Adelaide & South Australia Hotels & Resorts

This small group tour travels to South Australia’s premium wine region. Your first winery is the beautiful and historic Château Yaldara, home to not only some of the finest Shirazes in the region but to some of the best-preserved period architecture in the state. Continue through the picturesque surroundings of the Barossa Valley, and cross the iconic Jacobs Creek. Enjoy time to explore the shops and attractions of the historic township of Tanunda. Indulge with some of the Barossa’s most internationally acclaimed wines at the beautiful Peter Lehmann Winery with a platter of the best meats, cheeses, and freshly baked bread.

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The next stop is Rosenvale Wines. This small but top quality cellar door welcomes guests to try their high quality selection of wines, as they guide you through a passionate and personal tasting experience, you will marvel at the quality of their produce. It's then time to depart for the final winery for the day, as you visit the iconic Wolf Blass with its state-of-the-art Visitor Centre.

• Daily Departures
• Operates year round
• Pick up: 08.30am
• Duration: 8hrs

Enjoy a full day tour, driving through Adelaide’s cultural precinct and historic North Adelaide, stopping to see St Peters Cathedral or the Adelaide Oval and visit the National Wine Centre of Australia where you will have free time to explore the Wine Discovery Journey Museum. After lunch (not included), drive to Mount Lofty Summit and wind your way through the Adelaide Hills villages before arriving at Hahndorf. Explore the main street before afternoon tea or a traditional German beer tasting at the popular Hahndorf Inn.

• Duration: full day
• Departs Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
• Operates year-round
• Group experience

You start with a morning pick-up from your hotel in Adelaide and head south by coach through the Fleurieu Peninsula. It’s an easy, scenic drive past vineyards, rolling farmland and flashes of coastline, and before long, you reach Cape Jervis. From here, you board the SeaLink ferry for the 45-minute crossing to Kangaroo Island, a stretch of water that marks the shift from everyday Australia to something a bit wilder.

One of the highlights comes early at Seal Bay Conservation Park. With a ranger leading the way, you join a guided walk along the beach among a colony of Australian sea lions. They nap, bicker, shuffle and occasionally burst into unexpected speed, entirely uninterested in posing for photos but very good at stealing the show.

After lunch, the tour heads west across the island to Flinders Chase National Park. Kangaroos, wallabies, echidnas and koalas all live here, and sightings are common. At Remarkable Rocks, giant granite boulders perch above the ocean like they’ve been carefully arranged for effect. A short walk at Admirals Arch takes you down to a natural rock bridge where long-nosed fur seals lounge on the rocks below, occasionally flopping into the water as if gravity has briefly slipped their mind. The final stop is Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park, where you can feed kangaroos and get close to the island’s koalas while listening to a keeper explain how they’re cared for. 

Duration: 16 hours
Daily departures
Operates year round 
Group experience

Spend a day exploring the highlights and nature of Kangaroo Island. The day begins in a private wildlife refuge in Kangaroo Island’s northwest corner, where you’ll get an introduction to the island’s fire ecology and see how the land is recovering after devastating fires. Lunch is served in the bush or on a clifftop with South Australian wine, beer, and soft drinks. After lunch, you’ll travel into Flinders Chase National Park and explore the aptly named Remarkable Rocks, a striking natural sculpture eroded by 500 million years of wind, sea, and rain. There’s more evidence of the power of the Southern Ocean at Admirals Arch, a coastal cave accessed by a boardwalk, where a large colony of fur seals swim and play in the crashing waves.

• Duration: 7½ hours
• Start time: 7am
• Departs daily
• Operates year-round
• Group experience