Beach House Coolangatta

... is at the bottom of the Gold Coast and is less high rise and developed than it's neighbour, Surfers Paradise. We checked into The Beach House Resort and I was excited to find that we had satelite tv in the apartment, so much so that I spent the next ...

... and we see them around our house sometimes.  I mention it here, because it was amazing the numbers of them up in Coolangatta.  They are quite talkative in the morning and evening, and we were walking home from dinner one night and the sound was ...

... the showers, somewhere free tonight me thinks. Free indeed but first we had to do the remaining 70 kilometres north to Coolangatta just inside the Queensland border Sarah was behind the wheel and I just watched the world go by. Beautiful country, here ...

... as New South Wales, but we still managed to have a good time thanks to a chance encounter. We slept in a beach front car park in the town of Coolangatta. We awoke to a friendly Italian, Alberto, who had slept in his VW bus next to us. It all started ...

... make our own adventure. After a whole day spent travelling, we ended up in Hervey's bay which is a beautiful little place. The beach is huge (I don't think they have any small ones in Australia) and we manged to get an entire apartment on the esplanade, ...

... in and had gone through security, we grabbed some Hungary Jacks for a late breakfast/early lunch as there wasn't anything the house for breakfast. We then eventually made our way to gate 10 taking our time as our plane was running late. We ...

... Spiele liefen auch an dem Abend wieder und als Preis gab es einen Fallschirmsprung über Byron Bay. Anschließend waren wir im Beach House, der Bar direkt am Strand und haben noch ein Bierchen getrunken. Dann sind wir müüüüde müde ins Bett ...

... be a little more careful! We drove two hours north from Sydney to Newcastle, where we rented (4 nights) a quaint two bed terraced beach house "Adeline" built 1885, which sat one road back from the beach front. It was lovely drive up over mountains, ...

We woke early and headed to a beach near Coolangatta to clean the van before returning it. Whilst cleaning, we discovered a crack in the windscreen and weren't sure if we'd lose our bond as a result. They're proper rip-off merchants this lot. What we ...

Feb1 - Left Melbourne an hour late so arrived an hour late in Coolangatta, Queensland/New South Wales.  We are right on the border between these two states in Australia.  It can be confusing as they follow different time zones.  Darryl from ...

... with the relaxed nature of domestic flights here (no ID, polite security staff etc.) We landed in Coolangatta on Friday evening and were taken to a superb house overlooking the sea and Gold Coast skyline, where we would be staying until Tuesday. All of ...

... got good waves again, and found it hard to leave Noosa. After peeling ourselves away, we started the drive back to Coolangatta, Snapper Rocks, Gold coast region. We drove straight past Surfers paradise to the Famous surf spots in Tweed heads and checked ...

... and the centre of activity for night life. It's the best known feature of the Gold Coast's skyline. Burleigh and Coolangatta also have skyscrapers, though shorter and fewer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfers_Paradise Once our supplies of ...

... flying with Air Asia X, and we look forward to seeing you again soon!” Said the pilot after the bouncy touchdown at Coolangatta airport, Gold Coast. Not Brisbane. Sheit. “Where did we book that car to Jon? Struth! This is NOT Brisbane ...

... point and beach break.  Camped in Kirra on the Goldy, and the next morning I was determined to surf Snapper Rocks in Coolangatta, despite it being just about the most crowded break I've ever seen and a good number of the people in the water either ...

... stopping shortly at Surfers paradise but found the place a bit over run and full of road works so headed further down to Coolangatta/Tweed Heads which is where the border of Queensland and New South Wales is. So we left Queensland and headed into ...

... camper van for a couple of days, we’ll be driving down the east coast back to Sydney and our first stop will be Coolangatta the town of the NSW and QLD border and also the home of the Quicksilver Pro Surf competition 2011, Snapper Point is where all ...

... then are leaving for NZ next Monday. The Gold Coast is a conglomerate of dozens of little municipalities which stretch from Coolangatta to South Stradbroke Island going north along the coast and about 20 km inland. The most famous part is Surfers ...

... keep busy with various activities and adventures as follows: Road trip that brought me to Surfer's Paradise, Byron Bay, Nimbin, Coolangatta, Carrarra, and a few others.  Byron Bay was an amazing town that could rival any beach side vacation town in ...

... took pity on a German restaurant called Bohemian Hans and I devoured sausage whilst Zoe chewed on rough salmon! Tweed Heads, Coolangatta, Surfers Paradise, Southport – these are all very similar, large, concrete Gold Coast holiday resorts and in our ...