What is the tallest building in Adelaide?
The tallest building in Adelaide, Australia, is the Frome Central Tower One. It’s 138 metres tall and home to the Crowne Plaza Adelaide hotel, an infinity pool and the highest restaurant in Adelaide.
Since it was completed in 2019, the tallest building in Adelaide is the Frome Central Tower One. It’s is 138 metres tall – not huge by Australian standards, but Adelaide is generally a fairly low rise city.
The Frome Central Tower One is a mixed use building, but it is best known as the home of the Crowne Plaza Adelaide hotel.
Top Adelaide hotel recommendations
For the beach: Oaks Glenelg Plaza Pier Suites. For families: Big4 West Beach. Most fun: Hotel Indigo Adelaide Markets. For setting: Oval Hotel. For heritage: Adina Apartment Hotel Adelaide Treasury.
Where is Adelaide’s tallest building?
The Frome Central Tower One is in Adelaide’s increasingly rejuvenated East End. It’s on the corner of Frome Street and Tavistock Lane, and is 37 stories tall. It’s a short walk from the Mall’s Balls and Adelaide Arcade on Rundle Mall, or the heritage buildings of North Terrace.
The Crowne Plaza Adelaide is the best known occupant of the building, but this only goes up to the 20th floor. The main reception level, curiously, is on Level 10.
Crowne Plaza Adelaide hotel review
The Crowne Plaza Adelaide is a relatively new hotel. It opened in 2020 and is unashamedly a business hotel. The standard entry level rooms are solid and well kitted-out, with floor to ceiling window, open rail wardrobe and large wall-mounted TVs.
If you want the in-room compendium, you’ll need to scan a QR code. But there are big comfy mattresses.
The standard rooms are perhaps on the smallish side, covering around 28 square metres.
Pick your perfect Adelaide day trips
- Barossa Valley tours: 1. Wine-tasting with lunch 🍷. 2. Food and wine tour. 3. Small group wine tour with exclusive VIP tastings.
- Kangaroo Island in a day – including sea lions 🦭, koalas 🐨and national parks.
- Adelaide Hills tours: 1. Sights plus Murray River lunch cruise combo. 2. Small group cheese, chocolate & wine tour with Hahndorf German village.
- McLaren Vale tours: 1. Small group wine tour with lunch. 2. Hop-on hop-off wineries tour 🍷. 3. Food and wine indulgence tour, including the gloriously weird d’Arenberg Cube.
- Victor Harbor and southern highlights tour – including the Granite Island horse-drawn tram.
Crowne Plaza Adelaide pool
The Crowne Plaza Adelaide does have a rather cool infinity pool, too. It’s by no means huge, but it’s not a bad effort given that it’s in the city centre. There’s also a bar next to the pool, and the water is heated to 28 degrees Celsius.
There are some rather impressive views out towards the Adelaide Hills from the pool.
The highest restaurant in Adelaide
At time of writing, the Crowne Plaza hotel is also home to the highest restaurant in Adelaide. Koomo is big on long, groups tables, light wood and Asian fusion food. It’s on the 10th floor of the hotel, so it’s not an insurmountable target for any restaurateurs wishing to claim the highest restaurant in Adelaide title.
15 fabulous Adelaide experiences to supercharge your visit
- DOLPHINS 🐬: Swim with wild dolphins, kayak with the resident bottlenose pod or watch them on a dolphin cruise.
- FOOD AND WINE 🍷: Indulge on Adelaide food tour including Adelaide Central Market. Or try a wine discovery tour with tastings at the National Wine Centre. Or the ultimate Penfolds Magill Estate experience with full estate tour & Grange tasting.
- WILDLIFE 🐨: Spot koalas on a guided Morialta nature hike. Or walk from Waterfall Gully to Mount Lofty with entrance to Cleland Wildlife Park.
- CRUISES ⛵: Watch the sun set on a twilight coastal cruise, get to know the city on a Torrens River cruise or take a high tea cruise aboard the Popeye.
- SPORT 🏏: Dare to take on the Adelaide Oval Roofclimb or enter the fabled scoreboard on the behind-the-scenes stadium tour.
- ACTION 🚵♂️: Descend Mount Lofty on a downhill mountain bike tour or kayak along the Torrens River.
Crowne Plaza Adelaide rates and parking
Rooms at the Crowne Plaza Adelaide hotel cost from $246, excluding breakfast. These can be booked online.
Parking is available at the adjacent Auto Park on Frome Street. The Crowne Plaza Adelaide parking rate is $25 for 24 hours.
Things to do relatively nearby in Adelaide while staying in the city’s tallest building include Torrens River cruises, a cultural walking tour and a stadium tour at the Adelaide Oval.
Alternative higher-end accommodation option in Adelaide include the Indigo Hotel, EOS by Skycity, the Oval Hotel and the Adina Treasury.
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