Your kids will love a holiday in Surfers Paradise. During the winter months, many Australian families from the southern states and cities like Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney, love to escape the cold and migrate to the warmer climate of the Gold Coast. Surfers Paradise provides everything that the average family could want for a holiday with their kids.
The first and most important criteria for any holiday with kids, is choosing the best place to stay and Surfers Paradise provides plenty of options. Many of the resorts here have apartment style accommodation and some specialize in family holiday accommodation. Crown Towers has lots to offer the kids. Paradise resort is a specialist kids resort and Seaworld resort offers great accommodation with packages that include meals and theme park entry.
All kids love the beach and Surfers Paradise offers the best that there is in this regard. Most accommodation in Surfers Paradise is walking distance from the beach and a lot of it is right on the beach front. This means that teenage kids can just walk across the road to go swimming and surfing and parents can watch from their balconies. Younger kids, who need supervision can often be looked after in kids clubs and the like.
Surfers Paradise is very kids friendly with all the fast food chains having outlets here and many tourist attractions being within walking distance of your accommodation. The busiest McDonald's store in the country is right here on the beachfront and also on the corner of the Cavill Mall. Shuttle bus services for the other major theme parks like Dreamworld and Movie World also will pick up from Surfers Paradise accommodation.
There probably is no better place in Australia than Surfers Paradise for a holiday with your kids.
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