Brisbane & Around - Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef - page 185

Brisbane's main bus terminus and booking office for long-distance buses is the Brisbane
Transit Centre ( www.brisbanetransitcentre.com.au ; Roma St) . Booking desks for Greyhound
( www.greyhound.com.au ) and Premier Motor Service ( www.premierms.com.au ) are here.
If you're up for a long haul, buses run between Brisbane and Sydney ($185, 16 to 18
hours), Melbourne ($210, 40 hours), Adelaide ($395, 45 to 55 hours) and Darwin ($585,
49 hours), although it's probably going to be just as affordable to fly (if not cheaper…and
a LOT quicker and easier).
Heading south to Byron Bay, there are four daily buses from Brisbane airport ($52,
three hours) and the Brisbane Transit Centre ($38) on Byron Easy Bus ( www.byroneasybus.com.au ) .
North to Cairns, approximate fares and journey times to places along the coast are as
follows:

DESTINATION ONE-WAY FARE DURATION

Cairns $305 30hr

Hervey Bay $69 5½hr

Noosa $22 2½hr

Mackay $215 17½hr

Rockhampton $160 11½hr

Townsville $265 23hr

Airport to the Gold Coast & Beyond
Con-x-ion ( Click here ) operates direct shuttle bus services from Brisbane Airport to the
Gold Coast ($49). Services meet every major flight and will drop you anywhere on the
Gold Coast.

Airport to the Sunshine Coast
Sun-Air Bus Service ( www.sunair.com.au ) is one of several operators with direct services from
Brisbane Airport to the Sunshine Coast. Con-x-ion ( Click here ) plies the same route. One-
way fares start at around $40 (to the southern Sunshine Coast areas; more expensive the
further north you go).

CAR & MOTORCYCLE
Brisbane has five major motorways (M1 to M5) run by Queensland Motorways ( 13 33 31;
www.qldmotorways.com.au ) . If you're just passing through from north to south or south to north,