Kings Beach, QLD 4551
Great for
- Clean & green
- Eating out
- Neighbourly spirit
- Safe and sound
Not great for
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Who lives here?
- Families With Kids
- Professionals
- Singles
- Retirees
Reviews of Kings Beach, QLD
"Caloundra is and in particular Kings Beach the main surf beach is like a village within a village. If you live of kings beach once you park the car you can walk every where."
Kings Beach has no main highway and is like that little piece of the world that time forgot. Think the northern beaches of sydney but say 30 years ago. It is the nearest northern mainland surfbeach to Brisbane and an easy commute but Caloundra south is home to the University and major hosptial so have small town slow with convience and services.
Who lives here?
- Families with kids
"This is an area that has had some serious modernisation."
What used to be a laid back coastal beach settlement is now a thriving modern beach area with a great park area that is fantastic for young families. A young family can spend all morning in this area and find heaps to do. The park has been set up with fountains, play gyms and other apparatus so that children of all ages can enjoy themselves for ages.
The beach is not very long but it is a well known surf beach and the surfers can nearly always get a ride here.
The local pub is back a little and elevated so it catches the sea breezes and from the balcony you can look out over the park out to sea.
Holiday accommodation is in every direction that you look, mostly in the form of apartments, but there are also some houses that are let for holiday accommodation. Because of the weather in the south east of Qld, this area attracts tourists most of the year.
Winter is the big bowling carnival with bowlers coming from all over Australia and New Zealand for a couple of months.
Who lives here?
- Professionals
- Singles
- Families with kids
- Retirees
Ah but if you compare it to the Gold Coast or worse Sydneys Beaches, Caloundra is that sleepy place of yesteryear but convienient and easy. I can imagine that if you remember those beautiful sanddunes when they were perched with fibro shacks instead of units, Modern Caloundra is still over developed, However modern caloundra looks low rise and village like in comparision to the over development on just about every other surf beach close to a capital
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What a shame it's gone the way of the rest of the coast. Isn't there anywhere left that resembles the Sunshine Coast of the 70s? I want the laid back coastal beach settlement that you mentioned - back when the Hotel Perle was where the Tavern is now...