South Stradbroke Island Hotel & Accommodation

Across the Broadwater from the north bit of the Gold Coast is South Stradbroke Island, a sandy little paradise you'll be sharing with hundreds of wild wallabies. There's 21 km of beachfront, as well as wetland, rainforest and oodles of nature: something like 35 types of butterfly and 160 types of bird can be found here. Get to South Straddie by a water taxi from Runaway Bay, 9 km north of Surfers Paradise. South Stradbroke stays: cheap and easy. Find one below.