Find Top Value Gold Coast Accommodation Packages, Queensland, Australia
The best Gold Coast accommodation deals can often be found through specialist Australia/New Zealand hotel booking sites. These can include rooms at budget and backpackers hotels, in self catering apartments, and at mid-range and luxury hotels. Sometime packages may combine a good rate on accommodation with tickets for a popular Gold Coast attraction, such as the Sea World theme park and marine mammal park in Southport. There may also be deals allowing entry to more than one theme park.
Surfers Paradise is one of the most popular suburbs in the region. It is famous for its high rise architecture, and the Surfers skyline can be seen from most parts of Gold Coast. As the Schoolies Week celebrations occur here at the end of the school year, there is a fair amount of budget and backpackers accommodation available in town.
Surfers Paradise is also close to some of the biggest theme parks in Australia. In nearby Southport one can find Sea World, and in Oxenford one can visit Wet-n-Wild Water World and Warner Brothers Movie World. The best value for those who wish to visit more than one park, or make multiple visits, is to buy a theme park pass.
It is also possible to find good value packages from resorts, such as Sea World Resort, which are linked to theme parks. These can combine a good rate on accommodation, with entry tickets for a theme park. Sea World Resort is a family friendly hotel, with amenities including a children’s play area and play club, and a kiddies pool.
The local airport is on the Queensland/New South Wales border at Coolangatta. Surfside Buslines, the local bus operator, run a shuttle service from the airport to all registered accommodation in the area. This can be booked in advance, or on arrival at the airport. Family and pensioner tickets are available. Surfside Buslines also have theme park transfer services for holidaymakers.
Many people visiting the region choose to stay in self catering apartments. Some of these are in large high rise complexes, including some in central areas of Surfers Paradise. These generally have more facilities than smaller complexes. For example a large complex may have games rooms, miniature golf, kiddies pool as well as adult pool etc.
Places like Broadwater and Biggera Waters may be the best places to look for smaller, low-rise apartments. These will usually be in rather quieter areas, and are often in attractive waterside settings, beside one of Gold Coast’s many waterways, or on the beach front at the sheltered Broadwater, which is a saltwater lagoon.
Self catering apartments in Gold Coast usually have between one and three bedrooms and a combined living/dining area and normally a fully equipped kitchen with a proper oven, washing machine, tumble dryer etc. The amenities available to guests will vary between apartment blocks, but most have some kind of sun-deck area and barbecue area. Many apartment blocks have attractive landscaped tropical gardens.
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