Highlights
- Superbly designed, contemporary apartment-style terrace house with all the trimmings for the thinking traveller
- Chilled wine and chilled-out dinners on the outdoor deck
- Wired for sound: TV while you cook and enviable BOSE sonics
- Are we really in the city? It’s so quiet in this bedroom
- Adelaide’s West End: walking distance to hip bars, pubs, markets and restaurants
Smith tip
The bus stop out the front of NB City is on the Adelaide Connector (www.cityofadelaide.com.au) green route – a free bus service looping around the city via Sturt Street, Hutt Street, Victoria Square and North Adelaide. Hop on and go places.
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NB City
- Style
- Hip little hideaway
- Setting
- 1880s downtown terrace
Beyond the front courtyard of NB City sits an immaculately renovated stone terrace, with a living room, bedroom, home office, bathroom, kitchen and outdoor entertaining area – perfect for a romantic Adelaide break or naughty weekend. The townhouse is compact, but creative design makes the most of the available space. Contemporary colours (aubergine, teak, mushroom and chalk-white), savvy technology (flatscreen TVs, iPod dock, Foxtel and BOSE stereo) and urban taste (MOMA prints, Asian knickknacks) elevate the clever lay out to a sophisticated plane. This is a haven to hide away in, catch your breath, get your bearings and rejuvenate – a discreet, shapely bolthole where you can close the door on stress and go barefoot on the rugs.
Need to know
RatesAU$220 for first night; AU$195 per subsequent night.
SleepsTwo.
Ideal forA single guest or a couple.
Minimum hireOne night.
Booking processA deposit may be required to confirm your reservation, either by credit card when booking or within seven days.
Property styleA total renovation of this 1880s terrace house has seen it transformed from a poky workers’ cottage into a slick, light-filled, modern apartment-style house with a tasteful palette of white, mushroom and aubergine, timber and stainless steel.
GroundsPetite – a little front courtyard and rear outdoor entertainment area – but like the interior spaces they’re designed to maximise light and functionality.
AlsoNon-smoking throughout; pets not allowed.
In the know
Eating and drinkingNB City invites you to self-cater, with a contemporary kitchen which makes cooking a pleasure. The pantry is packed with basic supplies, including condiments, cereals, sugar, pasta, tinned beans, soup, coffee and tea. It’s so close to Adelaide’s Central Market (www.adelaidecentralmarket.com.au), though, there’s no excuse for not stocking up on super-fresh South Australian produce: the region’s market gardens are closer here than they are in other cities. The kitchen area has high stools seating four and opens on to the rear courtyard with an outdoor (undercover) table. A wine rack runs down the side of the fridge (itself filled with milk, butter, mineral water, muffins and soft drinks). Wine, champagne and sparking shiraz are on hand for spontaneous toasts or romantic interludes.
HousekeepingServicing can be arranged on request.
EntertainmentThere are three flatscreen, wall-mounted TVs in the cottage – in the kitchen, bedroom and living room – plus a BOSE sound system, Foxtel and iPod dock in the lounge. WiFi is available.
ProvidedVacuum cleaner, ironing board, shopping trolley, fresh linen, washing machine and dryer; grooming package in the bathroom; cookbooks, travel and fiction tomes in the lounge.
Packing tipsYour hosts have gone to great lengths to ensure comfort and convenience here, so all you really need to bring is yourself. Remember to pack a sunhat and some decent sunglasses for those scorching Adelaide summers.
Eco policyRubbish is recycled.
For a detailed description of all the rooms and grounds, click here
Also worth knowing
- Children
- Welcome, although they'll have to bed down in the living room and space for playing outdoors is fairly limited. More…
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