It’s time to prepare for your annual Bavarian blow-out. Celebrate the world’s biggest beer festival over one colossal day of stein wielding revelry at The Island Glasshouse and Deck — AKA the Beer Hall and Wunderbar Terrace. With a fine selection of Bavarian beers on tap, schnapps and smorgasbord of food stations, you’ll be primed for the live oompah band — hand and thigh-slapping gestures are highly encouraged. We’ll be hosting plenty of fun games and you might even win a prize! And of course, we expect nothing less than your finest Lederhosen and Dirndl dress.
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The Island Glasshouse
Saturday 5th October
From 11am – 5pm
Dress: your finest Lederhosen and Dirndl dress is highly encouraged
General admission $15 + booking fee. The Glasshouse will be set as a beer hall. Seating is available on a first in best dressed basis. Food and drink will be available to purchase throughout the day.
VIP Beer Hall $149 + booking fee. $139 for 6+ Guests. Includes allocated priority seating with a three hour food and beverage package between 12pm – 3pm.
VIP Menu
Three hour food and beverage package
- Shared Bavarian Board of bratwurst, smoked pork, gouda cheese, sauerkraut, pickles, mustards and pretzels
- Bavarian smoked brisket sliders
- Roasted pork knuckle served as a main dish
- Drinks: three hour package of premium Bavarian beers, schnapps cocktail jugs, premium wine and softdrinks.
Food Stations
Available to purchase throughout the day
- Mini Bratwurst Dogs
- Schnitzel Rolls
- Smoked Bratwurst
- Bavarian Snack Pack: Bratwurst, smoked pork, gouda cheese, sauerkraut, pickles, mustards, pretzels
- Pretzels
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Can you cater to my food allergies and dietary requirements? We strive to accommodate food allergies. For the VIP ticket, include dietary needs at checkout. Note: We may not cater to all preferences (e.g., keto, low-carb, low sugar).
Can you seat my group together? Allocated seating is available only for the VIP ticket. If purchasing tickets separately for this ticket, create a ‘group name’ and include at checkout to ensure your party is seated together. General admission tickets have unallocated seating; arrive early to secure a spot.
How do the food and beverages work for the event? A variety of beers, wines, cocktails, and soft drinks will be available throughout the day, along with food stations offering a range of delicious options for purchase. The VIP ticket consists of a three hour food and drinks package and is only available between 12pm – 3pm.
What’s the refund policy? We do not offer refunds for this event.
If there’s one thing the Gold Coast is world famous for, aside from swooping coastlines and good looking weather, it’s what happens when the sun goes down on Australia’s gilded town.
As part of the city’s make over, a new bar scene has taken growth throughout the Gold Coast with everything from roof-top beauties to micro breweries, and complicated cocktails served in laneway bijous that are rivalling all the big cities. Food, and more importantly drink, menus have grown creative and complex thanks to the easy access to phenomenal fresh produce, and big names in the restaurant business are making the sea change to set up bar.
The Island
Is there anything better for a weekend away than a hot new hotel with the perfect rooftop bar on top like a shining beacon of hope and good times? Check in, drop your bags, wash the plane off you and head straight up to your first new-GC bar. The Island rooftop looks out over the famous Surfers Paradise skyline. With live music and DJs, and an army of Acapulco chairs to sink into, you can be sipping your favourite drink within an hour of arrival and watching the sky change colour over the sea. Welcome to Surfers.
Drink of choice: The Ocean Breeze: Hendricks Gin, lemongrass and smashed cucumber shaken, then served over ice and topped with soda.
Image sourced from Destination Gold Coast and news.com.au
Finding somewhere that’s comfortable and stylish is a dime a dozen, here at The Island our boutique hotel will tick all your accommodation boxes.
We have 98 boutique hotel rooms available, giving you plenty of options to chose from for your stay.
The Stay-Cayers
It’s no hidden secret that locals try to stay away from Surfer’s Paradise, but we have something special that you might just like. Our renovated King Suites are perfect for if you’re having a weekend of popping bottles, some much needed R&R or needing somewhere for the visiting relatives to stay. Our King Suites boasts beautiful views from our wonderful glitter strip, Surfer’s Paradise Beach or the glorious Gold Coast Hinterland. The best thing about The Island is you don’t even have to leave if you don’t want!
The Island Boutique Hotel
The Lovers
Oh-la-la! Looking for somewhere special to take your significant other, look no further. Organise a bottle of champagne on arrival, and enjoy some bubbles while taking in the beautiful ocean views. Wine and dine your loved one in our wonderful restaurant,, enjoy our Italian inspired menu while relaxing in relaxing ambiance.
