Getting Around

Bicycle Hire

Cycling is an easy and pleasant way to explore Adelaide. Adelaide City Bikes offers free bicycle hire through: Bicycle SA, 111 Franklin Street (tel: (08) 8168 9999); Adelaide Traveller's Inn, 220 Hutt Street (tel: (08) 8224 0753) and Rundle Street Market, between Frome Road & Hutt Street.

Public Transport

Adelaide Metro (tel: 1300 311 108; www.adelaidemetro.com.au) coordinates the city's public buses, trains and trams. The website provides routes, timetable and fare information. Their InfoCentre is located on the corner of King William and Currie Streets (tel: 1300 311 108).

You can buy single-trip tickets and day-trip tickets from the InfoCentre, staffed railway stations, bus depots, post offices displaying Metroticket signage, on board buses and trams, and from ticket vending machines on trains. Train ticket vending machines only accept coins. Ten-trip multitrip tickets are available at the above places, apart from onboard buses, trains and trams. You must validate your ticket in the machine on board.

You can travel for free on several services: the Terrace to Terrace tram service which runs from the South Terrace stop through to the City West stop; the Jetty Road, Glenelg service; and the City Loop-99C bus, which takes you around the city, stopping off at several of the attractions. Routes are well signposted.

Taxis

The main taxi companies are the Adelaide Independent Taxi Service (tel: 1300 360 940 or 132 211), Suburban Taxis (tel: 131 008) and the Yellow Cab Co (tel: 131 924). Adelaide also has several staffed taxi ranks operating between 2300 and 0300 on Friday and Saturday nights.

Car Hire

Car hire companies include Avis (tel: (08) 8154 2444; www.avis.com), Budget (tel: (08) 8418 7300; www.budget.com.au), Europcar (tel: (08) 8114 6350; www.europcar.com.au), Hertz (tel: (08) 8231 2856; www.hertz.com.au) and Thrifty (tel: (08) 8410 8977; www.thrifty.com.au).