A new immersive entertainment attraction in Broadgate, Coventry opened its doors mid- June celebrating on the evening of Tuesday 27th June with a grand opening VIP launch party. Guests were treated to an opportunity to play an escape room of their choice, the challenge being to escape within the hour. With teams of 2 -6 players representing the local press and media, bloggers, businesses and students from nearby Universities guests had a lot of fun with some teams wanting to play rooms more than once.
Providing an ultimate adrenalin rush, with an area of over 6000sq ft, Escape Reality Coventry boasts six exciting and unique escape experiences, rated by genre – movie, crime, horror or adventure with varying levels of difficulty. The teams had to exercise a combination of logical thinking, problem-solving, communicative and teamwork skills in a race against the clock by solving mysterious and tricky puzzles, riddles and clues.
Guests raced to choose from the Jumanji-inspired Jungala room, The Heist and Murder in Whitechapel rooms or Alcatraz, The Asylum or Scarlett rooms. This new and growing in popularity type of entertainment proved a very different night out for most of the guests. Once players had escaped their rooms those who had triumphed with a record escape were given prizes, and made it on to the official leaderboard.
At the champagne launch party guests were also treated to spectacular grazing table feast. Escape Reality offers a complete experience in that it provides a relaxing social space to talk pre-escape room tactics and to mingle with fellow players after the game rooms have been played. It certainly is a true team building and bonding experience testing how colleagues, family and friends can pool their strengths and work well together. In this scenario 60 minutes does pass surprisingly quickly.
Escape rooms are a relatively new entertainment concept, but the public is driving demand for more immersive, group based activities.
The Escape team are passionate about creating an amazing experience for others. According to Escape Reality “Nothing brings us more joy than to see our rooms and ideas being enjoyed. A great deal of meticulous planning has gone into the game flow which incorporates new technology, mechanical puzzles and realistic props and we thoroughly enjoy the whole process of creating our rooms. We have also emphasised heavily on the theming of our rooms to give our customers a truly immersive and realistic experience, as though you’ve been transported into a whole different world.”
The Coventry venue joins existing Escape Reality sites in Leicester, Cardiff, Leeds, Glasgow, Dubai and Las Vegas with Chicago, Edinburgh and Birmingham also set to open later this year.
Prices range from £16-£22 per person. To book tickets visit http://www.escapereality.com/coventry/