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Broadbeach Waters

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

Broadbeach Waters
Broadbeach Waters · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Broadbeach Waters is a suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Broadbeach Waters had a population of 8,164 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Broadbeach Waters

9 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.

    2.5 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.

    3.1 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.

    1.5 km · 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.

    1.5 km · 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.

    2.8 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.

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

    2.8 km · art museum in Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Queensland · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    1.6 km · shopping mall in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Pacific Fair Shopping Centre

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

    1.5 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.

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Getting to Broadbeach Waters

Airports
Gold Coast (OOL), 18 km · Brisbane (BNE), 77 km · Sunshine Coast (MCY), 163 km
Stations
Broadbeach South bus station, 1.7 km · Pacific Fair bus station, 1.4 km
  • Brisbane → Broadbeach Waters
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · A$10–13
  • Maroochydore → Broadbeach Waters
    157 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · A$22–29
  • Toowoomba → Broadbeach Waters
    154 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · A$22–29
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Broadbeach Waters

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 Waters. 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.

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    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

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  2. 02
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  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

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  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,254 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,036 km

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Around it

Next door to Broadbeach Waters

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