Kangaroo Island
Bed bookings run by the ferry company, with lots of transport/accommodation package options.
Must-see hotels in South Australia
Kangaroo Island
Remote, bay-side camping with toilets but no water. BYO everything (including 4WD).
Limestone Coast
Local rental agent with houses from as low as $100 per night in the off season.
Gateway Visitor Information Centre
Kangaroo Island
Accommodation bookings run by KI's main visitor centre in Penneshaw.
Adelaide
This funky, 13-storey old-timer from the '70s has views to die for (well, maybe not die…). Originally built as a casino, the owners went bust and the…
Adelaide
Hunkered down behind the West Beach dunes, with a walking/cycling track extending to Glenelg (3.4km) in one direction and Henley Beach (3.5km) in the…
Flinders Ranges
Owned and managed by a local Adnyamathanha business group, this far-flung resort has lost considerable sheen of late (maintenance standards have slipped,…
Victor Harbor Holiday & Cabin Park
Fleurieu Peninsula
The friendliest caravan park in town, with ship-shape facilities, free barbecues and a rambling grassed area on which to pitch your tent. There are plenty…
Flinders Ranges
With a wrap-around verandah, remote Grindells Hut is a 1950s stone cottage sleeping eight people, with kitchen, laundry and bathroom. It's within…
Barossa Valley
A jazzed-up motel with a swimming pool, right in the middle of town behind Nuri's pub. The bistro (mains $19 to $36, serving noon to 2.30pm and 6pm to 8…
NRMA Victor Harbor Beachfront Holiday Park
Fleurieu Peninsula
Hey wait a minute, isn't the National Roads & Motorists' Association from NSW? Yes! A fact that doesn't preclude it from managing this tidy beachside park…
Barossa Valley
This boisterous ol' 1846 pub in the town centre is a real community hub. Pub rooms upstairs are good value and clean; out the back are nine ritzy mauve…
Barossa Valley
About 6km southeast of Angaston, stately Collingrove Homestead – all oaks, daffodils, bluestone and chimney pots – was built by George Angas’ son John in…
Barossa Valley
There are only five brick-and-stone rooms here (the smallest motel in Australia?), but they're tidy, modern and decent value. Out the front is the Valley…
Adelaide
'Discover style' is the creed at this five-floor city apartment hotel – and after a stroll along this stretch of Hindley St (strippers, booze-hounds,…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
No, it's not the tumble-down stone cottage with the 'Sail & Anchor' sign on it – it's the trim row of four self-contained two-bedroom cabins alongside,…
Outback South Australia
William Creek (population six!) is best enjoyed in the weather-beaten William Creek Hotel, an iconic 1887 pub festooned with photos, business cards, old…
Adelaide
The 1883 Metropolitan pub has 26 rooms upstairs, with stripy linen, high ceilings, little TVs and various bedding configurations. 'It used to be quite an…
Clare Valley
Just across the creek from town, these long ranks of low-roofed, historic stone cottages were built for William Paxton, the head of the SA Mining…
Flinders Ranges
Around 10km south of Blinman on the road to/from Wilpena, Alpana is a working sheep station (merino wool) offering powered sites, bush camping, self…
Yorke Peninsula
Innes National Park has eight bushy campsites. Our favourite spot is Pondalowie, or try Cable Bay for beach access, Surfers for surfing or Browns Beach…
Adelaide Hills
Sure, it's right behind a petrol station, but one of the best pubs in the Hills is right across the road, and Adelaide is just 12 minutes away down the…
Flinders Ranges
Bounded by five acres of bush camp sites, this tidy park has self-contained cabins salvaged from the 2000 Sydney Olympics (all with TVs and cooking…
Clare Valley
On an 80-hectare farm over the hills 2km west of Watervale, Battunga has four bird-named, heritage-style apartments in two stone cottages with Mintaro…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
A relative new star in the Tumby Bay accommodation galaxy, Tumby Villas comprises a smart phalanx of seven, two-bedroom self-contained units with little…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
The fancy upstairs rooms at this 1866 beauty have rip-snorting views and a balcony from which to snort them. The downstairs rooms don't have views,…
Adelaide
One of the better motels around town (there are surprisingly few that pass muster), with immaculate bathrooms, leather lounges and winsome French prints…
Limestone Coast
A 7km drive out of town on the road to Nelson, the Barn is a complex of fancy new motel-style accommodation options – from doubles to two-bedroom…
Clare Valley
It's not the best-positioned B&B in the valley, next to the council depot and across the street from some state government offices, but viewed in…
Yorke Peninsula
Occupying the high ground at Oyster Point on Stansbury's eastern frontier, the town caravan park is a compact, boom-gated enclave with powered sites and a…
Port Lincoln Foreshore Apartments
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
On the foreshore above an accounts' office (not much raucous after-dark party noise coming from below), these two self-contained apartments are a tad…
Limestone Coast
This lace-trimmed megalith (1872) is Penola's community epicentre. The rooms upstairs are nothing flash and share bathrooms, but they're decent bang for…
Eyre Peninsula & the West Coast
Resident cockatoos, galahs and parrots squawk around the she-oak shaded, gently sloping sites here, and the cabins offer reasonable bang for your buck …
Flinders Ranges
Just 6km north of Wilpena on the Blinman road, Upalinna is yet another Flinders sheep station offering atmospheric bush camping (we get the feeling the…
Fleurieu Peninsula
What are these? Modest little Victorian bathing pavilions? Something like that – except you can sleep in them, not just change into your swimming costume…
Murray River
This face-lifted charcoal-and-grey monolith near the river has older-style hotel rooms above the main pub and a wing of spacious en-suite motel rooms. The…
Outback South Australia
The owners started excavating this place in 1960: they haven't found much opal, but they sure have an interesting backpackers! On multiple levels…
Limestone Coast
In what was Beachport's first pub (1873), Bompas is a small hotel with a busy cafe/bar downstairs. Rooms upstairs are generously sized and strewn with…
Flinders Ranges
Behind the Melrose blacksmith's shop (1864), marvellously decaying on the main street, Bluey comprises a renovated two-person stone cottage, a four-person…
Yorke Peninsula
Next door to the go-ahead Taste the Yorke cafe, Henry on Yorke is a two-bedroom stone miner's cottage, built hard-up against the footpath in late-1800s…
