Hijinx Hotel Mt Gravatt
Test your puzzling skills over cocktails at this challenge room bar, which features a ball pit, UV basketball and a claw machine quiz.
Overview
Anything that Brisbane's northside can do, the city's south can as well — at least when it comes to kidulting hubs that let you putt your way around pop culture-adoring boozy mini golf, then puzzle through an OTT challenge room bar with an accommodation theme. In 2022 and 2023, Chermside welcomed Holey Moley and Hijnx Hotel to the Gympie Road shopping centre. Now, since July 2024, Mt Gravatt's Westfield shopping centre has also become home to both venues.
If you're new to Hijinx Hotel, it isn't for vacationing and staycationing in. Instead, it mixes The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shining's Overlook Hotel and Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, all with puzzles and games to play inside its doors. Throw in alcoholic beverages and it too is aiming to serve up an adult-focused spin on childhood activities, as Holey Moley does — but this time sleuthing your way through various spaces with a beverage or several in your hand.
That's what you'll now find at a shared 350-person hub featuring ten challenge rooms on Hijinx Hotel's part (and 18 holes of putt at Holey Moley, plus karaoke in three function rooms across the site, and two bars slinging cocktails and food).
Among the Hijinx Hotel highlights: a ball pit, UV basketball and a claw machine quiz, and plenty more, all in spaces with names such as Zig-a-Zag ah Ball Pool, Poke-The-Dot, The Lodge, Abandoned Arcade and Rubix Cube.
Images: Markus Ravik.
