Adelaide Airport to Adelaide Hills Transfers

Adelaide Hills to Adelaide Airport — the return trip

Roughly half of what we do on this route runs the other way: collecting you from Adelaide Hills and getting you to Adelaide Airport in time for your flight. Departures are the easier half to plan and the easier half to get wrong, so we work backwards from your flight rather than forwards from a pickup time.

As a rule we aim to have you at the terminal 90 minutes before a domestic departure and three hours before an international one. Adding the 30–35 minutes drive from Adelaide Hills gives you the pickup time, with a buffer for traffic on the way in. That means a 6:00am domestic departure usually means a pickup from Adelaide Hills at around 4:00am. We will propose a pickup time when you book and confirm it with you the day before — and we would always rather be early than watch you sprint for a gate.

Early-morning departures are routine for us. Adelaide Airport's first flights leave before dawn and we run 24 hours a day, with no night loading on a quoted fixed fare. If you are booking both directions, do it in one go — we hold the return details and track your inbound flight when you come home.

What we drop off at in Adelaide Hills

Mount Lofty Summit, Mount Lofty Botanic Garden, Cleland Wildlife Park, Stirling village, Bridgewater Mill, Deviation Road, Sidewood Estate and the Mount Lofty House estate.

If your address isn't on that list, it doesn't matter — we go door to door anywhere in and around Adelaide Hills. Give us the street address when you book and the chauffeur will take you there directly.

Which vehicle suits this transfer?

For the Adelaide Airport to Adelaide Hills run we most often recommend the Audi Q7 SUV, Mercedes-Benz V-Class, Kia Carnival. The right choice comes down to two things: how many passengers, and how much luggage. Tell us both when you enquire and we'll match the vehicle — there is no benefit to us in putting you in something too small.

Booking your Adelaide Hills transfer

Send us your flight number, the Adelaide Hills address, your passenger count and your luggage count. We'll confirm the vehicle and a fixed fare in writing, usually within the hour. From that point the journey is our problem — including if your flight is three hours late.

Return transfers from Adelaide Hills back to Adelaide Airport are booked the same way, and it's worth doing both at once. We'll hold the return details and confirm the pickup time the day before.