Casa Marbella – Private Oasis on the Estuary, 5-Min Walk to Playa Grande Beach Reviews, Deals & Photos 2025

Q: Does Casa Marbella – Private Oasis on the Estuary, 5-Min Walk to Playa Grande Beach have a pool?

Yes, this property has an outdoor pool.

Q: Is Casa Marbella – Private Oasis on the Estuary, 5-Min Walk to Playa Grande Beach pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

Q: Where is Casa Marbella – Private Oasis on the Estuary, 5-Min Walk to Playa Grande Beach located?

Located in Palm Beach Estates, this holiday home is 0.4 mi (0.6 km) from Grande Beach and within 3 miles (5 km) of Las Baulas National Marine Park and Ventanas Beach. Conchal Beach and Playa Zapotillal are also within 9 miles (15 km).

10/10 Excellent

Danielle S.

12 Apr 2025

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Great

We really enjoyed our stay here. We especially loved being right by the Estuary and beach. Best of both worlds!

Stayed 7 nights in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Colt W.

25 Oct 2024

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Cool Place

Nice house. Had a ball.

Stayed 5 nights in Oct 2024

10/10 Excellent

Danny S.

24 Apr 2023

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Outstanding stay

Very comfortable home, easy to find, property manager available excellent communication

Stayed 5 nights in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Peter C.

23 Feb 2024

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Relaxing Convenient Stay

The house is in a great location with easy access to beautiful beach, market and restaurants, all in Pal Beach Estates. The rooms are separated enough to provide privacy but common areas (living room, kitchen and pool deck) allow opportunity for socializing.

Stayed 6 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Colette D.

26 Feb 2025

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Great House and Location

We had a great 10 days in this home. The rooms are spacious and comfortable and they all have their own bathrooms with showers. The kitchen is well stocked and the living area is roomy and comfortable. Having a private pool was fabulous and there are many shaded areas to relax in the yard so you can enjoy the outdoors when it is hot and sunny. The pool gets a variety of shade and sun throughout the day which is perfect. The deck furniture is comfortable with lots of seating options. It is a short walk to a great surfing beach and there are a lot of great places to eat nearby. Kristi and Doug are wonderful property managers and they are an excellent resource for recommendations for activities. If you can do the La Leona Waterfall hike we highly recommend that one and we also loved the catamaran tour. We would definitely return there again!

Stayed 10 nights in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

Trudy J., Stratford, ON, Canada

15 Mar 2024

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Fabulous stay

Loved our time here. The 10 year old twin boys basically lived on the pool when at the house. Large house with good instruction by hosts. Great location to walk to the beach. Took a night turtle tour that was amazing.

Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Darla W.

28 Mar 2024

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Playa Grande

Our family has been travelling to Playa Grande for a number of years and we really enjoyed our time at Casa Marbella. Kristi was very helpful with lots of recommendations for activities. We will be returning!!

Stayed 14 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Mike D.

2 Jan 2023

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Great Hideaway!

This house, nestled in a quiet location close to the beach, is perfect for relaxing. With a few restaurants, small market, coffee shop, and a surf shop, there is plenty within walking distance. The house is incredible, and the property manager is very accommodating. We would definitely consider staying here again.

Stayed 6 nights in Dec 2022

10/10 Excellent

DANA L., United States

24 Jun 2023

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Palm Beach Estates is A+

Such a great vacay. Home was beautiful and Kristi and Doug were so responsive and helpful. Thank you

Stayed 6 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Ricky E.

22 Jul 2019

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Excellent family location

Casa Marbella was the perfect place for our two families. The house was spacious, the pool was great and the house’s location was serene. Kristi and Doug, the property managers, were awesome! 5 stars all the way around! Can’t wait to go back.

10/10 Excellent

Edward C.

16 Jul 2023

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Relaxing oasis

Great location! Easy walk to the beach. Big house, with lots of rooms. Hard to find a place to accommodate five single adults. This place was perfect. Upgraded and clean. Highly recommend Kristi’s house!

Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Rob K.

25 Dec 2023

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Amazing location with total tranquility

The property backs up to the nature reserve and we had a howler monkey right in the tree above as we swam. The pool was perfect and the patio cover kept us cool from the hot afternoon sun. Beach and restaurants are within an easy walk so everything you need for a relaxing vacation is right there. The hosts were amazing and there to help with anything needed. Overall an awesome experience!

Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

Sandi W.

12 Jan 2025

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Christmas Vacation

The property is functional, the interior is sparsely decorated with older furniture (some of which was not in good shape). The exterior is lovey, with a nice pool and lounge chairs. No pool floats though and no full sun if you are looking for an opportunity to tan. The beach is a good 10 minute walk, but is a great area because it doesn’t get too crowded and has good waves for surfing. The water taxi is also a 10 minute walk. We did have some communication difficulties with the manager - don’t expect a timely response over VBRO. Once you are in country on WhatsApp it improved tremendously.

Stayed 7 nights in Dec 2024

10/10 Excellent

Ricky S.

26 Jun 2023

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June 2023

The house was everything described. It was great! Kristi was great...everything she reccomended was great; from transfers, trips, food, activities, etc... The neighborhood was perfect as well! This was a great home and location for a family vacation.

Stayed 6 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Preston P.

21 Dec 2023

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Quiet, convenient location

We had a great stay. Kristi is a great host and was communicative and helpful. The location is great if you are looking for something quiet but still within an easy walk or drive of restaurants. Our kids spent hours in the pool, which was cleaned daily, except for Sunday. The beach near this house is excellent for finding shells and surfing/boogie boarding. We also used the casita that is attached but separate from the rest of the house, which was great to give the other adults in our group space. Overall, great property!

Stayed 4 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Kelsey C.

23 Jan 2023

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Great stay!

The house is wonderful and in a perfect location. It's minutes from the beach and the neighborhood is quite and relaxing. The house is just as described and very well equipped. We made several meals in the house and had everything we needed. Beds are comfy and each room is very big with their own bathrooms. The property managers are on site and ready to help at a moments notice with anything from issues at the house to booking services around town.

Stayed 8 nights in Jan 2023

10/10 Excellent

Grant H., Ontario

19 Dec 2022

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Will Return!

It was everything you could ask for. Beautiful house with everything we needed. Lots of room for 8 adults and 1 child. Fantastic location- so close to beach, restaurants/bars, surfing, boat to Tamarindo. Big bonus was property managers -always available to help, arrange for driver, services etc. couldn’t ask for anything more!

Stayed 22 nights in Nov 2022

10/10 Excellent

Andrew S.

13 Dec 2023

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Not as advertised… it was better.

I cannot overstate how great this place isBand how great this VRBO experience was. I was hesitant to write a review because I do not want anyone else to stay there. Thank you for an amazing stay. Thank you Ali, Kristi, Doug and Alvaro. We are now homesick. :-) See you all again soon.

Stayed 8 nights in Nov 2023

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10/10 Excellent

Erica J.

13 Sept 2013

Awesome house in a wonderful area of Costa Rica!

Casa Marbella exceeded our expectations. The house is great and Playa Grande area is one of our favorites in Costa Rica. The area is laid back with several really good restaurants (Hotel Bula Bula and El Huerto's). The beach is beautiful and uncrowded. PG also has a great local surf shop (Frijoles Locos) that rents surf boards, arranges surf lessons, tours, etc.). The owner of the house, Steve Julius, was great to work with. I would highly recommend Playa Grande and Casa Marbella.

10/10 Excellent

Ross W.

30 Jun 2024

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Great stay in Playa Grande

Really loved the house and location. 5 mins walk from playa grande. Just a few steps to the river. The house was well equipped and exceeded expectations. The pool area was lovely. It was neat to see birds, monkeys, lizards and bats on or near the property. Kristi the neighbor and concierge was wonderful and so helpful. I’d book here again if I make it back to Playa Grande. Having 4-5 restaurants within a few minutes walk was excellent. There was even people that could bring fresh fish directly to the house. Great experience. We were a family of seven and had plenty of room with the included (extra) mother in law suite.

