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The Lookout Cave Underground Motel

Underground motel rooms and dugout apartments carved up to 25 metres into the sandstone.

Watercolour field illustration of The Lookout Cave Underground Motel
From the Coober Pedy watercolour field notes

Why it belongs on the list

Field highlights

  • Rooms carved up to 25m into the sandstone hillside
  • Choose a motel room or a self-contained dugout apartment
  • Quiet, central and naturally cool

Choose a standard underground motel room or a self-contained apartment - some are genuine old miners’ dugouts, so you get the real underground experience.

Find it in context See this place on the Coober Pedy map

Details last checked 2026-06-27. Something changed? Suggest an edit.