Skegness got its first padel courts in March 2026, and they’re inside a 70-year-old grainstore that spent most of its life storing feed for the surrounding farmland rather than hosting drop shots. Three indoor courts, a licensed bar, and a booking app is all it takes to fill the sport’s last obvious gap on the Lincolnshire coast.

Skegness Padel at Simon’s Yard

Skegness Padel sits at Simon’s Yard, PE24 4RG, about a mile outside the town centre on the A52 towards Wainfleet, just past the new TEC College. It’s an easy drive from the seafront and comes with free parking, so you’re not hunting for a space on top of everything else.

The venue opened to the public on Monday 30 March 2026, and it’s currently the only padel venue in Skegness or anywhere on this stretch of the East Lindsey coast. For a town with no prior racket-sports scene of note, that makes it a real first rather than one option among several.

Courts, pricing, and booking

Skegness Padel runs three indoor courts: two premium doubles courts and one premium singles court. That’s worth flagging because the original launch-week coverage reported only two courts – the singles court appears to have been added after the March opening, and the venue’s own site now lists all three as live, which is the figure to trust if you’re planning a visit.

Doubles courts (up to four players) cost £36–£40 an hour. The singles court (up to two players) runs £14–£18 an hour, a useful option if you can only get one other player together. All bookings go through the Playtomic app, and you don’t need to be a member to use it – pay-and-play sessions are open to anyone. Membership exists as an upgrade: it gets you discounted rates and the ability to book 21 days in advance instead of the standard shorter window, which matters if you’re trying to lock in a Saturday evening slot.

The venue is open 6am to 11pm, seven days a week, with individual and group coaching, equipment rental and sales for anyone who’s turning up without a racket.

The grainstore behind it

The building itself is the part that makes this more than another set of courts in an industrial unit. Simon’s Yard was an 800 square metre grainstore, in use for around 70 years before two local families bought the site in January 2026 and converted it into a padel venue in time for a March opening – a fast turnaround for a building that size. The concept reportedly started coming together in October 2025, which means the whole project, from idea to opening day, ran in under six months.

It’s the kind of adaptive reuse that padel has become good at across the UK – old warehouses, farm buildings, and grainstores turning into courts because the sport needs large, cheap, coverable spans of space rather than anything purpose-built. Skegness just happens to be a particularly clean example: a disused agricultural building, close to a town that had never had racket sports on its doorstep, now hosting matches seven days a week.

Nearest alternatives

If Skegness Padel is fully booked, or you fancy a change of scene, Lincoln has five padel venues and 12 courts between them – worth the roughly 42-mile drive if you’re happy to make a day of it. Boston is closer on paper and does have a padel venue of its own, though we haven’t covered it in detail yet – for now, Lincoln is the better-documented option if Skegness is booked out. Our guide to finding a padel court near you is worth a look too, especially if you’re weighing up how far you’re willing to travel for a game.

Worth the trip if you’re on the coast

Skegness pulls in a steady stream of visitors on caravan holidays and short breaks throughout the year, and a padel session is a decent way to fill an afternoon between the beach and the arcades – especially if the weather turns, since all three courts are indoors. Locals get a real first: a sport that’s spread through most of the UK’s larger towns finally has a foothold on this part of the coast, in a building that sat empty for years before finding a second purpose.

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