Padel hotels: the dataset

What it counts

Properties

1865

Countries

88

Courts

3,261

across the 1,786 properties with a confirmed count

With indoor courts

87

of the 1,149 where we recorded it — not of all1865

How confident we are, per record

This is the first thing to read, not the last. Each record carries one of three levels, and the distribution is not flattering — which is exactly why it is here rather than in a footnote:

• High — 836 (45%)A person read the property's own page and saw the courts.
• Medium — 588 (32%)A directory listed it and an automated fetch of the property's own site found padel mentioned.
• Low — 441 (24%)A directory says so and we could not confirm it anywhere else.

So 24% of the dataset rests on a single directory listing. If you are citing a count, cite it with that attached, or filter the download on the confidence column and say which levels you kept. The verification method is written up separately.

Where the properties are

Top 15 of 88 countries, by number of properties.

• Spain715 · 1260 courts
• Italy246 · 422 courts
• Sweden85 · 167 courts
• Portugal71 · 142 courts
• France65 · 102 courts
• Mexico43 · 62 courts
• United Arab Emirates42 · 72 courts
• Maldives40 · 48 courts
• Greece39 · 64 courts
• Türkiye30 · 40 courts
• United Kingdom30 · 64 courts
• Uruguay29 · 39 courts
• South Africa23 · 64 courts
• Cyprus21 · 35 courts
• Egypt21 · 35 courts

Court totals cover only the properties in that country with a confirmed count, so they are a floor rather than a total.

What it does not know

• Whether the courts are on the property. This is the failure mode that matters and the one no automated check catches: a listing that means "courts nearby". There is a courts_on_site column, and it carries a value on1492 of these 1865 records — 72 of them saying the courts are not the property's own, because the operator's page put them a walk away or at a club the property shares. Empty means unchecked, in either direction. If you find one we have missed, it is the most useful correction you can send.
• Court numbers cannot be summed. Five clusters here share one padel facility between sibling hotels, and every hotel in each carries its own count, because the directories that supplied them list properties and a shared court belongs to none. Protur says so itself — one pair of courts, "free access if you are a guest of one of the hotels that make up our resort in Sa Coma", naming five hotels. We have not moved those counts: assigning the court to one hotel would invent an answer, splitting it would invent a fraction, and zeroing the others would say a guest cannot play. Insteadcourt_operator readsshared-development on 23 records carrying 27 courts between them — so you can find them, and exclude them from any total you compute.
• Who runs the court. A court on the map is not always the hotel's: it can belong to the town hall, to a club renting the hotel's land, to a residents' association, or to a sister property in the same group. Thecourt_operator column records that where we have checked it, which so far is 101 records. Empty means unchecked and never "the property's own".
• Coaching, racket hire and whether court time is free. Recorded for a small minority of records, so the dataset cannot answer those questions and does not pretend to. The columns are present and mostly empty rather than absent, so you can see the gap.
• Indoor or outdoor is unrecorded for 716properties. Absence means unchecked, never "no".
• 185 properties have no operator website recorded, which is also why they are the least verified.
• It is not a ranking. Nobody paid to be here and there is no way to. Order on this site is by evidence held, never by commercial relationship.

Licence and citation

CC BY 4.0 — use it commercially, change it, build on it, as long as you credit PadelStays and link back.

Suggested citation: PadelStays, “Hotels with padel courts” dataset, 1865 records, CC BY 4.0.

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