# Dracula

> Dracula is a 60-minute gothic horror escape room by Escape This at Escape This Northbridge (48 Lake Street, Northbridge, Perth). A vampire hunter’s notebook leads players to the crypt of Dracula’s undead Bride, and they must stop the pair reuniting before the blood moon rises. Difficulty 7/10, 4–10 players, strictly 15+. Its companion room, Van Helsing (difficulty 7.5/10, 2–8 players, 13+), plays at Escape This Melbourne CBD (259 Collins Street) and opened in October 2026.

Key facts (updated 2026-10-24):
- Difficulty: 7–7.5/10. Duration: 60 minutes (allow ~90 minutes for the visit; arrive 15 minutes early).
- Dracula: Escape This Northbridge, 48 Lake Street, Northbridge WA 6003. Phone (08) 6118 0286. 4–10 players. Monday – Thursday $49 per player; Friday – Sunday $59 per player (One price per player. Excludes public and school holidays.) Strictly 15+. Wheelchair accessible: no. Escape rate 43%. Rated 4.95/5, with 172 five-star reviews. Book: https://www.escapedracula.com.au/northbridge/
- Van Helsing: Escape This Melbourne CBD, 259 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000. Phone (03) 7078 8118. 2–8 players. Peak or off-peak session $59–65 adult, $45–55 young adventurer (13–15) (Melbourne prices each session as peak or off-peak; the booking calendar shows the exact fare beside every time.) Strictly 13+. Wheelchair accessible: no. Escape rate 57%. Rated 5/5, with 1 five-star reviews. Book: https://www.escapedracula.com.au/melbourne-cbd/
- Totals: 28,575 players, 1,292 games, 43% escape rate, average escape 54:20, record 31:00.
- Rating: 4.95/5, with 173 five-star reviews.
- Producer: Escape This (https://www.escapethis.com.au). Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, and runs its own escape room design studio and escape room factory in Australia. It has venues in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, has hosted more than 500,000 players and has earned 17,969 five-star reviews.
- Escape This awards (company-wide, not room awards): APAC Insider Escape Room Operator of the Year 2026; APAC Insider Best Immersive Experience Provider 2026; APAC Insider Escape Room Operator of the Year 2025; 2026 Perth Airport WA Tourism Awards: Finalist, Business Excellence; Smart50 Awards 2026: Finalist, People’s Choice Founder of the Year (Bernie Janes); Smart50 Awards 2026: Finalist, Marketing; Smart50 Awards 2026: Finalist, Resilience.
- Bookings are private. Neither room is wheelchair accessible; both use theatrical smoke; neither involves crawling or tight spaces. Statistics for the two rooms are reported per venue; the totals line combines them.

## Pages
- [Home](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/): overview, stats, reviews, trailer
- [The story](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/the-story/): full premise and what to expect
- [Northbridge, Perth · Lake Street](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/northbridge/): prices, rules, booking, map
- [Melbourne CBD · Collins Street](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/melbourne-cbd/): prices, rules, booking, map
- [Book](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/book/): live availability
- [Leaderboard](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/leaderboard/): fastest escapes and statistics
- [Reviews](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/reviews/): five-star player reviews
- [Plan your visit](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/plan-your-visit/): ages, accessibility, safety, timing
- [FAQ](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/): common questions
- [The Dracula Diaries](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/diary/): two rival comic, fictional diaries by Count Dracula (Perth) and Professor Van Helsing (Melbourne), each entry beside the real room facts
- [The Count’s Diary: Inspecting My New Crypt (14 October 2020)](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/diary/inspecting-my-new-crypt/): Two weeks before Dracula opened in Northbridge, the Count inspects his new crypt and learns it is upstairs. A comic entry from his fictional diary.
- [The Count’s Diary: The Night My Crypt Opened (28 October 2020)](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/diary/the-night-my-crypt-opened/): 28 October 2020: Dracula opens at Escape This Northbridge and the Count receives his first guests, every one of them clutching that notebook. His diary entry.
- [Van Helsing’s Diary: My Notebook Has Been Found (29 October 2020)](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/diary/my-notebook-has-been-found/): The morning after Dracula opened in Perth, Professor Van Helsing learns his old notebook is guiding the Count’s guests and is delighted. His diary entry.
