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Where to Stay in Gold Coast, State of Queensland
Long surf beaches run the length of the Gold Coast, a coastal city in Queensland south of Brisbane, known for Surfers Paradise and its theme parks.
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Where to stay in Gold Coast
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Gold CoastAustraliaSouthport
Southport holds the Gold Coast central business district and is the most populous suburb in the City of Gold Coast, in Queensland.Where to stay →
Gold CoastAustraliaHigh-rise towers right on the surf beachSurfers Paradise
The tourist heart of the Gold Coast puts its stepped-back towers directly on the sand, with the whole seafront turned toward the waves.Surfers Paradise →
Gold CoastAustraliaUpper Coomera
Upper Coomera is a suburb, plainly. The City of Gold Coast records it as one address among many in Queensland, with no landmark set against the name.Where to stay →Gold CoastAustraliaRobina
Robina is a master-planned suburb of the City of Gold Coast, among the first residential communities in Australia built to a single plan.Where to stay →
Gold CoastAustraliaLabrador
Labrador is a coastal suburb of the Gold Coast, one of the named divisions of the City of Gold Coast in Queensland.Where to stay →Gold CoastAustraliaNerang
Nerang is recorded as both a town and a suburb within the City of Gold Coast, in Queensland, Australia.Where to stay →Gold CoastAustraliaPacific Pines
Pacific Pines is a northern suburb of the City of Gold Coast, in Queensland, Australia, one residential name among the council's many.Where to stay →
Gold CoastAustraliaPalm Beach
Palm Beach is a suburb of the Gold Coast in Queensland, a residential quarter whose one recorded landmark is Duncan McKenna Field.Where to stay →
Gold CoastAustraliaVarsity Lakes
Varsity Lakes is a suburb of the City of Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, where METRO Church Australia gathers.Where to stay →All neighbourhoods (37)
Gold CoastAustraliaBurleigh Waters
Burleigh Waters is a residential suburb of the City of Gold Coast, in Queensland, Australia, and part of that council area rather than a town.Where to stay →
Gold CoastAustraliaMudgeeraba
Mudgeeraba is a town and suburb of the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, keeping the character of a nineteenth-century village.Where to stay →
Gold CoastAustraliaElanora
The City of Gold Coast counts Elanora among its suburbs, a Queensland address whose interest is residential rather than monumental.Where to stay →
Gold CoastAustraliaMermaid Waters
Mermaid Waters is one of the Gold Coast's Queensland suburbs, a district whose single named place is Giffin Park.Where to stay →Gold CoastAustraliaCarrara
Carrara is a suburb of the City of Gold Coast in Queensland, and Palm Meadows is the one named landmark recorded inside it.Where to stay →
Gold CoastAustraliaOxenford
Oxenford is a Queensland suburb. It belongs to the City of Gold Coast, and a film-branded theme park carries its name well beyond Australia.Where to stay →
Gold CoastAustraliaHope Island
Hope Island carries an island's name among the suburbs of the City of Gold Coast, in Queensland, Australia.Where to stay →
Gold CoastAustraliaBurleigh Heads
Burleigh Heads is a coastal suburb of the City of Gold Coast known for surfing, wetlands and a national park within its bounds.Where to stay →
Gold CoastAustraliaCoombabah
Coombabah is a suburb of the City of Gold Coast in Queensland, entered on the Australian record under its name alone.Where to stay →Gold CoastAustraliaArundel
In the register of City of Gold Coast suburbs, Arundel is a Queensland address with no landmark listed against it.Where to stay →
Gold CoastAustraliaPimpama
Pimpama, a northern suburb of the City of Gold Coast in Queensland, carries an Aboriginal name and schools going back to the 1870s.Where to stay →
Gold CoastAustraliaCurrumbin Waters
Currumbin Waters is a Gold Coast suburb, one of the Queensland city's named residential pockets rather than a place a trip is built around.Where to stay →
Gold CoastAustraliaBenowa
A suburb of the City of Gold Coast in Queensland, Benowa belongs to the residential fabric of that Australian city rather than to its list of sights.Where to stay →Gold CoastAustraliaRunaway Bay
Runaway Bay is a coastal suburb of the City of Gold Coast, one of the waterside names along the Queensland shore in Australia.Where to stay →Gold CoastAustraliaBiggera Waters
Water is in the name. Biggera Waters is a coastal suburb of the City of Gold Coast, and the shoreline is the whole of its claim on a visitor.Where to stay →
Gold CoastAustraliaBroadbeach
Broadbeach is a beachside district of the city of Gold Coast in Queensland, lying directly south of the suburb of Surfers Paradise.Where to stay →Gold CoastAustraliaParkwood
Parkwood belongs to the Gold Coast, a Queensland suburb whose name appears on the city's map without a visitor attraction behind it.Where to stay →
Gold CoastAustraliaCoolangatta
The Gold Coast ends at Coolangatta, a coastal suburb of the City of Gold Coast whose streets run up to the New South Wales border.Where to stay →
Gold CoastAustraliaBroadbeach Waters
