At Pickle N Pins in Metairie, an indoor pickleball court costs $40 per hour, per court, at peak times, and $30 per hour, per court, at non-peak times. Paddle rental is $3, and a ball can be purchased for $3, so a first-time player does not need to own any gear to book a session.
The current price table
Here is exactly what pickleball pricing looks like at Pickle N Pins, as of when this was written:
- Court rental: $40 per hour, per court, at peak times; $30 per hour, per court, at non-peak times.
- Paddle rental: $3.
- Ball purchase: $3.
These figures are current as of the time this article was written. Prices can change, so the pricing page is the authoritative source going forward — check it before you book if it has been a while since you last visited this page.
How pickleball court pricing works, generally
Most indoor pickleball facilities price a court one of two ways: per court, per hour, or per player, per hour. Per-court pricing, which is what Pickle N Pins uses, means the group splits one hourly rate however many people are on the court, so a full doubles match works out cheaper per person than the same rate charged individually. Per-player pricing does the opposite, charging each person regardless of how many others share the court.
Peak and off-peak pricing is also a common pattern at indoor sports facilities generally, not something unique to any one venue. It exists because demand for court time is not spread evenly across the week: evenings and weekends are reliably the busiest windows almost everywhere, so a venue prices that demand higher and prices the quieter daytime hours lower, which gives a flexible player a real, ongoing incentive to book outside the busiest slots. Knowing that pattern exists is useful even beyond Pickle N Pins, since it applies to plenty of other court sports and facilities, not just pickleball.
Rental gear is the third variable worth understanding in general, before it is broken down for this specific venue below. A facility that rents paddles and sells balls lowers the barrier to trying the sport for the first time, since a new player is not deciding whether to buy equipment and try a court in the same afternoon. A facility that does not offer rentals effectively requires a small upfront investment before a first game is even possible, which is a real, if easy to overlook, difference between venues when you are comparing where to try the sport for the first time.
What counts as peak versus non-peak
Peak hours
Peak pricing applies from 5PM Friday through the end of Sunday, covering Friday evenings and all of Saturday and Sunday. This is the window most people default to booking, since it lines up with the end of a typical work week and with weekend free time generally, and it is priced at $40 per hour, per court.
Non-peak hours
Non-peak pricing applies Monday through 5PM Friday, covering weekday mornings, afternoons and early evenings, and it costs $30 per hour, per court. If your schedule has any flexibility at all, a weekday session costs $10 less per hour, per court, than the identical booking on a Friday evening or over the weekend, which adds up quickly if pickleball becomes a regular habit rather than an occasional outing.
Over a month of weekly play, that $10 gap adds up to roughly $160 for four one-hour peak-priced sessions versus roughly $120 for four non-peak ones, before splitting either total across however many players are on the court each time. Someone working a standard weekday schedule may not have much choice but to play evenings and weekends, which is a fair constraint; the point is simply that the option to save exists for anyone whose schedule allows a weekday morning or afternoon session instead.
Equipment: paddle and ball rental
You do not need to own a paddle to play. Paddle rental is $3, and balls can be purchased for $3, so a first-time player does not need to invest in their own gear just to try a court. That makes it straightforward to book a single session and decide afterward whether you want to buy your own paddle, rather than spending money on equipment before you know whether you enjoy the sport.
For a couple or a small group who all need a rental paddle, the rental cost is per paddle rather than per court, so it scales with how many players actually need one; anyone who already owns a paddle simply skips that line item. A group of four where two people already own paddles and two do not, for example, only pays $3 twice rather than four times, since rental is charged per person who needs the gear, not per court or per group.
Balls work a little differently, since a single ball purchase at $3 can reasonably cover a whole group for a session rather than needing one per player, which keeps the true added cost of trying the sport for the first time fairly small regardless of how many people show up.
What a court costs per person
Because court rental is priced per court rather than per player, the cost splits naturally across however many people are actually playing on it.
Doubles: four players sharing a court
Pickleball is commonly played as doubles, so a foursome sharing a peak-hour court at $40 works out to $10 per person for the hour. The same hour at the $30 non-peak rate works out to $7.50 per person, which is a meaningful difference if a group plays regularly.
