Gold Coast Hotels

The article is about a region of Australia. For the African country known as the Gold Coast in colonial times, see Ghana. The Gold Coast is large city, and has separate articles for Surfers Paradise and Tweed Heads and Coolangatta containing sightseeing, restaurant, nightlife and accommodation listings for those districts. Consider visiting them all. The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the southeast corner of the state of Queensland in Australia, located between the state capital of Brisbane to the north and the New South Wales state border to the south. The Gold Coast has long been a high-profile tourist destination for Australians and overseas travelers alike. It also has a population of half a million residents. The name of the chief constituent city of the region, Surfers Paradise, says it all. The Gold Coast stretch of coastal towns starting well north of Surfers Paradise and streching south to the state border with New South Wales in the south. With a warm climate and miles of beaches, the towns have grown rapidly, with retirees, commuters to Brisbane, and local workers. The northern end (especially Surfers Paradise to Broadbeach) is more commercialized, with plenty of action for backpackers and "schoolies" (school leavers celebrating the end of exams). The southern end still caters mainly to holidaying families. Away from the coast, the western side, called the "hinterland", consists of mountain ranges covered with rainforest, much of it part of national parks. Travelling the city from north to south takes about an hour of driving.