- [The Count’s Diary: Fifteen and Not a Day Younger (12 May 2021)](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/diary/fifteen-and-not-a-day-younger/): A pencilled moustache fails to get a young guest into Dracula’s crypt, and the Count learns the house’s rule of fifteen. A comic entry from his diary.
- [The Count’s Diary: A Button I Never Approved (9 March 2022)](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/diary/a-button-i-never-approved/): Count Dracula finds a panic button in his own crypt and cameras watching his graveyard, and is consulted about neither. A comic entry from his diary.
- [The Count’s Diary: Capes on Halloween (31 October 2023)](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/diary/capes-on-halloween/): On Halloween a party of eight arrives in capes and high collars, and the Count cannot be told apart from his own guests. Why costumes are welcome in his crypt.
- [The Count’s Diary: Most of Them Stay for the Moon (20 August 2024)](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/diary/most-of-them-stay-for-the-moon/): The Count is shown the ledger of every party that has entered his crypt and finds that most never leave before the blood moon. A comic entry from his diary.
- [Van Helsing’s Diary: On Reading My Notes Properly (22 August 2024)](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/diary/on-reading-my-notes-properly/): Van Helsing answers the Count’s boast about his ledger with a lesson for recruits on reading a hunter’s notes and taking hints. A comic entry from his diary.
- [Van Helsing’s Diary: Packing the Relics for Melbourne (23 September 2026)](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/diary/packing-the-relics-for-melbourne/): Weeks before Van Helsing opened in Melbourne, the Professor packs his sacred relics, writes his famous letter and argues about half a point. His diary entry.
- [Van Helsing’s Diary: Opening Night on Collins Street (16 October 2026)](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/diary/opening-night-on-collins-street/): 16 October 2026: Van Helsing opens at Escape This Melbourne CBD and the Professor’s letter is read aloud to his first recruits. His opening-night diary entry.
- [The Count’s Diary: Word Arrives from Melbourne (17 October 2026)](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/diary/word-arrives-from-melbourne/): Reginald the bat brings news that Van Helsing has opened a room of his own in Melbourne, and Count Dracula takes it badly. A comic entry from his diary.
- [Van Helsing’s Diary: Recruits of Thirteen and Up (19 October 2026)](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/diary/recruits-of-thirteen-and-up/): A family of hunters with two well-read teenagers comes below Collins Street, and the Professor explains why his recruits start at thirteen. A diary entry.
- [The Count’s Diary: My Diary, Made Public (21 October 2026)](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/diary/my-diary-made-public/): Count Dracula learns his private diary is going on the internet beside Van Helsing’s and writes a cold welcome to his readers. What the diaries are.
- [Van Helsing’s Diary: Regarding the Count’s Diary (21 October 2026)](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/diary/regarding-the-counts-diary/): Van Helsing learns that his diary will be published beside the Count’s and sets out how to read the two of them together. Which dates are real, and why.
- [Fact sheet](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/facts/): citable facts
- [The Escape This studio & factory](https://www.thedunny.com.au/studio-and-factory/): who designs and builds the rooms (company FAQ lives there)

## Statistics (as of 2026-10-24)
- Dracula (Northbridge): 1,285 games recorded and 43% escaped, 57% so far this year.
- Among the 9 rooms at Escape This Northbridge with 100 or more games, Dracula has the 5th lowest escape rate.
- Teams that beat Dracula take 54:19 and 5 clues on average.
- Van Helsing (Melbourne CBD): 7 games recorded and 57% escaped.
- Fastest escape across both rooms: 31:00, by a team of 5 at Escape This Northbridge.

## Common questions
- [What is Dracula’s blood moon escape room about?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-what-is-it): Dracula is a 60-minute gothic horror escape room by Escape This at Escape This Northbridge in Perth. A vampire hunter’s notebook leads your team to the crypt of the Count’s undead Bride, and you must keep the pair apart before the blood moon rises. Its companion room, Van Helsing, plays in Melbourne CBD.
- [How are Dracula and Van Helsing connected?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-and-van-helsing): They share one gothic world. In Dracula you follow Van Helsing’s notebook into the Count’s crypt in Perth; in Van Helsing, in Melbourne, the hunter’s farewell letter admits Dracula survived him and hands his war to you. They are separate rooms with their own sets and puzzles, so you can play either on its own.
