Why we built a court before a second pool.

Padel, the glass-walled courts close to the hotel, and the heat-and-cold ritual that follows your final point.

A Different Question

When we drew the plans for the address, we asked ourselves a particular question.

What would actually make someone stay an extra day?

The answer, it turned out, was a game.

Padel Bali had arrived quietly and then all at once — glass-walled courts appearing behind cafés and beach clubs, a sport easy enough to start in an afternoon and hard enough to keep you coming back.

The choice came down to a familiar one.

More water.

Or something no one else had at the door.

We chose the court.

Two of them, in fact.

A Court at the Heart of the Address.

The first thing to know about Holywings Padel Canggu is where the courts sit.

Not tucked behind the spa.

Not at the far edge of the property.

Right at the centre — glass-walled, visible from the cafés and the lounge, the kind of placement that says this isn't an amenity you have to go looking for.

It's the thing you plan your morning around.

The courts sit close to the hotel — no long walks, no separate plans. A padel court in Bali where the game itself is the centre of gravity, and everything else flows around it.

Coffee before your match.

A cold drink after.

Lunch with whoever you played with that morning — often a stranger an hour earlier. The glass walls are in play. The rallies last. Which means players of wildly different ability can share a match and all enjoy it.

Children can play.

Beginners can play.

Experienced players can play.

All in the same match.

For travelers searching for a padel court Canggu has plenty of, the difference at the address is what surrounds them — the cafés, the restaurant, the heat-and-cold ritual that follows the final point.

What's different is what surrounds them.

Why Padel, Now

Padel is, by many measures, one of the world's fastest-growing sports.

You don't need to follow that closely to feel it.

In Berawa alone, padel courts have emerged at a remarkable pace — near hotels, cafés, and beach clubs that have grown alongside them.

The sport has shifted from novelty to fixture in a remarkably short time.

Holywings Padel Club at TUI BLUE Berawa is part of that wave — and part of what's setting the standard for it.

Free trial sessions opened to guests and visitors on March 28, 2026.

The club officially launched on April 12, 2026.

In the weeks between, the courts filled steadily — first with the curious, then with the regulars who came back the next morning, and the morning after that.

The reason the sport travels so well is also the reason we chose to build two courts of our own.

Padel is social in a way tennis never quite manages.

Conversations continue between rallies. Laughter is part of the rhythm. Even first-time players find themselves part of the game by the second point.

For travelers, that matters more than it sounds.

A morning of padel in Canggu often ends with a shared lunch.

A swapped number.

Plans for the next day.

It's a game that fits the way people travel now. Active, but not training. Social, but not formal.

The kind of experience that creates a story rather than ticks a box.

This is the padel social experience Bali has been quietly building — and the version we've designed at TUI BLUE Berawa.

The Heat, Then The Cold.

And then there's what comes after.

Step off the court, and a few paces away sits the part of the experience we're quietly proudest of.

A sauna.

And beside it, an ice bath.

There's a logic to finishing a match this way.

The heat opens everything up.

The cold closes it down sharply.

And your body answers with a rush of clarity that's hard to describe until you've felt it.

It's communal. It's open to everyone who's played. It turns the end of your game into something closer to a ritual.

We could have built another pool. It would have photographed well and asked nothing of anyone.

Instead we built the courts.

And the heat.

And the cold.

And the morning that now has ashape to it.

That shape, more than another stretch of water, is the reason people book the extra night.

For travelers searching for a sauna and ice bath after padel that completes the day — this is the integration we've built.

Movement as Part Of Your Day.

What begins on the court rarely stays there.

The padel experience here folds into the rest of your day — a morning match, coffee at the patisserie afterwards, a long lunch.

By the time golden hour settles across Berawa, the people you played with that morning are at the next table over.

Different shirts.

Same conversation.

That flow is part of the design. The courts sit close enough to the cafés, the restaurant, the lounge, and the deck that nothing about your day requires a plan.

You can move between play and rest without ever leaving the address.

Some guests do exactly that for three days running.

Others use the courts once and let the rest of the day take whatever shape it wants.

For travelers looking to play padel in Bali within a setting that connects sport, food, and rest in one address — that integration is the point.

The game isn't separate from your stay.

It's part of it.

Welcome Home

Padel found its place at TUI BLUE Berawa because it asked the right question of us.

What makes someone stay an extra day?

The experience that follows is the answer.

The courts.

The heat.

The cold.

Cafés and a restaurant in the same easy walk. A morning that now has a shape to it, and an evening that often takes care of itself.

The courts are open from morning.

The heat and cold are waiting after.