In short: Every question about Hotel: Murder Mystery, Perth’s 1920s Paris whodunit game: the case, the format, rates, ages, access and safety, arrival, the venue, the solve record and its awards.
A death in a grand Paris hotel in 1920, and you’re the ones being blamed. Hotel: Murder Mystery is a 60-minute whodunit game at Escape This Perth CBD: your party rides the lift up to the victim’s suite, studies the evidence, tests each suspect’s story and names the real killer before the gendarmes arrive.
The guest staying in the penthouse suite of a luxury hotel that caters to the political elite and VIPs of 1920s Paris. Finding out who wanted that guest dead, and why, is the investigation Hotel: Murder Mystery hands to your party.
Terrible timing. In Hotel: Murder Mystery the hotel’s ornate lift jams with you inside, and when you finally get it moving and the doors open, the penthouse guest has been killed. You’re the nearest faces, the frame fits, and the gendarmes are on their way.
It stops dead between floors. Hotel: Murder Mystery opens inside the hotel’s gilded elevator, which shudders to a halt with your party trapped. Some quick thinking gets it moving again, and the ride up delivers you to the scene of the crime.
Name the true culprit before the hour runs out. Getting through doors isn’t enough in Hotel: Murder Mystery: you must decode the clues, pick apart each alibi and point at the right suspect to clear your names. Guess wrong or run out of time and, in the story, you’re off to prison.
Because that’s the golden age of the whodunit. Hotel: Murder Mystery borrows the look of classic detective fiction, with fan-shaped Art Deco sconces, velvet drapes, dark timber panelling and a grand hotel full of secrets, so every clue feels like it belongs to Paris in 1920.
A bit of both. Hotel: Murder Mystery runs like an escape room: your party alone in a built set, a 60-minute clock, locks and puzzles, and a gamesmaster on hand with hints. The difference is the goal. You win by solving a whodunit and naming the killer, not just by reaching the last door.
You do the detecting with your hands. Instead of reading clues around a table, Hotel: Murder Mystery puts your party inside a full-size 1920s hotel to search the suite, open what’s locked and crack codes against the clock. Costumes are welcome, but nobody is handed a script.
It’s built for sleuthing, not screaming. Hotel: Murder Mystery sits in Escape This’s adventure category: lamplight, glamour and a chalk outline on the parquet rather than horror. The lighting is controlled for atmosphere, so there may be darker moments.
Escape This rates Hotel: Murder Mystery 7 out of 10. Finding the clues is generally the easy part; making sense of them, and spotting who they point at, is where teams slow down. It suits groups with a little experience, though keen beginners do fine.
Yes. Newcomers find Hotel: Murder Mystery a proper challenge, yet it remains a popular first booking at Escape This Perth CBD. When the trail goes cold, ask for a hint: the gamesmasters are watching and happy to steer your investigation back on track.
They’re exactly who it was made for. If you’ve ever shouted a suspect’s name before the final chapter, or own a well-thumbed Cluedo board, Hotel: Murder Mystery lets you be the detective: weighing motives, comparing statements and exposing a liar in a period hotel.
Plan on 90 minutes. The investigation lasts 60 minutes, Escape This asks guests to arrive 15 minutes beforehand, and about 15 minutes afterwards covers the debrief. Teams that unmask the killer early leave Hotel: Murder Mystery sooner.
Monday to Thursday, Hotel: Murder Mystery costs $49 per adult and $39 per guest under 16. Friday to Sunday it’s $65 per adult and $55 for under-16s. Those rates don’t cover public and school holidays.
Yes, by $16 a head. A Monday-to-Thursday session of Hotel: Murder Mystery is $49 per adult and $39 per child, compared with $65 and $55 from Friday to Sunday, outside public and school holidays.
Pick a time in the live calendar on this site or on escapethis.com.au and your Hotel: Murder Mystery session is confirmed instantly. Prefer a person? Phone Escape This Perth CBD on (08) 6118 0286.
