Why you need to be in Surfers Paradise

A name with paradise in it, you just know what your getting in for and that your gonna have a good time.

We loved surfers paradise! 

Even though it has that city feel you are just thrown back by the gorgeous beach. We have nothing but good things to say about this place. There is so much to do that the list is endless, but i’ll start off with some of the things what we did.

Of course where ever we go, were going to be at the beach some point. Although we wasn’t at the beach as much as we thought we would be. What i loveddddd about this beach was that when it hits that time when you want food but can’t be bothered to go far, its right next to the side walk. Ahhh yes!

Because surfers paradise is mainly tourists and holiday goers, it has a lot of attractions around it. Like Sea world, dream world, movie world and wet n wild. We had planned for a long time that wet n wild was on the list of things to do whilst we was there and it was AMAZING! A few rides that we wanted to go on were shut down for reconstruction, typical, but what rides were open were so much fun!

We went and did the sky point observation deck was $18 and you get a 360 view of the east coast and it was worth the money! We went in the evening to watch the sun set (how romantic of us) and we just made it. Gorgeous views!

Big night out with the hostels! Every wednesday and saturday, depending on what hostel you stay in have big night outs, where each hostel meet up at a bar or night club and you get free entry and drink and then you move onto the next place and the next and the next until you can’t stand or fall asleep in the toilet!

The night markets along the beach. If we were here on holiday for a week or two i would of gone ape shizzle on this and practically bought the whole lot but because I’m not and i have to either send it home or carry it with me, extra bagged is not what we need! They have your typical market things, bracelets, bags, clothes, memorabilia, household items etc (you get the gist).

Shopping, they nearly had every shop you could think of and more!

Ice cream…… Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm!

These are a few of the things we did but if you would like to know more just let me know!

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Things to do in Byron bay

1. Walk to the light house

2. Do a nature trail 

3. Walk to most easterly part of Australia

4. Lay by the beach 

5. Go shopping in the cute shops

6. Hire a surfboard or paddle board and learn how to surf

7. Kayaking tours

8. Whale watching

9. Sky dive onto the beach

10. Eat out at the local restaurants 

11. Sleep all day and party all night

12. Hire a bike and go exploring 

13. Yoga and pilates on the beach

14. Go outside of byron bay and see the surrounding areas

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Our time in Byron Bay

Byron bay is famous for being the hippie, chilled back town where most people call themselves free spirits. We were told so many good things about Byron bay that when we go we will want to stay, even the guy that picked us up said his trip was only meant to last 3 days and 6 months later he’s still here loving life, our roommates only said good things about it so we were pretty excited and set our standards high that we knew we were going to have a good time. But here it comes………… we didn’t like it. Before you go gaspingggggggg hear us out, we have pros and cons. 

What we loved:

The beach. It was beautiful, it stretched out for miles and as much as we tried to walk all of it, our legs just couldn’t take it. 

On Bobby's birthday we walked to the lighthouse which most people said only takes 30 minutes or so, 2 hours and a sweaty top later we finally made it to the top of the cliff (felt like a mountain) We did the nature walk and it was breath taking, the views were just stunning. It honestly takes your breath away but i think any beach view with clear blue waters is going to do that. We had made it to the most eastern part of Australia on our walk and whilst we was up there staring at the world we see some whales. If you wanted to be romantic you could go up there at sunrise or sunset.

The cute restaurants and cafes. Each way you turn, you have no end of choice for food. Italian, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, takeaway, organic food, the list is endless and can cater to every ones budgets. If your a traveller $5 dollar dominoes pizza or if you fancy something not out of a box and is AMAZING try Gourmet fish & chips. The best fish and chips we have EVER had, statement made! Its located behind main beach backpackers hostel.

You can learn how to surf, i mean you can do that at any beach but the price was great here! Plus with who we booked with we got free surf board hire and free paddle boards. But unfortunately a man was attacked by a shark a day before we arrived so we wasn’t feeling up to going to far out as it happened close to shore :/

What we didn’t so much love:

Theres not much to do other than lay by the beach, the nature walks to the light house and back, eat, go out drinking in the evening and that's pretty much it. Theres not much that drew us in about Byron, the town was like a big square with everything you need in it. 

Our hostel wasn’t the greatest but that will be another blog post.

For us it was quite boring but that's only our opinion, a lot of people there loved it but it just wasn’t for us. We could of done it in 2 or 3 days but we were there a week so we decided to get a tan, get drunk and make the most of time we had there.

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