The blast doors seal for the first time on Collins Street in April 2027.
In short: The President's Bunker opens at Escape This Melbourne CBD, 259 Collins Street, Melbourne, in April 2027. It's the full-hour successor to The President's Briefcase, and Melbourne is the only city announced for it. Bookings, prices and team sizes come at launch.
The bunker's entrance will be at Escape This Melbourne CBD, 259 Collins Street. Flinders Street Station is only a short walk away, so most crisis teams can arrive by train.
(03) 7078 8118 · melbourne.bookings@escapethis.com.au
The President's Bunker is a new full-hour escape room from Escape This, opening at Escape This Melbourne CBD in April 2027. Your team is the President's crisis staff, sealed inside an underground command bunker during a nuclear stand-off, racing to break a lockdown nobody ordered.
A full hour. The President's Bunker is a 60-minute game, double the 30 minutes players had in The President's Briefcase, which gives the redesigned room space for a longer story and more puzzles to crack before the countdown runs out.
The President's Briefcase has closed. Escape This has confirmed it is coming back as The President's Bunker, a bigger, redesigned room that runs for a full hour instead of 30 minutes. The President's Bunker opens at Escape This Melbourne CBD in April 2027.
April 2027. Escape This has confirmed The President's Bunker opens at its Melbourne CBD venue on Collins Street that month. An exact first-session date hasn't been announced yet and will appear here as soon as it is.
Not yet. Bookings for The President's Bunker open closer to its April 2027 launch in Melbourne CBD. Register your interest with Escape This to be told when sessions go live.
Pricing for The President's Bunker hasn't been released. The old President's Briefcase prices don't carry over, because the Bunker is a different, longer game. Escape This will publish Melbourne prices when bookings open.
Team sizes for The President's Bunker haven't been announced. The Briefcase's limit of two to four players per case doesn't automatically apply, because the Bunker is a larger room. Escape This will confirm numbers with the booking details.
The President's Bunker opens at Escape This Melbourne CBD, 259 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, a short walk from Flinders Street Station. Melbourne is the only venue announced for the full-hour successor to The President's Briefcase.
Escape This Melbourne CBD answers on (03) 7078 8118 and at melbourne.bookings@escapethis.com.au. The team there can take questions about The President's Bunker and book any of the rooms already open on Collins Street.
Escape This Melbourne CBD already runs Pirates, Pirate Island, Possession, Magic University, Zombie Apocalypse, Meat Grinder, Asylum and Van Helsing. Any of them makes a good warm-up for The President's Bunker; the two pirate rooms are its closest fellow adventures.
Put your name on the Escape This coming-soon list and you'll hear before The President's Bunker sessions go on sale.
