The Gold Coast is the holiday destination for our antipode friends with the theme parks, nice beaches and other places to hang out at.
The Gold Coast had way more skyscrapers than we'd thought, the majority of them hotels.
The Skypoint is the tallest building in the city and they have an observation floor offering very nice views of the coastline. The drinks up here are nice too!
For those who want to test their heights even more, during the daytime you can go outside and climb even higher up the tower on an exposed staircase. You're clipped in just in case you have the urge to jump, which I know would have had.
A nice touch in the lift is that there's a screen on the ceiling showing the lift journey. It's not real time (the floor numbers weren't matching the lift) but cool all the same. They could exploit this and show the cable snapping on the descent for a quick easy scare.
Hotels are plentiful but not being used. We realised that despite it being their Summer the kids were back at school so places were fairly quiet, much more so than we'd expected. At night places were closing early due to a lack of customers. I think business must be quiet even at "busy" times as a lot of hotels were now selling their rooms off to potential buyers. An interesting twist on the time-shares deals of decades gone by.
The beach is stunning and whilst not a fan, I did run out and kick some sand in a kids face before running from his dad.
One thing we'd seen a lot of in Australia is shops dedicated to selling pies. There were loads of them.
Empty Gold Coast!
The newest attraction to the Gold Coast and being heavily advertised was the CSI attraction. To date there's only one other of these in Las Vegas and both tap into the success of the TV show franchises. You get to play investigator as you check out 1 of 3 crime scenes (our's was a woman run over by a car in an alleyway). You capture evidence then go through clues before piecing together what really happened.
I'm not really a fan of the show but the attraction was OK and was a good way to pass an hour or so. I did figure out what had happened even though I got the finger prints wrong. It helped that it was joined onto our hotel (the big building behind it) so we didn't have to worry about getting there.
Now in researching the trip Insanity park behind our hotel looked to be a great place to kill a couple of hours with 6 high flying rides advertised on their website. However there were only 2 there, the bungee catapult and a booster, and I'd done both of those before. The other rides that should have been there were more unique and I'd have ridden them. I've no idea where they went, a shame!
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