Stayed 5 nights in Jun 2024

10/10 Excellent

Amanda C.

17 Mar 2022

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Perfect Location for Playa Grande

We can never say enough about this area of Costa Rica and it is indeed the only place we continue to return to. This property is wonderful! Communication with Kristi was absolutely excellent. Location was perfect for us—our five and seven year old walked to the beach in less than ten minutes on a safe low traffic road. I run in the area without any safety concerns. Our house was beautiful and so were the grounds. The house is a bit separated. It makes it perfect for adults or more than one family sharing the space. We cooked at home and had enough kitchen supplies to do this. We would definitely stay here again.

Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2022

10/10 Excellent

Dawn T.

17 Jan 2024

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Hidden Paradise

Fantastic place, great location! Great people! Great food! Kristi was fantastic setting up our tours and transportation with Alvaro. Alvaro and Jose were fabulous and very accommodating and informative. Great restaurants all within walking distance. Beach was beautiful and not busy. Walked to Tamarindo on the beach a few times, very busy over there but cool to see, just remember to bring money to take the boat across the river. Lots of surfing, low tide was incredible to see. Sunsets so beautiful. Only negative would be needed more comfortable patio furniture around pool, there wasn’t enough lounge chairs we had to use the wooden chairs from the table. Would go back in a heart beat!!! Thanks Kristi for making our stay spectacular!!

Stayed 7 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

C P.

10 Jul 2023

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Amazing Experience

A beautiful home nestled in the rainforest which provided a relaxing and quiet stay. The home was very spacious and clean as well as the pool and patio. Only a 5-6 minute walk to the beach which was nice, calming, somewhat secluded and relaxing!! Kristi and Doug’s customer service was impeccable. Anything needed they were very responsive from recommendations to any other info needed. The food recommendations located near the home was delicious….Cafe Mar Azul was our favorite! We were able to see animals in their natural habitat from the backyard! If you want to visit Tamarindo it’s a short boat ride up the estuary for only a few US dollars. Beautiful beach and good food and a lot more people. Amazing experience for our 10 day stay. Highly recommend!

Stayed 8 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Courtney C.

20 Apr 2024

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Safe, private, relaxing getaway

My husband and I booked this property to take our two young adult sons (21 and 22)on a family vacation. The gated community was perfect for our sons to venture out without us worrying about them driving to unfamiliar areas. It was very convenient to have shops, cafe, restaurant and bar in the gated community. I spent more time on the patio by the pool than in the house! Beautiful layout with sun and shaded areas at different times of the day, surprisingly private. You can also see the estuary from the patio. Beach access was really easy and our sons made it down for every sunset. The bedrooms were very large, everyone had their own beautiful bathroom. Kristi and Doug made our late arrival so easy as well as early checkout. They recommended the best places that we ate in our entire 10 days in Costa Rica. Kitchen and outdoor cooking area were more than enough for our group size. Beautiful home, highly recommend!

Stayed 7 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Patsy H., Austin

29 Apr 2023

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Great Costa Rica stay

Loved our stay at Casa Marbella! Playa grande was such a great place to stay that was a little secluded and away from the tourists vibe you can get with Tamarindo - while being close enough to go explore there during the day. There were a ton of great food/restaurant options, all within walking distance from the home, a place that provided surf lesson (and the beach is way less crowded allowing for much easier lessons than what we saw on the Tamarindo side). Kristi, the properly manager, was absolutely wonderful and responsive with anything we needed. She helped us get a rental car set up (we prefer to have our own ride on our own time) but she has a connection for a vehicle transport and boat transport to get you directly to/from the house and Tamarindo!! Pool was great, cleaned daily and so refreshing. Towels/linen all provided and beds comfortable. Each room has it's own AC unit to adjust per person/persons. Wish we could have stayed longer, would definitely want to stay here again when we're able to make it back!

Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2023

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