For the best in Outback Accommodation and Tours - an experience of a lifetime   The Desert Cave Hotel allows you to experience  dug-out style living, underground shops, bar and opal display areas -  all within sandstone surrounds in the heart of Coober Pedy. As well as  above and below ground accommodation, we offer outstanding dining and  convention facilities .        Visitors can stay underground, or if they  prefer, above ground rooms are also available. Sleeping underground is a  unique experience. Quiet, cool, dark and airy - the rooms are spacious  with high ceilings. Most visitors say that sleeping underground gives  them the best night{s sleep they have ever had! The hotel offers  visitors the best opportunity to experience Coober Pedy {dugout{ living  and the hotel can offer guests a range of specalised tours of the  surrounding rugged and beautiful outback.           In 1989, the Desert Cave Hotel won both  the South Australian and National Tourism Awards for Tourism  Development. The Desert Cave Hotel again won the South Australian  Tourism Award for national standard accommodation in 1990 and 1991.           History     In 1981 Umberto Coro began to realise a  dream of sharing the extraordinary experience of underground living with  visitors to the town. He had been associated with the town{s mining and  hospitality industry for more than 26 years. Desert Cave Hotel was  officially opened in 1988