Most Adelaide Park ‘n’ Ride car parks are free and open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, as of 23 October 2026. Adelaide Metro lists two exceptions, Tea Tree Plaza and the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, where parking is charged but, in its words, heavily discounted for Adelaide Metro users.
Parking at the Royal Adelaide Hospital costs $6 for the first hour, $10 for 1 to 2 hours and $35 for 5 to 24 hours, as of 22 October 2026. The main car park is underground on Levels 1 and 2 and is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and a tram stop on North Terrace is next to the main entrance.
You can take luggage up to 90 cm x 60 cm x 40 cm on any Adelaide Metro bus, train or tram, and you can take a pram on all of them. Bikes are allowed on trains only, and Adelaide Metro says a driver may stop you boarding if you carry something dangerous, unhygienic or too big to fit on board.
To catch public transport in Adelaide, plan your trip online, then tap your metroCARD, bank card or phone on the yellow validation machine as you board. Adelaide Metro says you do not need to tap off when you leave a bus, train or tram, and you can no longer pay with cash when you catch a bus.
Adelaide has free buses and trams in the city centre: the city connector buses 98A, 98C, 99A and 99C, the CBD trams, and the Jetty Road tram in Glenelg. Adelaide Metro says you do not need a metroCARD to use free services, and the connector buses start just before 7:00am and finish at 7:15pm, or 9:15pm on Fridays.
A regular Adelaide Metro fare costs $4.75 at peak times or $2.70 off-peak, as of 20 October 2026, and the same fare covers buses, trains and trams for two hours of travel at any distance. New fares have applied since Thursday 1 October 2026, an increase of about 3.3 per cent, in line with the consumer price index.
Adelaide Metro updated 68 bus timetables from Monday 12 October 2026, and the changes include shortened O-Bahn trips on route 506, swapped Unley Road trips on route 190 and renumbered or merged Adelaide Hills routes. Adelaide Metro says the updates cover services in peak and off-peak times, and aim to improve reliability, connections and frequency.
Adelaide’s UPark car parks cost between $23 and $34 for a full weekday at drive-up rates in eight of the nine locations, and Central Market is priced on a different scale. The City of Adelaide owns and operates all nine, which together hold about 6,000 spaces, and four of them are open 24 hours a day.
Adelaide Oval strongly encourages patrons to use public transport on event days: the Adelaide Railway Station is 600m away across the Riverbank Bridge, and the Festival Plaza tram stop on King William Road is 500m from the stadium. During the AFL season Adelaide Metro runs free Footy Express buses for ticket holders.
The public transport route from Adelaide Airport to the city is the J1 or J2 bus from Stop 10, at the front of the terminal. Adelaide Metro says both buses pass through the Adelaide city centre, and a regular fare is $4.75 at peak times or $2.70 off-peak, as of 18 October 2026.