Marbella East, A diverse and family-friendly area

Marbella East borders the town centre. Depending on where you are, it is a short drive of 5-10 minutes or 20 minutes at the most, depending on traffic.

The main public hospital for Marbella, the Costa del Sol Hospital, is located in Marbella East.

This area also has private medical centres such as: Medhelp Centro Medico El Rosario and Elviria Medical Centre. In addition there are three private clinics with all the modern healthcare facilities: Ochoa, Premium and Hospital Quirón, all located in the centre of Marbella.

Within a ten-minute radius you will find all the services and amenities you could wish for, including restaurants, shopping, schools, supermarkets, racquet clubs, tennis & padel clubs and several world-class golf courses.

For the younger members of the family, schooling is very well provided for in Marbella East. These include the English International University (EIC) founded in 1982 which offers the English National Curriculum to boys and girls aged three to eighteen years. Colegio Las Chapas teaches both boys and girls at junior level but exclusively girls at secondary level when the boys move to ECOS. Approved by the Junta de Andalucía as Catholic bilingual schools, children are immersed in English for 50% of their school day right from preschool age. Colegio Alborán is a private bilingual school for children aged three to 18. Unusually among its facilities are a farm and stables where children learn to care for and respect animals. There are also impressive sporting and arts facilities. One of the most highly respected private international schools on the Costa del Sol, the Deutsche Schüle teaches children from three to eighteen. Founded in 1898, it has been recognised (and approved) by both the German and Spanish educational authorities.

The Spanish state schools in Marbella East are very popular with Spanish. Applications are made via the Consejería de Educación Junta de Andalucía in March each year for the junior school in Platero, and secondary school IES in Dunas de las Chapas. The education offered is exclusively in Spanish but foreign families are welcomed.

If Marbella has become known for its gastronomic offer, it is partly due to the excellent quality and choice of restaurants in the eastern part of the city. Three excellent examples of what East Marbella has to offer are El Lago Restaurant, The Beach House and Trocadero Arena.

The Aventura Amazonia Marbella is the largest adventure park in Andalusia. Located in the pine groves of Elviria, 500 metres from the sea. The park has 6 Adventure Circuits and includes a 240 m. long treetop zipline.

The eastern part of Marbella not only has the best beaches, but also some of the best beach clubs. These include the famous Nikki Beach Marbella, located on the beach of the luxurious five-star Hotel Don Carlos, and Club La Cabane, the beach club of Hotel Los Monteros. Others to mention: Bono Beach, Casanis, Triana, Simbad and Hipopotamo.

This part of the Marbella coast is home to some of iconic luxury resort hotels, including the Don Carlos Hotel Spa and Los Monteros Spa, Golf Resort Hotel. It is worth mentioning the Hotel Rio Real with spectacular views over the golf course and the 5-Star Vincci Selección Estrella del Mar well located just beside the sea, 8 km from the centre of town.

There are also 4-star Hotels such as the beachfront Marriott’s Marbella Beach Resort and Heritage Resorts Club Playa Real, AluaSun Marbella Park Hotel, located 3.2 km from Cabopino Marina in a beautiful pine forest in Marbella, and the Royal Tennis Club Hotel located in El Rosario with tennis and padel courts.

Two high-end hotel projects are underway in the east of Marbella: W Hotel and The Four Seasons.

The area east of Marbella town is home to the finest beaches in the area, including the following prime choices: Las Chapas, Real de Zaragoza and El Alicate.

The Dunas de Artola area to the west of the Cabopino marina is a protected reserve of beautiful umbrella pines and dunes, which includes a section of offshore biosphere known as the Artola Dunes National Park.

The marina of Cabopino is neither the largest nor the most famous, but it is the most charming. It is situated approximately halfway between Marbella and Fuengirola, in the pretty town of Cabopino. This small, idyllic marina with 169 moorings, restaurants and cafés is surrounded by pine forests and protected dunes.

Marbella East has its share of some of the region’s most iconic clubs, including: Marbella Golf Country Club par 72 designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., Rio Real Golf with 18 holes (par 72) and more than 6,000 metres long and Santa María Golf, also an 18-hole golf course with an impressive XIX century Spanish Cortijo as a Clubhouse. But there is also Cabopino Golf located at the eastern end of Marbella facing the Cabopino yachting marina with 18 holes and views of the Mediterranean and Santa Clara Golf Marbella consisting of 18 holes par 71.

There is also Greenlife Golf, a 9-hole par-3 course, which includes sports facilities like a driving range, two tennis courts, and a fitness centre.

Yes, there are five tennis and padel court clubs in this area: Los Monteros Racket Club has 5 tennis courts in total and also offers padel courts – one being a beach-padel court-, the Royal Tennis Club in El Rosario has 8 clay tennis courts, a hard court and 2 padel courts and the Club Padel Pinomar has 6 padel courts and also offers a 7-a-side football field, an outdoor gym and fencing classes. In the Elviria area, Don Carlos Tennis Club offers 7 excellent clay courts and two fast Rebound Ace courts and Marbella Sports & Padel Club is a members-only Padel Club that offers 10 padel courts.

Besides golf, tennis or padel it is possible to play lawn bowling at Santa María Bowls Club and squash at Ona Alanda Club Marbella. In addition water sports can be practised at Cabopino marina, or in Kite School Marbella located in Bahía de Marbella. Also in this urbanisation is less than 400 metres from the sea, the Marbella Rugby Club with more than 20,000 m2 of land, dedicated not only to rugby training, but to annually host several national and international teams.

Depending on where you are in Marbella East, you can reach Málaga-Pablo Ruiz Picasso Airport in 30-35 minutes by car, although the coastal road can take longer at peak times of the day.The AP-7 toll road allows one to avoid Mijas Costa and Fuengirola.

The zip code for East Marbella is 29603