A cold plunge pool and a cabin beside the padel courts, sized for the queue after the last set

The queue after the last set

A padel court takes four players and a match runs for an hour or more, so a bank of four courts can release sixteen people at roughly the same time. A collective pool of about 3.5 x 1.8 m takes three or four at once, and if each dip lasts two to three minutes the pool is rarely the constraint. The cabin is: on fifteen-minute sittings with a short changeover, about twenty minutes a cycle, a 6-seat cabin serves about eighteen bathers an hour. Those are the figures we put into the first drawing. Add cabin seats when your peak is larger than a cabin can turn, and a second basin when it is larger than a pool can.

Where the corner goes on a club plan

• Beside the showers, not beside the reception. The walk from the court is wet and short.
• In sight of the courts if you can. A glass-fronted cabin and a pool in view of the courts become part of the club's atmosphere, and members watch the next match from the bench.
• With shade. Outdoor pools gain heat from the sun; a pergola costs less than extra cooling.
• Drained to the club's drains, not the courts'. Pool water carries chemicals; it must not reach the court sub-base.
• With a plant room on the far side. The chiller's air path should not blow towards members.

A corner with a 6-seat cabin, one cold pool and circulation takes about 40 m²; with a second basin, as in the priced club corner below, about 55 m². Send the club plan and the layout shows where it fits.

Hygiene when forty people use one pool in a day

Cold water does nothing about sweat, sunscreen and body oils. A club pool needs a shower-before-entry rule, filtration sized to bathers per hour, UV disinfection, dosing and a written water log. The first three are in our scope; the fourth is the club's operating procedure, and we give a template log with the handover file.

Ways a club can use the corner

A club can use the corner in different ways: as part of a premium membership, as a paid pass, as an add-on to coaching programmes, or as a venue for member events. We do not publish revenue figures for any of these, because we have no audited ones for India, and we leave the choice to the club. We supply what you need to model it: capex from our range, power from the kW schedule and a throughput figure for the layout.

A sample corner, priced

A collective pool above standard size has its plant sized from its volume and the 16-hour duty, so it replaces a standard pool in these kits and is priced from the drawing. The hot and cold plunge suite page describes the club suite, and the investment guide the ranges.

Details to settle before the pool is built

• Floors. Rubber or turf near the pool needs an anti-slip transition and a drain strip, so that sand and crumb do not reach the filter.
• Lights. Court floodlights turn a dark pool into a sheet of glare at night; pool lights are drawn warm and the court lights are shielded.
• Towels. A clean shelf at the entrance, a used bin at the exit, never the same hands for both.
• Noise. The plant stays on the side away from spectator seating, and the pool never sits behind a wall that takes ball impact.
• Shoes. A rule and a rack, because court shoes carry sand into the water.
• Sun. A rooftop pool needs shade from mid-morning, so the shade is drawn as part of the pool.
• Insects. An open pool near lights draws insects; the skimmer and a night cover deal with it.

Plant duty through the club's day

A club's day has two peaks: early morning before work and the evening after it. The plant does its pull-down overnight, holds through the day and rests between the peaks. A timer schedule has the pool at 4 °C by opening and the cabin hot 40 minutes before the first booking, so that nobody waits and nobody finds a lukewarm pool.

How many basins and how many seats for how many courts

The table is arithmetic, not a promise. It assumes that most players want the cold pool in the same half hour and about two thirds of them the cabin, that a dip lasts two to three minutes with three or four bathers at a time, and that a cabin cycle lasts about twenty minutes, a fifteen-minute sitting and a short changeover; a club's own booking data confirms or corrects each of those. Use it to ask the right question, which is how many people the cabin and the pool must turn in the busiest half hour.