A Racquet Retreats experience · powered by Aterra Travel & the Pro Padel League
An application-only padel experience curated around the game, a breathtaking destination, and the people who came for serious play. Four days at Maroma, a Belmond Hotel, training and competing alongside the stars from the Pro Padel League.
Sixty curated members worldwide, chosen by application. Train and play alongside the world's best athletes, watch pro matches up close, sample the finest cuisines, stay at the most elevated properties and find yourself in the company of the most interesting and adventurous people along for the ride. Total immersion for one price. Then do it again next time, somewhere new.
Training sessions and clinics with touring professionals, member tournaments and reserved seats to watch the Pro Padel League compete. Play, train and spectate.
Applications reviewed individually and capped at sixty. Founders, financiers, professional players, and creatives, the people you'd want beside you on court and at dinner. When an edition fills, the rest join the waitlist.
One price covers everything but the flight: room, every meal and party, cultural excursions, adventures, all transfers, and the full padel program. Land and play.
The Playa del Carmen Edition opens now. The full 2026 calendar follows, each Edition built around a marquee racquet moment.
Four days on the Yucatán coast, built entirely around the game and the people who love it. Here is how it unfolds.
This is the heart of it, and total immersion. Private training sessions and clinics with touring professionals. A member tournament where you take the court and play to win. Reserved seats to watch the Pro Padel League compete live. And casual play on Maroma's own courts whenever the mood strikes. You don't just spectate, you train and compete alongside the people who play for a living.
Three nights at Maroma, a Belmond hotel, the most quietly storied address on the Riviera Maya. Thatched palapas, a turquoise shelf of Caribbean, a thatched-roof great room, and gardens that open to the sand. The stillness the rest of the coastline lost years ago.
One morning the whole club moves together: a swim in a private cenote, partake in a Mayan ceremony, and visit the SFER IK gallery in Tulum. Then take your pick: more time on court or an ATV run through the jungle. For those who rise early, sunrise yoga beckons.
It opens with a welcome reception on the sand and runs through a beach party with mariachi and a churros cart, a tournament night under the lights, and a long farewell brunch nobody wants to leave. Open bars throughout. The kind of nights where you trade numbers and start planning the next journey before this one ends.
Flights not included · members book their own airfare into Cancún (CUN). Everything else is handled.
Prices are per person, two sharing. Your own room (sole occupancy) adds $1,800 for the three nights. The optional Wednesday pre-night is a further per-person supplement. Each rate is complete immersion: room, all padel programming, every meal and party, the cultural day, the ATV adventure and all transfers. Flights not included.
Complete immersion. Every rate covers the room, all padel programming, every meal and party, the cultural day, the ATV adventure and all transfers. Payment in full secures your place once your application is accepted.
Flights not included.
Membership means access to a world beyond the court. Bespoke trips full of play, recovery and resetting along with a global ticketing and coaching concierge. From members-only on and off-court programs in must-visit destinations around the world to private retreats across continents, all with the full world of Aterra Travel at your fingertips and all at member rates. Final 8 Club membership comes with immersive experiences and custom itineraries with first claim on every expedition before anyone else, and on the private rooms that sell out first. Your membership renews automatically each year, holding your place and your founding rate, and stays exclusive unless you choose to step away.
Founders & entrepreneurs · designers & creatives · builders & investors · advanced (and aspiring) players.
Keep the best company on and off the court.A glimpse of where members play between editions, from a clay garden behind the hedges in Venice to a clifftop above Portofino. The full Aterra and Belmond worlds, at member rates.
Every edition is led by the people behind it, on the ground with you all four days.
Chief executive of the Pro Padel League, the premier professional padel league in North America, where he is building the sport's fastest-growing stage in the United States. An entrepreneur who co-founded the insurtech firm Koffie before padel, and who comes from four generations in the transportation business. Mike brings the league itself: the touring professionals, the matches, and the access that puts you inside the game.
Founder of Aterra Travel, the luxury agency behind the programming. A Columbia College graduate and former investment banker (Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, Moelis) turned bespoke travel designer who has been to all seven continents and 75+ countries. Amanda designs every edition end to end: the property, the table, and the people in the room.
Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Racquet, driving its growth into a global tennis and culture brand. A Wharton graduate who spent eight years at Blackstone and led M&A at Fanatics before Racquet. Steph brings the partnerships, the players, and the access that puts you inside the sport.
Founder of Racquet, the magazine and cultural voice of the racquet world. A former political journalist (The Washington Post, Time, WNYC) who played college tennis on scholarship at Missouri, Caitlin built Racquet into the premier destination for conversation and community around the sport, courtside at every Grand Slam.
One application, whether you're coming to the Playa del Carmen Edition (24–27 September, Maroma), joining the Final 8 Club for the year, or both. Every application is reviewed individually. Applications close June 30, 2026 at 11:59 PM EST, or sooner once full. We respond within a few days, and no payment is taken until you're accepted.
Your application is in. Every application is reviewed individually, and we will get back to you within 1 day with a result and next steps.
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