Aussie World

While there’s a pretty renowned stretch of big theme parks on the Gold Coast, it is worth your while venturing north for the Sunshine Coast where you’ll find the smaller but mighty Aussie World. Try your hand at the hoops or laughing clown heads for sideshow plushies and show bags galore, or really test your bladder in the haunted Mayhem Maze. When you’re all buggered out from bouncing up and down Australia’s 'tallest and fastest 360-degree pendulum', you can grab a bite to eat at the cartoon-like Banana Bender pub.