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Gold Coast Minibus Hire for Theme Parks, Beaches and the Hinterland

The Gold Coast is built for groups: hens and bucks weekends, school-holiday families, visiting teams. A minibus with a driver means nobody gets stuck with the keys, and you can move from beach to theme park to rainforest without a car park in sight.

Theme park days

Movie World, Wet'n'Wild and Dreamworld are up at the northern end of the coast, around Oxenford and Coomera, and Sea World is on The Spit at Main Beach. You'll be dropped at the gates, and your driver comes back at closing time, so tired kids go straight from the park to their seats.

Sprinter minibus cabin
Sprinter minibus cabin

Flying into Gold Coast

Places your group will want to see

  • Tamborine Mountain — Gallery Walk and rainforest, hinterland
  • Springbrook National Park (Natural Bridge) — Gold Coast hinterland
  • Burleigh Head National Park — Headland walk, Burleigh Heads
  • Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary — Southern Gold Coast
  • Dreamworld — Coomera, northern Gold Coast
  • Warner Bros. Movie World and Wet'n'Wild — Oxenford, northern Gold Coast
  • Sea World — The Spit, Main Beach
  • Surfers Paradise beach and Cavill Avenue — Central Gold Coast

Where groups usually stay

  • Coolangatta / Kirra
  • Burleigh Heads
  • Southport
  • Main Beach
  • Broadbeach
  • Surfers Paradise

Into the hinterland

Tamborine Mountain, with its Gallery Walk and rainforest, is about 45 minutes away. Springbrook and the Natural Bridge take about an hour, and O'Reilly's in Lamington National Park about an hour and three quarters.

Commercial tours in Queensland's national parks need a permit from the parks service, so mention any guided walks when you enquire.

Over the border to Byron

Byron Bay is about an hour and a quarter south, across the line into New South Wales. From early October to early April, NSW is on daylight saving and Queensland isn't, so Byron's clocks run an hour ahead. Double-check restaurant bookings and tour times on the NSW side.

Arrivals at Coolangatta and Brisbane

From the Coolangatta terminal to Cavill Mall in Surfers Paradise is roughly 22 km, or about 30 minutes when traffic is light. Registered buses and minibuses collect from the angled bays of the airport's GT Transit Area, right beside the terminal.

If you're flying into Brisbane, the run down to Surfers Paradise is about 85 km and an hour or more, with a cashless toll at Murarrie if the route crosses the Gateway bridges.

In the middle of Surfers Paradise, the City of Gold Coast has a new coach interchange under construction on the site of the Cypress Palms car park, so expect works nearby for now.

Your questions

Can we book a minibus for a hens or bucks weekend?

Yes. Share your plans for each day, from a dinner out to an afternoon on Tamborine Mountain, and the vehicle is booked around them.

Is Brisbane Airport a sensible option for the Gold Coast?

It works, but it's about 85 km away, so allow an hour or more. Gold Coast Airport, at about 22 km, is the quicker arrival.

Is Byron Bay on the same time as the Gold Coast?

Not during daylight saving. In summer Byron is an hour ahead, so set pickup times in Queensland time and allow for the change.

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