Singles: two players sharing a court
A twosome playing singles pays the full court rate between the two of them instead of splitting it four ways, so a peak-hour court works out to $20 per person, and a non-peak court works out to $15 per person. Singles naturally costs more per player than doubles for exactly this reason, since the same hourly rate is divided among fewer people.
This is one of the clearer financial reasons doubles is the default way most people play the sport socially: bringing two more people onto the same court does not add to the court's hourly rate at all, so the per-person cost of an hour of play is cut in half when a two-person booking becomes a four-person one. A group deciding between two separate one-hour singles sessions and one shared doubles hour will generally find the doubles hour cheaper per player, on top of it also being the more common and social way the game is played.
A sample budget for a first visit
If you are trying pickleball for the first time and need to rent everything, here is roughly what a single hour looks like at non-peak pricing for two players who both need a paddle: a $30 court for the hour, plus $3 per paddle rental for each of the two players, plus $3 for a set of balls, comes to $39 total between the two of you before splitting it, or about $19.50 each. Playing at peak time instead simply adds the $10 difference between the peak and non-peak court rate, bringing the same visit to $49 total; the rental costs for a paddle and balls stay the same regardless of when you play.
If a third and fourth player join to make it a full doubles match, the court cost itself does not change, since it is charged per court rather than per player; only the number of paddle rentals needed would grow, and each additional player's share of the court cost drops correspondingly. Scaling the same non-peak example up to four players who all need a rental paddle looks like this: a $30 court, plus $3 per paddle for four players, plus $3 for balls, comes to $45 total, or $11.25 per person, still well under the $19.50 per person that two players paid for the identical non-peak hour above.
That comparison is the clearest illustration of how much the per-court pricing model rewards a fuller court: the court itself is the single biggest line item in the budget, and it does not grow at all as more players join, so every additional person who shares it lowers everyone else's share of the total.
Lessons, memberships and booking a court
Private and semi-private lessons, the latter built for groups of two to four people, are priced separately by session duration and by whether you are a member or a non-member. Because those rates vary by session length and by membership status, the current numbers are on the pricing page rather than repeated here as a single flat figure. The same is true of memberships, available for a single person, a couple or a family: a membership can lower the cost of playing regularly compared with booking court time individually each visit, but whether it pays off depends on how often you actually plan to play, so it is worth checking the current membership rates against your own expected visit frequency.
Courts can be booked directly ahead of time, which is the more reliable way to guarantee a spot, particularly during peak hours when demand tends to be highest. Booking ahead also means you know the exact cost of your session before you arrive, since the peak or non-peak rate is fixed by the day and time you book rather than by anything that changes once you are there.
If you are new to the sport and want the rules before your first session, see our guide to pickleball for beginners; for more on the courts themselves and how a first visit works, see our guide to where to play pickleball near New Orleans. If your group also wants to compare pickleball with padel, also played at Pickle N Pins, padel vs pickleball covers how the two sports actually differ in court, equipment and scoring. Pickle N Pins is at 6930 Veterans Memorial Blvd #4419, Metairie, LA 70003, in Jefferson Parish, just west of New Orleans, and the courts are fully indoors, so cost and scheduling are the only real variables in planning a visit, not the weather.
The bottom line
At current prices, an hour of pickleball at Pickle N Pins runs $40 per court at peak times or $30 at non-peak times, with $3 paddle rental and $3 balls if you need them, and those figures split naturally across however many players share the court. A flexible schedule is the single biggest lever on cost: choosing a weekday session over a Friday evening or weekend one saves $10 per hour, per court, with no other change to how you play. A fuller court is the second lever: the same $30 or $40 court costs less per person the more players share it, which is one more reason doubles tends to be both the more social and the more economical way to play.
Owning your own paddle removes the $3 rental line entirely after the first visit or two, though for a first-timer deciding whether the sport is worth the investment, renting is the lower-commitment way to find out. Prices at any business can shift over time, so if you are reading this well after it was published, treat the numbers above as a starting expectation and confirm the exact current figures on the pricing page before you book, since that page is updated directly rather than through an article like this one.