Not by booking online: Saturday sessions of Hotel: Murder Mystery need four or more guests. Couples and trios can ring (08) 6118 0286 on the day, or walk in, and take a Saturday slot if one is free. From Sunday to Friday, two is plenty.
Not in one session. Hotel: Murder Mystery takes six suspects at most, and Escape This doesn’t stretch that. Split up instead: the multi-room booker starts Hotel: Murder Mystery alongside another Perth CBD room, such as Bank Heist, at the same time.
Never. Every Hotel: Murder Mystery booking is exclusive, so the only suspects in the suite are the people you brought along. Escape This has always run private sessions and says it always will.
Yes. Escape This gift vouchers, sold on escapethis.com.au, can be used for Hotel: Murder Mystery at Perth CBD. They suit the friend who has read every whodunit on the shelf, whether it’s for a birthday, an anniversary or a thank-you.
Yes. Hotel: Murder Mystery suits birthdays, bucks and hens nights, Christmas and EOFY outings and team days. Parties of up to six book it directly; bigger groups combine several rooms or hire the venue, which Team Escapes can arrange.
Two to six per session, and four to six when booking a Saturday online. Six is a firm ceiling for Hotel: Murder Mystery, so larger groups split across rooms that start at the same time.
Thirteen and up. Escape This recommends Hotel: Murder Mystery for guests 13 and older because the story is, after all, a murder. Teenagers and adults make a strong team together, and a spread of ages often helps crack the case.
Yes, with two conditions. When every player is under 16, Hotel: Murder Mystery needs at least four of them. For groups aged 13 and under, an adult must stay on site while the investigation runs.
A moderate amount of reading. Hotel: Murder Mystery’s evidence includes written clues, and the story and hints are spoken in English. One confident English reader lets the whole team take part, though it plays best when most of the group is fluent.
No. Hotel: Murder Mystery can’t accommodate wheelchairs. Escape This Perth CBD does have accessible rooms, so call (08) 6118 0286 and the team will help you pick one that suits your group.
Generally, yes. Nothing in Hotel: Murder Mystery involves crawling or squeezing through tight gaps, which makes it a good choice for expectant mums and many guests with mobility concerns. It still isn’t suitable for wheelchairs.
Yes. Escape This lists Hotel: Murder Mystery as free of confined and tight spaces, so claustrophobic guests are usually comfortable. If the stalled-lift opening worries you, mention it at check-in and the gamesmaster can talk you through it.
No. Hotel: Murder Mystery uses no smoke effects, so guests with asthma or other breathing conditions can investigate the suite without worry.
There can be. As in most escape games, lighting in Hotel: Murder Mystery is controlled and may include periods of darkness or flashing light. If anyone in your party is sensitive to that, contact the team before booking.
Yes. Narration and hints in Hotel: Murder Mystery are delivered as audio, so a guest who is hard of hearing may lean on teammates to pass on what’s said. It’s a team game that draws on many different skills, so everyone can contribute.
They can, any time. Panic buttons in the suite let a guest leave early, and a gamesmaster follows every Hotel: Murder Mystery session on CCTV from start to finish.
A quarter of an hour early. Turning up 15 minutes before your Hotel: Murder Mystery start leaves time to check in and hear the briefing, so the whole hour goes on the investigation.
No dress code, but costumes are warmly encouraged. Beaded flapper dresses, pearls, cloche hats, waistcoats and braces all suit Hotel: Murder Mystery, and one reviewer kept up a French accent for the entire game.
Go easy. Guests who are under the influence won’t be allowed to play Hotel: Murder Mystery, so save the champagne toast for after you’ve named the killer.
At Escape This Perth CBD, The Basement, 712–720 Hay Street Mall, Perth WA 6000. Hotel: Murder Mystery is downstairs from the mall, a short walk from Perth Underground, Perth station and Elizabeth Quay.
