Total waste of time, from the road you see lots of old cars and it look good but inside it is just very dirty and not much info to hand, $85 for 4 adults and 1 child for a couple of hours I won't getting back in my life. Web site is misleading, shows assortment of people in various costumes... More

Interesting place but very run down, in serious need of some tender loving care. Skip it on a short trip and wait until they do some work on it!

From the road it looks very ordinary, and I'd driven past it countless times without bothering to go in. Then an opportunity came up to take a group of school children through on a semi-organised tour. Once through the entrance I was pleasantly surprised by just how extensive this place was, and how well kept. There isn't a lot of... More

About 1 hour drive out of Adelaide on the Expressway you will come across Old Tailem Town. When we visited we had the place pretty much to ourselves & I have to say it was quite spooky - we all agreed we wouldn't want to be there after dark! It would make a fantastic horror film set - a film... More

I grew up in South Australia (i know live in USA). My mother's cousin, Peter, owns this great re-creation town. Before it opened my sister and i used to walk through the old buildings and take second glances at the mannequins in the stores as the sun went down outside. Of course as fascinating as it was, we were a... More

Note for Trip Advisor editors: may I suggest you include this attraction in the list of "Adelaide" things to do, as it really is a day trip from Adelaide. Old Tailem Town is an astonishingly extensive historic village (billed as Australia's largest). A broad range of old buildings have been relocated to the village site, recreating a streetscape from the... More