at a club
Padel is social. So is the sauna. That's the whole trick.
A doubles match produces four warm, competitive people with nowhere to put the next hour. The clubs winning the padel boom are the ones that own that hour — and a four-to-five-bather cabin is the same group, moved from the court to the bench, still talking about the tiebreak.
That's what makes the club case different from a gym's: this isn't a solo recovery protocol, it's the après of racquet sport. Members don't book it instead of a court; they book it after one. Dwell time goes up, the bar stays busy, and the membership tier with sauna access becomes the one people upgrade into.
The retention frame
Courts get members in. Rituals keep them.
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The upgrade tier
Post-match sauna included at the top tier, per-session below it — the clearest reason a member has ever had to move up a band.
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The off-peak filler
Sauna-and-court bundles pull bookings into the dead hours — the cabin sells the 3pm Tuesday court that used to sit empty.
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The winter answer
Cold-season matches end in the dark and the cold. The glowing cabin at the fence line is the reason the winter league still fills.
The math, on your numbers.
Estimated annual incremental revenue
$—
- Payback period
- — months
- Investment
- $—
Arithmetic on the figures you enter — not a revenue forecast or guarantee. This counts direct sauna revenue only; it excludes the room-ADR and OTA-conversion uplift the dossier models, plus operating cost, financing, and tax.
Certified for the schedule a club actually runs.
- HUUM Estonian-engineered heater Drop 6 kW — Red Dot Design Award, 2015
- EN 12150 Tempered safety glass Panoramic glazing, European safety standard
- Rating A Energy rating, verified 80 mm rock-wool, λ 0.034 W/mK
The club dossier: siting plan first, then the tier math.
Court-side siting options on your plan, the electrical feed spec, the membership-tier pricing patterns other clubs run, and the install sequence that never closes a court.
- Full material specification + supplier certificates
- Electrical, foundation, and structural-load drawings
- Per-property ROI model (your ADR, occupancy, unit count)
- Lead-time + install-day sequence, base by base
What club operators ask before the dossier
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Where does it physically go on a club site?
Any 2.5 × 4.0 m of reasonably level ground with crane access and a power feed within reach — beside the courts, along the fence line, on the terrace edge. Six helical piles, no slab, so it doesn't trigger the groundworks conversation a permanent build would. Most clubs place it where players walk off court, so the ritual starts thirty seconds after the last point.
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We lease the site. What happens at end of term?
The piles unscrew and the cabin leaves on the same crane that delivered it — the ground goes back as found. For club operators on 5–10 year site leases this changes the investment case: the cabin is a movable asset on your books, not a leasehold improvement you abandon.
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How do clubs price it?
The two patterns we see: a recovery add-on on the top membership tier (post-match sauna included, lower tiers pay per session), or court-and-sauna bundles at peak social hours. A 50-minute slot takes 4–5 players — a doubles match walks off court and into the heat together, which is exactly the social mechanic padel runs on.
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Does it need staff?
No one sits with it. Sessions are booked through your existing club system, the HUUM heater pre-heats against the booking window, and reception owns towels and the 10-minute reset between slots. It operates like a bookable court, not like a spa.
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What about winter — our courts are busiest in the cold months?
The cabin is engineered for outdoor duty in exactly that weather: ThermoWood-D cladding with sub-10% moisture absorption, an EPDM roof membrane with a 50-year manufacturer warranty, sustained 80°C inside at -10°C outside. Winter is when the sauna does its best work for a club — the heat after a cold-evening match is the moment members talk about.
Send the site plan. We'll mark where it goes.
A 25-minute call over your club map and membership tiers — then the club dossier with siting options and the recovery-tier math on your member numbers.
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