Packs will be handed out from 2B The Corso once the hunts return.
In short: Escape This Manly at 2B The Corso, Manly, is one of five starting points for the Packhunt return in mid-2027. Three of the four original Packhunts began here, and The Corso collection point is back on the map for mid-2027. Games, prices and team sizes haven’t been announced.
Catch the ferry from Circular Quay: Manly Wharf is about 75 metres from the centre’s door on The Corso. Drivers can use the Manly Wharf car park on East Esplanade.
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The Crooked Eight was a gold-rush Packhunt set around Manly. It followed a gang of 1850s bandits who signed every heist with a figure eight and, so the story went, left a buried treasure behind after a feud with the founder of Manly. Teams chased the legend through the suburb’s streets. It is not on sale now.
Mindcraft was the Packhunt most aimed at children. Styled like a block-building video game, it asked teams to gather elements and craft weapons to drive marauding Creepers out of the Manly ‘biome’ before they wrecked it. It was promoted to families, school groups and children’s parties.
The Buckens was the Packhunt written for joint bucks and hens parties. Waking the morning after a combined celebration, the team discovered the wedding rings had vanished and had to retrace the night before around Manly’s nightspots to recover them ahead of the ceremony.
No. Packhunts are not running at the moment, and the old Packhunt booking pages aren’t taking sessions. Escape This has confirmed the hunts return in mid-2027; until then, its indoor escape rooms are the nearest thing to a Packhunt.
Escape This says Packhunts return in mid-2027, across all of its cities. No exact launch day has been set, so keep an eye on this site or join the Escape This coming-soon list to hear when Packhunt bookings open.
Packhunts are set to return from all five current Escape This centres: Perth CBD and Northbridge in Western Australia, Manly and the Sydney CBD in New South Wales, and Melbourne CBD in Victoria. Each centre is expected to be a starting point; individual Packhunt routes haven’t been released.
The booking method for the 2027 Packhunts hasn’t been announced. To hear first, register on the Escape This coming-soon page, or call your nearest Escape This centre on the number listed on this site’s Packhunt start-point pages.
Manly Packhunts were collected from Escape This Manly at 2B The Corso, a short walk up from Manly Wharf. The old site listed Manly Wharf, Clontarf Reserve’s swimming baths, The Corso, Gilbert Park and the beach itself among the places its routes visited. Manly is one of the five centres named for the Packhunt return.
That was part of the idea from the start: because Packhunts left from Escape This centres, teams were encouraged to book an escape room before or after their hunt. With the return using the same five centres, pairing a Packhunt with a room should be simple again, although no bundles have been announced.
Join the Escape This coming-soon list and you’ll be told about the games, the routes and the day Packhunt bookings open.