Broadbeach Waters is a suburb of the City of Gold Coast in Queensland, with Giffin Park the one site on its register.Where to stay →Gold CoastAustraliaMermaid Beach
Mermaid Beach is a Gold Coast suburb. The Queensland map carries it as one address among many in the city, and the name signals the draw.Where to stay →
Gold CoastAustraliaMiami
Ocean fills the view from Miami. This coastal suburb of the City of Gold Coast lists Magic Mountain, Nobby Beach as its single named landmark.Where to stay →Gold CoastAustraliaMerrimac
Merrimac is one of the suburbs the Gold Coast counts as its own, a Queensland district reached through the city rather than sought out.Where to stay →Gold CoastAustraliaTugun
Tugun sits on the sand. This beach-side suburb of the City of Gold Coast has Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary as its one listed landmark.Where to stay →Gold CoastAustraliaReedy Creek
Reedy Creek is a suburb of the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, a residential name on the map rather than a destination in itself.Where to stay →Gold CoastAustraliaParadise Point
Water frames Paradise Point, a coastal suburb of the City of Gold Coast in Queensland, set apart from the inland streets of that Australian city.Where to stay →Gold CoastAustraliaMolendinar
Among the suburbs of the Gold Coast, Molendinar is a Queensland address carried by its name rather than by any recorded landmark.Where to stay →Gold CoastAustraliaMain Beach
Main Beach is a coastal suburb of the Gold Coast just north of Surfers Paradise, an upscale stretch known for Sea World and a long beach.Where to stay →Gold CoastAustraliaMaudsland
Maudsland is a rural-residential locality in the north of the City of Gold Coast, one of the named suburbs of the Gold Coast in Queensland.Where to stay →About Gold Coast
What is Gold Coast known for?
Gold Coast is known for its beaches, its theme parks, and the tower-lined strip of Surfers Paradise. HOTA - Home of the Arts and the Gold Coast City Art Gallery anchor the cultural side of the city away from the sand. The surf runs for miles.
Carrara Indoor Stadium and the Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre host the sporting crowds, and each year students fill the coast for Schoolies Week after their exams in Queensland.
What are the main landmarks in Gold Coast?
Gold Coast splits its landmarks between the beachfront and the parkland behind it. HOTA - Home of the Arts and the Gold Coast City Art Gallery stand along the waterways inland from Surfers Paradise. The surf strip draws the crowds.
Carrara Indoor Stadium, the Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre, and Giffin Park serve the city's sport, while the fairways of Palm Meadows spread across the flat hinterland behind the coast in Queensland.
What is the history of Gold Coast?
Gold Coast took shape as a city in 1958, when the string of beach towns along the Queensland coast joined into one local authority south of Brisbane. The name came from the run of surf beaches that had drawn holidaymakers for decades before the amalgamation. Growth followed the shore.
Surfers Paradise rose from a seaside resort into a strip of high-rise towers as the coast turned from farming and fishing country into the state's holiday coast. The cultural and civic buildings came with the growth of the modern city. The Gold Coast City Art Gallery and later HOTA - Home of the Arts gave the beach city an arts quarter set back from the sand along the waterways.
Sport arrived too, from Carrara Indoor Stadium to the fairways at Palm Meadows. The Gold Coast grew from a line of coastal villages into a single subtropical city stretched along its beaches in the southeast corner of Queensland.
Where is Gold Coast?
Gold Coast runs along the coast in the southeast corner of Queensland, just south of Brisbane. The city is a long ribbon of surf beaches backed by a flat coastal plain and a hinterland of low ranges behind it. Water shapes the whole city.
Canals and waterways thread the built-up strip around Surfers Paradise, and the land runs from the sand at the shore back to the green country inland.
What is the climate of Gold Coast?
Gold Coast has a warm subtropical climate carried by its long stretch of coast. Summers are hot and humid, with afternoon storms rolling in off the sea and the heaviest rain of the year falling over the beaches and the hinterland. Winters stay mild and dry.
Warm, settled days run through much of the year, which is why the beaches around Surfers Paradise draw holidaymakers across every season in this corner of Queensland.
How do you get to Gold Coast?
Gold Coast sits on the main routes down the Queensland coast from Brisbane. The city lies just south of the state capital, and road and rail run down from Brisbane along the shore to the beaches and the towers of Surfers Paradise. The coast is easy to reach.
Travellers arrive from the north along the coastal corridor, and light rail links the beachfront suburbs in a line that follows the surf through the heart of the city.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Gold Coast?
Surfers Paradise: High-rise towers right on the surf beach.
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Updated August 2026