- [Wasn’t Dracula killed with a stake?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-empty-tomb): That is what everyone believed. In the Dracula escape room an excavation opens his tomb and finds it empty, and Van Helsing’s notebook, found in its place, suggests the staking was a supernatural trick. Transylvania’s lore-keepers say the Count has been hiding in the shadows ever since.
- [Who is Dracula’s Bride?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-who-is-the-bride): She is the undead companion the Count has searched for across the centuries. In the Dracula escape room she lies imprisoned in a crypt in the graveyard of the Monastery of Brașov, and the blood moon ritual that would raise her needs a sacrifice: you.
- [Why does the blood moon matter in Dracula?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-blood-moon): The blood moon is the clock. When it rises, Dracula’s strength comes back and the ritual to wake his Bride can be finished. Your hour in the Dracula crypt runs out as the moon climbs; stop the reunion before then or become part of it.
- [What is waiting in Van Helsing’s catacombs?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#van-helsing-letter): Van Helsing opens with the hunter’s last letter: he has failed, and Dracula still lives. Among misty headstones in Melbourne CBD, you take up his sacred artefacts, break into the catacombs and try to free the souls Dracula judged unworthy of eternal life, before you end up beside them.
- [How hard is Dracula compared with other rooms?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-how-hard): Escape This rates Dracula 7 out of 10 and describes it as a challenging room for experienced escapers. The puzzles take deep thinking and careful reading of the hunter’s notes, so a group with a few rooms behind it has the best chance.
- [Is Van Helsing harder than Dracula?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#van-helsing-how-hard): On paper, slightly. Escape This rates Van Helsing 7.5 out of 10 against Dracula’s 7, with intermediate-level puzzles. Brand-new escapers are best mixed with someone who has played before; for a team of complete beginners, Escape This points to Pirates or Magic University in Melbourne first.
- [Will the Dracula crypt frighten us?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-scary): It is a horror room, so yes, a little. Dracula’s crypt is lit by lanterns, with darkness, flashing light, smoke and the possibility of jump scares. Nobody is forced to stay: a panic button opens the way out. Van Helsing keeps its jump scares mild.
- [Can first-timers take on Dracula?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-first-timers): They can, but Dracula is best with at least one experienced escaper in the team. Escape This pitches both Dracula and Van Helsing at people who like a challenge. If nobody in your group has played before, a gentler room at the same venue makes a good warm-up.
- [How much of our evening will the Count take?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-length): Sixty minutes in Dracula’s graveyard. Arrive 15 minutes beforehand and leave 15 minutes after to catch your breath and debrief, so the whole visit takes about 90 minutes. Teams that beat the Count finish a little sooner. Van Helsing also runs for an hour.
- [What does a night in Dracula’s crypt cost per player?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-prices): Dracula costs $49 per player Monday to Thursday and $59 per player Friday to Sunday at Escape This Northbridge. Everyone pays the same because everyone is 15 or over, and those prices exclude public and school holidays.
- [What does it cost to take up Van Helsing’s relics?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#van-helsing-prices): Van Helsing is $59–$65 per adult and $45–$55 per young adventurer aged 13 to 15, depending on whether you pick a peak or off-peak session. The Melbourne booking calendar shows each session’s price before you pay. Dracula in Perth has separate prices.
- [How do we reserve a session with the Count or the hunter?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-how-to-book): Open the booking page, decide between the Count’s crypt in Northbridge (Dracula) and the hunter’s catacombs in Melbourne CBD (Van Helsing), then tap a free time; the calendar locks it in on the spot. You can also phone Northbridge on (08) 6118 0286 or Melbourne on (03) 7078 8118.
- [Will strangers join our Dracula game?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-strangers): Never. Every Dracula and Van Helsing booking belongs to your group alone, a policy Escape This has always kept. If you would rather face the Count with people you have never met, you’ll need a different operator.
- [Our group is bigger than Dracula allows. What can we do?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-big-coven): Dracula takes ten at most and Van Helsing eight, and Escape This won’t stretch those limits. Split the group and book a second room to start at the same time; Escape This Northbridge runs eight other rooms. For work events and very large groups, Escape This’s team-building hub can plan several rooms at once.
- [Can I gift someone an hour against the Count?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-gift-voucher): Yes. Escape This gift vouchers, sold on escapethis.com.au, can be spent on Dracula in Northbridge or Van Helsing in Melbourne, which makes a night in the crypt an easy present for the horror fan who already owns every edition of the novel.
