Hotel Alba
226 South Tce Parking, South Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia
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•Why you'll love Hotel Alba
- Flexible event spaces—from intimate dining to vibrant restaurant celebrations and poolside parties.
- Unique CBD poolside venue where guests can relax by the water with cocktails and Med-inspired food.
- Dedicated event experts to handle every detail so your celebration runs seamlessly.
Hotel Alba is home to events made extraordinary. No matter whether you’re planning an intimate gathering or a big birthday, our event spaces are tailor-made to turn your vision into a treasured reality. For intimate gatherings, where no small detail should be spared, our private dining room little ela makes for the perfect host. For something larger, our vibrant ela restaurant knows how to soiree the night away, offering a relaxed vibe for casual drinks, networking events, or unforgettable hens and engagement parties. Our crown jewel? The poolside space— a rare gem in Adelaide’s CBD. Designed for the ‘go big or go home’ event type, your guests can l laze at the water’s edge sipping cocktails, while enjoying the best of the Med-inspired menu. To sweeten the deal, a dedicated team of event experts come with every Hotel Alba venue package to make sure your celebration goes off without so much as a hitch.
Hotel Alba Function Rooms
Little ela Private Dining
For smaller soirees, it's all about Little ela. Featuring a private dining room with a long communal table that seats up to 28, strap in for a cozy, intimate and exclusive dining experience brimming with personalised menus, next-level share plates, welcome drinks and a dedicated team on call to meet any and every need. Suitable for corporate daytime meetings and training sessions where you really want to impress.
ela Main Dining
ela Bar
Poolside East
Poolside West
Lazing in prime position, right by the water, there’s no better setting for your perfect summer or spring soirée than our outdoor pace poolside. Seated or standing, cocktail or casual, open-air or undercover — all you need do is relax into our breezy, open design and we’ll take care of meeting your perfect brief. This open space is capable of hosting cocktail parties up to 150 guests, and seated events up to 90 guests. With the pool as the hero feature of the space, this venue is well suited to many events from hens soirees to corporate networking events, dinner parties, weddings and more.
Full Venue Hire
Whether it’s bringing a big birthday soirée to life, putting a tasteful spin on your average corporate party or anything in between — our combined bar and poolside paradise offer openair indulgence, creative shared menus, cocktails and all the regional SA wine you could possibly hope for to create an evening you and your guests will remember for the ages. ela provides the perfect space for sophisticated birthdays, celebratory soirees, and classy cocktailing. The indoor and outdoor spaces, along with indulgent Mediterranean-inspired bites and upbeat tunes, even the most indulgent occasion can be catered for. The full venue is available for exclusive hire for up to 250 guests on request.
*Please note we do not reserve the private dining room, little ela.
Reviews for Hotel Alba
tasha m
Hotel was great. Easy to find. Parking on site. Our last minute booking was made easy by reception staff. We had a balcony overlooking the swimming pool. I loved the location, very secluded in the city which is hard to find. Great for families as well.
Gary Brinkman
Rooms were nice, mine had a strange smell but other than that the bed was comfortable and the pillows were fine. Mini bar in fridge had a good variety. I don't know why all the hotels are now putting pod coffee machines into rooms without a milk machine, bit annoying. Breakfast was simple but well done, unfortunately the coffee was quite bad, tasted very burnt and was either hot hot or just at temp closer to warm, they use Vittoria I believe , never been a fan. Dinner wa hot and miss, some meals were well done but others quite lacking. Beef ragout with pasta was very flat, missing the rich tomato flavour you'd expect in a ragout. Steaks were only ok, striploin was tougher than I'd expect for the price, eye fillet was rather small. Dietaries requests were not followed through in the kitchen unfortunately. Veg cannelloni was good and was enjoyed. Found it quite disappointing to see we were charged for still cold water at the table (it was tap water not bottled) without any mention of there being a charge. Tap water, do you really need to charge for that? Check in and out was ok, not sure if it is a difficult system to use (most likely, they all are) of if it was lack of knowledge but it took some time to sort out checking out multiple rooms. Overall it's a good place to stay, probably consider eating out for dinner and grab a coffee elsewhere.
Mark Spencer
We booked two rooms at Hotel Alba over a very busy weekend with Fringe and Motor Festivals. We specifically booked this hotel so we could enjoy the pool and a couple of the drinks at the end of each (hot) day. We were sent an email the night before we checked in advising the pool and bar would be closed on Sat from 2pm for a private function. If we were told this before we booked we would not have stayed , and it was too late to try and find suitable rooms elsewhere. The private function happened to be a Rave Party that had been advertised since late 2025, well before we booked the hotel . The music was ear piercing and made our rooms unusable while it was on. I won’t go into detail of what we saw happening in the pool area during the rave party - but let’s just say we didn’t want to use the pool the next day and probably would steer clear of the pool for a while 🙈we will be booking elsewhere when we attend next year
Amanda Pygram
A little out of the CBD but a Tram Stop across the beautiful adjacent park that is free around the CBD. The hotel was immaculate and the Hotel Alba Team were efficient and very pleasant and friendly! They even have a pair of ducks that visit at night for a swim 🫶 Restaurant was a little pricey but delicious 😋 Could do with some balcony furniture but Highly Recommend 👌
Bryan Cooley
Update 2: it's 44C out and while I was gone they stole my keycard again so the aircon was turned off and my room is a sauna. This happens every other day. Stop turning off my power and stealing my key card. On the plus side at least they changed my sheets today (3rd time in 25 days after begging) Update: it has now been 9 days since they changed the sheets despite asking multiple times. Downgrading to 1 star. I have 15 days left here probably drowning in my own sweaty sheets from the terrible cleaning service Cleaning standards seem to drop the longer I stay. The hotel says sheets are changed every 3 days, but in practice it’s closer to once a week. Housekeeping is hit-and-miss: some days the bath mat isn’t replaced and the towels are just left on the bed instead of being hung up. Coffee pods are inconsistent too — I never know if they’ll be refilled (today is another no). The room also doesn’t seem to be vacuumed regularly; it looks like it’s been days now. One odd issue: glassware sometimes disappears. Instead of being cleaned or replaced, glasses are occasionally taken away and not returned — my wine glass has vanished — which makes it feel like you’re discouraged from eating or drinking in the room. Ironic considering the massive mini bar. Finally, the pool is hard to enjoy because towels are often unavailable. It seems the pool is shared with outside guests (and the motel next door), which likely contributes to the shortage.
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