The Best Hotels in Crafers

Turrets, towers, and rough stone walls in the Adelaide Hills: Thorngrove Manor is a five-suite boutique hotel that commits fully to the European castle fantasy rather than the Australian lodge. Antique four-posters, tapestries, carved ceilings, and the odd German piano fill rooms that are all different from one another. Meals come to your suite or, by arrangement, to a candlelit dining room kept intentionally private. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys.

Perched above Piccadilly Valley in the Adelaide Hills, this adults-only boutique hotel estate has a cellar stocking over 1,300 labels, which tells you something about the priorities here. There are two restaurants, a day spa, a valley-view pool, and a billiards room, and the whole operation carries the quiet confidence of somewhere that has never felt the need to try very hard.

Moon windows above the bed frame the night sky, which is either the most romantic detail or the most unsettling depending on your mood. This boutique hotel in the Adelaide Hills runs fourteen suites, each with a sunken lounge and freestanding bath, plus a spa housed in a former National Trust building using locally farmed Jurlique products. Wallabies on the trails, indigenous Dreamtime storytelling, and spring-fed hot pools round out a stay that leans hard into the landscape.