Sunday, March 13, 2011

Find Gold Coast Accommodation Specials: Best Value Holiday In Gold Coast, Queensland

By Jacque Claire


The Gold Coast resort, which is in the Australian state of Queensland welcomes many overseas and Australian holiday makers every year. Visitors find much to enjoy on the relaxed Gold Coast: the warm sunshine, the attractive landscape, with lush tropical and sub-tropical greenery, the many miles of waterways, canals and rivers, and the many long and sandy beaches. It is very easy and straightforward to find good accommodation at a reasonable price. Online accommodation price comparison sites allow visitors to benefit from the many Gold Coast accommodation specials on offer from hotels, apartment complexes, and other accommodations.

Australia's Gold Coast is in Queensland, on the Pacific Ocean. The Gold Coast is south of Brisbane, and it encompasses 55 kilometres, mostly beach, along the Pacific. The surfing on the beaches is famous all over the world.

Inland from the coast, the resort area includes the foothills of Australia's Great Dividing Range. The rain forest covered ranges here are popular with walkers, and are notable both for the beautiful scenery, and for the scientifically important wild life. The region is a World Heritage zone, and is the location of some of Australia's top national parks.

Sports enthusiasts also find lots of interest in the Gold Coast. Nowhere is far from some form of sporting activity, both for spectators or for participants. There are four national (Australian) professional teams from the area: in ice hockey, basketball, rugby league and soccer. Golfers will find more than forty golf courses so wherever they stay there will be a course just a few minutes away by car.

Prospective visitors can easily use online hotel booking website to compare accommodation, and to find best deals on prices. One "red hot deal" is offered by Couran Cove Island Resort, South Stradbroke Island. Visitors staying three nights (minimum) can get the second and third nights with 50% off. The deal also includes the return ferry ticket to get to South Stradbroke, an upgrade to a water front suite, and bike hire on the island. The island divides Broadwater from the Pacific, so island explorers can go east to the surfing beaches, or west to the quieter beaches on Broadwater.

South Stradbroke Island has a varied coastal landscape: sand dunes, tropical forests and wetlands, and part of the island is a nature reserve. Agile and Golden Wallabies, which are quite tame around people, make their home here, but it is also not far from the busy suburb of Surfers Paradise, and from theme parks such as Sea World in nearby Southport, and Wet-n-Wild Water World in Oxenford.

Many visitors to Gold Coast stay in waterfront accommodation around Broadwater. This large body of water used to be a lagoon at the mouth of the Nerang River, but over time it has become open to the ocean through two channels, and is now estuarine (or tidal) waters. The beaches here are calmer and quieter than the surfing beaches on the Pacific. One place to stay here would be Bayview Beach in Biggera Waters.

Bayview Beach Apartments, in Biggera Waters, is a complex of two bedroomed, two bathroom, self contained apartments. Master bedrooms have en suite bathroom and a queen sized bed. Smaller bedrooms have two singles, and each apartment has kitchen (fully equipped), and washer, dryer and ironing facilities. The complex has a secured car park, and a swimming pool, and is near to Pacific Fair Shopping Centre and Jupiter's Casino.




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  1. It’s just a short stroll to the heart of Surfers Paradise, with all the excitement it has to offer. Wonderful shops, cafe’s, restaurants, art galleries, night clubs and much much more.

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