In short: Every question about Bank Heist, Perth’s bank vault escape room: the story, the wired deposit boxes, difficulty, prices, ages, access, the leaderboard and how to find Hay Street Mall.
Bank Heist is a 60-minute adventure escape room at Escape This Perth CBD on Hay Street Mall. Your crew has tunnelled into a bank vault, the tunnel has collapsed, and you have an hour to raid the right safe deposit boxes and escape through the vault door before the police turn up.
Because it caved in. In Bank Heist the tunnel your crew spent weeks digging collapses the moment you’re inside the vault, so the only way out is through the vault door and all the security the bank has wrapped around it.
Some of them are wired. In Bank Heist a few boxes hold cash, gold and jewels, others are empty, and some are rigged to alert the police if you open them. The job is working out which boxes are worth the risk.
It’s the stakes in one line. Get out of the Bank Heist vault with the valuables and your crew never has to work again. Trip an alarm or run out of time and the story ends in handcuffs.
Yes. Escape This rebuilt the room and calls the current version Bank Heist 2.0. It keeps the original idea, a crew trapped inside a bank vault after their tunnel collapses, in an art deco vault with brass detailing and banks of deposit boxes.
They’re exactly who it was made for. Escape This lists action film fans, would-be bank robbers and even trainee police among Bank Heist’s natural audience. You get the vault door, the gold bars, the keypads and the ticking clock, and this time your crew is the one pulling the job.
Bank Heist is rated 7 out of 10. Spotting the clues is the easy part; figuring out what they open is where crews get stuck. It’s pitched at players who’ve done an escape room before, but beginners keen for a challenge manage it with a few hints.
Yes. Bank Heist is a good pick for a first job if your crew enjoys a challenge. It’s tougher than the gentlest rooms at Perth CBD, but a gamesmaster is watching and will send extra clues whenever you ask.
No. Bank Heist is an adventure, not a horror room. The tension comes from the clock, the alarms and the sirens rather than frights. Lighting is moody, with some flashing and dark moments, but kids from 9 play it happily.
Think 1920s bank, built to last. Bank Heist has a round art deco vault door with a brass mechanism, walls of numbered safe deposit boxes, marble finishes, gold bullion, jewellery on display and a red alarm beacon waiting to go off.
The job itself is one hour, from the moment the vault seals to the sirens. Allow about 90 minutes in total for Bank Heist: 15 minutes before for check-in and the briefing, and an optional 15 after to debrief. A crew that escapes early finishes sooner.
Bank Heist costs $49 per adult and $39 per child under 16 from Monday to Thursday. From Friday to Sunday it’s $59 per adult and $49 per child. Public and school holidays are priced separately.
Yes. Bank Heist is $10 a head cheaper from Monday to Thursday than from Friday to Sunday, for adults and kids alike. The saving doesn’t apply during public and school holidays.
Online is quickest. Choose a session in the live Bank Heist calendar on this site or on escapethis.com.au and it’s confirmed straight away. To book by phone, ring Escape This Perth CBD on (08) 6118 0286.
Only by phone or walk-in. Online Saturday bookings for Bank Heist need at least four players. Pairs and trios can call (08) 6118 0286 on the day, or turn up at Hay Street Mall, and play if a session is still free. Two players can book online on any other day.
Not all in one vault. Bank Heist caps each session at eight, which makes it one of the smaller rooms at Perth CBD, and the limit doesn’t bend. Split the group and book a second room at the same start time, such as High Noon, then compare who got out.
Never. Every Bank Heist booking is for one group only, and Escape This doesn’t mix strangers into a session. Whether the crew gets out is down to your team alone.
Yes. Escape This gift vouchers can be spent on Bank Heist at Perth CBD and are sold through escapethis.com.au. They suit a birthday, an anniversary or anyone who’s always wanted to see inside a vault.
Yes. Bank Heist only works if the crew talks, splits the jobs and trusts each other’s finds, which makes it a good fit for a date, a family birthday or colleagues. The room is booked privately, and bigger groups can run two rooms side by side.
Bank Heist takes two to eight players per session. On Saturdays the minimum is four, though smaller crews can phone or walk in on the day for any spare slot. Groups over eight split across Bank Heist and another room starting together.
Yes. Bank Heist is a cops-and-robbers game that kids love, and it’s recommended from age 9. Children from 7 can play as paying members of a family group, and anyone aged 9 or under needs a paying adult in the vault with them.
From 10, yes, with conditions. In Bank Heist, crews with players aged 10 to 13 can go into the vault alone as long as an adult stays at the venue. Once every player is 14 or older, no adult needs to be there at all.
Mostly, yes. Bank Heist relies heavily on reading English, and the spoken clues are only in English for now. Escape This recommends that most of the crew read English comfortably, or that you ask the team which room suits your group.
Yes. Bank Heist fits one wheelchair per session. A few puzzles are trickier to reach from a chair, but it’s a team game with jobs for every player. Call (08) 6118 0286 if you’d like to talk it through first.
No. Even though the story starts with a tunnel, Bank Heist has no crawling and no tight spaces. That makes it a sound choice for players who are pregnant, have limited mobility or would rather stay on their feet.
