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Broadbeach

Broadbeach is a suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Broadbeach
Broadbeach · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Broadbeach is a suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Broadbeach had a population of 6,786 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Broadbeach

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Q1 Tower

    Q1 Tower is a 322.5-metre supertall skyscraper on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The residential tower on the Gold Coast was the world's tallest residential building from 2005 to 2011.

    2.4 km · skyscraper in Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Soul

    Soul is a 243 m tall residential tower and hotel on the Esplanade, close to Cavill Avenue in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. it is the 3rd tallest building on the Gold Coast behind Ocean which topped out in late 2021 but above Circle at Cavil.

    2.9 km · residential tower on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    The Wave

    The Wave is a residential skyscraper with an unusual appearance on the Gold Coast, Australia. It rises to a height of 111 m and has 34 floors.

    200 m · residential skyscraper on the Gold Coast, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    The Oracle

    The Oracle is a $850 million two-tower luxury apartment development at Broadbeach on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. When completed it held the record for tallest building and highest apartment sale in Broadbeach.

    400 m · two-tower luxury apartment development in Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kinkabool

    Kinkabool is a heritage-listed apartment block at 32–34 Hanlan Street, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by John M. Morton of Lund Hutton Newell Black & Paulsen and built from 1959 to 1960 by J D Booker Constructions Pty Ltd.

    2.7 km · historic site in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Mantra Towers of Chevron

    Chevron Renaissance is a $400 million development on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia comprising 713 individually owned residential lots located above the Chevron Renaissance Shopping Centre. The onsite management of Chevron Renaissance residential lots is managed by Accor under the brand name of Mantra Towers of Chevron, previously The Towers of Chevron Renaissance.

    3.1 km · three–tower residential resort on the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Iconica Residences

    The Iconica Residences is a residential skyscraper complex on the Gold Coast, Australia, which is currently under construction. Designed by DBI, the two towers comprising the complex will stand at a height of 265 and 180 metres.

    4 km · skyscraper complex on the Gold Coast, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Gold Coast City Art Gallery

    The Gold Coast City Art Gallery was a regional Art museum located in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. Opened in 1986, the Gallery was part of HOTA, Home of the Arts which is funded by the Gold Coast City Council.

    3.3 km · art museum in Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Queensland · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Oasis Shopping Centre

    The Oasis Shopping Centre is located on the Broadbeach Mall in Broadbeach, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It was purchased by Brookfield Asset Management in 2012 from Thakral Holdings.

    300 m · shopping mall in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Pacific Fair Shopping Centre

    Pacific Fair is a major shopping centre in Broadbeach Waters on the Gold Coast.

    1.2 km · shopping mall in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Broadbeach

Airports
Gold Coast (OOL), 17 km · Brisbane (BNE), 78 km · Sunshine Coast (MCY), 163 km
Stations
Broadbeach South bus station, 900 m · Pacific Fair bus station, 1.1 km
  • Brisbane → Broadbeach
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · A$10–13
  • Maroochydore → Broadbeach
    156 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · A$22–30
  • Toowoomba → Broadbeach
    155 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · A$22–29
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Broadbeach

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Broadbeach. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTranslink is responsible for all trains, buses, ferries and trams in South East Queensland and regional urban buses.
  • Get aroundBuses and ferries have validators to touch as you board and alight.

From Wikivoyage: Gold Coast, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    315 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,749 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,786 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,253 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,037 km

If you know how people move in Broadbeach – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Broadbeach

Broadbeach is 3 km from Gold Coast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.