Recovery rooms for padel and fitness clubs, sized for the evening peak

A padel court takes four players. When four courts finish within the same quarter-hour, sixteen tired members arrive at the door of the recovery room together. That single number, more than any brochure, decides the size of the cabin, the count of cold pools and the width of the corridor outside. The rest of the design is how to fit it into a club that has no spare floor.

Sizing from the peak

An 8-seat glass cabin with two square plunges costs about $56.9–91k (SAR 213–341k) as an indicative range; a fuller wing with a hot and cold pair on each side, for a men's and a women's side, is in the Riyadh project profile.

Fitting it into the club you have

• A storage or locker room. A 4 × 3 m room takes a 4-seat cabin and a plunge with a floor drain and ventilation drawn in; a 6-seat cabin fits only if the plunge stands outside under shade. The sums are in padel club recovery room without a new building.
• A court-side annex. A small glass-fronted extension on the shaded side of the building, with the plant behind it.
• A rooftop above the courts. A cabin and plunges on the club roof, with the weight and waterproofing checked first.

Three layouts that fit

Towels, sandals and the evening rush

A recovery room can succeed or fail on small things that are not the equipment: the pile of wet towels at 9 p.m., the missing sandals, the member who stays forty minutes in a cabin built for fifteen. The layout leaves a towel station and a hamper at the door, a shoe rack, a clock the cabin can be seen from and a short list of rules the club can print.

Separate sides

Clubs that serve men and women usually need two sides, with separate entrances, changing and cold pools. One plant room can serve both through a service corridor; one cabin can serve both by hours; or two small cabins can be mirrored. The trade-offs are in gender-separated recovery zones.

Hygiene and housekeeping at club volumes

• Showers before entering; a rinse point at each pool edge; towels and sandals on a clear cycle.
• Filtration sized for the bather load, UV or ozone as a second line, and a daily log (see water treatment for commercial cold plunges).
• Staff rules: seated stays, short times, nobody alone, and a notice for members with heart or blood-pressure conditions to ask a doctor first.

The cold side is designed for up to 16 hours a day. Two chillers on two pools mean one can be serviced without closing the room. Everything we supply carries a two-year warranty plus a year of assisted service visits.

Context from named sources: the Playtomic and Strategy& Global Padel Report 2026 counts more than 1,000 padel courts in Saudi Arabia and more than 150 in Qatar, and the International Padel Federation estimates about 580 in Kuwait (FIP, 2025). The same report found nine in ten top-performing clubs in its survey offering off-court 'holistic' services, a category that includes facility and wellness access such as a gym, sauna, pool or cold plunge and lockers; the survey covered 185 larger, premium clubs in Spain, the UK, Germany, the US and Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East is not in it. Saudi Vision 2030 aims for 40% of the population to exercise at least once a week by 2030, from 13% in the baseline year.