International Patients
If you are travelling to us, the medicine is only part of it. Flights, transfers, where you stay and how you recover all have to work — so we plan them with you, before you book anything.
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Overview
Patients travel to us from across Europe and beyond, most often for surgery or for a longevity assessment. What makes that work is not marketing. It is planning — and specifically, planning that happens before you book a flight rather than after.
Medical travel goes wrong in predictable ways: someone books a return flight for four days after surgery because the fare was good; someone arrives expecting a procedure that was never appropriate for them; someone flies home with no idea who to call when a wound looks wrong at eleven at night. None of these are medical failures. They are planning failures, and they are avoidable.
Estepona sits on the Costa del Sol between Marbella and Gibraltar — Málaga International Airport is about 15 minutes from our Recovery Residences and around 45 minutes from Vogue Clinic in Estepona — in a climate that happens to suit recovery, and quiet enough that you are not recovering in the middle of a city. That is a genuine advantage. It is not, on its own, a medical reason to fly here, and we would not pretend otherwise.
Your journey
Five stages, and you can stop after any of them. Nothing here commits you to the next step.
Write to us by email or WhatsApp and tell us what you are considering. We reply with what is realistic — including if the answer is that it is not worth the trip.
A free consultation with the relevant doctor, held online if you are abroad. You are told what each option involves and what it cannot do, and you receive a plan with the days you would need here.
Once you decide to proceed, we coordinate dates around your treatment and your recovery — including accommodation and transfers if you would like us to handle them.
You are seen in clinic before your procedure, treated, and then followed through recovery on the days that actually matter — not just at a single discharge appointment.
Your results are reviewed before you fly, and we stay reachable once you are back. If something concerns you at home, you contact us directly.
Getting here
Most patients fly into Málaga Airport (AGP), by far the widest choice of routes and conveniently close to where you will be staying. Gibraltar (GIB) is another option and is sometimes the better choice from the UK.
Málaga International Airport (AGP) is approximately 15 minutes from our Recovery Residences and approximately 45 minutes from Vogue Clinic in Estepona — so arrivals, the clinic and your recovery stay all sit within an easy reach.
Do not book flights until your treatment dates and recovery plan are confirmed with your doctor. It is the single most common error we see, it is the easiest to avoid, and it is expensive in exactly the way that makes people feel they have to fly home too early. A cheap fare that forces you onto a plane before your surgeon is happy is not a saving.
When it is safe to fly depends on what you have had done — it is not a fixed number of days, and anyone quoting you one without knowing your procedure is guessing. Your surgeon tells you, and the answer is part of your plan before you commit to anything.
Where you stay
Two private residences designed specifically for recovery rather than adapted for it, both within reach of the clinic. If you would prefer a hotel, or you are travelling with family, we can coordinate that instead.
How long
We are not going to publish a table of numbers, because the honest answer depends on your procedure, your body and how you heal — and a number on a website is precisely the kind of thing people build a non-refundable itinerary around.
What we will tell you is how the answer is arrived at, and you get your specific version of it at consultation, before you book anything:
If your available time genuinely does not fit what a procedure needs, we will tell you that, and we would rather do it now than after you have paid for flights.
Costs
Prices are confirmed at consultation, once your doctor knows what is actually appropriate for you. This is not evasiveness — quoting a price before knowing what you need is how people end up paying for the wrong procedure.
What you can expect from us on money:
Indicative pricing for many treatments is on our price list. Anything not listed, ask us.
Continuity
This is the part of medical travel that is usually glossed over, and it is the part that matters most. A clinic that is excellent while you are in the building and unreachable afterwards has not actually looked after you.
Your results are reviewed in clinic before you travel. You leave with your recovery instructions, what to expect over the coming weeks, what is normal, and — importantly — what is not, so that you know what you are looking at.
Complications are a real possibility with any procedure, and your doctor will go through the specific risks of yours with you before you consent to anything — not as a formality, but so that your decision is an informed one. What happens if one occurs, and what is and is not covered, is set out in writing before you proceed. Ask us about it directly; it is a fair question and you should get a straight answer, from us or from any clinic you are considering.
Honestly
Every clinic on this coast will tell you to come. So it is worth saying plainly when we would not.
You are welcome to get a second opinion on anything we tell you. We would encourage it.
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Tell us what you are considering and we will tell you what is realistic — including how long you would need to be here, and whether it is worth the journey at all.
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Av. España No. 2
29680 Estepona, Málaga