In short: The President's Bunker is a full-hour political-thriller escape room opening at Escape This Melbourne CBD, 259 Collins Street, in April 2027. It's the bigger, redesigned successor to The President's Briefcase, the 30-minute head-to-head game that has now closed. Prices, team sizes, ages and difficulty are still to be announced.
Years ago a crisis team kept a president's briefcase out of the wrong hands for thirty frantic minutes. The threat that briefcase was meant to answer never went away.
Now the warning sirens are real. POTUS has been rushed deep below ground into a hardened command bunker, with the nuclear football chained to an aide's wrist and the world's capitals waiting for a reply.
Then the blast doors seal themselves, the phone lines go dead and a launch clock starts counting down on the wall. Somebody planned this. You have sixty minutes to find out who.
Before the Bunker there was the Briefcase: a 30-minute race to stop a launch, played around one locked case at two Perth venues. 3,196 people took the National Security Advisor's chair before it closed.
People hosted counts every booked player in Escape This's booking system (ER-OS); dates are when each room was bookable. Figures from ER-OS, 27 October 2026.
The bunker's doors seal here for the first time in April 2027. Session times, prices and team sizes will be posted when bookings open.
Already playing at Escape This Melbourne CBD: board Calico Jack's ship on the same Collins Street floor the bunker is coming to.
The pirate sequel, also at Melbourne CBD, for teams who want a full-hour adventure before April 2027.
In Perth, where the original Briefcase was run: a Wild West gaol break with a sheriff on the way.
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.
In the story preview, yes. The black case that carries a president's launch authority, nicknamed the nuclear football, is sealed in the bunker with your team. In The President's Bunker it links the new room to the original game, where a single briefcase was the centre of every puzzle.
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.
The President's Briefcase ran at Escape This Northbridge from August 2021 to December 2023, and at Escape This Perth CBD from January 2023 to December 2024. Escape This's booking records show 3,196 people played it in total — 861 at Northbridge and 2,335 at Perth CBD. The President's Bunker carries that story on in Melbourne.
No. The President's Briefcase is no longer running anywhere, so there are no sessions to book. Its successor, The President's Bunker, opens in Melbourne CBD in April 2027; registering interest with Escape This is the way to hear when tickets go on sale.
Because the Briefcase grew into the Bunker. presidentsbriefcase.com.au was the home of The President's Briefcase, and now that the 30-minute game has closed the same address carries news of The President's Bunker, its full-hour successor in Melbourne.
In The President's Bunker story, a timer appears on the command wall minutes after the doors lock, and nobody in the room started it. Your team has to restore contact with the surface and stop that countdown before something is done in the President's name.
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.
The President's Bunker should appeal to fans of political thrillers and Cold War-style stand-offs, players who remember The President's Briefcase and want the longer version, and Melbourne teams who've already escaped the rooms on Collins Street.
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 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.
Escape This itself. The President's Bunker is an in-house production: Escape This writes, designs and builds its rooms with its own team and its own escape room factory in Perth rather than buying them in. Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, with its own escape room design studio and escape room factory.
Put your name on the Escape This coming-soon list and you'll hear before The President's Bunker sessions go on sale.
