Gold Coast Shopping Guide
With some of the 'biggest shopping centres in the Southern hemisphere' (as Australians love to categorise things) the Gold Coast is the retail therapy capital of Australia. While the major centres are mostly full of large retail chains and smaller boutiques, there are also plenty of cool alternate stores on the edges of the main shopping districts.
If you need it, chances are you can buy it on the Gold Coast, you just have to know where to look. How do you know where to look? Read on and we'll tell you…
The Gold Coast Australia.com guide to shopping on the Gold Coast
Note: Gold Coast shopping centres are hard to miss because they are huge, but if you're not driving a car you can get a bus from pretty much anywhere to any of the main centres and shopping districts.
Major shopping centres
Pacific Fair
Location: Hooker Boulevarde, Broadbeach (On the Gold Coast Highway, just down the road from the Casino)
Description: Pacific Fair is has more shops than any other centre on the Gold Coast with over 300 retail stores and services, including Myer, Kmart, Target, Coles, Lincraft, Nick Scali Furniture, Rebel Sport, Toys R Us, Best and Less and a 12 screen Birch Carroll & Coyle senstadium cinema complex. There are well over 5000 car parking spaces and during the Christmas rush every single one of them is full. Locals and tourists both love it and there's even a bar and lagoon in the middle of it.
Opening Hours:
Monday - Wednesday - 9:00am - 5:30pm
Thursday - 9:00am - 9pm
Friday - 9:00am - 5:30pm
Saturday: 8:30am - 5.30pm
Sun 10:30am - 4pm
Website: http://www.pacificfair.com.au
Australia Fair
Location: Straddles Scarborough Street in Southport and Marine Parade in Southport
Description: Australia Fair is a fairly old shopping centre by Gold Coast standards, but is doing well for it's 20th year of business. It has all the shops you'd expect in a big centre and has the added advantage of being in the Gold Coast's CBD in Southport, so there are plenty of independent shops in the surrounding streets.
Opening Hours:
Thursday - 9:00am - 9pm
Friday - Saturday - 9:00am - 5:30pm
Sunday - 9:00am - 6:00pm
Website: http://www.australiafair.com.au
Robina Town Centre
Location: Robina Parkway, Robina
Description: Robina Town Centre is huge and pretty and has the Gold Coast's only David Jones department store as well as Target Home, K-Mart, and supermarkets' Woolworths and Coles. With more than 220 specialty stores, 6 cinemas, a food court, lakeside restaurants plus easy free parking, you'll find pretty much everything you need.
Opening Hours
Monday-Wednesday and Friday: 9am - 5:30pm
Thursday: 9am - 9pm
Sunday: 10.30am - 4pm
Website: http://www.robinatowncentre.com.au
Harbour Town
Description: Harbour Town boasts Australia's first purpose-built outlet shopping precinct in a major regional shopping centre. The idea is that major clothing and homewares brands sell off their merchandise at wholesale prices and you can generally get some good bargains, don't expect the absolute latest season, newest, besest items though.
Location: Cnr Gold Coast Highway & Oxley Drive, Biggera Waters
Opening Hours :
Monday - Wednesday 9.00 am - 5:30 pm
Thursday 9.00 am - 7.00 pm
Friday - Saturday 9.00 am - 5:30 pm
Sunday 10:00 am - 5.00 pm
Website: http://www.harbourtownshopping.com.au/goldcoast
Other Large Shopping Centres
- Chevron Renaissance, Surfers Paradise
- Marina Mirage, Main Beach
- Sanctuary Cove Marine Village, Sanctuary Cove