Five days. Three clubs. Twelve players.
A padel tour of the Algarve with coaching every morning, a tournament against local players, and every match scored. Every rally starts here — this one starts in the sun.
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We've done the rest.
Four nights in a nine-room country house fifteen minutes from Faro Airport. Three days of padel at three different clubs across the Algarve. Ninety minutes of coaching every morning, then organised match play — Americano, Mexicano, and on the Monday, a social tournament against players who live here.
Every court booked. Every minibus arranged. Every breakfast on. Two group dinners, one of them a BBQ on the lawn with a DJ and live music while the sun goes down behind the orchard.
Twice during the week there's yoga on the roof terrace at sunrise — forty-five minutes of hips, shoulders and rotation, which is exactly what three days of padel takes out of you. Optional, included, and nobody's counting who came.
And every single match you play gets scored. By Tuesday you'll have a real level — a number you've earned across a week of games — and it comes home with you.
Included
- 4 nights at Mercedes Country House — boutique nine-room country house near Faro, with pool, rooftop terrace and orange groves
- All breakfasts
- Two group dinners — a welcome dinner at Siam, the Thai restaurant on the property, and a closing BBQ with a sunset DJ set and live music
- Three padel days at three clubs — court fees, balls and water included
- 90 minutes of group coaching every morning — 4.5 hours across the tour
- Organised match play daily — Americano, Mexicano and free play, every result scored
- Entry to the Algarve Social Tournament at Vale do Lobo, playing alongside local Algarve players
- Two rooftop yoga sessions at sunrise — mobility and recovery, mats provided
- All ground transport — to and from every court and every organised event
- Full Rallyd setup — your schedule, your results, your level, your profile. Yours to keep after the tour
- Tour photography, a welcome pack, and prizes for Tour Champion, Most Improved and MVP
Not included
- Flights and airport transfers (transfers available as an add-on — Faro is 15 minutes away)
- Travel and medical insurance — you'll need it, and it's a condition of booking
- Lunches, and dinners other than the two group dinners
- Rackets — bring your own, or hire one for the tour
The five days.
Land and settle in
Check in from half one. An optional knockabout at a local club for anyone who'd rather not sit still after the flight, then the briefing, your Rallyd setup, and dinner at Siam.
Padel Blu, Albufeira
Yoga on the roof at sunrise for anyone who wants it. Then coaching, and an Americano where everyone plays with everyone — the leaderboard moves for the first time. Afternoon and evening free.
Vilamoura Tennis & Padel Academy
Coaching on the academy's courts — the shots that decide social padel — then a Mexicano seeded off your live Rallyd rating. Afternoon and evening free, and the marina is five minutes away.
Vale do Lobo, the tournament, and the BBQ
Recovery yoga at sunrise, then Vale do Lobo: a last coaching block, lunch, and the Algarve Social Tournament — mixed teams, local players, eight courts. It decides the tour. That evening: BBQ on the lawn, live music, a DJ, and the awards.
One more swim, then home
Breakfast in no hurry, then depending on your flight: the pool, the beach, a long lunch, or one last hit if enough people want a court. Faro Airport is fifteen minutes away.
Three clubs in five days
The Algarve has more than fifty padel courts and one of the strongest recreational scenes in Europe. We're not going to show you one of them.
Padel Blu
A modern club in the Algarve's liveliest town, ten minutes from the old quarter and the beach. Our first full day, and the one where the coaching starts from the ground up.
Vilamoura Tennis & Padel Academy
A proper academy with its own padel school, leagues and pro shop, five minutes from the marina. Our Sunday venue.
Vale do Lobo Tennis Academy
Eight padel courts and twelve tennis courts inside one of the most established sports academies in southern Europe, in the resort triangle between Almancil and Quarteira. Our tournament venue — where the tour finishes on court.
Come home with a level, not just a tan
Most padel holidays end and leave nothing behind. This one keeps score.
Rallyd runs the tour from your WhatsApp. No app to download, no account to create, no password to forget.
Self-assessment can only seed you up to 4.5. Above that has to be earned on court.
"Am I actually any good?" is the most asked question in every padel group chat in Europe. Five days here answers it.
Nine rooms. Twelve of us. That's the whole place.
Mercedes Country House sits in the hills above Faro — a working farm with orange trees running down to the pool, a rooftop terrace with a view towards the coast, and nine rooms, no two the same.
With twelve players, the tour effectively takes over the property. No lobby, no lift queue, no wristbands. Breakfast includes eggs from the hens outside.
Siam, the Thai restaurant on site, is the reason a lot of guests come back — Chef Ray grows the herbs in the garden. Our welcome dinner is there.
Faro Airport is fifteen minutes away.
Three hundred days of sun, and everybody plays
October is the Algarve's best-kept secret. The summer crowds have gone, the sea is still warm enough to swim, and the afternoons sit somewhere in the mid-twenties — which is roughly perfect for playing two hours of padel and then not moving for the rest of the day.
It's also a padel country. Portugal took to the sport early and hard, and the Algarve has courts everywhere: resort academies, town clubs, and a social scene that runs on weekday evenings and Saturday mornings, the same as yours does at home.
Between sessions there's the rest of it. The Ria Formosa lagoon and its islands, twenty minutes from the house. Praia da Falésia, where the cliffs go orange at six. Faro's walled old town. Olhão's market on a Saturday. Grilled fish that costs less than a sandwich in Dublin, and a bottle of something local to go with it.
Project Padel
Project Padel runs indoor clubs in Galway and Mayo — coaching blocks, social padel evenings, corporate days and league nights. Hundreds of players a week come through the doors. This is a padel operation that added a tour, not a travel company that added padel. See what a Project Padel night actually looks like → @projectpadel.ie
Coaching on tour is led by qualified Algarve-based coaches, working in small groups so you actually get seen and corrected rather than standing in a queue. We'll introduce them by name in the tour WhatsApp group before you fly.
Rallyd
Rallyd is the system underneath recreational padel: signups, ratings, results and WhatsApp notifications, all from one link, with nothing to download. It already powers court booking and memberships at Project Padel. On tour, it runs everything.
What level do I need to be?
Comfortable playing social doubles. Mixed levels work — the formats rotate partners and the draws are balanced off real ratings.
I'd be coming on my own. Is that odd?
No. Roughly half of a tour like this books solo. Twelve people, three courts, rotating partners — you'll know everyone by Friday night.
Do I need to download anything?
No. Everything runs through WhatsApp and one web link.
There are twelve places. That's the whole tour.
Nine rooms, three courts, one group. When it's full, it's full — and the next one won't be at this price.