Adelaide Hills
A romantic, two-storey cottage-for-two in a grove of vegetation above babbling Aldgate Creek (in winter, often very babbling), just across the road from…
Must-see hotels in South Australia
Adelaide Hills
Set back from the street, Thiele House is a renovated former-restaurant – brilliant value for groups. Sleeping six comfortably (and up to eight in total),…
Barossa Valley
Groovy, baby! Well, there's a bit of a disconnect here between the Austin Powers interior design (most definitely groovy) and the house itself, which is a…
Murray River
Encircled by lovingly tended gardens around 1.5km west of town, this self-contained, open-plan cottage is built from recycled stone and timber. It's a…
Kangaroo Island
Looking something akin to a marooned gypsy caravan, Serenity Cottage is a compact, grey-and-red weatherboard shack in the dunes behind Vivonne Bay, with…
Adelaide
The YHA isn’t known for its gregariousness – you’ll get plenty of sleep in the spacious and comfortable rooms here. This is a seriously schmick hostel…
Fleurieu Peninsula
High on the hill behind Willunga (great views!), Farm is a cafe-providore and working organic farm, with two ritzy accommodation suites out the back, one…
Adelaide
It doesn’t look flash externally, but this converted pub (the old Orient Hotel) strikes the right balance between party and placid. There are spacious…
Flinders Ranges
Working hard to crack into the booming Flinders station-stay market, Flinders Bush Retreats offers private bush camping, a restored early-1900s stone…
Discovery Lagoon Caravan & Camping Grounds
Kangaroo Island
Not far along the road into Emu Bay after you turn off the North Coast Rd (all up, about 12km from Kingscote), this simple lakeside campground has lots of…
Clare Valley
At the Auburn end of Mintaro's main street is this converted stone workshop, built by carpenter William Hunt in 1856. It's now a plush B&B comprising two…
Murray River
After a wholesale makeover, Waikerie's riverside caravan park is open again (its temporary location across the road has become a retirement village). It's…
Limestone Coast
If you can forget that this place was a prison until 1995 (either that or embrace the fact), these refurbished old buildings make for an atmospheric and…
Fleurieu Peninsula
This two-storey motel on the clifftops above the Onkaparinga River mouth wins points for enthusiasm: the new owners are doing a great job of reviving what…
Adelaide
This excellent, stone-clad boutique hotel – built in 1894 in high Venetian Gothic style – has at various times been an Aboriginal education facility, a…
Adelaide
It's absurdly difficult to find a decent motel in Adelaide (most are mired in the 2000s), but this one makes a reasonable fist of the new century, helped…
Adelaide Hills
How marvellous: the seedy old Crafers Inn has been sandblasted, painted, gutted and refitted and has morphed from a sticky-carpet old-man's boozer into a…
Adelaide
This opulent hotel in a grand 1920s building in the middle of Rundle Mall has mod-minimalist rooms with king-sized beds, marble bathrooms, and American…
Kangaroo Island
Down a steep casuarina-lined driveway just east of downtown Penneshaw (follow the shoreline road around), Ashendens is a contemporary Aussie beach house…
Adelaide
These 1938 apartments ain’t flash, but if you have a pathological hatred of slick, 21st-century open-plan ‘lifestyles’, then Greenways is for you! And…
Yorke Peninsula
This woody little family beach cabin occupies the back garden of the owners' house, but it has its own entrance via a rear laneway and is very private…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
About 35km offshore from Elliston, Flinders Island is home to a sheep station and this simple, self-contained, nine-bed getaway. Fishing, hiking, swimming…
Discover Holiday Parks Barossa Valley
Barossa Valley
This spacious park just south of town is dotted with mature trees offering a little shade to ease your hangover. Facilities include a playground, BBQs, a…
Adelaide
This unusual pub (something akin to a grey concrete spaceship) is really hitting the mark with its compact, stylish pub rooms – great value for a really…
Murray River
With six different rooms (five doubles, one 10-bed villa), decked-out in concrete, corrugated iron and rustic timbers, Pike River looks more like a…
Kangaroo Island Bayview Villas
Kangaroo Island
Great value for families or wandering bands of buddies, this row of four tidy three-bedroom villas sits on the hillside above town. Great views of the bay…
Clare Valley
Around 7km north of Auburn in little Leasingham, Bed in a Shed puts a different spin on the Clare Valley B&B: a rustic (but very well insulated)…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
Catering largely to conventioneers, this group of 75 luxury units (from studios to two-bedroom) with jaunty designs is right by the water. All rooms have…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
If you really want to get away from the rat race/the madding crowds/it all, this contemporary, two-level, three-bedroom holiday house (sleeps eight) sits…
Flinders Ranges
En route to Arkaroola from Blinman, Angorichina Station offers shearers-quarters beds, camping and a lovely self-contained homestead cottage. It's a…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
Within beachy/scrubby Lincoln National Park 39km south of Port Lincoln, this two-bedroom heritage cottage (1899) at Spalding Cove sleeps six and has photo…
Murray River
A National Trust–listed former police stables, Riverfront Cottage is now a two-storey, three-bedroom holiday house (sleeps eight) with a full kitchen, a…
Flinders Ranges
Built in 1883, Meaney's is an elegant three-bedroom stone house near the centre of town, with burgundy-painted trimming and a little grapevine doing its…
Adelaide
In a grand 1913 house overlooking the parklands, this cheery, eclectic lodge has high ceilings, new TVs and a certain faded grandeur. Close to the chichi…
Murray River
The sexy art-deco curves of Renmark's humongous pub are looking good. Choose from older-style hotel rooms and upmarket motel rooms. On a sultry evening it…
Clare Valley
There's plenty of rusty old iron around this stylish B&B (it used to be a metalworker's art gallery), but inside it's all slick and contemporary. Two en…
Kangaroo Island
Just a couple of blocks from Kingscote's main strip, this small, bright-yellow guesthouse is clean and affordable, and has a cosy lounge, lush lawns, and…
Limestone Coast
At the quiet end of town (and a five-minute walk from the action), this tidy, well-run motel has namesake harbour views from the best half-dozen rooms at…
Murray River
This 1974 paddle boat is done with chugging up and down the river and housing sweaty backpackers: these days it's a quirky floating hotel on the Renmark…
Lookout Cave Underground Motel
Outback South Australia
Winning points for snappy new signage in an otherwise sun-bleached town, the paradoxically named Lookout Cave is Coober Pedy's biggest underground motel …
