Must-see hotels in Adelaide

Surprise! In the snoozy beach 'burb of Largs Bay, 5km north of Port Adelaide, is this gorgeous, 130-year-old, three-storey wedding-cake hotel with sky…

The gargoyles on Adelaide's 1934 Colonial Mutual Life insurance building guarded a whole lot of empty rooms for decades (has the money gone out of…

Attempting to conjure up the vibe of London’s Soho district, these plush suites in Adelaide's East End (some with spas, most with balconies) are…

The mural-clad Minima offers compact but stylish rooms, each decorated by a different SA artist, in a prize-winning Melbourne St location (wake up and…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The pick of the multilevel apartment buildings along the Glenelg foreshore, the eight-storey Oaks Plaza Pier offers flashy corporate-style rooms and large…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

This excellent, stone-clad boutique hotel – built in 1894 in high Venetian Gothic style – has at various times been an Aboriginal education facility, a…

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…

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…