# The Gold Coast Marathon recovery base between two beaches > The ASICS Gold Coast Marathon returns 3 and 4 July 2027. Six km from the start, Marriner Views trades proximity for the richest amenity set on the coast: a heated pool, spa, sauna and steam room, 180 m2 apartments, and cross-breeze nights built for pre-race sleep. - Tag: Travel tips - Published: 2026-07-09 --- The **ASICS Gold Coast Marathon** returns on **3 and 4 July 2027**, dates already confirmed by organisers. It is, by the event's own reckoning, the fastest road marathon in Australia, and its flat winter course has turned in a personal best for a large share of the field most years. A fast course rewards a rested runner, and rest is a thing you book. Marriner Views, on Fern Street between Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach, is a base chosen for the two days after the gun as much as the morning of it. ## Not the closest, and that is the point The start at Broadwater Parklands is about **6 km north**, a short tram ride rather than a walk. Marriner is not trying to win the race to the start line. What it offers instead is the deepest amenity set of any base along this stretch of coast, and that is what a marathon body actually needs. The heated saltwater pool holds **26°C** year-round for the afternoon soak, and alongside it sit a large spa, a sauna and a steam room, three ways to take the ache out of a set of 42-kilometre legs. There is a full-size tennis court and a gym for the runners in the group who cannot sit still, and a covered BBQ and gardens for everyone who can. ![Heated saltwater pool set in landscaped gardens at Marriner Views](/assets/photos/facilities/marriner-views-swimming-pool-1.jpg) ## Sleep the night before The single most useful thing a base can do before a 6:15 am start is help you sleep, and Marriner's building is built for it. The apartments are fan-cooled, not chilled, with dual-aspect windows that open to a cross-breeze straight off the Pacific. On a still July night you open the ocean side and the hinterland side and let the sea air move through the room. At 180 square metres, with only two apartments to a floor, the space is quiet in a way a packed tower is not: the pre-dawn alarm wakes the runner, not the whole family. Quiet hours run from 9 pm, so the building is settled well before an early night. ## The weekend, and getting to the start The race has traditionally run over two mornings, and the same shape is expected for 2027. **Saturday 3 July** would carry the Half Marathon, the 10 km, the short-course events and the wheelchair races, and it is typically the day race packs are collected at the Broadwater Parklands expo. **Sunday 4 July** would bring the **Marathon (42.195 km)** and the **Wheelchair Marathon**, historically off the line around **6:15 am** from Broadwater Parklands on Marine Parade, Southport, finishing at the same precinct. The course has long run out and back tracing the coast through Main Beach, Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach. The program and 2027 course map go up at [goldcoastmarathon.com.au](https://goldcoastmarathon.com.au/) closer to the date. On race morning, Florida Gardens tram station is **750 m from the door**, a nine-minute walk, and one G:link line runs straight to the start precinct at Broadwater Parklands with no transfers. In past years the G:link has stepped up to a race-morning schedule that weekend, published on ridetheg.com.au. Marriner's undercover parking, one space per apartment, is there for the drive down from Brisbane. ![Aerial view of Marriner Views with Northcliffe Beach and the Pacific beyond](/assets/photos/building/marriner-views-aerial-5.jpg) ## Carbo-load on the beach, recover in the quiet The night before, the BMD Northcliffe Surf Club is a 350 m walk for a plate of pasta over the sand, about the easiest pre-race dinner decision on the coast. If you would rather cook, every apartment has a full kitchen and a private balcony to eat it on. The suburb itself does the rest of the work: Marriner sits in the calm gap between the Surfers strip and Broadbeach, close enough to walk to either for a slow recovery lunch, far enough from both to actually rest. The course passes a short walk from the front, so a support crew can see the field come through and then take the tram down to the Southport finish. ## Book for marathon weekend **3 and 4 July 2027**, confirmed. Check-in 2 to 5 pm, with late arrivals arranged in advance; quiet hours from 9 pm. Marriner runs just two apartments per floor, so the building holds very few rooms and marathon weekend fills early. Book as soon as your entry lands. [**Check availability and reserve your apartment**](/accommodation/), or read about the [3-bedroom ocean view](/accommodation/3-bedroom-ocean-apartment/) (room for a runner and four support, a 19th-floor outlook) and the [2-bedroom superior](/accommodation/2-bedroom-superior-apartment/) (the right size for a running couple with one or two extras). For the course map once it lands, the entry form and the race-day logistics, head to the official [ASICS Gold Coast Marathon](https://goldcoastmarathon.com.au/) site.