Adelaide Oval Hotel: How to stay at Australia’s favourite cricket ground
The Adelaide Oval Hotel is built into the eastern stand at the Adelaide Oval cricket ground. It’s surrounded by parkland and a short walk from the city centre. And if you want accommodation near the Adelaide Oval, you can’t get any closer.
The revamped Adelaide Oval has quickly become an icon of the South Australian capital. Taking an Adelaide Oval walking tour or trying out the Roofclimb is a great way of seeing Adelaide’s cricket stadium even when there’s not a game on. But it’s possible to stay longer than a couple of hours – the Oval now has its own hotel.
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Adelaide Oval Hotel location & rooms
The Adelaide Oval Hotel merges into the eastern façade of the cricket ground. It stretches around the stand, and follows the curving path. It’s important to note that the rooms don’t look out on the pitch – they face in the opposite direction towards the surrounding parklands.
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.
The rooms at the Adelaide Oval Hotel have a fairly neutral palette. The hotel bills itself as boutique, but it is not pulling any wacky design stunts. There are also studios and suites available. The suites have long, curving windows and magnificent views of Adelaide.
Malt Shovel Taphouse & Koffee Ink Café
The Adelaide Oval Hotel has four food and drink options to choose from. The Malt Shovel Taphouse isn’t quite on site, but is a short walk over the Torrens footbridge. This is primarily a place to drink beer and eat simple pub food. For a breakfast bite or coffee, the Koffee Ink Café is arguably better.
Adelaide Oval Hotel: Five Regions Restaurant
The two most impressive dining options, however, are the Bespoke Wine Bar and Kitchen plus the Five Regions Restaurant. The Five Regions Restaurant is perhaps the most interesting. It presents food and wine from five South Australian wine regions – the McLaren Vale, Barossa Valley, Adelaide Hills, Clare Valley and Coonawarra. Multi-course degustation menus cost $140, with an extra $70 for wine pairings.
Rooms at the Adelaide Oval Hotel cost from around $219 a night. Bookings can be made online.
Things to do in Adelaide away from the stadium include Adelaide mountain bike tours, chocolate-tasting at Haigh’s Chocolates, drinking cocktails on Peel Street and testing your nerve at Treeclimb Adelaide.
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.
More distinctive Australian hotels
Stay at the new-look Bridgeport Hotel in Murray Bridge.
Learn about coconuts on the Cairns to Port Douglas drive at the Thala Beach Nature Reserve.
Stay in Hobart’s historic centre at the Vibe Hotel Hobart.
Stay by the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst at Rydges Bathurst.
Enjoy the lagoon pool at Crystalbrook Riley in Cairns.