Pick and Padel

Pick and Padel is the club that makes this city's other three legible, because it is the only one that will tell you what an hour costs. Its rate card is headed "PRICING — Starting January 1st, 2026", which is a version date rather than a promotional floor, and it is itemised further than any other in the estate: padel court rental $50 an hour Monday to Friday from 8am to 3pm and $60 an hour after 3pm and all weekend, ball machine $20 an hour, racket rental $5, a three-pack of balls from $8.50. All prices plus tax. Military, veterans and first responders get 20% off, the only such discount in San Antonio padel.

There is no membership. Not a cheap tier, not a founding offer — nothing. The whole rate card is per-hour court rental, which means there is no member and non-member distinction to gate anyone and no monthly commitment to weigh up. Everywhere else in this city you are asked to buy a month; here you buy an hour, and the club's own pricing tells you which hour is the cheap one.

Three outdoor courts, all crystal-walled doubles courts, confirmed both by the club's own count and by its booking grid, which lists them as Padel 1, 2 and 3 with outdoor, double and crystal tags on each. There is no cover and no cooling and none is claimed — the club sells the opposite, describing "open-air courts surrounded by fresh air, scenic views" and padel played "outdoors, with room to breathe". Its rate card is the honest version of a Texas summer: the $50 window closes at 3pm and the $60 rate starts exactly when the afternoon gets serious.

It shares the site with three pickleball courts and this is the rare venue where padel is unambiguously the senior sport. Padel is priced two to three times higher, it takes the lessons, the clinics and the whole open-play program, and the two sports are physically separated — the pickleball courts run in their own fenced area, so a padel match is not interrupted by neighbouring play. Pickleball books through a separate site entirely. Three padel courts here are three padel courts, not shared inventory.

The coaching program is unusually broad for a three-court club. Kique Molina is the coach on every padel class on the calendar, and the clinics run 60 minutes at $35 each across Kids Beginners, Women Beginners, Women Intermediate Low and Mixed Intermediate Low, or $100 a month once weekly, $180 a month twice, or $180 for a six-class pack valid 60 days. Private lessons are $100 for an hour, $360 for four and $640 for eight, and there is a $400 bundle of four privates plus a month of clinics. Note the minimum: three people are needed to open a new clinic schedule, and clinics are non-refundable and cannot be rescheduled.

Open play is where a visitor should start. Three sessions a week, all 90 minutes: Padel Power Play Women on Thursday evenings at $15 with twelve slots, Mixed Saturday Open Play at 9:30am for $17.50, and Padel Open Play Sunday See Saw at 9am for the same. A dedicated women's clinic and a women's open play alongside a kids' clinic is a wider program than most clubs three times the size manage.

Two practical things. The cancellation policy is stated: at least 24 hours ahead gets a full refund as a Pick and Padel gift card, inside 24 hours gets 50%. And the hours genuinely conflict — the club's own footer closes the place from 2pm to 4pm Tuesday to Friday and does not open at all until 4pm on Monday, while its booking system offers a continuous 8am to 10pm. A 3pm Wednesday slot on the grid may be booking into a published closure, so it is worth a message before you rely on it.

Three courts seat twelve, and twelve is the group to build around. Sixteen is the ceiling and leaves four people off court in every round.

An hour leaves 50 minutes of play after setup, which is six rounds to 21 points — a full Americano ladder, but the shorter target. If you want games to 32, book two hours.

The price is per court, so twelve players on three courts is $150 an hour before 3pm and $180 after — $12.50 or $15 a head. That is the cheapest full-group padel in San Antonio and it is the only figure in the city you can budget from in advance.

Book before 3pm on a weekday if the group is paying its own way. The $10-an-hour-per-court difference is $30 across three courts, and the earlier slot is also the cooler one on unshaded courts.

Check the midday closure before you plan a 2pm to 4pm session. The club's own hours close Tuesday to Friday afternoons in exactly that window even though the booking grid will offer it.

Twenty percent off for military, veterans and first responders applies here and nowhere else in the city — worth asking about if it covers anyone in your group.