The Work – Aholics
Heading to the Gold Coast for work or a conference? Lifeless rooms are so yesterday! Retire from a long day of wheeling, dealing and slaying in boutique comfort.
The Island is located on the G:Link which will be able to get you to the exhibition centre and most hubs in 15 minutes.
BOOK NOW and enjoy a stay at The Island Boutique Hotel.
If you’ve not made the trek into Surfers Paradise for a while, you’re not going to believe what’s been evolving at a landmark 1980s property located smack bang in the middle of the busy tourist precinct. A coral pink hotel, previously known as The Islander and once owned by mayor Tom Tate, has just been reborn as a cool boutique lodging—The Island.
And trust us when we say, by the end of this article, you’re going to be totally crushing on the Coast’s newest hotel offering, too.
A bold project taken on by Brisbane hospitality heavyweights the Bickle family, of the Press Club, the Empire and Cloudland—a family that’s renowned for seeing the potential and breathing new life into long neglected venues—we knew this old girl was in good hands.
While The Island Rooftop launched back in December 2016 and has been attracting a steady trickle of locals back to the glitter strip over the summer, they are officially preparing to share the next stage of their stellar development with us all.
Instead of taking the easy route to knock ‘er down, they’ve rescued this daggy two-star budget hotel from its time warp, converting the 98-room property into a four-star boutique hotel that’s full of character and sass. Among a strip of towering, rather non-descript high rises the Bickles have successfully managed to bottle up the relaxed essence of the Gold Coast with a twist of nostalgia.
From the stylish reception area with its eclectic mix of classic couches and leather armchairs, vibrant throw cushions, lamps and blonde timber detailing, to the functional hotel rooms and suites with their vogue colour scheme, matte black bathroom fixtures and city views. There’s a lot to love about The Island.
Downstairs, the poolside courtyard has a holiday vibe with pops of colour in the mosaic-topped tables and woven bistro chairs, rattan pendant lights and potted greenery, alongside cherry pop beach umbrellas and loungers lining the pool. There are plans for a pool bar to be added in time for summer and we can already picture this zone being a-buzz with breakfast diners sipping lattes in the sunshine.
Cherish your own bed and don’t have any interest in dishing out cash to stay overnight at a hotel in your own hometown? Good thing there’s plenty beckoning on the food and beverage front too, and you absolutely must make plans to visit for dinner and drinkies or your next group shindig.
The Island’s glittering new downstairs bar and Italian eatery literally fired up the Naples-imported wood fired pizza oven only moments ago, creating a cracking new dining option in the heart of the city’s busiest tourist hub. With floor to ceiling wood panelling, a luxe marble-fronted bar, statement pendant lights crafted with rattan and metal, vintage prints and photos smattered across the walls, and large windows if you just wanna linger over a glass of vino or craft beer while watching the world go by.
We ate our way through a soul-satisfying Italian menu, prepared at the hands of a bustling kitchen full of talented chefs. From starters including the Eggplant Involtini with buffalo mozzarella, prosciutto and basil, zingy Caprese tomato salad with more mozza and fragrant basil, to spicy bites of fried Ascolana olives and a terra cotta aioli for dipping.
In true Italian feasting style, the plates kept coming. Like a knife through butter, we shared the most incredible cut of meat; a 400-gram peppercorn-crusted Thousand Guineas Shorthorn rump with heirloom carrots, followed by pan fried Kingfish with clams, cuttlefish, mussels and saffron, to a flavour-packed plate of homemade truffle and ricotto gnoccho with mushrooms and braised duck that left our mouths salivating.
Not to be outdone, the dessert menu is a total showstopper; from the Insta-worthy vanilla panna cotta adorned with dehydrated fruit salad, to the coffee semi freddo and Italian biscotti plate. Seriously generous servings for $12 and worthy of the food baby that’s certain to result if you’re tempted to order half the menu, as we did.
The Island’s hip new Italian-inspired restaurant and adjoining bar is now open for lunch and dinner, seven days, with finishing touches currently being made to the breakfast menu.
Though the fun doesn’t end there. Home to the Gold Coast’s biggest rooftop bar and sprawling alfresco patio, The Island Rooftop is already bringing the cool back to the tourist precinct’s after-dark scene. With DJs, a retro-styled cocktail bar, ample seating, nooks and, in the winter months, heaters. Their new Gin & Jazz Thursdays are set to become a hit with Bliss Sunday sessions already heating up the wintery afternoons with DJs and live vocalists from 2pm.
This weekend (June 10 and 11), The Island is throwing a family-friendly open house event with cutesy activities like a petting zoo, roving entertainers, ice cream cart, flower stalls and live music. So, make a beeline and take a peek at the Gold Coast’s newest boutique hotel offering in person. We bet you’ll wanna check straight in.