Barossa Valley
With showstopping valley views and absolute privacy, these six free-stranding Barossa chalets are the handiwork of Max Pritchard, the presiding grand…
Must-see hotels in South Australia
Flinders Ranges
Flashy outback station accommodation in an 1850s homestead, between Hawker and Wilpena: it's an exercise in contemporary bush luxury. Rates include chef…
Barossa Valley
Top of the accommodation tree in the BV, the Louise does everything with consummate style, from the architecture and the linen to the in-house restaurant…
Murray River
If your ship has just come in, these three luxury clifftop villas are seriously stylish – architectural pods congregating on the precipice, with brilliant…
Adelaide
A couple of streets back from the beach, this beaut old terrace (1878) is Adelaide's budget golden child. Fan-cooled rooms maintain period details and are…
Adelaide
The Watson (named after indigenous artist Tommy Watson, whose works dazzle here) is a sassy, multilevel 115-unit complex 4km north of the CBD in…
Adelaide
This leafy, grassy Torrens-side park is about 4km northeast of town and loaded with facilities, including tennis courts and a palm-fringed cricket oval…
Adelaide
Do you like to be beside the seaside? Adelaide's beaches face west, so there are brilliant sunsets. Sit on the terrace at this mod beach house with a…
Adelaide
The first Glenelg edifice to scrape the sky with any real authority, this plush, pink-hued hotel overlooks sparkling Gulf St Vincent. Dinner, bed and…
Adelaide
This renovated row of old houses is a five-minute wander along the sea wall from Moseley Sq in Glenelg. They really didn't need a gimmick − the location…
Adelaide
The pick of the multilevel apartment buildings along the Glenelg foreshore, the eight-storey Oaks Plaza Pier offers flashy corporate-style rooms and large…
Clare Valley
About 12km north of Clare is this beautiful, 175-year-old homestead – once with 50 staff, a church and a school! It's still a 3000-acre working farm, with…
Adelaide Hills
The Manna is a stylish, contemporary maze of rather corporate-feeling motel suites on the main street, spread over several buildings. There are also older…
Barossa Valley
Wow, what a spectacular house! Like some kind of slick, long lightning bolt riding the slope of a Barossa hillside, the Glasshouse is all about the views …
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
About 21km north or Streaky Bay at Perlubie Landing, Perlubie Sea is a self-proclaimed 'swish' B&B. And we're inclined to agree! The two side-by-side…
Barossa Valley
Mid-century modern has finally become cool in the Barossa, as 'The West Wing' of this hip '60s house attests. It's a modernist raked-roof affair (yes, it…
Flinders Ranges
The resort within Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary includes a motel complex and caravan park. Camp sites range from dusty hilltop spots to creekside corners…
Adelaide
Got an early flight? Atura is a sleek, seven-level airport hotel – a bit 'Eastern Bloc' externally, but a designer's delight on the inside. Splashed with…
Fleurieu Peninsula
Bushy, eccentric Red Poles is a great place to stay (and eat!). Aim for the rustic en-suite room (bigger than its two counterparts). Order some gnocchi…
Limestone Coast
This lovely, low-ceilinged 1840s stone building at the foot of the main street is one of Robe's oldest buildings. It's divided into a cottage (sleeps four…
Adelaide Hills
Sticky Rice Cooking School out the front of these tree side-by-side villas is the main attraction here (www.stickyricecookingschool.com.au). But why not…
Kangaroo Island
Pricey but worth every penny, these four gorgeous self-contained stone-and-timber houses dot the hillsides above beautiful Snelling Beach (actually, they…
Adelaide Hills
Managed by Manna across the street (manna-aged?), the Haus Studio Apartments are a trim complex of super-clean, self-contained one- and two-bedroom…
Adelaide Hills
And now, for something completely different: a short detour off the road on the steep flanks of Mt Lofty, this 1880 stone cottage was originally a…
Kangaroo Island
This beautiful three-bedroom timber lodge near Cape Willoughby is a high-end paradise, with polished timber floors, lofty ceilings, a mod kitchen and a…
Fleurieu Peninsula
A lovely old 1860s cottage on a nondescript Goolwa backstreet (just ignore the petrol station across the road), surrounded by rambling roses and limestone…
Kangaroo Island
Lost in the parched dune county south of Cygnet River, difficult-to-pronounce Stranraer is a plush, four-suite B&B in a meticulously restored 1920 stone…
Kangaroo Island
On a hillside above Smith Bay on the North Coast Rd, an easy 22km west of Kingscote, terracotta-tiled, white-stuccoed Molly's Run looks like it could have…
Outback South Australia
Top of the CP price tree, the Desert Cave delivers some much-needed luxury − plus a beaut pool, cafe, airport transfers (a cheeky $10 each way) and the…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
A tidy row of bricky, older-style motel units (with a Hollywood-worthy facelift), plus an ever-expanding complex of family-size villas that are much more …
Adelaide
Adelaide's stylish, reliable, high-rise Ibis does compact corporate twins and doubles in an unbeatable downtown locale (well, unbeatable if you're in ADL…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
What a view! Streaky Bay extends towards the horizon from the deck at Doi's, which has two two-bedroom seafront apartments on offer, both of which…
Beachport Harbourmasters Accommodation
Limestone Coast
These two side-by-side apartments inside Beachport's old stone harbourmaster's house (you guessed it) are right on the foreshore, overlooking the town's…
Fleurieu Peninsula
This grand old guesthouse exudes seaside charm. Immaculately maintained, great-value rooms open off long corridors. Most rooms face the beach, and some…
Limestone Coast
Looking much less bleak now that some trees have matured around it, this newish motel on the Mount Gambier side of town offers stylish rooms, well-tended…
BIG4 Renmark Riverfront Holiday Park
Murray River
Highlights of this spiffy riverfront park, 1km east of town, include a camp kitchen, canoe and paddleboat hire, splashy water park for kids and absolute…
Yorke Peninsula
At Red Wing, a working farm 20km south of Moonta off the road to Maitland, you can choose between a restored 1860s stone B&B (once a shearers' quarters)…
Barossa Valley
Inexplicably fronted by two enormous horse-head sculptures (anyone for giant chess?), these four funky, two-bedroom 1960s flats have been reborn as…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
Bankrolled by a couple of ex-Adelaide Crows AFL footballers, this ritzy seven-storey hotel lifts Port Lincoln above the fray. It's a classy, contemporary…
Savings Bank of South Australia
Flinders Ranges
Bank on a good night's sleep at Quorn's lovely old red-brick bank, a two-storey, two-bathroom, three-bedroom conversion of this 1906 charmer. It's a…
