Don’t let a little wet weather spoil your holiday to the Gold Coast! There’s plenty of great wet-weather activities on offer.
Here’s a few suggestions for things to do on a rainy day on the Gold Coast:
TimeZone Surfers Paradise or Coolangatta
The Gold Coast now boasts two TimeZone arcades! The original in Surfers Paradise and a new centre now at Coolangatta on the Southern Gold Coast.
Enjoy hours of fun suitable for the whole family with a wide range of games and attractions on offer.
Cavill Ave, Surfers Paradise.
Surfers Paradise TimeZone highlights:
- Largest indoor family entertainment centre in Australia!
- Multi-award winning
- Hundreds of standard, ticket, prize and photo games
- Laser Skirmish
- Mini-golf
- Dodgem cars
Open 7 days from 9am until midnight
The Strand at Coolangatta, The Strand, 126/72-80 Marine Parade, Coolangatta.
Coolangatta TimeZone highlights:
- New facility
- Loads of standard, ticket, prize and photo games
- Laser Skirmish
- Bowling & Bar
- Dodgem cars
Open 7 days from 9am until late.
Indoor Go Karting Gold Coast
10 Spencer Road, Nerang.
Slideways Go Karting Gold Coast now has a new 475m long indoor go kart facility, which features a three storey high race track!
There’s ramps, cambered turns, tunnels, esses, sweepers and hairpins to navigate! The unique track surface is designed by Slideways Go Karting Australia and is unique in the southern hemisphere, allowing the karts to drift and get Slideways!
Go Karting Gold Coast is open 7 days, from 10am to 10pm.
Gold Coast Indoor Paintball
1B/31 Activity Crescent, Molendinar
Whether it’s a rainy day activity or perhaps a bucks party idea that you’re looking for, Gold Coast Indoor Paintball will provide you with a great day out with your friends!
Your paintball experience includes all equipment hire including professional paintball guns, anti-fog masks, tournament jersey, pans and podpack. There are several packages on offer from $49 up to $199 per person, depending on how many paintballs you want. ($49 gets 200 paintballs, $199 gets 1400 paintballs – there are also 3 other options in between.)
Gold Coast Indoor Paintball is open from 9am until 9pm, 7 days.
Wet N Wild theme park
Pacific Mwy, Gold Coast
Isn’t it outdoors? Yes, but you’re going to get wet anyway! Enjoy the lighter crowds, and shorter lines on a rainy day.
There’s loads of fun water-based rides and attractions to enjoy including the family fun areas of Wet N Wild Junior, Calypso Beach, Giant Wave Pool and Whirlpool Springs. Take on the thrill rides such as AquaLoop, Flow Rider, Mammoth Falls, Super 8 and more. For the ultimate thrill seeker, hit the extreme h2o rides including Black Hole and Mach 5!
Hot Tip: wear a wetsuit!
Infinity Attraction:
Chevron Renaissance Centre, Surfers Paradise
Take a journey to Infinity where you’ll experience a futuristic maze with 20 multi-sensual environments, unique special effects, cool music and illusions, and atmospheric sound fields!
Located within the Chevron Renaissance Centre in Surfers Paradise, afterwards you can grab a bite to eat from one of the local cafes or restaurants, then check out some of the many other indoor attractions in Surfers Paradise…
- TimeZone Surfers Paradise
- Build-a-Bear
- Ripley’s Believe it or Not
- Wax Museum
- Dracula’s Haunted House
- King Tutts Putt Putt
- iFly Indoor SKydiving
- 7D Cinemas
- Surfers Paradise Tenpin Bowling
- Planet Chill ice-skating
These are just some of the many attractions on the Gold Coast that are great for rainy day activities; there’s also movie theatres, major shopping centre’s, ice-skating rinks, bowling allies, trampoline parks and a whole lot more!
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