The world's most coveted pickleball retreat. An intimate group. One week. Sayulita, Mexico.
There are a hundred pickleball trips now. Eighty strangers, a clinic, a buffet, a group photo, home. A real pickleball retreat is a different animal. The game is the doorway — and what's on the other side is the part nobody puts in the brochure.
The thing I didn't see coming
I didn't move to Sayulita to run retreats. I moved here to get my life back. I'd spent years measuring my days in deliverables — good at the grind and quietly starving inside it. So my wife and I sold the version of life everyone said we were supposed to want, and we landed in a cobblestone town on the Pacific where the flags hang over the street and the whales come back every winter.
I built a pickleball club here — Nawalli — because I love the game. Then something happened I didn't expect. I watched strangers walk onto those courts tight and guarded, and walk off three days later different. Looser. Laughing from the gut. Trading numbers. People who arrived alone left with a table they belonged at.
That's when it landed: the magic was never the drills. The transformation is the people, the place, and what the game gives you permission to feel. That's the whole reason this pickleball retreat exists.
You don't need another camp that drills you for eight hours and hands you a certificate. You need one week, in a place that does something to your nervous system, with a group small enough that you're actually seen — where your game gets sharper because everything else finally goes quiet. Better players come home from this retreat. That's not why people tear up at the closing dinner.
A day at the retreat
Wake to the ocean through your balcony doors. Coffee, then movement on the sand — breathwork, a cold plunge for the brave. Morning on the courts while it's cool: real coaching, real reps, your swing finally clicking. Midday is yours — infinity pool, beach, a spa massage, a long lunch with no clock. Afternoons we go find the magic: a private boat to the Marietas, whales offshore, a sunset catamaran. Evenings, the whole group at a private-chef table at MAXA, and somewhere between the second course and the last laugh you realize you haven't thought about your inbox in three days. By Friday nobody wants to leave. That's how you know it worked.
| 5 nights oceanfront at La Puesta (4.5★, 9.6/10) | $3,200 |
| 15+ hrs elite coaching · 3:1 ratio · 2 resident pros + guest touring pro | $2,400 |
| Private 1:1 video analysis + personalized game plan | $500 |
| All meals, incl. private-chef welcome & farewell dinners at MAXA | $1,400 |
| Private boat day — Marietas Islands + whale watching | $650 |
| Sunset catamaran cruise | $300 |
| Spa massage + recovery | $350 |
| Daily morning movement — yoga · breathwork · cold plunge | $300 |
| Private VIP airport transfers (PVR) | $250 |
| Professional photography + video of your week | $600 |
| PVG welcome kit — paddle, apparel, recovery gear | $450 |
| PVG Alumni Circle + priority on future retreats | Priceless |
| CLARA concierge — done-for-you | Included |
| Total value | $10,850+ |
Your retreat starts at $4,950.
Oceanfront room, shared
$4,950per person
Private King Plush, oceanfront balcony
$6,250per person
Penthouse + private 1:1 session, VIP transfer, spa package, photo set
$8,250per person
Non-playing companion: +$2,750. Reserve with a $1,000 deposit (non-refundable, fully transferable to a future PVG retreat). Balance: 50% at 120 days, the rest at 60 days. Payment plans available.
Show up and engage. If by the end of your first full day this pickleball retreat isn't what we promised, tell us — we refund everything not already spent on your behalf and help arrange your departure. The only risk left is staying home.
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Group size, coaching ratio, recovery, and depth. See the camp option.
Every level. Games are banded by skill and coaching runs ~3:1, so you're met where you are.
It's the most common way people come. Nobody stays a stranger past day two.
Everything in the value list above is included; flights are not.
La Puesta hotel and the Nawalli courts in Sayulita, about 50 minutes from Puerto Vallarta airport (PVR). See the location.
When this one's full, the next chance is a year away.