Not at the moment. Hotel: Murder Mystery runs at one venue only, Escape This Perth CBD on Hay Street Mall. Older promotions talked about Sydney and Melbourne, but neither city has a confirmed opening.
A whole line-up shares the basement, including Bank Heist, High Noon, The Dunny, Entombed, Lost Tomb and Captain Nemo. Pair Hotel: Murder Mystery with one of them for a two-case evening on Hay Street Mall.
55% of the 3,009 teams who have taken on Hotel: Murder Mystery named the killer in time. The other 45% were still arguing over suspects when the gendarmes knocked.
Hotel: Murder Mystery has the 6th lowest escape rate of the 12 escape rooms at Escape This Perth CBD, at 55%. High Noon is the hardest there by the numbers, and Telephone the most forgiving at 83%.
In 2026 so far, 1,399 teams have checked in to Hotel: Murder Mystery, more than any other room at Escape This Perth CBD. 56% of this year’s detectives cracked the case.
The record belongs to a team of 2, who unmasked the culprit in 28:34 with 1 hint, leaving 31:26 before the gendarmes arrived at Hotel: Murder Mystery.
About 54:55 on average. Teams who solve Hotel: Murder Mystery usually name the killer late in the hour, after roughly 3.6 hints from the gamesmaster.
10,812 guests have been framed in Hotel: Murder Mystery across 3,009 recorded games at Escape This Perth CBD. Escape That, the Escape This statistics site, keeps the full figures.
Solve the murder, and solve it quickly. The Hotel: Murder Mystery register ranks teams by solving time, with fewer hints deciding any tie. A team photo only appears online if your group agreed to it at the venue.
Guests rate Hotel: Murder Mystery 4.99 out of 5 on average, and 155 of them have left five-star reviews. The decor’s faithfulness to the era and the blend of whodunit detective work with classic escape room puzzles come up again and again.
Yes, two honours from one night. At the 2026 Immersive Experience Awards, Hotel: Murder Mystery won the Escape Rooms and Puzzle Experiences category and was Highly Commended for Production Design and Craft, both for the Perth CBD hotel. Its maker, Escape This (Australia’s largest escape room operator, with its own escape room design studio and escape room factory), was named Escape Room Operator of the Year in 2025 and 2026 by the APAC Insider Australia Business Awards.
Escape This wrote, designed and built Hotel: Murder Mystery itself, from the gilded lift to the victim’s suite, and its own team runs every session in Perth. Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, with its own escape room design studio and escape room factory.
A comic, invented casebook kept by Inspector Brochard, the gendarme summoned to the grand hotel of Hotel: Murder Mystery every time a guest is found dead upstairs. Escape This writes it in his voice. Each entry follows a party framed at the Perth CBD hotel and answers a real question, such as Saturday group sizes, ages or costumes, with the true facts and a booking link beside it.
No. Hotel: Murder Mystery’s own story says only that the gendarmes are on their way; Inspector Brochard, his bloodhound Croissant and the guests named in the casebook were invented for these pages and appear nowhere in the game. He is not a suspect, a witness or a clue, and no real person or crime is described.
Never. Inspector Brochard records who stepped out of the lift and what they asked at the desk, not the case. The casebook never names, hints at or rules out a suspect, never mentions a clue or a motive, and never says whether any party was right, so Hotel: Murder Mystery stays an open case until you play it.
One of them, and the anniversaries that count from it. Escape This’s booking records give 1 January 2025 as the day Hotel: Murder Mystery opened at Escape This Perth CBD, and the casebook’s New Year’s Day entry carries that date. Every other date is chosen for the story.
Roughly once a month. New entries appear on their dates through 2027, each answering a different question about Hotel: Murder Mystery, from first-timers and Christmas parties to reading levels, Saturday couples and the register, and none of them gives the case away.
Book Hotel: Murder Mystery at Escape This Perth CBD. Two to six suspects, one private hotel, sixty minutes.
