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Our Journey So Far...

Well we have made it past the 10 year mark which has flown but by no means has been easy. Beginning a carwashing culture in Brisbane was always going to be challenging. With good weather and lots of predictable rain, we all quite liked our Sunday afternoons on the home driveway doing the cars. Itโ€™s a pity we werenโ€™t doing the waterways any good though with all those contaminants flowing straight to our waterways, hundreds of Olympic sized swimming pools of leads and oils from Australian household washing.

After a slow start, which enabled us to make our mistakes and recover things started to pick up. Drought conditions even in Brisbane brought water restrictions for households which began to get them into the habit of coming to Hoppys. We began as Handwash Cafรฉ, but were keen to create an icon of the environment to represent our carwashing brand. Hoppy it was, well known for the environment, cute but trustworthy for adults and loved by the kids. Hoppys has worked extremely well.

As a couple of ex-sportsmen we have done a lot in 10 years, we are trying a new model of carwashing to go with our full service, self service and touchfree automatic models. Express exterior washing, where we will hand and machine wash and then dry your vehicleโ€™s exterior in about 5minutes, for you to vacuum your interior for free.

At our Capalaba site our monthly wash club price certainly entices you to regularly look after your car. Top price wash is $25 or for unlimited $25 washes you can pay $25 a MONTH!

A new piece to the Hoppyโ€™s puzzle, come see us at Bowen Hills, Toowong, Norman Park, Gold Coast, Capalaba or Manly. Great to see you have already found the website.

Our wash processes have always been based on the challenging pillars of TIME! QUALITY,EXPERIENCE AND SAFETY.

It is no mean feat to balance them up successfully for customer satisfaction!

Looking after the environment is a necessity too with our water usage rates more economical than all other wash types, recycling and reuse of water at the prep end of process, harvesting of rainwater and capturing harmful wastes from dirty cars for waste disposal not run off into waterways.

Fall in love with your car again without lifting a finger, try HOPPYS

First Gold Coast Expansion

We must have thought our hands weren’t full enough when we decided to purchase Tranquility Carwash at Mermaid Waters on the Gold Coast!

At our newest Hoppys Handwashcafe we firstly needed to reverse the traffic flow of the site,to allow us to vacuum last. This is our preference, so that we can feed our conveyor belt, as soon as the customer arrives. The installation of our conveyor production line was next. This technology allows us to wash high numbers of vehicles every hour when demand is on. 51 per hour is our best so far. May there be many more. Carwashing, even on the Gold Coast needs to be quick, we say under 30 minutes, inside and out to rid your paintwork of pesky salt air and continue your great Coast lifestyle.

Car detailing services are available too, from exfoliating that paintwork, buffing out scratches and swirls to steam cleaning seats and carpets. We class ourselves as a full service carwash and express detailer of great value.

We hope to speed up the whole Gold Coast car wash industry at Hoppy’s Handwash Cafe Mermaid Waters

Chris Johns

Rugby League Career

Ian Healy

Cricket Career

Cameron Johns

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Our Locations

Bowen Hills

179 - 185 Abbotsford Rd

  • 24hr Self Serve
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    Capalaba

    18- 20 Moreton Bay Rd

  • Express Exterior Tunnel Wash
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    Manly

    Cnr Wondall & Radford Rds

  • 24hr Self Serve
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    Mermaid Waters

    Cnr Hooker Blvd & Bermuda St

  • Express Exterior Tunnel Wash
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    Morayfield

    195 Graham Road, Morayfield

  • Express Exterior Tunnel Wash
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    Norman Park

    Cnr Wynnum & Bennetts Rds

  • Full Service Handwash
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    Pimpama

    27 Dixon Drive

  • Express Exterior Tunnel Wash
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    Richlands

    29 Garden Rd, Richlands

  • Express Exterior Tunnel Wash
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    Southport

    92 Ferry Rd

  • Full Service Handwash
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    Tingalpa

    1589 Wynnum Rd, Tingalpa

  • Express Exterior Tunnel Wash
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    Toowong

    Cnr Milton & Sylvan Rds

  • Full Service Handwash
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    Opening Hours

    Full Service Sites

    Bowen Hills, Mermaid Waters, Norman Park, Southport & Toowong

    Mon-Sat 7.30am-5pm
    Sun 8am-3.30pm

    Express Exterior Sites

    Kallangur & Pimpama

    Mon-Sat 8am-5pm
    Sun 8am-3.30pm

    Capalaba, Morayfield & Richlands

    Mon-Fri 8:30am-7pm
    Sat 8am-5pm
    Sun 8am-3.30pm