Scavenger Hunt Northern Beaches

The Northern Beaches is home to both scavenger hunt companies on Party Hero for this region so far: Corporate Amazing Race in Belrose and Team Bonding in Warriewood. Both run hosted Amazing Race-style events, and both take their races out to locations around Sydney rather than keeping them at their home base. For a Beaches group, that means the first decision is where to race, weighing up how people are getting there from Manly, Dee Why or further up the coast. Both companies write races for hens and bucks parties and birthdays as well as work events, and both tailor the questions and tasks to the people celebrating.

Comparing your options:

• Getting there: the Beaches is mostly car and bus territory, with the Manly ferry for trips to the city, so pick a start point that suits how your group travels.
• The experience: Corporate Amazing Race uses sealed envelopes and staffed checkpoints with no app, while Team Bonding opens with a warm-up at a central meeting point before teams follow clues between checkpoints.
• Group size: Team Bonding works from around eight people to well over 200, and Corporate Amazing Race is pitched at ten or more, scaling to several hundred and taking on smaller celebrations too.
• Booking lead time: both tailor each race to the group, and Corporate Amazing Race holds a date with a 20 per cent deposit, so start the conversation early.
• Food and drinks: neither includes food in the race itself, but Team Bonding can add catering and book a partner venue, and Corporate Amazing Race often plans routes to finish at a bar, restaurant or winery.

Team Bonding races take roughly one and a half to two and a half hours depending on numbers, while Corporate Amazing Race runs two to two and a half hours, with half-day and full-day formats for bigger outings. Comfortable shoes are a must with either.