Queensland’s glittering Gold Coast is best known for its beaches, theme parks, and nightlife, but there’s a whole lot more going on. We’re talking cool cafes, craft breweries and distilleries, innovative eateries, sparkling waterways, elite designer shopping malls, and local markets, and further afield — mountain retreats and waterfalls thundering down into rainforest pools. However well you think you know the ‘glitter strip’, there’s plenty more to discover!
In this episode of our online travel series, we bring you tips for ten top things to do on the Gold Coast. We know you’re probably all over the region’s epic theme parks, so we’ll put them aside and focus on ten experiences that you might not be aware of.
We learn about the history of surfing on the coast at Surf World in Currumbin, soak up the stunning views from the SkyPoint Observation Deck at Q1, taste test Rick Shores’ famous Moreton Bay bug rolls, sample some top local drops at Granddad Jack’s Craft Distillery, cruise the canals of the Gold Coast at sunset, conquer the heady heights of the Treetop Walk at O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat in Lamington National Park, and much more. It’s an action-packed episode!
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:52 Where to stay on the Gold Coast
2:48 Surf World Museum, Currumbin
4:23 Surfers Paradise Beach and Cavill Avenue
5:19 SkyPoint Observation Deck, Q1 (interview)
6:58 Hota Gallery
7:36 Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens (interview)
10:09 Rick Shores, Burleigh Heads
11:12 Granddad Jack’s Craft Distillery, Miami (interview)
13:24 Canal cruise with Surfers Paradise River Cruises
14:57 O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat, Lamington National Park.
Special thanks to TFE Hotels and Vibe Hotel Gold Coast for their hospitality during our visit. For more information, head to: https://www.tfehotels.com/en/.
For more ideas for things to see and do on the Gold Coast, visit: https://topoztours.com.au/top-10-things-to-do-on-the-gold-coast/.
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To browse all our Queensland travel guides, destination blogs, and tour reviews, visit: https://topoztours.com.au/tag/queensland/.
This video is hosted by Adam Ford – editor of Top Oz Tours and Travel Ideas, and an Australian travel TV presenter, writer, blogger, and photographer. Adam has travelled extensively through Australia, Europe, Asia, North America, parts of South America, Africa, and the Middle East. He hosted and co-produced three series of the Tour the World travel TV series on Network Ten.
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