Playa Grande Estates boasts surf shops, hotels, restaurants and paved roads. The MINAE office, which regulates and patrols the Parque Nacional Marino Las Baulas, is also located here.
Playa Grande Estates is home to two of the big surf breaks in Playa Grande, each being public beach access points. It is also en route to Playa Ventanas and Playa Carbón.
The crowd in Playa Grande Estates tends to be younger and heavily focused on surfing, which makes for a pretty quiet night scene. Nightlife tends to prevail when the surf is not good or to revolve around surf-related activities, like the screening of a new surf movie.