Every journey on Translink buses, trains, ferries, trams and on-demand services in South East Queensland costs 50 cents as of 18 October 2026, however far you travel and however you pay. You can pay by tapping a Visa or Mastercard on and off, with a go card, or with a paper ticket from a fare machine, and cash is not accepted on board.
Adelaide Oval strongly encourages patrons to use public transport on event days: the Adelaide Railway Station is 600m away across the Riverbank Bridge, and the Festival Plaza tram stop on King William Road is 500m from the stadium. During the AFL season Adelaide Metro runs free Footy Express buses for ticket holders.
The easiest public transport trip to Warner Bros. Movie World and Wet’n’Wild is the TX7 bus from Helensvale station. On the Translink timetable for Monday 19 October 2026, a TX7 leaving Helensvale at 9:01am reached Wet’n’Wild at 9:08am and Movie World at 9:12am. Both parks tell visitors to catch a tram, bus or train to Helensvale station and transfer to the TX7, and Wet’n’Wild’s page also says public transport fares across the Translink network are 50 cents per trip.
If you hold a pre-purchased ticket to the Supercars Gold Coast 500, Translink says you can travel free to and from the race on all regular Queensland Rail City Network trains, Kinetic Gold Coast bus services and G: services, excluding Airtrain. The free travel runs from the first service until the last service on the date printed on your event ticket.
In Sydney you pay public transport fares by tapping a contactless credit or debit card, a digital wallet or an Opal card on a reader at the start and end of every trip. As of October 2026, an adult never pays more than $19.30 a day from Monday to Thursday, $9.65 a day on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, or $50 a week, according to Transport for NSW.
The public transport route from Adelaide Airport to the city is the J1 or J2 bus from Stop 10, at the front of the terminal. Adelaide Metro says both buses pass through the Adelaide city centre, and a regular fare is $4.75 at peak times or $2.70 off-peak, as of 18 October 2026.
Sydney Airport says the trip to the city takes 13 minutes by train, about 20 minutes by taxi and about 25 minutes by car in light traffic. A station access fee of $18.61 for an adult is charged on top of the train fare whenever you use the Domestic or International airport station, as of October 2026.
The Airtrain takes 20 minutes from Brisbane Airport to the city according to Airtrain, the adult fare to any Brisbane City station is $23.30 as of October 2026, and trains run every 15 minutes in weekday peaks and every 30 minutes the rest of the time. Brisbane Airport says a taxi to the city costs $67 to $82 one way and takes about 20 minutes outside peak periods, and rideshare is available from signed pick-up areas at both terminals.
On a Friday or Saturday night in Surfers Paradise, Translink lists the G:link tram and secure taxi ranks with late night FlatFare fares as the late night options, and Gold Coast FlatFares for a single fare run from $5.00 in zone one to $14.00 in the highest-priced zones. Nightlink buses, which run between midnight and 5am on Friday and Saturday nights, are described by Translink as a Brisbane service.
Translink lists nine park ‘n’ ride car parks at eight Gold Coast train and light rail stations, with approximate space counts that range from 380 at Pimpama to 1,302 at Helensvale. Helensvale has the most spaces, in the Queensland Rail car park, and Robina has 950. Translink’s parking page does not give a fee for these car parks, so check the signs at the station. All figures are as of 18 October 2026, taken from Translink’s parking page.