Hotels near North Adelaide, Australia

A little about North Adelaide...

North Adelaide is a predominantly residential precinct of the City of Adelaide in South Australia, situated north of the River Torrens and within the Adelaide Park Lands.

Many of the North Adelaide pubs and hotels are heritage listed. There are fourteen in total: eight in Upper North Adelaide, four in Lower North Adelaide, and two in the Cathedral grid. Six of the Upper North Adelaide pubs are on O'Connell Street: the Caledonian, the Royal Oak, The Banque, the Cambridge, the Oxford and The Archer. The Daniel O'Connell (formerly the North Adelaide Hotel) is on Tynte Street, and the Wellington Hotel (which also serves as the local TAB) is located at the eastern side of Wellington Square. The Dover Castle is heritage listed but is no longer a hotel, having been turned into apartments.

Education: Many residential colleges affiliated with the University of Adelaide are in North Adelaide, including Aquinas College, Lincoln College, St. Ann's College, St. Mark's College, Kathleen Lumley College (Postgraduate) and the Lutheran seminary. Queen's College North Adelaide was the longest lasting proprietary boys' college in Australia, closing in 1946. (See 'Queen's College North Adelaide' by Brian O'Connor Mortlock Library).

Transport:
North Adelaide is well served by road, although in peak hour some roads, particularly O'Connell Street and Melbourne Street are quite congested.

North Adelaide railway station is located on the Gawler Line of the Adelaide rail network. The railway station is however on the western edge of North Adelaide with infrequent services and is little used.

There are several Adelaide Metro bus routes that that service the area on their way through to other suburbs. Buses run along several routes:

King William Road, Ward Street, Hill Street, Mills Terrace then a bus only link to Barton Road
King William Road, Pennington Terrace, Jeffcott Street and Jeffcott Road
King William Road, O'Connell Street and Prospect Road
King William Road, O'Connell Street and Main North Road
King William Road, Sir Edwin Smith Avenue and Melbourne Street
Frome Road and Melbourne Street
Montifiore Road and Jeffcott Street (since October 2006)
There is provision for bicycles along LeFevre Terrace/Frome Road and Montefiore Road and many of the streets have little traffic and are bicycle friendly.