Team Building Activities Melbourne

Invest In Your Staff, Invest in Adventure.

Creativity, curiosity and culture. Three important words businesses like yours are already aware of.

Know three more words that will change the game entirely? Team building activities.

With CityDays, our team building activities in Melbourne give you the chance to boost performance, identify development opportunities, and promote a better workplace culture. Here’s how.

Melbourne’s Most Immersive Team Building Activities with CityDays

Competitive Isn’t a Dirty Word

Give your employees a chance to shine. Our team building activities in Melbourne require participation from everyone: listeners, talkers, jokesters, sticky beaks, know-it-alls and everyone’s favourites: the I-Told-You-So’s.

By working together, teams solve problems quickly and efficiently in their city. We transform their backyard into a playground, teaching them things along the way and letting them figure stuff out for themselves.

Wake Up and Walk, Melbourne

Productivity isn’t just about doing what you’re told or what you’ve got to do. It’s about going the extra mile - physically, in this case.

Aussies typically spend around 90% of their time indoors - even though Australia has the most cities with high quality fresh air in the world.

Our urban adventures, scavenger and treasure hunts, and outdoor escape rooms are designed so that your staff get off their butts and into the outdoors. Why? Because fresh air helps you breathe better, sleep better, keep depression at bay, and improves your emotional wellbeing. And who doesn’t want that?

Work With What You’ve Got

As we all know, Melbourne is Australia’s cultural capital. And with businesses like yours, it’s easy to see why.

From its first custodians, the Kulin Nation, to settlers from all over the world, Melbourne has met thousands of characters that have all left their legacy on this incredible city one way or another. Let us share their stories with you.

Our team building activities take your colleagues around Melbourne’s hidden sights, mysterious secrets and playful pockets in real time. It’s up to you to get out there and discover what makes Melbourne great - and what secrets it’s keeping close to its chest.

Same Old, Same Old

Here’s some free advice: no one wants to go bowling again. Your coworkers really don’t mind keeping their own shoes on, thank you very much.

We’re only joking (kinda). In a city like Melbourne that offers so much, it’s our experience that doing something new and exciting can help ruffle some feathers at the office - in a good way.

Teams can be divided any way you like: mix departments up to battle it out or let them go head-to-head for office glory. From picking a team name to solving riddles, spotting clues, and figuring out puzzles, our team building activities in Melbourne help build office morale and introduce new kids on the block in a way that doesn’t have them scratching around for “fun facts about themselves” (yeesh!).

Available Team Building Activities in Melbourne

1 Go On a Scavenger or Treasure Hunt Through Melbourne

It's illegal to talk to pirates in Melbourne (really, it is) - but that doesn’t mean you can’t channel your inner buccaneer on a Melbourne scavenger or treasure hunt.

Release your coworkers on a quest for knowledge in a Melbourne suburb of your choice. It’ll be their job to hunt down clues, solve riddles and tackle unusual puzzles.

Along the way, they’ll pick up nuggets of knowledge, snap some hilarious pics and best of all - top the leaderboard for most prolific pirates!

2 Go On a Melbourne Mystery Walk

We’ve already talked about the benefits of fresh air, but did you know that Melburnians have a rep for being bad walkers?

In 2022, the ABC ran a story about Melburnians having a “chaotic” approach to walking: apparently, we don’t ‘keep left’ while walking. This is your chance to prove the study wrong and do your part in restoring Melbourne’s orderly foot traffic while going on a mystery walk!

Drag your colleagues away from their desks and give them a chance to rediscover their city their own way by undertaking a self-guided Melbourne mystery walk together. Players have to answer riddles and clues to navigate them around a chosen route that unravels Melbourne’s many mysteries, beauty spots and best-kept secrets.

The best part? We only need a start and an end destination, a rough guide to how long you want your coworkers out on the streets and the go ahead from you to create your very own bespoke mystery walk!

3 Play a Melbourne Exploration Game

Do you stick to your suburb or do you consider yourself to be a civic connoisseur?

Whatever your answer, we can almost guarantee you haven’t been taking notice of your surroundings. There’s heaps of stuff hidden in plain sight all over Melbourne - it could be a plaque, sculpture, a piece of street art or even just a weird fact about the street name, but the only way you’ll find out is by taking on one of our Melbourne exploration games.

Spill the tea and let your colleagues in on the info as you hunt around Melbourne for secrets, uncovering hidden gems and incredible landmarks along the way.

4 Play an Outdoor Escape Room in Melbourne’s City Streets

We love Black Mirror as much as the next person, but do we really want to be locked in a room with our colleagues outside of work? Nup, not really.

We can think of heaps better places to be than dystopian, creepy, dusty old rooms with so and so from IT. We’re talking strutting around St Kilda, getting lost in Chinatown… even if what’s-their-name is with us.

Break free of physical barriers and get cracking with some puzzles in Melbourne’s city streets. Packed with challenges, riddles and tricky brain teasers, these outdoor escape rooms will put teamwork to the test in a more relaxed and picturesque setting.

Facts about Melbourne

You might have noticed, but we’re pretty into Melbourne as a topic. Actually - we’re borderline obsessed.

We’ve spent years hunting down some of Melbourne’s coolest landmarks, the stories behind sculptures and much more - and we’ve also picked up some pretty interesting facts along the way. Here are a few of our faves:

McDonalds McCafes Are A Melbourne Invention

The world’s first McCafé opened on Swanston Street in 1993 and as you’ve noticed, they’re pretty much everywhere now.

Turns out, one McDonald’s owner caught people grabbing a coffee before heading to Maccas for their brekkie. Classic Melburnians.

Melbourne Pubs Once Had a Curfew of 6pm

Amazingly, the Victorian Government mandated that pubs had to close their doors at 6pm every night until 1966.

Luckily, that’s not the case anymore. On the other hand, our team building activities in Melbourne are best to do when it’s daylight - it’s safer and easier to see what’s going on.

Melburnians Sleep More Than Sydneysiders and People in Brissy

On average, Melburnians get about 7 hours of sleep a night - whereas Sydneysiders only get 6.4 and people in Brisbane get 6.3 hours.

You can’t make your team building activities in Melbourne a sleeping contest, though.

The Man Who Sentenced Ned Kelly to Death Was One of the Original Trustees of State Library Victoria

The trustees were appointed by the Victorian Government to oversee the development of Australia’s first public library, State Library Victoria. The man who sentenced Ned Kelly to death was Redmond Berry, and he was Solicitor-General at the time.