First Look: Mt Gravatt Is Brisbane's Next Hub for Boozy OTT Mini Golf and Challenge Room Games

Next time that you're keen to escape your routine with a few beverages in a bar that does more than serve up drinks, Brisbane has a new haven for boozy games and activities: Westfield Mt Gravatt, where Holey Moley and Hijnx Hotel are both opening their doors on Friday, July 26, 2024. Together, the duo will form a shared 350-person hub featuring 18 holes of putt putt and ten challenge rooms, as well as karaoke in three function rooms across the site, and two bars slinging cocktails and food. Hit up the precinct and you won't be able to say that you're bored.

Funlab, the company behind the two brands — and Strike, Brothers Cirque Electriq, and B Lucky and Sons — first announced its Mt Gravatt plans in May. Now, it has unveiled a peek at what's to come. At Holey Moley, you'll be tap, tap, tapping your way around holes themed around space, The Simpsons, art, music, other games and more. And at Hijnx Hotel, there'll be a ball pit, UV basketball and a claw machine quiz, plus other spaces.

Among the mini-golf courses: the already-popular Moon & Pars and 742 Evergreen Tce, which have become favourites at fellow Holey Moley locations, alongside everything from Vincent Van Golf, The Great Holedini and A Pineapple Under The Tee to Draw Fore, Super Mega Mini Golf, and Skate or Golf. And among the challenge rooms, Zig-a-Zag ah Ball Pool, Poke-The-Dot, The Lodge, Abandoned Arcade and Rubix Cube will also feature.

This new arrival is more fuel for the notion that anything Brisbane's northside can do, the city's south can as well — at least when it comes to kidulting spots that let you putt your way around pop culture-adoring mini golf, then puzzle through an OTT challenge room bar with an accommodation theme. In 2022 and 2023, Chermside got there first, welcoming its own Holey Moley and Hijnx Hotel to the Gympie Road shopping centre.

This will be Brisbane's fourth Holey Moley, joining not just the Chermside venue, 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.

At Mt Gravatt, the Caddyshack bar will also keep the theming going — and the drinks. Sipping a cocktail out of a bathtub, anyone? That's one beverage that's on the brand's menu.

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 cocktails 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.

Find Holey Moley and Hijinx Hotel at level two, Westfield Mt Gravatt Shopping Centre, Kessels Road, Upper Mount Gravatt, from Friday, July 26 — open from 10am–9pm Sunday–Wednesday, 10am–10pm Thursday and 10am–11pm Friday–Saturday. Head to the Holey Moley and Hijinx Hotel websites for further details.

Images: Markus Ravik.