Bay Padel Treasure Island

The club introduces itself in one line: welcome to the indoor club with the highest ceilings in the world. It is a claim, it is unverifiable, and the interesting part is what the club does next, which is nothing — it never says how high. Two directories have filled the gap and they disagree with each other, one at 85 feet and one at nearly 80, which is the tell that neither of them measured anything. This page quotes the boast and refuses the number, because a ceiling figure that exists only in aggregators is not a fact about this building.

What is not in dispute is the room. Six indoor padel courts and seven indoor pickleball courts sit inside Hangar 3, a 60,000 square foot former naval airplane hangar on Treasure Island, and the club's own FAQ states both counts. The pickleball is worth noting because it makes this one of only two Bay Padel sites that has any, and the only one where it currently works — Dogpatch has had none since April 2026.

An expansion to eight padel and eight pickleball courts was reported in 2025 as targeting that October. It has not happened: the club's own current count is still six and seven, and this page is written on what is there. Treat any listing offering eight as reading a press release rather than the building.

The hangar is temporary accommodation and the operator is open about it, which is a different thing from a closing date. Treasure Island's own development authority describes the club as temporarily housed in Hangar 3 and says it will join other island businesses in a permanent space in the island's coming retail district. So the intent is permanence on the island and the hangar is the impermanent part. Nobody publishes an end date, the club was still investing here in 2026, and no approved plan removes it — which is exactly the distinction that pulled the operator's rival off a downtown plaza and leaves this one standing.

Hours are the club's one genuine per-site quirk and they cut the wrong way for early risers. Weekdays run 9:30am to 10:30pm, where Dogpatch and Sunnyvale open at 7am. Weekends are 8am to 8pm like the rest. Parking is free, which in this metro is not a given.

The building's own history belongs to the island rather than to the club, and is attributed accordingly: Treasure Island's site records the hangar as a sound stage for The Matrix and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and as the store for the "Pacific Unity" sculptures from the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. Bay Padel was founded by Lucas Tepman and Matías Gandulfo, two friends from Argentina, and this is one of the two clubs the operator itself files under its "San Francisco" region — the other is Dogpatch.

Six courts is twenty-four players with everyone on court every round, and thirty-two before the sit-out queue starts eating the court time you paid for. At thirty-two, eight people are resting each round.

The pricing here is per person and the peak-hours booking rule makes that concrete in a way worth planning for: Bay Padel requires four players named at the time of booking during peak hours, and placeholders are allowed if you do not yet know who is coming. Off-peak the minimum is two. So filling this club at peak means twenty-four individual charges, and at the club's own pricing-table rate that is 24 × $40. The club's padel page quotes $35 instead. Both figures are live on its own site and this page will not pick one for you.

An hour gives about six rounds at 21 points. A twenty-four-player Americano needs twenty-three rounds, so the full rotation is out of reach and what you play is a slice of it — run a Mexicano instead if you want the standings to mean anything, since six rounds is enough for the re-pairing to sort the group. King of the Court wants twelve rounds here and does not fit in an hour.

This is the club where booking fewer courts is the more likely plan. Two courts is eight players and, at that size, an Americano is nearly within reach: a full rotation is seven rounds and an hour holds six, so you finish one short. Ninety minutes fixes it outright with ten rounds at 21. Three courts is twelve players, four is sixteen, and because you pay per head rather than per court, the only thing extra courts buy is less waiting.