Yesterday we tried to escape from an escape room. We aren’t t wintered escapers. This was our third escape room. The first one, around 1.5 years ago was a failure but we did escape from the second one, which was a6 or 7 months ago.
Our crew did exists out of the oldest son and his girlfriend (both 15), the youngest son (11) and my wife and me (age unknown of both of them).
It was obvious that we didn’t pick a tough one but the difficulty level was somewhere around 60%. Challenging enough for us.
The theme was the haunted office. Besides the difficulty level, it was a great room. Euhm room, it did had 5 rooms. All with their own special effects.
I guess when this would be the first escape room you play it is a very hard one. But some tricks you have learned in the previous one do help.
Here is the result:
Not too bad. The record stands on 36 minutes. And we did loose some time because some were a little bit too scared.
After that we did try a Korean BBQ. Which was also very nice! And of course a mandatory Korean beer!
We had a blast with the family which is the most important thing!
Cheers,
Peter
I've never had Korean BBQ, but it always looks so good when I see pictures of it. Nice job on the escape room. I have only ever done one once. It had two rooms, but it was still pretty cool. I think the place where it used to be shut down now which is kind of sad. I think you need to have the right market for something like that to be successful.
I do think that it is indeed hard for escape rooms to stay in business. Once you played it, you wont play that specific room again. So it is a constant struggle to find new customers.
Yes, that is a good point. Either that or you have to continuously change the layout which requires a lot of capital outlay each time. Probably more sustainable in tourist towns where you see a lot of turnover. Either than or you need to create the space ahead of time so it is easy to reconfigure. The one we went to was in an old house, so it was quite limited.
Nothing can match a time well spent with the family. Glad to see you guys didn't get stucked in that room.