Australia’s cheapest airport transfers
May 28th, 2009 by Tim Uden
The Lifehacker blog recently ran a post comparing public transport options between Australian airports and their respective city centres. The conclusion made Adelaide and Perth the winners with airport buses costing no more than a regular suburban bus fare in those cities.
The Lifehacker survey only covered the major airports and even left out the Gold Coast, which in my opinion is a relatively major airport, especially now that AirAsia has cheap flights to KL from there. As for public transport to Coolangatta (Gold Coast) Airport, you could pay $21 for the airport shuttle bus, but what’s the point when it’s just a simple case of walking a couple of minutes from the terminal to the Gold Coast Highway and hopping on local bus route 700. The fare from the airport to the centre of Surfers Paradise is just AUD $4.30.
That puts the Gold Coast in the same league as Adelaide and Perth, but are there any cheaper Australian airport transfers? Well there’s Broome Airport, it’s just a five minute walk to the town centre.