Gold Coast to Tamborine Mountain.

Fares by vehicle

Surfers Paradise is the Gold Coast pickup we've recorded. If you're starting in Broadbeach, Burleigh Heads, Main Beach or anywhere else on the coast, put that address in the form and your fare appears before you pay. For a day up the mountain, choose Return and add the time you want collecting; both legs are booked together. Other coastal fares are on Gold Coast suburb transfers.

Pickup and drop-off

Both ends are door to door. Your driver comes to the hotel, apartment or house you enter on the coast, and drops you at the address you give on the mountain: a guesthouse, a winery, a wedding venue or a holiday rental. Your booking confirmation gives the meeting arrangement. For a resort with a large lobby or several entrances, add the name of the building or the gate in the driver notes.

Coming straight from a flight? Book the leg from the airport to Tamborine Mountain in the same form; it's priced when you enter both places. Our Gold Coast Airport transfers page explains how airport pickups work, and Brisbane Airport private transfers covers the other airport.

Timing your trip

We don't publish a drive time for the climb, because it depends on where you start on the coast, the time of day and traffic. A few things help:

• Choose a pickup that leaves margin before anything fixed, such as a ceremony, a tasting booking or a check-in window.
• For the trip down to a flight, work back from your airline's check-in deadline and leave room for traffic. When to leave for your flight walks through it.
• The form shows the earliest pickup time you can book.

Unlike trips into NSW, there's no time zone to think about: the Gold Coast and Tamborine Mountain are both in Queensland.

What's included

• A vehicle reserved for your party, with no other passengers picked up on the way.
• One fixed fare for the vehicle, shown before you pay by card online.
• Child seats added by type and quantity.
• Notes for your driver about entrances, steep driveways or timing.
• Return trips booked and paid together.

Child seats and luggage

Choose rear-facing, forward-facing or booster seats in the form, up to the number of passengers. The rules for each age are summarised in child seat rules in Queensland and NSW.

An executive sedan takes three passengers and two bags; a Mercedes V-Class or Vito-Tourer takes up to seven passengers and five bags. Weekend bags for a couple fit the car; a family checking into a holiday house for a week usually needs the van. A party of five or more might ask whether one van beats two cars, and when one van beats two cars answers that. See private transfer vehicles for each class.

Tamborine National Park

The mountain is ringed by Tamborine National Park. Queensland's parks service says its Witches Falls section, declared in 1908, was the first national park declared in Queensland under the State Forests and National Parks Act 1906, making it the state's oldest. Later reserves on the plateau and foothills were added, and today the park is made up of 14 sections of land (Queensland Parks).

The same page describes rainforest with piccabeen palm groves, tall flooded-gum forest, and basalt cliffs and waterfalls left by volcanic eruptions about 23 million years ago, with Tamborine the most northerly remnant of lava flows from a volcano centred on Wollumbin (Mount Warning). It also says the escarpment is home to 85 per cent of the animal species found in the City of Gold Coast area. Keep to the marked tracks, and check the park's alerts before you walk.

If you'd like a driver to stay with you across the day rather than a one-way drop, our chauffeur service Gold Coast page explains what to ask for.

Groups, weddings and work trips

Ferrying guests up to a celebration? wedding guest transfers and planning wedding guest transport cover booking several vehicles for one event. Taking a team off-site? See corporate transfers Gold Coast and Brisbane or group transfers Gold Coast and Brisbane.

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