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Mermaid Beach

Mermaid Beach is a coastal suburb of the City of Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.

Mermaid Beach
Mermaid Beach · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Mermaid Beach is a coastal suburb of the City of Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Mermaid Beach had a population of 7,329 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mermaid Beach

5 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
    Bond University

    Bond University is Australia's first private not-for-profit university and is located in Robina on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Since its opening on 15 May 1989, Bond University has primarily been a teaching-focused higher education institution featuring a trimester timetable.

    3.5 km · private university in Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    2.2 km · residential skyscraper on the Gold Coast, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    2 km · two-tower luxury apartment development in Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    2.1 km · shopping mall in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Pacific Fair Shopping Centre

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

    1.6 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 Mermaid Beach

Airports
Gold Coast (OOL), 15 km · Brisbane (BNE), 80 km · Sunshine Coast (MCY), 166 km
Stations
Broadbeach South bus station, 1.5 km · Pacific Fair bus station, 1.8 km
  • Brisbane → Mermaid Beach
    76 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · A$10–13
  • Maroochydore → Mermaid Beach
    158 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · A$22–30
  • Toowoomba → Mermaid Beach
    155 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · A$22–30
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mermaid Beach

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 Mermaid Beach. 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

    317 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,748 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,783 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,251 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,039 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mermaid Beach

Mermaid Beach is 5 km from Gold Coast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Broadbeachsuburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia2 km
  • Clear Island Waterssuburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia3.9 km
  • Miamisuburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia2.1 km
  • Broadbeach Waterssuburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia3.2 km
  • Burleighstate electoral district of Queensland, Australia3.9 km
  • Mermaid Waterssuburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia1.5 km