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Group Bookings — Rush Hawthorn
Every room runs at the same time, so a bigger group splits across rooms and races the clock together. Rush Hawthorn has three rooms, so you can bring up to about 18 people and still finish around the same time. Book live below, or email us for a large group, party or corporate session.
How groups work
Each room takes 2 to 6 players, and all rooms run simultaneously, so groups split across rooms and go in together. Tell us your numbers and we will help you spread the group across the right rooms.
Book your group at Rush Hawthorn
Live availability below. For a large group, party or corporate session, email enquiries@rushescapegame.com.au and we will set it up.
Planning a bigger group?
For large groups, exclusive hire, parties or corporate sessions, email enquiries@rushescapegame.com.au with your date and numbers and we will build the session around you.
Rush Escape Game Hawthorn · 606 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn VIC 3122 · Groups & corporate: enquiries@rushescapegame.com.au
The venue where nobody has trouble getting there
Most of the friction in organising eighteen people is not the booking. It is the eighteen separate journeys, the three who cannot find parking, and the two who go to the wrong address. Hawthorn removes almost all of that, and it is the reason this venue takes a disproportionate share of our parties.
The 16 tram pulls up outside at Stop 72. Glenferrie Station is a hundred and fifty metre walk. Parking along the road and the blocks behind it costs nothing, which none of our other three venues can claim. A group can arrive by train, tram, car and on foot and all reach the same door without anyone coordinating it.
The numbers here
Three rooms, each seating two to six, all running at the same time. Eighteen players is the maximum in one sitting.
- Up to 12 Two rooms
- 13 to 18 All three rooms
- More than 18 Two sittings, or move to South Yarra
We would rather say that plainly than have you arrive with twenty-two people. If the number is firmly above eighteen and it has to happen in one go, South Yarra runs six rooms and takes up to thirty-six.
Three rooms, including the original
Hawthorn is where HackSaw was built, and it is still here. Groups regularly choose this venue for that room specifically, then fill the other two around it.
- HackSaw, sixteen and over, and one of the most frightening rooms in the network. It is also the visceral one, which is a different thing from frightening and worth knowing in advance.
- Strangest Thing, no age restriction, rated spooky rather than scary. The usual home for the part of the group that wants atmosphere without the rest of it.
- The Nine-Nine, no age restriction and no fright at all. A comic detective heist, and the easiest room here to put a mixed group into.
The practical consequence for a group of eighteen: only two of the three rooms are open to under-sixteens, so a party with teenagers in it has twelve family-friendly seats to work with, not eighteen. Each of the three carries a published rating on the scare scale.
What it costs
The one most groups here use. Crew Night covers Monday to Friday, 4pm till late, pricing a room of four to six whole rather than per head, $250 through $300, using the code CREWNIGHT. Three rooms of six on a weeknight is the cheapest full-venue booking we offer.
Daytime and early evening, Monday to Thursday, all day. $50 per adult once 3 are playing.
The weekend. Between $74 and $70 a head depending on how full each room is.
Work teams booking in weekday daytime are priced by the room, covered on team building. Everything else is on prices and deals.
The night continues where it started
You do not leave Glenferrie Road to keep going. The venue sits in the middle of the strip rather than near the end of it, so the pub, the pizza and the coffee are all a short walk from the front door in either direction. For a group that has parked once and does not want to move the cars, that is the whole appeal.
It is also why this venue suits a celebration that has a second half. Let us know your session time and we can point out two or three places on the strip that cope with a group your size.
Group questions
We have exactly eighteen. Does that work?
Three rooms of six, all starting together. It is the neatest number this venue takes and the one it is built for.
Half of us want HackSaw and half of us really do not.
That is the normal case, and it is why there are three rooms. The nervous half takes The Nine-Nine, everyone starts at once, and the comparison afterwards is more interesting for the difference.
Is parking really free?
On Glenferrie Road and the surrounding side streets, yes. It is the easiest of our four venues to drive a group to, which is a real consideration when a third of the party is driving.
Can we bring a cake?
Sometimes, and never on a weekend or public holiday. There is no function space at this or any venue, so ask us first and have somewhere else lined up for the cake.