Adelaide is the best-placed touring base in Australia. Four premier wine regions sit within two hours of the CBD, four championship golf courses sit within twenty minutes of each other, and the coast, the hills and the outback all start from the same front door. This is every Cooee Tours departure from the city.
Most Australian capitals make you choose. From Sydney the Hunter Valley is a two-hour commitment; from Melbourne the Yarra is ninety minutes and the Mornington Peninsula is in the other direction; from Brisbane the Granite Belt is the better part of three hours each way. Adelaide does not work like that. Four premier wine regions sit within two hours of the CBD in four different directions — the Adelaide Hills thirty minutes east, McLaren Vale forty-five minutes south, the Barossa Valley an hour northeast, Clare Valley two hours north. South Australia produces roughly half of Australia's total wine output, and Adelaide sits in the middle of it.
The same compactness applies to golf. Royal Adelaide, Kooyonga, Glenelg and The Grange are all in the same western pocket of the city, most of them closer to the airport than to the far side of town. And the coast is fifteen minutes from Victoria Square by tram. Whatever you have come to South Australia for, you can generally base yourself in one hotel for the entire trip and still see a different region every day.
That is what our Adelaide departures are built around. We drive, we handle the bookings and timings, and you spend the day at the places rather than in the car park. Below is everything we currently run from the city, the regions those tours reach, and where to go if you would rather build something of your own.
Two ranges, both departing from your Adelaide accommodation. Each has its own page with the full itineraries, inclusions and answers.
Full & two-day
Day tours into the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, the Adelaide Hills and Clare Valley, plus a two-day Barossa and Clare overnight escape and private departures. Four world-class wine regions, all within two hours of the CBD.
Day & multi-day
Sandbelt
Royal Adelaide, Kooyonga, Glenelg and The Grange sit within a few kilometres of each other on the Adelaide sandbelt. We drive, coordinate the tee times and handle the visitor-access paperwork the private clubs require.
Read up on a region before you choose a tour. Each of these is a full guide, not a summary.
1 hour northeast
Australia's most iconic wine region, settled by German Lutherans in the 1840s and home to some of the world's oldest continuously producing Shiraz vines.
45 minutes south
Coastal
The coastal region cooled by Gulf St Vincent breezes, and the centre of gravity for Australia's Mediterranean varietal movement — Fiano, Vermentino, Nero d'Avola.
30 minutes east
Closest
The nearest wine country to the CBD, at 400 to 600 metres elevation — cool-climate Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and premium traditional-method sparkling, plus heritage Hahndorf.
Multi-day
Further Afield
The two big South Australian journeys beyond a day trip — Kangaroo Island by ferry or air, and the Flinders Ranges and Ikara-Wilpena Pound to the north.
If you are not ready to pick a tour, start one level up. The things-to-do hub lays out everything worth doing in and around Adelaide so you can see where a tour fits; the travel guide covers the practical side — when to come, how to get around, where to base yourself; and the journal goes long on individual places.
The full picture — the city, the coast, the hills, the wine country, the wildlife and the festival calendar, grouped so you can plan around them.
Things To Do →Getting to Adelaide, getting around it, when to visit, where to stay, and how the regions fit together across a week.
Travel Guide →Long-form on Kangaroo Island, the Flinders Ranges, Hahndorf, Glenelg, the Central Market and the transport network.
All SA Articles →Tell us your dates, your party size and roughly what you want out of the trip. You will get a written answer with the honest version of what can and cannot be arranged for those dates.
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