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Ice baths and saunas for Casablanca padel clubs and gyms

Padel Maps lists more than thirty padel clubs in Casablanca alone, and the busiest of them now sell the hour after the match as hard as the court. A recovery room of two cold tubs and a sauna is the usual first step, and it has to cope with four players arriving at once, every ninety minutes.

Typical project in Morocco: MAD 70k – 150k, supplied and installed · six to ten weeks per room after the drawing is approved, plus shipping.

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Ice baths and saunas for Casablanca padel clubs and gyms

Sized for the end of a court slot

Padel is booked in ninety-minute slots, so demand comes in waves: four players per court finish together, and a six-court club can send twenty people towards the tubs within ten minutes. Two to four minutes in the water plus getting in and out gives roughly ten to fifteen users per tub per hour.

A six-court club therefore needs two tubs as a minimum and three if the evening grid is full. A boutique gym or a CrossFit box with a class timetable behaves the same way. A 10–14 person sauna keeps the waiting players warm instead of sending them home.

Football, academies and the 2030 calendar

Morocco hosted the Africa Cup of Nations in 2025–26 and co-hosts the 2030 World Cup with Spain and Portugal, and academies, training centres and hotel gyms are being fitted out around that calendar.

A squad changes the brief. Twenty players leaving a session together means three or four tubs at 8–10 °C side by side, central plant instead of packaged chillers, and a floor that clears a squad's worth of splash in minutes.

Floors, drains and slabs in club buildings

A 900-litre tub weighs close to a tonne full and occupied. On a ground-floor slab that is nothing; in a gym on the upper floor of a Casablanca office building it is a question for the structural engineer before we quote.

Around the tubs the floor falls to a channel drain, the finish is a textured porcelain that survives chlorine and ozone, and a towel point stands between the recovery room and the courts so nobody walks wet onto the glass-walled courts.

Heat, hard water and power

Marrakech clubs face 40 °C afternoons in July, so outdoor tubs need shade, an insulated shell and a lid between waves, and the chiller is picked one size above the catalogue figure. Casablanca's issue is humidity: an indoor recovery room needs ducted extract on a run-on timer or it smells within a season.

Mains water in much of Morocco is hard, which is why each tub gets cartridge filtration, an ozone or UV stage and a descaling plan for the heat exchanger. Two chillers and a 10 kW sauna heater want a three-phase supply at 380/400 V, which most clubs already have from ONEE.

Indicative budget in dirhams

A recovery zone with two tubs and a sauna sits at 70 to 150 thousand MAD supplied and installed; each extra tub with its own chiller adds roughly 36 to 78 thousand. The sauna and the tubs are built and dry-assembled in our Istanbul factory and installed by our own crew, so the club loses the room for days rather than weeks.

Send us the number of courts, your busiest hour and a floor plan on WhatsApp, and we will come back with a layout and an itemised price.

In short

  • Ten to fifteen users per tub per hour — size on the busiest court slot
  • Two tubs minimum for six courts, three when the evening grid is full
  • Channel drain, chlorine-proof porcelain, slab checked for a tonne per tub
  • Filtration, ozone or UV and a descaling plan for hard Moroccan water
Questions

Gym & club zones in Morocco

How many tubs does a six-court padel club need?

Two at minimum, three if every evening slot is booked. Players finish in groups of four per court, and one tub becomes a queue that members stop joining.

Should the tubs be indoors or outdoors?

In Casablanca either works if an indoor room has ducted extract. In Marrakech outdoor tubs need deep shade and a lid, or the chiller spends July fighting the sun.

What does a recovery zone cost to run?

Chiller electricity is the main line and it is seasonal: high from June to September, modest in winter. We give a monthly estimate with the quote, based on your tub volume, shade and opening hours.

Your project

Want it priced for your site?

Send us a photo of the spot and the rough size. Within one business day you get photos of comparable rooms we have finished and an itemised, position-by-position quote.

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