7 TIPS TO GUARANTEE A QUALITY ESCAPE ROOM EXPERIENCE I’m an owner of one of the fastest growing escape room companies in the UK, called Exciting Escapes. We started just over 2 years ago and now have 16 escape rooms across 3 towns. We’ve hosted over 50,000 players and have had over…
By Alistair Smyth – Portsmouth Branch Manager Can you keep a secret? Can you keep a secret? Because this one is TOP SECRET and, should this information fall into the wrong hands, it could prove to be catastrophic. Portsmouth’s spy population Witnesses in the Portsmouth area have reported sights…
What had I signed up for? Three weeks ago I started working for Exciting Escapes in Southampton, and I was indeed excited to work somewhere I knew would be fun and different. Little did I know what I had actually signed up for. I was actually becoming part of a…
My name is Eloise and I have been the Exciting Escapes Branch Manager for Basingstoke for over a year. I have watched over 2,000 teams play our escape rooms and seen some extraordinary things! Below are some escape room hints and tips from all that I have learned; 1) Hunt…
182 days, 3015 games, 12846 customers, and an incalculable number of cups of tea later… I have completed my first six months as the Branch Manager of Exciting Escapes, Southampton! I have been taking some time to reflect on what has been one of the fastest, most jam-packed six months…
Locked up with colleagues! Granted, at first thought, spending an hour locked in a room with your colleagues may not sound like a good time, and wouldn’t normally be our idea of fun. Exciting Escapes has changed our minds! Immersion You may have heard about, or visited, escape rooms…
Fun with friends and family If I may I will start with a question – what sort of things do you do to have fun with friends and family? When I was thinking about this blog post I asked myself this same question and I came up with the following…
36 hours, nearly a hundred 8 year-olds, lots of glasses of squash….. Last week i stood in our reception watching the last of 90 or so eight year old children form a line behind their teacher, thank us in unison for a fab school trip, and then file out the store in…
Three days ago it was my birthday. I am now 44 years old. I always tend to take stock of my life at about this time and this year I realised something. I probably have one of the best jobs in the world – Escape Room owner! The best jobs…
A man came into the shop last week. We get more and more walk-ins to play and book so I walked up to say Hi. He asked me if i could help him get away this weekend. Sure thing i said – our experiences are definitely good escapism. Great he…
