Gold coast Australia advice

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We plan to go to Australia next year, probably in July .
We will be there for about 3 weeks. We will spend 2 weeks in Sydney with family and we are considering spending around a week on the gold coast. We have been to Australia many times but I would like some advice regarding what there is to do on the gold coast. Our children will be 8 and 10. We will go to the theme parks but we would like to know of other things to do or day trips from there.
Thank you

I wanted to come back to this thread to let you know we did make it to Australia for Easter 2022. We spent a week in the Gold Coast and stayed in Surfers. We had a great holiday and the children loved it.
we went to WetnWild and to Movie World. Also to Ripleys believe it or not (it was a wet afternoon). Went to mount Tambourine and to Springbrook NP and we also visited Burleigh. We didn’t make it to Currumbin wildlife park as we ran out of time.
I think it is a great spot for a family holiday

I've been and all I can say is that I am so
Jealous x