Carrara Markets

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Carrara Markets Gold Coast Queensland’s is the Gold Coasts Biggest & Best Permanent Weekend Markets.Carrara Markets on the Gold Coast has over 500 exotic stalls & licensed cafes. Come hunt for treasure every Saturday and Sunday at Carrara Markets.

With free entry admission to Carrara Markets you can join the 25,000 people every weekend enjoying South East Queensland’s biggest and best regular permanent market. 5 acres of indoor and outdoor stalls, with something new around every corner. Places to eat…..beer, wine and coffee….entertainment for the kids. Bargains, discount stores and treasures from fruit, veggies, plants, arts, crafts, jewellery, furniture, hardware, fabrics, pottery, pets, pictures, and bric-a-brac to you name it.

Carrara Markets offers a Gold Coast Courtesy tourist bus for resort and hotel visitors to the Gold coast. Heaps of FREE parking.  Carrara Markets is so BIG ! I Bet you can’t see it all in just one day!
Carrara Markets is located on the Gold Coast on the Cnr of Gooding Drive & Market Street (Nerang-Broadbeach Road) in Carrara, only 10 mins from the Surfers Paradise Holiday Accommodation. And only 4km west of Pacific Fair Shopping Centre.

Carrara Markets Gold Coast is open every weekend from 6am – 4pm with FREE admission for the whole family.
Carrara Markets run a subsidised bus service on Saturday and Sunday that runs from the top of Surfers Paradise, via Pacific Fair Shopping Centre to the Markets, and back again. The service runs hourly from designated pick-up points and you are welcome to meet any bus on the timetable, booking is not necessary. Our buses return hourly from the Markets and will drop you at any stop on our timetable you require. Buses are regular Surfside Bus Company buses and will have a 'SPECIAL' sign on the top of the bus and a 'CARRARA MARKETS' sign in the front windscreen. The service costs $1 per person return fare, children under 5 years of age travel at no charge.
TIMETABLE
APPEL PARK (7.55am, 8.55am, 9.55am, 10.55am, 11.55am, 12.55pm)
• At the bus stop in front of Appel Park, beside the pink elephant.
MERCURE RESORT(8.00am, 9.00am, 10.00am, 11.00am, 12.00pm, 1.00pm)
• At the bus stop on the footpath in front of the resort.
MARRIOT HOTEL(8.03am, 9.03am, 10.03am, 11.03am, 12.03pm, 1.03pm)
• There is no bus stop here but the bus will stop out the front of the Marriot Hotel, please wait on the footpath.
AARONS APARTMENTS & RED ROOSTER (8.05am, 9.05am, 10.05am, 11.05am, 12.05pm, 1.05pm)
• There is no recognised bus stop here but our bus will pick up outside the two phone boxes between these two points.
 HOLIDAY INN (8.08am, 9.08am, 10.08am, 11.08am, 12.08pm, 1.08pm)
• At the bus stop beside the hotel on the Gold Coast Highway.
• In front of the Carinya Café.
DOLPHIN ARCADE (8.10am, 9.10am, 10.10am, 11.10am, 12.10pm, 1.10pm)
• At the bus stop in front of the arcade on the Gold Coast Highway.
LEGENDS HOTEL Cnr LAYCOCK ST (8.12am, 9.12am, 10.12am, 11.12am, 12.12pm, 1.12pm)
• At the bus stop on the same side as Legends Hotel.
ALEXANDER APARTMENTS (8.15am, 9.15am, 10.15am, 11.15am, 12.15pm, 1.15pm)
• At the bus stop on the corner of Thornton St and the Gold Coast Highway.
CROWN PLAZA HOTEL (8.17am, 9.17am, 10.17am, 11.17am, 12.17pm, 1.17pm)
• At the bus stop in front of the hotel.
CALTEX SERVICE STATION (8.20am, 9.20am, 10.20am, 11.20am, 12.20pm, 1.20pm)
• At the bus stop in front of the Caltex Service Station, on the corner of Australia Ave and the Gold Coast Highway.
GRAND MERCURE HOTEL (8.23am, 9.23am, 10.23am, 11.23am, 12.23pm, 1.23pm)
• At the bus stop on Surf Pde, in front of the hotel.
PACIFIC FAIR SHOPPING CENTRE (8.26am, 9.26am, 10.26am, 11.26am, 12.26pm, 1.26pm)
• At the bus stop underneath the car park, on the same side as the shops.
• Next to the purple poles, in front of the taxi rank.

RETURN TIMES
FROM CARRRARA MARKETS CARPARK (8.45am, 9.45am, 10.45am, 11.45am, 12.45pm, 1.45pm, 2.45pm)
• The buses leave from the same point they dropped you aff at, that is the carpark/bus area on the southern side of the main shed