- [How big a hunting party does Dracula need?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-team-size): Four to ten. Dracula’s minimum is four because some puzzles need several people working at once, and ten is a firm ceiling. Van Helsing in Melbourne is different: two to eight players, with at least four on Friday and Saturday evening peak sessions.
- [How old must you be to face Dracula?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-age-limit): Dracula is strictly 15 and over, and Escape This may check ID. No younger children may play or watch, even alongside a parent. Van Helsing in Melbourne admits players from 13.
- [Can teenagers play Van Helsing?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#van-helsing-teenagers): Yes, from 13. Van Helsing is a strict 13-plus room, the same hunt Dracula’s fans know but open to younger teenagers, who pay the young adventurer price until they turn 16. Anyone under 13 cannot play or watch, and ID may be checked.
- [Must every hunter read English well for Dracula?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-english): Not everyone. Dracula and Van Helsing need a moderate level of English reading, and the narration and clues are spoken in English, so the team leans on whoever reads most comfortably. Escape This suggests most of the group be fluent for the best night.
- [Can a wheelchair get into Dracula’s graveyard?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-wheelchair): No. Neither Dracula in Northbridge nor Van Helsing in Melbourne can take a wheelchair. Escape This runs accessible rooms at other venues and its team will help you choose one if you call.
- [Will the graveyard mist bother asthmatic players?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-smoke): Yes. Dracula’s graveyard uses theatrical smoke, and so do Van Helsing’s catacombs, so players with asthma or other breathing conditions should check with the venue before booking.
- [Is Dracula’s crypt too tight for claustrophobic players?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-claustrophobia): Dracula has no crawling and no tight spaces to squeeze through, although Escape This’s general warning mentions possible confined spaces and jump scares, so call if you’re worried. Van Helsing states plainly that it has no confined spaces.
- [Is the Dracula hunt gentle enough for a pregnant player or stiff knees?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-pregnancy-mobility): Yes. Nothing in Dracula or Van Helsing involves crawling or tight squeezes, and Escape This lists both as suitable for pregnant players and people with mobility difficulties. Smoke and jump scares are the things to weigh up.
- [Does Dracula work for a hunter who is hard of hearing?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-hearing): Yes, with help from the team. Dracula’s story and clues come through audio, so teammates pass them on, and the puzzles themselves call on all sorts of skills. The same goes for Van Helsing.
- [What if someone wants out of Dracula’s crypt?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-leave-early): Press the panic button. A gamesmaster watching Dracula on CCTV opens up straight away, and the rest of the team can carry on hunting. Van Helsing has the same buttons.
- [How early should hunters reach the crypt?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-arrival): Fifteen minutes before your Dracula session. That leaves time for lockers, the briefing and nerves, so none of the hour before the blood moon rises is lost.
- [Should we come in a cape for Dracula?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-costume): Please do. Dracula and Van Helsing are both set in the not-too-distant past, so come as the Count, as a vampire hunter or in Victorian evening black. Closed shoes are required, and comfortable clothes help.
- [Do phones come into the crypt?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-phones): No. Phones, smartwatches and cameras go into free lockers before you enter Dracula’s crypt, and anyone who has been drinking or taking drugs won’t be allowed to play.
- [Where is the Dracula escape room?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-where): Dracula plays only at Escape This Northbridge, 48 Lake Street, Northbridge WA 6003, upstairs in the venue’s Hall of Horrors. Van Helsing, its Melbourne counterpart, is at Escape This Melbourne CBD, 259 Collins Street.
- [Can Melbourne players hunt Dracula?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-melbourne): Not Dracula itself. Melbourne has Van Helsing, which opened at Escape This Melbourne CBD in October 2026 and carries the hunter’s side of the Dracula story. Dracula stays in Northbridge, Perth.
- [Has the Count crossed to Sydney?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-sydney): No. Dracula plays only in Northbridge, Perth, and Van Helsing only in Melbourne CBD. Escape This hasn’t announced either room for Sydney.
- [After Dracula, what else can a horror crowd tackle on Lake Street?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-northbridge-double): Dracula shares Escape This Northbridge with The Haunting, Cannibal, Buried Alive, The Possession, Asylum, Zombie Apocalypse and Frankenstein Resurrection, so a horror double is easy to arrange. The Haunting, a haunted house, is upstairs in the same Hall of Horrors.
