DESTINATIONS DE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT NORTH ADELAIDE
WHY GO? Adelaide’s skyline is undergoing major changes with significant hotel openings adding hundreds of rooms in the CBD (central business district). Recent openings include the Adelaide Marriott Hotel in August 2024, but there are 14 new hotels on the way including a 240-room Westin, which will occupy a space in the 37-storey Keystone Tower, and is set to be completed in mid-2027. At ground level, plenty of the city’s Victorian
character remains and it’s easy for clients to escape the bustle in its relatively small centre. Ultra-green Adelaide is a National Park City and the only city in Australia surrounded entirely by parkland.
WHAT TO DO Walk a stretch of the 11-mile Adelaide Park Lands Trail, which forms two loops around the CBD and north Adelaide. Start at the Botanic Gardens, with pretty Victorian greenhouses housing native Australian plants and those from around the globe – including 200 rare or endangered species. Bookabee offers fascinating (commissionable) tours of the Botanical Gardens from an Aboriginal perspective, teaching clients about the Kaurna people’s uses for plants and trees in food, medicine and culture (from about £34). Other attractions in the CBD include Adelaide Zoo; the Art Gallery of South Australia, which contains works by Australian and international artists spanning 2,000 years; and the South Australian Museum, devoted to natural and cultural history. Fuel up at Adelaide Central Market,
which offers everything from doughnuts and patisserie to sushi and Algerian paella. For a restaurant experience, the CBD’s street- art-filled laneways are home to a multitude of scrumptious stop-offs, including NYC-style Italian restaurant Fugazzi Bar & Dining Room, where pasta plates are paired with South Australian wines.
WHY GO? Those who cross the River Torrens to the affluent suburb of north Adelaide will be rewarded with yet more parkland, historic architecture and views of the city skyline. The area is also home to the famous Adelaide Oval.
WHAT TO DO Book cricket fans on to a tour of the Adelaide Oval through Cultural Attractions of Australia (starting from £14, including access to the players’ changing rooms and a chat with a senior groundsman). The stadium even played host to a British and Irish Lions rugby match on July 12, which brought in the city’s highest-ever number of hotel bookings at 10,752 room nights, generating £1.9 million in revenue. Clients can also explore the Riverbank area surrounding
the Oval (pictured), then walk uphill further into north Adelaide, where plaques offer insight into historic buildings dating back to the South Australian Gold Rush era in the 1850s. Stop at Light’s Vision, a lookout on Montefiore Hill, where a statue of Adelaide’s founder Colonel William Light commemorates the establishment of the city in 1836.
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PICTURES: South Australian Tourism Commission
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