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, come July 2024, Mt Gravatt's Westfield shopping centre will also become home to both venues.
Together, the new Holey Moley and Hijnx hotel will form a shared 350-person precinct featuring 18 holes of putt putt and ten challenge rooms, opening on Friday, July 26. Also included: karaoke in three function rooms across the site, as well as two bars slinging cocktails and food.
This will be Brisbane's fourth Holey Moley, joining not just the Chermside mini-golf haven, but also the brand 's OG Fortitude Valley digs and its Brisbane CBD spot in the Wintergarden. For Hijinx Hotel, this'll mark the River City's second site. Holey Moley also has two locations on the Gold Coast and one on the Sunshine Coast, while the Goldie similarly boasts a Hijinx Hotel.
Both brands hail from Funlab, the company behind Strike, Brothers Cirque Electriq, and B Lucky and Sons as well. If you're new to the group's take on having fun with your short game, it's been pairing putt putt with booze since 2016. Think: nostalgia-dripping courses that worship the 80s and 90s, including favourites 742 Evergreen Tce and Moon & Pars among Mt Gravatt's greens.
The Caddyshack bar also keeps the theming going and doesn't hold back with its drinks. Drinking a cocktail out of a bathtub, anyone? That's one beverage that's been on the brand's menu.
At Hijinx Hotel, its namesake type of abode isn't for vacationing and staycationing in. This isn't really a hotel, either. 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 (and drinks to sip while you're doing so).
If you're new to the Hijinx Hotel concept, too, all that eye-catching theming is used to help give the escape-room concept a game-fuelled twist. Games at Mt Gravatt will include Zig-a-Zag ah Ball Pool, Candy Ball Pit and Poke-the-dot. Throw in cocktails and it too is aiming to serve up an adult-focused spin on childhood activities — this time sleuthing your way through various spaces with a beverage or several in your hand.
Find Holey Moley and Hijinx Hotel at level two, Westfield Mt Gravatt Shopping Centre, Kessels Road, Upper Mount Gravatt, from Friday, July 26. Head to the Holey Moley and Hijinx Hotel websites for further details in the interim.