From the front door at 11-17 Hughes Avenue you can be standing in the lift at the base of the Q1 tower in about seven minutes. Main Beach sits a kilometre north of Surfers Paradise, which is the right distance for a place like Q1: close enough for an afte...
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By 7am in August on Main Beach, the air has a snap to it. You step onto the balcony with a coffee, the Broadwater is glassy, the light is low and gold, and the temperature reads about 12 degrees. By 11am it's 21 and you're in a t-shirt. By the time the af...
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Gold Coast Marathon 2025: Why Main Beach Is the Smartest Base for Runners and Spectators Almost everyone underestimates the Gold Coast Marathon until they've stood on the Esplanade at 6:30 in the morning, coffee in hand, watching the lead pack come past....
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The first cold snap of the year always sounds the same down south. Tasmania gets a dusting on the Central Plateau, the Victorian Alps get a metre, and someone in a Sydney terrace turns the gas heater on for the first time since August. Up here on Main Bea...
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Learning to surf on the Gold Coast hinges on the choice of beach, more than most people realise before they paddle out for the first time. The Spit, ten minutes north on foot from our front door at 11-17 Hughes Avenue, is genuinely one of the gentlest lea...
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Easter on the Gold Coast is the long weekend when everyone has the same idea at the same time. Schools shut, the highway gets busy heading north out of Brisbane, and the foreshore fills up by mid-morning. If you're planning your Gold Coast Easter holidays...
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Aquaduck Tours and Main Beach Cruises You spend most of a Gold Coast visit looking at the water without ever getting on it. You walk past the Marina, you cross the Sundale Bridge, you watch the catamarans drift towards the Broadwater, and somehow you end...
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The thing about Main Beach is that most visitors drive straight past it. They come off the M1, follow the signs further south, and barely register the low-rise suburb that sits between Surfers Paradise and the Spit. Which is, on balance, fine by the peopl...
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The thing about Magic Millions Gold Coast week is that everyone talks about Aquis Park, the marquees, the prize pool, the fascinators. Almost no one mentions that the carnival actually starts up the road from us, on a stretch of grass between the Broadwat...
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Discover the ultimate retreat at Ocean Sands Resort. Enjoy spacious accommodations, luxurious amenities, and the perfect location to unwind and recharge on the Gold Coast....
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