Team Building Activities on the Mornington Peninsula
Most team building gets an eye-roll the moment it’s announced. Great Race is what happens when you stop accepting that. We run corporate team days, offsites, and conference activities for businesses heading to the Mornington Peninsula who want their staff to genuinely enjoy it. Since 2009, every event has been led by professional actors: trained performers who know how to hold a room and get the whole group involved, from the front-runners to the reluctant ones. We’re fully mobile, so we come to the Peninsula and run the day wherever suits you, whether that’s a Red Hill winery, a clifftop resort, or your own function room.
Team Building Activities on the Mornington Peninsula
From the town centres to the coast and the wine country, the Peninsula gives us genuinely great terrain to work with. Every one of our team building activities can run right here.
Classic Amazing Race Mornington Peninsula
Our most popular activity and the one people keep coming back to. Teams split up, take a map and a set of cryptic clues, and head out to navigate the streets, foreshores, and precincts around them. Each checkpoint delivers a new challenge: an eating competition, a construction task, a cryptic puzzle, or an unexpected detour. It’s competitive, adventurous, and puts the surroundings to work in a way that gets teams genuinely caught up in the moment. Mornington’s Main Street down to the pier, the Sorrento village, and the foreshore reserves all make excellent ground for it, and the start point, finish point, and duration are fully customisable.
Beach Amazing Race Mornington Peninsula
For teams who want to take it to the coast, the Beach Amazing Race is one of our most memorable formats. The Peninsula has some of Victoria’s best-loved beaches, and this version gets your group out and onto the sand along the bayside foreshores for a series of outdoor puzzles and challenges. It’s scenic, active, and a completely different energy from a standard city race.
Game Show Mornington Peninsula
When you want to stay indoors, the Game Show brings the same competitive energy to any private venue. Teams compete across challenges drawn from Wheel of Fortune, Sale of the Century, The Price is Right, and a music and movie sound round, hosted by a professional actor who keeps the heat on from start to finish. It works in a winery function space, a resort conference room, or anywhere with tables and floor space, which makes it a natural fit alongside an offsite or a long lunch.
Taskmaster Mornington Peninsula
Based on the hit TV show, Taskmaster throws up genuinely absurd creative challenges where there’s no obvious right answer and the results are consistently hilarious. Your host plays the Taskmaster role in full, judging every attempt with complete authority. Fast, unpredictable, and it tends to reveal surprising things about people.
Minute To Win It Mornington Peninsula
Fast-paced games using everyday objects: loud, inclusive, and surprisingly difficult. Works at any scale and in any indoor venue. One of the best ways to break the ice fast across a large or mixed group, and an easy energiser to slot into a conference or retreat agenda.
Survivor Mornington Peninsula
Inspired by the immunity challenges from the hit TV show, Survivor pits teams against each other in a series of physical and mental challenges. One goal: be the last tribe standing. Runs indoors or outdoors for groups that want real competitive stakes.
Who Is This For?
Corporate Teams and Offsites
The Mornington Peninsula is one of Victoria’s favourite places for a corporate offsite, and for good reason. It sits about an hour from Melbourne, with wineries, resorts, and coastline that make a team day feel like a genuine change of scene. The HR managers and team leaders organising those events face a familiar problem: getting a team to actually look forward to it. If the last one involved a personality quiz or a trust fall nobody asked for, we understand. We’re here to change it.
Great Race events suit any kind of corporate group. Our corporate activities work for leadership offsites, EOFY celebrations, Christmas parties, new starter onboarding, conference breakout sessions, quarterly team days, and project milestones. There’s no particular skill, fitness level, or personality type required. The activities are built so everyone finds something to genuinely enjoy, and our professional actor hosts make sure that includes the sceptics. Because we come to you, we can slot the event into a day at a Red Hill winery, a Cape Schanck resort, or wherever your offsite is based.
Conference and Incentive Groups
The Peninsula is a natural fit for a multi-day program: a conference session in the morning, an activity in the afternoon, dinner at the venue. We slot into that kind of agenda easily because we bring everything with us and work to your timings rather than ours. Groups also book us as the reward at the end of a big quarter, where the point isn’t a learning outcome, it’s a genuinely good day out.
Any Group Size, Any Venue
All our activities scale, from smaller team days to large company-wide events. For indoor formats, the Game Show, Taskmaster, and Minute To Win It run in any private venue: a winery function room, a resort conference space, or your own office. For outdoor activities like the Amazing Race, the Peninsula’s town centres, foreshores, and beaches serve as the venue. No separate booking needed. We come to you, bring everything required, and run the day. We also run team building in Melbourne and right across Australia, so multi-site teams get the same event wherever they’re based.
Why Great Race?
The short answer is our hosts. Every Great Race event is run by professional actors. Not a colleague with a microphone or a generic event facilitator, but someone trained to hold a room, manage energy, and get reluctant participants genuinely involved. It changes the character of the entire day.
Beyond that, we’ve been running events since 2009 at a volume of 500 or more per year. That experience shows in how events are planned, managed, and adjusted on the fly when they need to be. Clients come back year after year not because they have to, but because the event delivered.
We build our activities around TV formats people already know: Amazing Race, Game Show, Taskmaster, Survivor. No explanation period, no warm-up required. Everyone’s on board from the first minute.
Mornington Peninsula Team Building for Every Occasion
Our most popular Peninsula bookings include leadership offsites, EOFY celebrations, and Christmas parties, occasions where a team genuinely deserves something worth their time. We also run new starter onboarding, quarterly team days, conference breakout sessions, and milestone and anniversary events. Whatever brings your group down to the Peninsula, we’ll make sure it’s worth showing up for.
Frequently Asked Questions
We recommend booking a few weeks ahead where possible, particularly for larger groups or peak periods like EOFY and Christmas. If you're working to a shorter timeline, get in touch and we'll see what we can do.
Yes. We're fully mobile and bring everything required, so we can run the day at your chosen Peninsula venue or your own office. Just tell us where you're based and we'll build the event around it.
Our indoor formats, like the Game Show, Taskmaster, and Minute To Win It, run in any function room, so a wet day is never a problem. We can plan an indoor option from the outset or keep one ready as a backup.
Events run for groups of 10 to 500+. All activities scale without losing the energy that makes them work. Tell us your numbers and we'll recommend the format that suits your group best.
Yes. All activities are designed so that physical speed isn't the deciding factor. Teams are mixed across strengths so there's a role for everyone.
Ready to Book?
Ready to give your team a Peninsula day they’ll actually talk about? Get in touch and Great Race handles the rest.
Or you can call us at 1300 504 152