It shouldn’t. Bank Heist has no confined or tight spaces, so it’s one of the better choices for claustrophobic players. If you have any doubts, mention it to the gamesmaster at check-in.
No. The Bank Heist vault doesn’t use smoke or haze, so players with asthma or other breathing conditions can join the job safely.
Yes. Bank Heist uses flashing light and periods of darkness as part of the alarm and the atmosphere. It isn’t recommended for anyone with light sensitivity or epilepsy, who may prefer another Perth CBD room.
Yes, with a little help from the crew. The Bank Heist story and clues are delivered as audio, so teammates can pass on what they hear, while most of the puzzle work is visual and hands-on.
They press the panic button. Bank Heist is monitored on CCTV the whole time, and a gamesmaster will let that player out straight away while the rest of the crew carries on.
Fifteen minutes before your session. That gives the Bank Heist team time to check you in, store your phones and run through the briefing without cutting into your hour in the vault.
Go for it. Lots of crews arrive at Bank Heist in robber gear: stripes, beanies, eye masks, even a money bag. Dressing up is optional, so keep it comfortable and wear enclosed shoes.
No. Phones, smartwatches, cameras and any recording devices go into the free lockers before the Bank Heist vault closes. Your valuables are safe there while you go after the bank’s.
Short list. Nobody plays Bank Heist drunk or high, devices stay in the lockers, and the panic button is there if anyone needs out. Every lock opens with the right answer, so never force a prop, box or door.
Bank Heist is at Escape This Perth CBD, in The Basement at 712–720 Hay Street Mall, Perth WA 6000. Head downstairs from the mall; it’s a short walk from Perth Underground station.
No. Bank Heist only plays at Escape This Perth CBD on Hay Street Mall. Escape This has venues in Sydney and Melbourne, but Bank Heist isn’t on their schedule, so a trip to Perth is the only way to crack this vault.
Right outside. Bank Heist’s home on Hay Street Mall sits in the middle of the city, with bars and restaurants within a short walk, so your crew can split the imaginary loot over dinner.
Eleven more. Escape This Perth CBD runs High Noon, The Dunny, Pirates, Pirate Island, Captain Nemo, Entombed, Hitman, Lost Tomb, Wizard’s Chamber, Telephone and Hotel: Murder Mystery alongside Bank Heist. Book two together for a bigger group.
33% of the 5,619 crews who have played Bank Heist made it out of the vault. Most failed jobs come down to the deposit boxes: time spent on the wrong ones is time the clock doesn’t give back.
Yes, on escape rate. Bank Heist lets out fewer crews than any of the other 11 ranked rooms at Escape This Perth CBD: 33% of 5,619 games.
Yes. 47% of the 1,201 Bank Heist crews this year escaped the vault, up from 33% across all 5,619 recorded games.
A team of 2 holds the Bank Heist record, out of the vault in 27:47 with 4 clues and 32:13 still on the clock.
Most of the hour. Crews who escape Bank Heist take 53:47 on average and ask for about 8.4 clues, so the sirens are rarely far behind them.
23,713 players have gone into the Bank Heist vault across 5,619 recorded games at Escape This Perth CBD.
Get out quickly. The Bank Heist leaderboard ranks escaped crews by time, with fewer clues breaking a tie. Team photos only appear online when the group gave consent at the venue.
Players rate Bank Heist 4.97 out of 5, with 115 five-star reviews so far. Reviewers keep coming back to the challenge, the friendly gamesmasters and how much fun it is to play robbers for an hour.
Escape This designed and built Bank Heist itself, from the vault door to the deposit boxes, and runs it at Hay Street Mall. Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, with its own escape room design studio and escape room factory.
The Bank Manager, a fussy, made-up character who runs the bank your crew robs in Bank Heist at Escape This Perth CBD. Each comic entry complains about a real part of the room, such as the wired deposit boxes, Saturday crew sizes or the lack of crawling, and sits beside the real facts and a booking link.
No. The vault has a manager’s desk, but the man who sat at it is imagined for the diary, which Escape This writes for fun. No real bank or banker is described, and Clive the night watchman and Beatrice, the name he gives the vault door, exist only in its pages. The room facts beside each entry are real.
No. The Bank Manager describes his vault door, his deposit boxes and his alarms only as broadly as the Bank Heist story does. He never says which boxes are wired, what any code is or what opens what, so a crew can read every entry and still learn nothing useful for the job.
Two are. Escape This’s booking records show Bank Heist opening at Escape This Perth CBD on 10 September 2021, and an older Bank Heist at Escape This Northbridge closing on 7 May 2023; the diary’s entries for those days carry those dates. The rest are chosen for the story, while the facts beside each entry stay current.
Roughly monthly. New pages of the Bank Manager’s Diary appear on their dates right through 2027, each about a different part of Bank Heist, from wheelchair access and gift vouchers to the leaderboard, so there’s usually a fresh complaint from the bank when you check back.
Book Bank Heist at Escape This Perth CBD. Two to eight players, one private vault, sixty minutes.
