Regal Park Motor Inn

This is a motel style accommodation, well priced, and quite basic. Check-in was easy, the staff helpful, and it's easy to find. The allocated room smelt so strongly of cigarettes (despite the non-smoking sign), which wasn't a good start, and I was moved straight away. The location is lovely, and close to quite a few restaurants, except for being the flight path and I think being an older building, noise insulation isn't great. There is free parking behind the motel which is very useful although street parking wasn't always full. If you're looking for something simple, this would do.

Booked a stay here in one of the recently renovated rooms - was quite happy with the stay! Friendly service at check in was nice, and was explained to me that the hotel doesn't use keys or card but six digit codes (helpful if you're good at losing cards like me!) which they texted and wrote on a card for me. Plenty of parking at the rear of the property which is free! The room was really nicely renovated, with a comfortable bed, good sized TV, wardrobe, new fridge (so many hotels skimp on replacing fridges when they renovate and leave ancient, noisy ones in that don't cool properly!), split system air conditioner with individual control (greatly welcome as the weekend I stayed was horribly humid), and a great bathroom. The bed was comfortable with nice pillows which was great to sleep in each night. There were also power points by each side of the bed and pendant lamps for bedside lamps which is a good idea as it means more space for all my junk. The bathroom was excellent: a fan light heater combo was installed to keep the bathroom comfortable and get the steam out and the shower was really nice with a shower head on a hose with hand soap-body wash combo, shampoo and conditioner provided in the shower. The sink had a mirror above it with lighting and heating inbuilt as well. Foolishly, I left all my toiletries in the hotel and didn't realise until I was an hour out of Adelaide - happily they were able to get them back to me via post which was greatly appreciated! All in all, I did enjoy my stay here but as they're in the middle of renovations I do have some suggestions for the future rooms they renovate (and that could be possibly implemented in the already renovated rooms) - There's nowhere in the shower to put your own toiletries. A shelf or something would be helpful - even a soap dish on the shower arm. (I found two what appeared to be previously cakes of soap on the back of the toiletry bottle holder suggesting that this may already be a problem). Also having some of the hand soap at the sink as well as in the shower would be good. - The TV is positioned in such a way that you can't access its HDMI ports to plug in your own device (they're along the right side which is very close to the wardrobe in this room). Perhaps consider adding a wall mounted HDMI port for this. - Also on the TV, this is a standard off the shelf consumer TV, not a commercial hotel TV. This means that people sign into them with their own personal accounts, which isn't being checked because mine was signed into someone's account, and going to sign out of it told me it would factory reset the TV, which I thought might not be a good idea. These need to be checked at checkout to ensure that people haven't remained signed in or they should consider switching to commercial hotel TVs that don't require guests to sign into their own accounts.

Ok I agree with most of the bad reviews I read so far but ... what do you expect for a $150/night hotel in North Adelaide, 5 mins from the restaurants??? Really?? I find it very clean, the bed was quite good, the receptionist very happy and helpful, plenty of parking around for the car and .. they even have a pool!! So I guess if you are one of the people planning to complain about this place maybe you should book an hotel in North Terrace and pay $300 or more ... otherwise enjoy your stay here because you have booked a cheap hotel that give you basic rooms but clean and decent ....