Hijinx Hotel is an indoor amusement centre in Alexandria built around 15 themed "challenge rooms" — a quick-play cousin of the escape room where teams of 2–6 race a 4-minute timer to score points on the leaderboard. It's the world-first concept from the Funlab crew (Holey Moley, Archie Brothers), tucked inside Sydney Corporate Park so you can stack the whole afternoon into one trip.

Why We Love It

• Rooms run four minutes each so kids who would never sit through a 60-minute escape room can sprint, solve, and move on before the boredom hits.

• Stretches across a wide age spread — the official minimum is 5, but the giant floor piano and ball-pit rooms keep little kids engaged while the word and logic rooms give teens (and grandparents) something to chew on.

• Sensory-friendly sessions with dimmed lighting and reduced music run regularly, and Alexandria has a downloadable sensory map so anxious kids can preview the space before walking in.

• Same building as Holey Moley, Strike Bowling, Archie Brothers and Zero Latency VR — gold when one kid is done with rooms and another wants to keep going, all on one carpark trip.

• Pick your dose: 5, 10 or all 15 rooms so you can dip in for a quick birthday-party hour or commit to the full 2.5-hour course.

• Art Deco meets Willy Wonka — neon lobby, hidden corridors, and reveals behind every door, so the wow factor lands before the timer even starts.