8 Best Hotels in Adelaide, South Australia

Contemporary Italian furnishings in white, slate-gray, and ochre are juxtaposed with 19th-century Adelaide architecture in this stylish Victoria Square hotel. Cast-iron columns, archways, and barrel-vaulted ceilings—original features of the former Treasury building—add texture to clean lines in the studio rooms and serviced apartments. The lobby lounge incorporates an 1839 sandstone wall, one of the oldest remaining colonial structures in South Australia. Great food is as close as the adjoining Treasury Restaurant.

With bold contemporary architecture and hundreds of original local artworks adorning both rooms and public spaces this sleek hotel could double as a gallery, and the roomy suites are appropriately stylish. The rooftop bar offers some of the best views in Adelaide and a spacious leisure deck next to the day spa includes a swimming pool, spa, sauna, and steam room.

In the city's leafy, oldest section atop a hill, antiques dealers Rodney and Regina Twiss have converted Heritage-listed mews houses, a meeting chapel, an arts-and-crafts manor house, and a fire station (complete with 1942 fire engine) into apartments and suites, and filled them with Australian antiques and contemporary furnishings. Each one- to four-bedroom unit has a bath or hot tub, sitting room, and kitchen, most complete with a milkshake maker; all are charming. The Bishop's Garden apartment is the most luxurious and secluded spot in Adelaide, with a sophisticated kitchen and lounge opening into a private garden with a rock-adorned fish pool. American, lactose-free, kosher—any breakfast can be arranged.

This ultrasleek upscale hotel sports black-tile-and-timber columns that frame the Hollywood-glamorous marble lobby, and beveled-glass elevators with marble floors, designed to resemble the interior of a diamond, whisk you to snazzy, contemporary quarters of glass, marble, and wood. A picture window separates bathroom and bedroom. The first-floor restaurant can deliver treats day and night; you can work them off in the cerulean-blue tile pool, which has underwater portholes for watching the hotel entrance.

Showy chandeliers illuminate a movie-set-like celebration of art nouveau in the lobby of this luxury hotel, while in the unusual loft suites, wrought-iron stairs climb to a king-size bed on the mezzanine floor. Check your reflection in a huge gilt mirror before relaxing in a club lounge or around the grand piano in the bar, where the tables have statue bases and marble tops. The colonnaded indoor hotel pool feels like a Roman bathhouse.

Modern and stylish, each room features modern bathrooms, king-size beds, and free Wi-Fi. The staff members are friendly and will make up a picnic for you to enjoy in the rooftop garden while you take in the view, or you can bring drinks up from the ground floor restaurant.

This hotel is ideally positioned to explore the River Torrens, visit the Adelaide Casino and Adelaide Convention Centre, or take in the many restaurants and nightlife spots along or surrounding Hindley Street. It's also a short walk from the cultural boulevard toward the eastern end of North Terrace. Offering contemporary apartments with modern amenities, each apartment has full kitchen facilities, and almost all have balconies, and laundry facilities, while the hotel itself comes with all the facilities expected of a large chain.

Sea air wafts through open balcony doors in this all-apartment complex on Adelaide's most popular beach. Floor-to-ceiling windows frame either parkland views or white sand and turquoise sea. The spacious suites have fully equipped kitchens and many high-tech gadgets. After a night spent exploring Glenelg's waterfront restaurants and bars you can fall asleep in your huge, comfortable bed listening to waves washing ashore.