- [What share of teams survive Dracula’s crypt?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-escape-rate): 43% of the 1,285 teams who have entered Dracula’s crypt in Northbridge got out before the blood moon rose. That puts Dracula firmly in hard-room territory.
- [Does any Northbridge room defeat more teams than Dracula?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-hardest-northbridge): A few do. Dracula has the 5th lowest escape rate of the 9 escape rooms at Escape This Northbridge with at least 100 recorded games (43%). "Hardest" here means fewest successful escapes.
- [Who escaped the blood moon fastest?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-record): The quickest escape across Dracula and Van Helsing is 31:00, set in Dracula by a team of 5 at Escape This Northbridge with 3 clues and 29:00 to spare.
- [Has anyone beaten Van Helsing yet?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#van-helsing-escape-rate): 57% of the 7 recorded Van Helsing games in Melbourne have ended in an escape, with winners taking 57:59 on average. Dracula’s Perth figures are counted separately.
- [How many clues do teams need in Dracula?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-clues): Winning Dracula teams lean on 5 hints per game and walk out after 54:19, on average. Ask the gamesmaster for help as often as the notebook defeats you.
- [How do we get on the Dracula leaderboard?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-leaderboard-entry): Escape. Dracula’s leaderboard ranks successful teams by time, with fewer clues breaking ties, and the board refreshes from Escape This’s game records. Van Helsing’s results are ranked on the same page under Melbourne.
- [Did the Count’s crypt live up to the hype for players?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-reviews): Players rate Dracula 4.95 out of 5, and 173 of them gave the Count five stars. They single out the graveyard built indoors, the atmosphere and a challenge that sends plenty of teams home beaten. Van Helsing’s first reviews will join them as Melbourne hunters post theirs.
- [Where do the Dracula reviews on this site come from?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-reviews-source): From players, through Escape This’s ER-OS system, which collects reviews that name Dracula; staff approve the five-star texts shown here, and the average counts every review, published or not. Reviews of other Escape This rooms never appear on the Dracula pages.
- [Who made the Dracula escape room?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#who-built-draculas-crypt): Escape This designed and built Dracula and Van Helsing itself. Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, with its own escape room design studio and escape room factory.
- [What are the Dracula Diaries?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-diaries-what): Two rival comic diaries on this site. Count Dracula writes from his crypt in the Dracula room at Escape This Northbridge, Perth, and Professor Van Helsing from his catacombs in the Van Helsing room at Escape This Melbourne CBD. They cover the same story from opposite sides, answer each other and sit beside the real room facts.
- [Did Count Dracula and Van Helsing really write these diaries?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-diaries-fiction): No. Both diaries are fiction written by Escape This for fun. The Count and the Professor are the Dracula and Van Helsing escape rooms’ versions of characters from Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, and the Count’s bat, Reginald, exists only in the diary. The facts beside each entry, such as ages, team sizes and addresses, are real.
- [Will the diaries give away Dracula’s or Van Helsing’s puzzles?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-diaries-spoilers): No. Neither diarist writes down a puzzle or a solution. The entries describe the Dracula and Van Helsing stories, sets and house rules in character, so they are safe to read before you play either room, and each one links to the real answers about booking, ages and safety.
- [Which dates in the Dracula Diaries really happened?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-diaries-dates): Only the two openings. Dracula opened at Escape This Northbridge on 28 October 2020 and Van Helsing at Escape This Melbourne CBD on 16 October 2026, according to Escape This’s booking records, and the diarists’ opening entries carry those dates. Every other date is picked for the story.
- [Which diary goes with which room, Dracula or Van Helsing?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-diaries-which): The Count’s Diary belongs to Dracula in Northbridge, Perth, and Van Helsing’s Diary to Van Helsing in Melbourne CBD. The archive lists both by date, labels every entry with its diarist and can show one diarist at a time; where both write about the same events, each entry links to the other’s side.
- [How often do the Count and Van Helsing write?](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/faq/#dracula-diaries-how-often): About once a month between them. Each new entry appears on its own date, written in the Dracula or Van Helsing voice beside the room facts it touches, so the archive grows through the year.

## Optional
- [Full text](https://www.escapedracula.com.au/llms-full.txt): story, FAQ and per-venue rules in plain text