Brighton & Hove has two public padel venues, and a game starts at £7 a head

Brighton and Hove has two padel venues anyone can book, and the cheapest game is £7 a player for an hour at Hove Beach Park, according to Padel Court Guide, a new directory of padel courts in and around the city.

The Shingle and padelcourtguide.co.uk have the same owner. The directory lists venues for free, takes each price from the venue’s own website or booking page, and shows the date it was checked, which for these prices was 4 November 2026.

Both city venues are run by Game4Padel and both charge per player, not per court. Hove Beach Park has four outdoor courts by the seafront. A non-member pays £7 per player per hour on weekdays from 8am to 5pm and £8 in the evening and at weekends. Members pay £5 and £6, and membership is £6.50 a month. Rackets are £5 to hire.

Withdean has the city’s only covered courts: three, under a canopy, at the sports complex on Tongdean Lane. Non-members pay £10 per player on weekdays from 8am to 5pm and £12 at other times. Withdean’s booking page doesn’t say how long a booking lasts. Plans for four indoor courts there were halted in September 2025.

Players who want a roof and walls drive out. The nearest indoor court is Padel at Housedean, a single court in a converted grainstore by the A27 near Lewes, where the court is £40 for an hour and rackets and balls are free to borrow. Most of the other indoor and covered courts are around Hassocks, Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath, about 22 to 30 minutes’ drive away.

Further out, most clubs price the whole court, and evening slots usually cost more. The directory’s price index sets them side by side. On their booking pages, the lowest 60-minute court was £25 for an outdoor court at Eixo Padel near Hassocks at lunchtime, and the highest was £65 for an indoor court at PADELHUB, off the A23 near Haywards Heath, in the evening. Those are one day’s slots, so check the time you want.

For first-timers, the directory’s rules guide explains the underarm serve and how the glass walls are played, and its cost guide lists racket hire and memberships.

More courts are on the way. Club Padel Shoreham, with six indoor courts, now says on its own website that it opens in early 2027.