The airport is in Coolangatta, which makes this our shortest run and our cheapest fare — $80 in a sedan, for the whole car. From Brisbane it is $280, and that gap is worth knowing before you book flights.
Get your fixed price| Vehicle | Passengers | Bags | Gold Coast Airport | Brisbane Airport |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sedan | 1–3 | 2 large | $80 | $280 |
| SUV | 1–4 | 4 | $90 | $295 |
| People mover | 1–7 | 6 | $100 | $310 |
| Luxury sedan | 1–3 | 2 large | $105 | $320 |
| Luxury minivan | 1–6 | 6 | $115 | $335 |
| Sprinter 10-seater | up to 10 | 11 | $165 | $450 |
| Sprinter 14-seater | up to 14 | 15 | $240 | $530 |
Tugun, Bilinga and Currumbin are priced identically — they are the other suburbs that sit alongside the runway. Larger parties: our 18-seat Sprinter is quoted per job — ask on the charter page.
Coolangatta is the clearest case on the whole price list. The airport is in the suburb, so the transfer is $80. The same journey from Brisbane Airport is $280, because it is a two-hour drive down the M1 and back along the coast.
If your flights are not booked, that $200 difference is worth more than most fare savings you will find comparing airlines. If they are already booked into Brisbane, the run is still a published fare rather than something you negotiate on arrival.
A short transfer is not a pointless one. People ask why book a car for a ten-minute drive. Because at 11pm with three bags and a tired child, ten minutes of certainty beats twenty minutes in a rank, and the fare is fixed either way.
The Queensland–New South Wales border runs through Coolangatta — cross Boundary Street and you are in Tweed Heads. Nothing about that costs you anything on a transfer, and there is no fee or vehicle change.
What it does affect is the time. From early October to early April, New South Wales observes daylight saving and Queensland does not, so Tweed Heads runs an hour ahead of Coolangatta despite being a few hundred metres away. We schedule against your flight time in the airport's own clock, which is the safe way round — but if you are giving us a pick-up time from a Tweed address in summer, say which clock you mean. It is the single most common timing mix-up on this stretch of coast.
Snapper Rocks, Greenmount and Kirra are why a lot of people fly into this airport, and boards travel free where they fit. A shortboard will usually go in an SUV or minivan; a longboard or a multi-board bag will not. Add the $30 luggage trailer and tell us what is coming, so the right vehicle turns up rather than a car with a problem.
Gold Coast Airport has a single terminal, and your chauffeur waits in the arrivals hall with a name board. You have their name and mobile number before pick-up, the flight is tracked, and 30 minutes of waiting after touchdown is included. From the kerb to a Coolangatta, Kirra or Greenmount address is about ten minutes, which makes this the quickest door-to-door run we do.
From Brisbane Airport it is a two-hour drive at $280 in a sedan, with the Gateway toll inside the fare and 60 minutes of free waiting on international arrivals. If you are landing late in Brisbane, that is a long day; it is still the same fixed fare at midnight.
The short drive tempts people to leave it late. We do not: the pick-up time is worked back from your airline's check-in cut-off, with a margin for the bag drop queue rather than the road. If you are staying on the Tweed side in summer, give us your flight time and we will set the pick-up in the airport's clock, so the daylight-saving hour cannot catch you out.
Book both legs together as a return on this website and both are 10% off. The fare is the same for a 5am flight as for one at lunchtime — no night loading, no public-holiday rate and no surge.
For the vehicle, one way, GST included, one to three passengers in a sedan. There is no surge, no night rate and no minimum-fare top-up on short runs.
Yes, both are published fares. Byron Bay and its district are too — $220 from Gold Coast Airport. See Byron Bay transfers.
Closer than anywhere else on the coast, but we will still recommend a time built back from your check-in cut-off rather than from the drive. Being five minutes from the terminal does not shorten the bag drop queue.
Yes. Tweed Heads and the NSW side are published fares in both directions, and the summer timezone difference is worth confirming when you book.
At Gold Coast Airport, 30 minutes after your flight lands. At Brisbane Airport, 60 minutes for international arrivals and 30 for domestic. The flight is tracked, so a delay does not use it up.
Yes. Book both legs together as a return on this website and both are 10% off.
Flight tracked, met inside arrivals with a name board, 30 minutes of free waiting after you land. Free to change up to 24 hours before pick-up.
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