It serves the Gold Coast suburb of Varsity Lakes.

Varsity Lakes station opened on 13 December 2009 as the terminal station of the Gold Coast line when it was extended from Robina.

[1] Construction work on the four kilometre line extension from Robina commenced in late July 2007.

[2] Varsity Lakes is the terminus station for Gold Coast line services to and from Bowen Hills, Doomben and Brisbane Airport Domestic.

[3] Kinetic Group operate five bus routes via Varsity Lakes station: