Family Fun at Gold Coast Theme Parks

Our Theme Park Adventures

We visited the theme parks twice this year, the first time during the Easter school holidays. The second time was in June.

Movie World

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If you visit during school holidays, and if you have purchased your VIP ticket online, I highly recommend getting to the first park you visit really early. Once you have your pass in hand, the queues won’t be painful, you’ll practically walk straight in.

Our Favorite Rides

The rides here are pretty good, the kids favourite was the Dynamite Roller Coaster. We also did the Scooby Doo ride (this one is in complete darkness, you go quite fast and backwards sometimes, my son was scared). I made my son go on the log flume (what a meany). He hated it. But when we went back the second time, he was ok. My top tip for taking kids on rides if they are scared, just tell them to scream heaps. It worked for us!

Tips for Visiting

If you can visit Movie World out of school holidays, you’ll find the place a lot quieter. It’s possible a ride might be down for maintenance. But it’s more likely you’ll be able to get photo’s with the characters. During our school holiday visit there was practically no chance of getting good photos with any characters, there were always too many people hanging around at once!

Sea World

I know there are some people that don’t like aquariums and stuff. Yep, I agree, it is pretty sad the animals are all contained. But at the same time, it’s neat to go and learn a bit about the amazing animals. I’ve always loved watching the shows with the dolphins, since I was a kid.

Wet n Wild

[/caption(../images/2015/07/041.jpg) Wet n Wild, Gold Coast]