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Escape This Manly is the escape room venue at 2B The Corso, Manly, across the road from the ferry terminal. It runs 3 private rooms — Entombed, The Dunny and Magic School — each 60 minutes long for groups of 2 to 6. The same shopfront traded as Room Eight Escape Rooms on its old website.
As of 25 October 2026, Escape This Manly runs 3: Entombed (ancient egypt adventure), The Dunny (outback adventure), Magic School (wizarding adventure). The list on this site comes straight from Escape This’s booking system, so a new room shows up here as soon as it can be booked.
Yes. Escape This Manly sits at the harbour end of The Corso, at number 2B, directly opposite the Manly ferry terminal. Step off the boat, cross the road and you are at the door; the beach end of The Corso is roughly a hundred metres further on.
Escape This does. Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, and runs its own escape room design studio and escape room factory in Australia. Manly is one of its two Sydney venues; the other, Escape This Sydney CBD, is on George Street in the city.
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Yes, both. Back when it traded as Room Eight Escape Rooms, the venue at 2B The Corso earned a 2019 Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice award. Escape This, which runs it today, was named Escape Room Operator of the Year by APAC Insider in 2025 and again in 2026; that one recognises the operator across all its venues, not a single Manly room.
You do. Every booking at Escape This Manly is private to your group, so nobody you don’t know is added to fill the spare places. If your group is bigger than one room allows, the answer is a second room at the same start time, not strangers.
Room Eight Escape Rooms opened in 2019, and Escape This bought it from its previous operators in 2022. The venue kept the Room Eight name for its first year under Escape This, then traded under both names, and became Escape This Manly in full when Escape This opened its Sydney CBD venue in 2024. It is still at 2B The Corso.
Yes. Escape This completely refurbished and upgraded every room at Escape This Manly during the summer of 2025, so The Dunny and Entombed run on rebuilt sets. In January 2026 Hitman was retired and its space went to Magic School, the newest room on The Corso.
Escape This Manly is run by the same management team as Escape This Sydney CBD on George Street, and it is Escape This’s venue on the Northern Beaches. Escape This, which bought the former Room Eight Escape Rooms in 2022, is Australia’s largest escape room operator and runs its own escape room design studio and escape room factory in Australia.
All 3 rooms at Escape This Manly carry the same 9+ guide, so any of them works. Magic School has the highest escape rate at the venue (98%), which makes it the gentlest bet, while Entombed is the one Escape This singles out as popular with children’s groups.
The Dunny. As of 25 October 2026, 94% of 814 recorded teams have escaped it, against 96% for Entombed and 98% for Magic School. Escape This Manly only ranks rooms with 100 or more games.
Yes, if you book consecutive sessions. Each Escape This Manly room takes 60 minutes plus about 15 minutes either side for the briefing and the debrief, so all 3 back to back is an afternoon. Splitting a bigger group across the rooms at the same start time is quicker.
Magic School has the lowest difficulty rating of the three (6 out of 10, against 7 for Entombed and The Dunny) and 98% of its teams escape. Escape This also calls Entombed a popular choice for beginners, so either is a safe opener at Escape This Manly.
Entombed casts your team as a private investigator in Cairo, hired by the widow of the vanished archaeologist Dr Smith. You search his study for proof of his death or the treasure of Khufu he was chasing, and a pharaoh’s spirit objects. You have 60 minutes at Escape This Manly.
Prices at Escape This Manly start from $49 per player in the booking system, for each of Entombed, The Dunny and Magic School. The price changes with the day and time, so the booking widget shows the exact figure for each session before you pay.
Use the live booking widget on this site: pick the room, the day and a session, and the booking is confirmed straight away. Escape This Manly also takes bookings by phone on (02) 9173 8535 if you would rather talk it through.
Take a Manly ferry from Circular Quay; Escape This says services leave from Wharves 2 and 3 and the crossing takes about 20 minutes. Escape This Manly is directly across the road from the Manly ferry terminal, so it is the shortest walk on the trip.
Every Escape This Manly room is guided at 9+. Children aged 7 to 9 can play as paid guests with a parent or guardian in the room; groups with 10 to 13 year olds need an adult on site; groups aged 14 and over need no adult. Under-3s may watch at staff discretion.
96% across every room. As of 25 October 2026, Escape This Manly has recorded 2,437 games and 2,331 escapes; this year the rate is 97% over 1,918 games. Entombed: 96%; The Dunny: 94%; Magic School: 98%.
18:34, in Magic School, by a team of 4 on 21 June 2026. That is the quickest time ER-OS holds for any current room at Escape This Manly as of 25 October 2026.
4.96 out of 5 for Escape This Manly as of 25 October 2026, with 1,093 five-star reviews on The Corso. Reviews that name a room average 4.96 for Entombed, 4.95 for The Dunny, 4.99 for Magic School.
No. Escape This Sydney CBD is a separate venue at 630 George Street in the city, across the harbour from Escape This Manly. Its 10 rooms, including the horror line-up, are booked and played there, not on The Corso.
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