Mystery Picnic Yarra Valley

When booking your Yarra Valley experience, you can customize your day with four distinct package options depending on how much you want to include:
Mystery Picnic: Our classic self-guided adventure where you solve clues to collect your premium, local gourmet picnic spread.
Mystery Picnic + Wine Tasting: Includes the full puzzle trail and gourmet spread, plus a curated regional wine tasting stop along your route.
Mystery Picnic + Mystery Activity: Adds a fun, surprise local attraction to your day (such as mini-golf, a maze, a local workshop, or a garden experience).
Premium Picnic: The ultimate day out, combining the full mystery picnic trail, the regional wine tasting, and the surprise mystery activity.

To ensure we can coordinate with our boutique regional suppliers and secure your gourmet items, bookings must be made at least 6 days in advance. For example, if you want to set off on your adventure on a Sunday, you will need to complete your booking before midnight on the preceding Sunday.

Our Yarra Valley Mystery Picnic can be fully customized to accommodate gluten-free, vegetarian, or pescatarian dietary preferences at no additional cost. We also do our best to accommodate pregnancy-related requirements and nut allergies upon request.

Please note that while we work closely with our local third-party providers to meet your requirements, food items are prepared in their respective kitchens, so we recommend reconfirming any severe allergies with the staff at each mystery collection point. If you have other complex dietary needs (such as vegan requests), please contact our team prior to booking as additional charges from local suppliers may apply.

To successfully navigate your adventure through the Yarra Valley, you will need to bring:
Your own car: The Yarra Valley spans a beautiful, wide geographic area, and a vehicle is required to travel between the secret artisan stops and your final picnic destination.
A charged mobile phone: You will need a smartphone with internet access to receive and solve your digital clues throughout the day. Bringing a portable phone charger is also highly recommended!
A picnic blanket or basket: While all your gourmet food, tastings, and stops are fully pre-paid and arranged, bringing along your favorite picnic blanket, cutlery, or a cooler bag will keep your items fresh and comfortable at the final scenic spot.

Absolutely! Our mystery picnics make for a fantastic family day out. The clues are fun to solve together, and we provide non-alcoholic drink alternatives and child-friendly adjustments at our stops. When configuring your booking, you can select the exact number of adults/teenagers and children (ages 4–12) in your group to ensure the basket quantities and portions are correctly prepared for your entire team.

For the Mystery Picnic Yarra Valley, undercover seating options are available, so you'll still be able to enjoy your picnic!

Our Mystery Picnic Yarra Valley can be customised to be completely gluten-free, dairy-free or vegetarian/vegan at no extra cost. When booking, please let us know which dietary requirement it is, and we will ensure all items within your picnic basket adhere to those requirements. Food items listed above may change depending on dietary requirements.

We also do our best to cater for pregnancy requirements and nut allergies when requested. For any other dietary requirements or allergies, please contact us before booking the Mystery Picnic Yarra Valley as additional fees may occur.

Please note that whilst we do our very best to comply with any dietary requirement requests, all food items are prepared by third-party suppliers. Therefore, we cannot guarantee all requests will be completely free of that particular product or allergy. Consequently, we recommend reconfirming your dietary requirements and/or allergies with the staff at each mystery stop.

Yes, absolutely! Our standard Mystery Picnic Yarra Valley package includes a glass of wine, but this can easily be replaced with a non-alcoholic drink. Please select the alcohol-free option at checkout or write a note in in the dietary requirements section so our team is aware.

Yes, of course! To ensure the fun continues, you can solve clues to find a mystery stay at a 4-to-5-star hotel or a unique holiday rental after your Mystery Picnic Yarra Valley. Pricing generally starts from $200+ a night, with breakfast options available. We can even arrange a dinner reservation at a mystery restaurant for you to enjoy on the night of your stay.

To enquire about adding mystery accommodation to your Mystery Picnic Yarra Valley booking, please contact us with your preferred dates, and we'll come back to you with a quote.

Yes, our Mystery Picnic Yarra Valley is undoubtedly family-friendly and great fun to do together! We recommend selecting either the standard Mystery Picnic or the Mystery Picnic + Mystery Activity package when doing this experience with childen. Please note that we do not charge for children under 4 years of age but just ask that you bring along some food for them to enjoy on the day. Children over 12 years of age are also considered adults on our adventures.

All bookings for the Mystery Picnic Yarra Valley need to be made 6-days in advance of your preferred adventure date. For example, if you would like to book for a Sunday, you must ensure you have booked by midnight on the Sunday prior.

Yes, you can certainly book the Mystery Picnic Yarra Valley for more than 6 people. Please contact us here to discuss available options for large group bookings for the Mystery Picnic Yarra Valley.

If booking the standard Mystery Picnic Yarra Valley package, we recommend allowing around 4.5 hours to complete, including enjoying your picnic. However, if you are adding on either a wine tasting or a mystery activity, allow up to 5.5 hours; and if you are adding both, allow up to 6.5 hours.