Epic Athletic Club

Epic Athletic Club is inside Sawgrass Mills, and that is not a location detail but the whole character of the place. Its own words, from its chamber of commerce listing: "Epic Athletic Club opened in October 2024 and is a state-of-the-art, 80,000+ sq. ft. indoor sports facility that redefines how people play, train, and connect… Uniquely, our club is located inside Sawgrass Mills, South Florida's #1 shopping destination and a nationally recognized retail landmark. As one of the only athletic clubs in the country operating directly within a major mall, Epic offers unmatched visibility, accessibility, and exposure." In practice it means unlimited parking, a food court, and somewhere for the half of the group that is not playing to go.

On the courts, the club leads with the thing that matters most in Florida: "We are a modern, Pickleball and Padel club with all our courts indoors and climate-controlled, ensuring a comfortable playing experience no matter the weather." Seven padel courts and ten pickleball courts share the box. The padel courts are individually named — Neuron, Hack, XP10, Vertex, Pearl, Elite and Flow, in order from 1 to 7 — which is a detail no directory carries and which its own booking system confirms, all seven specced indoor, doubles and panoramic.

The pricing model is the reason to read this page carefully, because it is the opposite of how padel is sold in most of the country. A standard court is $80 for a 90-minute session between 7am and 5pm and $110 between 5pm and 9pm, and those are court prices: the club states that one credit covers the court and "your entire group plays with you at no additional cost". So four players split $80 twenty dollars each, and a group that shows up two short pays the same. That is worth knowing next to Open Padel in Miramar, twenty minutes away, which asks $35 for the same 90 minutes.

There is one contradiction in the club's own numbers and this page does not resolve it. Its Prime Pack describes the peak rate as $110 per session, while its $150-a-month Access membership describes peak-hour play as $25 for members and $35 for non-members. Those cannot both describe the same unit. The likeliest reading is that $80 and $110 are whole-court prices and $25 and $35 are per-player prices, but the club does not say so, so treat the peak figure as the thing to confirm when you book.

The membership structure is otherwise clear. Access at $150 a month buys unlimited daytime play from 7am to 5pm seven days, the reduced peak rate, 25% off Epic tournaments and 10% off retail. Six-month packs are sold as blocks: the Founders Pack at $1,440 works out at four off-peak sessions a month at $60, the Prime Pack at $2,100 at four peak sessions at $87.50. A $300-a-month Unlimited Founders Edition was capped at forty members and marked valid through 31 March 2026, so it has almost certainly closed. A fifteen-class family package with Coach Emilio Bowen is $1,819 for three family members.

Two operational facts worth having. Non-members can book — the club publishes a non-member peak rate and its main court is explicitly marked as not requiring membership — with 24-hour cancellation and up to four bookings a day on the packs. And there are two booking systems, its Playtomic tenant and its own PlayByPoint portal, so a court showing as full on one is worth checking on the other. The pro shop is a business in its own right: the club claims the biggest specialty padel and pickleball store in Florida, and it is separately listed as a retailer.

Seven courts seat 28 players in a round and 37 is the ceiling, at which nine people rest each round. Ninety minutes leaves eighty of play: six rounds to 32 points, or ten to 21.

Because the rate is per court, filling every court you book is exactly what saves money — this is the venue where group size changes the bill. Four players on one court is $20 each off-peak; sixteen players across four courts is still $20 each; eight players across four courts is $40 each. Book the courts your headcount actually fills.

A full Americano rotation at 28 players wants 27 rounds against the six a 90-minute booking gives you, so at that size run a Mexicano — it needs six rounds before the standings mean anything, which is exactly what you have. For a rotation that completes, eight players on two courts finishes an Americano inside the slot.

The peak boundary is 5pm and it costs $30 a court, so a 3:30pm start and a 5:30pm start are not the same booking. For a group of sixteen across four courts that is $120 of difference.

This is one of two clubs in the county that claims active cooling, and the only one inside a mall — which means the people not on court have a food court rather than a parking lot. For a mixed group with children or non-players, that is the practical argument for coming here.