Trvelling Brisbane Airport to Coomera

[BMKal]

Just a quick question for anyone on the Gold Coast ..............

I'll be driving in a hire car from Brisbane Airport to Sanctuary Cove tomorrow night. Never been there before.

Do I need to have cash / coins with me for toll road - or any other surprises (we don't have anything like that over here). I'll be travelling by the most direct route - Gateway / Pacific Motorway M1 according to Google Maps. If I try anything else, I'll probably end up "geographically challenged".

Meeting up with a company over there who manufacture / supply wet processing plant to look at a proposed plant for an iron ore beneficiation operation in the Pilbara. There's a plant working at Sunnybank that I'll be looking at on Thursday.

Quick trip this time - flying back here on Friday afternoon and then taking SWMBO to Cirque du Soleil which is on just round the corner from where I stay in Perth while at work. Hope to get back up there soon and maybe spend a little longer and have a bit of a look round next time. I'll probably be driving a Corolla or something - so I don't imagine driving will be a pleasure. :D

Thanks ...................

[Brisruss]

You can pay after the trip at the https://www.govia.com.au. There are other options there as well.
If you have an etag from Sydney or Melbourne they will work.

Cheers,
Russ

[sheerluck]

Depending on who you're hiring from, some of the hire companies give you the option to rent a toll tag too.

[BMKal]

Thanks for that. Hire car is Avis, so I guess that they would have the tag option. Will ask them at the airport when I get there.

[Sue]

I travel that route every day for work.. :(

Recently I used a hire car and I found the easiest way to deal with the tolls was to go the etoll webpage (https://www.govia.com.au/SelfService/SignupScreens/Viavideopassesnone.action) and give them my credit card details along with the registration of the car and the dates I needed my credit card to cover the toll for that car (dates also included times).. it was easy and effective... and what the hire company told me to do.. :)

[BMKal]

Thanks Sue. That sounds like the way to go. I'll only be travelling up & down the highway twice (Wednesday & Friday) so should be easy enough, even for a dummy like me from the bush. :p

Soon as I get the rego details, I'll jump on the website and sort it. Wonder if I'll get a 50% rebate cause I'll only be driving half a car (Corolla or similar). :angel:

Geez I'm glad that our gubmint over here haven't caught onto this lurk yet. Bad enough paying their ridiculous parking fees - and they've just announced that they're going to put them up again too. :censored: