More about Escape This and the benefits of escape rooms

Perth's best Halloween attraction is back for 2022

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 06:06:37 GMT

Perth's best halloween festivities return to Escape This' Perth escape rooms in 2022

Our Halloween festivities were HUGE last year… this year’s will be BIGGER and BETTER �� Book your Perth escape room now for...⁠

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�� Trick-or-treating for the whole family, all weekend!⁠

��‍♂️ Street performers in full costume (stop and pose for a pic?) ⁠

�� The best decorations in the city... jack-o'-lanterns, ghouls, giant spiders and much, much more!⁠

�� Our Gamesmasters dressed in their Halloween best all weekend.⁠

�� A ghostly light show every night from sunset. ⁠

�� Your chance to win your escape for FREE just by dressing up.

Perth hasn't ever before seen a Halloween like ours! Grab your friends, dress up the kids, rope in your teammates or colleagues - it's going to be a blast!!

Oh yeah, and you could win your Halloween weekend escape for FREE! Read on to find out more...

�� COMPETITION ��

To encourage your inner spook this Halloween weekend, come dressed in your Halloween best, and you could win your entire team’s escape for FREE!

All you must do… grab your crew of escape artists, get them dressed in costume, rock up for your booked escape (Saturday or Sunday). If yours is the best dressed, best spirited team of the weekend, your escape will be fully reimbursed!

AND, did you know our 125-year-old Northbridge escape rooms venue is haunted?! ��⁠
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Built in 1897 for the Atkins family, the lady of the house, Emily Mary (pictured here on the right with her daughters) was the first of 12 recorded deaths ☠️ at our venue... *spooky*⁠ Fast forward to the present day and our Gamesmasters won't dare stay at the centre past midnight for fear of the things that go bump in the night: slamming doors, creaking stairs, �� and lightbulbs that disappear!⁠
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All this should paranormal activity should make for an interesting Halloween �� Dare you join us? Book here!

Boost your team's morale and productivity with an escape room!

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 03:22:11 GMT

Striving to build a more productive and co-operative team? An escape room is the ultimate solution to your needs! Read on to learn more about the teambuilding benefits of Escape This' Perth escape rooms.

Utilising escape rooms as a team building activity is a relatively new trend, especially here in Perth. Nonetheless, escape rooms are an increasingly popular option with companies (big and small!) due to the long-term morale and productivity benefits they can deliver.

Part puzzle, part mystery - an escape room immerses team members in a themed room and forces them to work together to solve a series of complex clues, riddles and puzzles within a limited timeframe; 60 minutes at Escape This , 45 minutes at some other Perth operators.

During their hour of ‘game play', teamwork plays a vital role in players’ inevitable success or failure at escaping their “locked room” adventure. Consequently, memorable working relationship are established between colleagues. This teamwork when paired with the other benefits of escape rooms allows companies to test out the degree of co-operation of their employees while promoting other soft skills that contribute to productivity and problem-solving techniques in individuals.

At Escape This, our Perth escape rooms have proved to work wonders for corporate teams from the likes of BHP, Rio Tinto, Deloitte, Water Corp, and even the Western Australian Government. Some of these benefits include:

SETTING COMMON GOALS

Teams have a common goal in any escape room - to escape! Throughout their 60-minute escape experience, participants must work together to complete a series of short tasks which ultimately lead to escaping the room. It is just like a project with milestones and interim targets. Each team is motivated to cooperate under the pressure of time to reach a winning conclusion, and in doing so they analyse the risks ahead of them and cooperate with one other to finish tasks before the deadline.

CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Companies use escape rooms as a tool to analyse employees and their potential to deal with differing solutions in an enjoyable and non-confrontational environment. Our escape rooms encourage team members to engage in on-the-spot decision making and compare their thought processes with that of their colleagues. Dealing with non-work-related problems encourages individuals to be more adventurous with their solutions and willing to adopt techniques used by others. This can have a significant long-term benefit for both the individual employee and their working team.

ENGAGEMENT & LEARNING

Research shows that people who play games and solve problems are both more inquisitive and more open to new ideas; together, this results in more adaptable, more logically minded problem-solving techniques. Here at Escape This, our Perth escape rooms force your team to switch gears and to think through problems or puzzles like never before, to don their 'creative thinking caps’ and brainstorm solutions to the clues they are presented.

So... why team build in an escape room?

This fun activity promotes teamwork and cooperation
Flexes your team's lateral thinking muscles
Allows emerging leaders to rise to the top
Allows for healthy competition amongst teams
It’s a super fun way to get your team out of the office!

To learn more about escape rooms as a team building exercise, or to discuss hosting your next team building exercise with Escape This, contact our team now . Or...

UPGRADED: an all-new Dracula

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 06:07:58 GMT

An all-new hell has been unleased in our upgraded Dracula Perth escape room.

Dracula, Australia’s toughest escape room has a had a head-to-toe makeover! At our Northbridge venue right in the heart of the Perth CBD, you can live out your cult horror fantasies in the city's only Dracula themed escape room, now with a new look, new puzzles, new clues, new horrors… new everything!

Well, maybe not new everything... the battle against all things evil (including the undead!) is still at the heart of our Dracula escape room!

The recent discovery of Dacula’s tomb devoid of remains has archaeologists puzzled. Not you though! As the guardian of vampire hunter Van Helsing’s journal, you know Dracula’s presumed death was little more than supernatural trickery and that he spends every evening of his damned eternity searching for his undead bride, Victoria.

Lost to the annuls of time until now, Van Helsing’s journal hints at the secret location of the Bride of Dracula’s imprisonment – a crypt located somewhere in the graveyard of the Monastery of Brașov.

You MUST now find this secret crypt and do whatever it takes to prevent Count Dracula from being reunited with his Bride to wreak bloody revenge for their separation.

You have until the blood moon rises…

Dare you enter?

Nothing says spooky quite like Friday the 13th!

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Mon, 09 May 2022 23:21:29 GMT

This Friday the 13th, taunt fate with a totally terrifying Perth escape room at Escape This!

Nothing says spooky quite like Friday the 13th — that rare date when the calendar aligns and all our superstitions and phobias come out to play. In fact, it's a day so fearsome there is an actual scientific term for the phobia of it: friggatriskaidekaphobia ! Try saying that real fast, we dare you!

Home to Perth's best-rated, totally immersive Horror themed escape rooms, we at Escape This love Friday the 13th, naturally. But why is Friday the 13th considered so scary in the first place? The answer is a complicated tangle of numerology, folklore, history, and good old superstition. But let’s take it one detail at a time.

13, the unluckiest number

Humans have always had a strange fascination with numbers and the idea that some carry occult significance and attract dark superstitions — from the “devil’s number,” 666, to the witching hour , 3am. The number 13 may be the darkest of them all, however. Maybe you’ve lived in a building with no 13th floor, or boarded a plane without a row 13?. Maybe you’ve read of people whose obsession with the number tormented them — like master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock who was born on the 13th of August.

For much of recorded history, the number 13 has been associated with Jesus and his 12 disciples at the Last Supper, which brought them all together, with Judas being received as the 13th guest (and we know how that turned out.) Likewise, the story of the Last Supper also coincides with a similar story in Norse mythology in which Loki crashed a Valhalla dinner party as the 13th guest, bringing immediate chaos and destruction with him. So we have Loki and Judas to blame for the number 13 long being considered sinister.

The fear is very real

In fact, fear of Friday the 13th is so real that one scientific name wasn't enough! Nope. The fear of Friday the 13th is scientifically called both friggatriskaidekaphobia AND paraskevidekatriaphobia!

Experts say that friggatriskaidekaphobia affects millions of people and estimate that businesses, especially airlines, suffer from severe losses on Friday the 13th. And triskaidekaphobia, or the fear of the number 13, is even more widespread. So much so that many high-rise buildings, hotels, and hospitals skip the 13th floor, and many airports do not have gates numbered 13. In many parts of the world, having 13 people at the dinner table is considered especially bad luck, bound to result in the death of one guest within 12 months!

The Day Inspired One of the Highest-Grossing Film Franchises

The billion dollar grossing Friday the 13th franchise includes 12 horror slasher films, a television series, and several books that focus on curses and superstitions - each earning a cult following, so much so that the mask worn by the key character in the movies, Jason Voorhees, is one of the most recognised objects in popular culture.

Friday the 13th at Escape This

From the halls of our haunted heritage building in Northbridge, Escape This offers Perth’s best-rated escape rooms across totally immersive Horror and family-friendly Adventure themes.

This Friday the 13th (the only one in 2022!) we are GIVING AWAY three of our awesome Perth escape room sessions for you and up to 11 friends (subject to our standard room capacity limits). Will you choose to play The Haunting , The Possession , or if the thought of Australia’s most terrifying escape rooms are too much to bear, we’re offering up a Pirate Island escape also.

For your chance to win, enter via the link below before 5.59pm AWST on Thursday 12 May!

Escape rooms playing all Easter Long Weekend

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 02:42:35 GMT

Looking for something EPIC to keep you entertained this Easter long weekend? Play one of Perth's favourite escape rooms at Escape This!

Under the spotlight, draw the curtain, enter the door… Worlds of Adventure await you and your team of wannabe escapees everyday this Easter Long Weekend in our totally immersive Perth escape rooms !

Let's be honest, there isn't much to do in Perth on Public Holidays when the whole city seems to shutdown. And let's not even start on Good Friday! We get it, Perth is boring on public holidays unless you are a beach bum... which is why our totally immersive escape rooms are open all Easter long weekend, to offer the entire family an EPIC experience they won't soon forget!

At Escape This, we open every day over the Easter Long Weekend from 9am to 10pm! SO... our Adventure and Horror themed escape rooms are an easy choice when you are looking for things to do in Perth for Easter .

Our escape rooms are open and playing for all of these long weekend public holidays :

Good Friday

Easter Saturday

Easter Sunday

Easter Monday

Easter Tuesday

So what are you waiting for? Grab your friends, harness some of the kids' chocolate-fuelled energy and book an Escape This escape room, conveniently located right in the heart of the Perth CBD, for the Easter long weekend.

Perth's best-rated escape rooms, our Northbridge venue is packed to the brim with exciting escape rooms across family friendly Adventure themes, and Horror themes to spook even the gruffest of adults! So if you're looking for a thrilling Easter long weekend activity in Perth, you've come to the right place; Escape This has escape rooms to keep you occupied for hours!

Worlds of Adventure await these school holidays

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 03:00:03 GMT

Book a Perth escape room these April Easter school holidays!

WA’s term 2 school holidays run April 09 – April 25 and include Easter and ANZAC Day; that’s two weeks and a handful of public holidays that your kids expect YOU to keep them entertained! So let us help, let us lock the kids up in our totally immersive Perth escape rooms.

Behind each of our escape room doors, we allow our players to create their own adventure, dictate how their story ends, and bring some of the kids’ school friends along for the ride at the same time! Book your family one of our Adventure themed escape rooms these holidays and we’ll give them an experience they’ll still be bragging about at show and tell when school goes back.

Plus, our escape rooms are designed so you that you can sneak in a little mid-holiday education cleverly disguised as an AMAZING FUN TIME as kids and families improve their communication, team buildin g, and problem-solving skills. It’s holiday education without all the moaning about maths homework and “boring” reading – sounds perfect to us.

BUT DO KIDS REALLY HAVE THAT MUCH FUN AT ESCAPE THIS?

Kids have an absolute blast playing our Perth escape rooms! In fact, at Escape Thi s , kids have an amazing time solving puzzles, completing tasks, and having full and totally uninhibited fun… sometimes their inquisitive nature even has them doing better than the adults!

Our escape rooms are a totally immersive experience full of whimsy, fun, laughter, and fast-paced problem-solving; what about that wouldn’t your kids love?!?

IS ESCAPE THIS A FUN EXPERIENCE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY?

Of course! In an escape situation, you will be met with a myriad of different challenges, including problem-solving, leadership, communication, and a need to find solutions fast for problems that need to be solved within a certain time frame. For families, this is an experience that can bring the members together to enjoy an experience that a simple board game cannot duplicate. Grandparents, parents, teens, and children over the age of 9 years ALL have a blast playing together at Escape Thi s, just read our 1000+ 5-star Google r s eview!

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN AN ESCAPE THIS ESCAPE?

Your choice of a totally immersive themed room
60-minutes of adrenaline pumping fun
Valid for two to 10 players
Available 7 days per week, from 9am until much too late for children ;-)
OPEN EVERY PUBLIC HOLIDAY - Easter and ANZAC Day

AND OUR ESCAPE ROOMS?

Kids absolutely love our Adventure themed Perth escape rooms including:

�� The Wizards Chamber

�� Bank Heist

�� The President's Briefcase

��‍☠️ Pirates

�� Pirate Island

Dare you enter these school holidays? We promise worlds of adventure await you!

Celebrate Employee Appreciation Day at Escape This

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:53:45 GMT

Show your staff how much they are appreciated with a day of Escape Room fun this Employee Appreciation Day!

Did you know that the first Friday of March is Employee Appreciation Day?! That's right, an official day set aside to celebrate the successes of your team, which in 2022 happens to fall on March 04. But how to celebrate, you ask? Book a Perth escape room team building exercise!

It's probably no surprise that we at Escape This take Employee Appreciation Day very seriously. Recognising and celebrating employees' great work - both our own team, but also all of our corporate clients' employees too - is at the core of our business!

Each year on Employee Appreciation Day, employers around the world make the extra effort to appreciate their employees’ effort and dedication. Over the past 20 years, an increasing number of companies have embraced this occasion to recognise the achievements and contributions of their employees with special events , corporate gifts (Perth escape room gift vouchers , make a great corporate gift FYI), and even surprise parties or excursions.

Now you know we love Employee Appreciation Day, but why is it important to your organisation? Read on to find out!

Most work weeks are focused on business objectives, decisions from management, or customer issues. Employee Appreciation Day, on the other hand, is one day in 365 that is dedicated just to the teams and employees that keep your busy running every single day.

Even just a little bit of recognition can make a big impact on employee motivation. Research shows that feeling appreciated increases morale, improves engagement, and reduces turnover. In particular, employee recognition has been proven to boost oxytocin levels—that’s the chemical our bodies create when we bond socially! Additionally, a study undertaken by the hospitality industry found a strong correlation between employee engagement and guest satisfaction.

It sounds like a little employee appreciation goes a long way, doesn't it? Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson certainly thinks so, going so far as to say: “ Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients. ”

How can you make your employees feel especially appreciated on this day? Escape Rooms of course!

What better way to get your team working together towards an end goal - all the while laughing and/or screaming as that oxytocin (and adrenaline!) pumps - than to have them ushered into a dark room, lock the door behind them and insist they work together to flee their totally immersive escape room!

AND, unlike traditional team building activities and corporate events, our centrally located Perth CBD escape rooms provide an adrenaline pumping hour of brain-teasing activity that your team members will actually be excited about !

As Perth’s best rated, most immersive escape rooms, you can be sure Escape This really will have your team escape reality this Employee Appreciation Day, if only for an hour or two!

So... why book your team an escape room this Employee Appreciation Day?

This fun activity promotes teamwork and cooperation
Flexes your team's lateral thinking muscles
Allows emerging leaders to rise to the top
Allows for healthy competition amongst teams
It’s a super fun way to get your team out of the office!

All that, plus a discounted corporate escape room rate for groups of 15 or more players. What are you waiting for?! Book your team an escape this Employee Appreciation Day!

New escape rooms for the new year!

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 05:00:09 GMT

We're going bigger and better at Escape This in 2022 with all new Perth escape rooms launching!

We might already offer 10 of the most immersive, best customer rated escape rooms in Perth, but that's not enough for us here at Escape This ! Nope, we want more - more immersion, more thrills, more adventure... and the only way to achieve this is with MORE ROOMS.

That's right, we are launching even more totally immersive escape rooms in 2022!

Our Backstage Team (props and tech) are working tirelessly to get not one, not two, not even three, but SIX new rooms ready for launch over the next 10 months. And boy, are we excited about these new rooms!

Read on to find out which all-new escape rooms we have in the works for our Perth escapees...

SCHOOL OF MAGIC - A sequel to our ever popular The Wizard's Chamber , over Professor Spate's snivelling drawl, the occasional bang of a spell gone wrong draws your attention to the windows. Then, boom - a flash of purple or green or a glint of gold lights up the treeline on the horizon. That's it! That's where you'd rather be! How to sneak out of Spate's class though... that's the real challenge.

CONVICTED - Wrongfully convicted and now an inmate at the maximum security Wattle Hill State Prison, you spend your days hoping to uncover the plot that led to your false imprisonment. And just like that, you've got a clue and it looks like the Prison Warden is involved - now to prove it! The lights are out, you’ve got one hour before the guards' next rounds...

SUPER SOLDIER - For over a decade now, the Eden Corporation has been operating in the shadows of genetic science. With a mission statement that simply reads "to perfect humankind", accusations of human testing are rife among the broader scientific community, and though the rumours have never substantiated, you know better... can you escape the Eden Corporation's laboratory, or will you find yourself a lab rat in Eden’s next round of trials?

CAPTAIN NEMO - A giant sea monster stalking the depths of the seven seas; a scientific expedition sent to investigate; an electric powered submarine; an eccentric captain... what could possibly go wrong? You’ve got one hour to save the Nautilus and your crew…

DEATH ROW - So you escaped being Buried Alive ... how will you fare now in the electric chair?! Upping the ante, Death Row will be the single MOST EXTREME escape room in the world! Launching at Escape This in 2022.

HIGH NOON - After a daring stagecoach heist, you ran afoul of the Sheriff and find yourself locked up in the county gaol. Fortunately for you, an old associate on the force has heard of your predicament. With him looking the other way, now’s your chance to escape! Can you escape, or will you hang at noon?

From escaping Captain Nemo's sinking Nautilus to a Wizard's Chamber sequel, 2022 is the year of ADVENTURE at Escape This! Stay tuned...

Make it one to remember, gift an Escape Rooms voucher this Valentine's Day

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:47:57 GMT

We've got your Valentine's Day gift wrapped and ready with Escape This escape rooms voucher.

It's almost Valentine's Day! Are you feeling the love, or are you one of those last-minute romantics who hasn’t yet put any thought into a gift?! Don’t fret, we’ve got your back with a gift that won't soon be forgotten... our Valentine's Escape Room gift vouchers!

Escape rooms are an on-trend date night activity that has all of Perth talking (have you seen our features in Urban List Perth, Perth Is Ok!, Destination Perth, and Hello Perth?!), and our fully immersive themed rooms are the ultimate example!

With a diverse mix of Adventure and Horror themed escape rooms on offer, we’ve got a voucher to suit every type or romantic, from budding romantics to long-time committed couples, those married with kids, or even just close friends! For all romantics at heart, our escape rooms are a great way to create shared memories that last a lifetime... we've even set the scene for a couple of engagements!!

So, what should your significant other expect from an Escape This experience?

From start to finish, our escape room sessions are filled with fully immersive fanfare and fancy. Our Gamesmasters welcome all escapers before orating a safety briefing. Challengers are then led into their escape room… Haunted mansion ? Dracula’s tomb ? Bank vault ? Pirate ship ? We offer an escape room to excite every type of escaper! Then, when the door is locked and the countdown commences, it’s up to the two of you to search every nook and cranny for clues, using logical thinking and their finest puzzle solving skills as they do to blitz the challenges and make it out before their hour ends.

Escape This Gift Vouchers

Give the gift of Adventure with an Escape This gift voucher , the perfect Valentine's Day gift! Starting from just $40, our gift vouchers can been redeemed across any of our awe-inspiring escape rooms (find out more about them here )!

How to redeem an Escape This gift voucher

Gift vouchers can be redeemed online via our BOOKINGS PAGE , or over the phone with our Box Office bookings team. If you’ve received one of our eVouchers or gift vouchers, you can redeem it by simply entering the unique voucher code at checkout. Just select the escape room experience and available time that appeals most to your sense of adventure, then add it to your cart. At checkout, you will see the option to enter a gift voucher code; here, add the code and continue the steps at checkout. Once payment is complete, you will receive an email confirming your booking details and you are good to play!

For Valentine's Day, make it a date night at Escape This

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 02:20:09 GMT

Whether you’re fanning the flames of new love, already partnered for life, or just spending the day with close friends – playing one of our totally immersive escape rooms will make for a Valentine’s Day you won’t soon forget!

Valentine's Day is just around the corner and we're feeling the love at Escape This! But are you… or are you one of those last-minute romantics who hasn’t yet made plans?! Don’t fret, we’ve got romance enough to share!

Whether you’re fanning the flames of new love, already partnered for life, or just spending the day with close friends – playing one of our totally immersive escape rooms will make for a Valentine’s Day you won’t soon forget!

We're one of the only escape room operators in Perth to offer two player Adventure and Horror escape rooms. For Valentine’s Day, our Adventure themed rooms are a hoot for couple looking for an hour of fun, while our Horror rooms are sure to bring you closer together, even if that means huddled together screaming in the corner ��

But the best part about Valentine’s Day at Escape This is that our escape rooms are guaranteed fun for any relationship status:

JUST FRIENDS , because being single doesn’t mean you can’t have fun on Valentine’s Day, right?! Whether it’s a boys’ night out or a party with the whole squad, gather a group of your favourite people, throw in a bit of friendly competition, and see how well you work together to beat the clock and escape our rooms. With rooms accommodating 2-12 players, we’ve got a room to suit any group of friends.

BUDDING ROMANTICS , because new love is sometimes shy, oftentimes awkward but always sweet! There is no better way to test your compatibility with a new flame than in a fully immersive escape room experience working together to solve puzzles to escape the room, then revelling in sweet success. Worried it might be awkies? Make it less so with a group date! Since an escape room is a multi-player game, call on couples you know or play matchmaker with those two lovebirds who can’t seem to get a clue.

GOING STEADY , because couples in serious and committed relationship need a bit of fun on the side too! Escape rooms are known for their ability to facilitate a communication and teamwork, and, at Escape This, teamwork and communication are key to escaping our rooms, while having a blast living out a totally immersive fantasy reality. So strengthen your communication skills with your significant other in a fun way this Valentine’s Day with an escape room!

PLUS, situated in the heart of Northbridge, Escape This is perfectly positioned for you to extend your date by grabbing a cheeky bite to eat and a bottle of bubbles before or after your escape! And to make the choice easier for you, we've collaborated with three local eateries where you will receive special discounts or even FREE DRINKS on the day of your escape! Check out our partner offer flyer here .

Never played an escape room before or made other plans for the February 14?! Don’t stress, we offer gift-vouchers , so you can play whenever you're feeling brave enough. Plus, our gift vouchers make the PERFECT Valentine’s Gift… who isn’t going to remember a voucher for a Bank Heist or a double date with our Cannibal!!

With 10 different escape rooms to play right in the heart of the Perth CBD, Escape This is the place to be this Valentine’s Day .

Set sail for Pirate Island these school holidays

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 00:35:12 GMT

Escape This launches Pirate Island , a new Adventure themed escape room right in the heart of the Perth CBD

Set sail for Pirate Island these Perth school holidays!

Our newest adventure-themed escape room, Pirate Island takes total immersion to a whole new level with a white sand beach, jetty, and pirate captain’s cabin built at our Northbridge escape rooms centre right in the heart of the Perth CBD.

It’s not all sandy toes and palm trees though. No!

A palm-fringed, powder-white sand beach stretching as far as the eye can see; the sound of waves crashing against a distant reef… it could be the perfect holiday… if only you weren’t trapped in Calico Jack’s treasure island cabin!

The air thick with the smell of spilled rum and gunpowder, through the barred window you can see on the horizon a ship approaching, one flying the Jolly Roger.

It’s Calico Jack! No doubt on his way back to the cabin for you!

Can you escape with the pirate captain’s treasure before his ship makes shore, or are you destined to forever be a prisoner in paradise? You’ll have to don your thinking caps to find the clues and solve the puzzles if you want to escape Pirate Island! Learn more at www.escapepirateisland.com.au .

Perfect for players aged 9+, Pirate Island is an adventure themed escape room fit for the whole family!

60 minutes to escape... or find yourself a Prisoner in Paradise.

And did you know, Pirate Island is the sequel escape room to our fan favourite Pirates room?! Find out more about Pirates here . Who knows, you might even want to book both back-to-back!

What Makes A Great Escape Room?!

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 00:47:56 GMT

Escape rooms have become extremely popular, but not all escape rooms are created equal!

Escape room games have become extremely popular around the world, and this increased popularity is driving a growing number of new escape room openings in Australia. While this means Australian escapers have more opportunity to play new escape rooms, it is also means that its easier than ever to get ripped off!

So how can you tell whether you’re about to experience a high-production escape room or a low-budget cop-out? With the line between a high-end and low-end escape room becoming so fuzzy in the blur of new openings, we want to show you the signs to keep an eye out for when booking your next escape room.

Helpful Booking Agents and Gamesmasters

If you’ve got questions prior to making a booking and you’re not happy with the answers you are getting from the escape room operator’s booking agents – run for the hills! These people should know everything there is to know about their escape rooms and promised experience; if they don’t, that just goes to show a lack of care or interest.

Likewise, great Gamesmasters are a major key to high quality escape rooms. Gamesmasters should not be making things too easy for you, but they should also not be leaving your team stranded when you need that extra push to solve a puzzle that has your team at a standstill. A good Gamesmaster will help put your team on the right path when you are straying from the objective without telling you exactly what you need to do. There is a thin line between being too helpful and not helpful enough.

Themes, Themes, Themes

Every escape game needs a theme. The most enjoyable aspect of an escape room is the feeling that you are immersing yourself in an alternate reality. Having a room theme helps you become a part of the story and act out your very own real-life movie. A high-quality escape room operator understands this and will come up with fun and intriguing themes to give you the best experience possible. If an escape room operator offers overly generic escape room themes, this is an indication you mightn’t be in for the best possible escape experience.

The easiest way to determine whether an escape room operator’s themes are up to scratch is to ask yourself whether you feel excited by the prospect of playing any of their rooms… if you’ve done your research on their website and social media and the answer is no, find another operator.

Full Immersion

You enter an escape room expecting an alternate reality, and that’s exactly what you should get! If the key to your escape is finding a pirate’s treasure chest on a deserted island , you shouldn’t find yourself walking on a carpeted floor, should you?! Likewise, a digital clock is going to be out of place in a Victorian era study… and Alice in Wonderland ’s rabbit hole shouldn’t have a crisp white ceiling with bright white LED downlights. Unfortunately, things like this happen way more often than they should, and they’re a sure-fire indication an escape room operator cut corners.

Here at Escape This , we pride ourselves on the movie set quality of our escape rooms. Playing Pirates ? You better believe you’ll be entering the wooden hull of a galleon. Buried Alive ? Yes, we really will put you in a coffin! TOTAL IMMERSION is our promise to you, and you'll find it in every single one of our escape rooms.

Functional Games and Clues

This one should be straightforward – if the clues or puzzles in your escape room don’t work or don’t make sense, this is a definite red flag. In addition, clues should not be so complex and difficult that you are forced to do complex equations or are having to randomly guess your answers. The entire functionality of an escape room is based on a sequence of clues to solve – how can you make your escape if you can’t solve the clues?

Word of Mouth

Want a quick and easy metric by which to measure the quality of an escape room?! Check their online reviews. Google, Facebook, TripAdvisor… if you’re not seeing a sea of 5-star reviews this means escapers are leaving unimpressed, and you might too! Fortunately for you, Escape This has 800+ 5-star Google reviews, and 5-star average ratings on TripAdvisor and Facebook. There’s a reason we are known as Perth’s best-rated, most immersive escape room operator!

So next time you think about purchasing tickets to an escape room, keep these factors in mind. If ever in doubt, you can always rely on Escape This to provide the most professional, most immersive experience possible.

Fear is Back...

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:01:16 GMT

NOW PLAYING: The Possession horror escape room!

ESCAPE THIS HAS JUST UPPED THE ANTE FOR HORROR THEMED ESCAPE ROOMS !

Our heritage listed Northbridge escape centre just got a whole lot scarier with the launch of our ninth escape room, The Possession .

Here at Escape Thi s, we deliver fully immersive escape room experiences unlike anything else anywhere in Perth. And this is why we're home to the hardest escape room in Australia, Dracula , with only a 3% escape rate, and the most extreme room, Buried Alive , which pushes players to their emotional, physical and mental limits - all while locked in a coffin!

At the site of twelve macabre deaths over its 124 years history, Perth’s most haunted house has beckoned you back inside, but for what purpose? This is the premise of The Possession , and it promises to be Perth’s most chilling, most macabre escape room… sure to send chills down the spine of even the hardest nerved escaper.

A decade since your last escape, there’s an even greater sense of unease in the dank and heavy air of Atkins House. Things have certainly changed since your last encounter, and this time around the house is out to make sure you don’t escape!

The sequel escape room to our bestselling The Haunting , The Possession ups the ante on horror themes, gore, and as requested …JUMP SCARES... to become the most terrifying escape room experience in Australia. Learn more at www.thepossession.com.au .

FEAR IS BACK… dare you enter?

Here's A Tip...

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 04:36:56 GMT

Let us give you a clue or two on how to improve your chances of escaping an Escape Room

Too many people forget that Escape Rooms are a game of strategy. Yes, it helps to be a great puzzle or problem solver, but take it from us, the real key to escaping the chilling grasp of The Dark Lord or Dracula is using strategies that will get your team to work together in the smartest, most efficient manner possible.

As any experienced escaper will tell you, escape rooms can be very difficult if you aren’t aware of the best practices to successfully escape. So, let us talk you through the main strategies that will improve your chances of escaping.

Strategy #1: Communicate

This is key!! Our rooms are designed to be fully immersive and we know it’s easy to get in the zone and forget you are locked in with an entire team who is there with the same goal – escape! Why wouldn’t you work together to give you the best chance at escape?!

As they say, two brains are better than one, so use as many of them as you can. If you find a clue, make sure to communicate this with your team because it is very possible they have other pieces of the puzzle that connect to your clue. Likewise, if you find yourself stuck with a specific clue or puzzle, ask the rest of your team for help. Sometimes all you need is another set of eyes that will see things differently. Don’t hesitate to ask your friends for help.

Strategy #2: Search High and Low

In our escape rooms, almost anything goes. Hidden rooms, secret doors, concealed drawers and other clues are deceptively hidden throughout every escape room. This means that it is especially important to take a good hard look at your surroundings. There is ALWAYS more than meets the eye – turn things around, flip them over, hold them up to the light – and you might just find a pleasant (or not so pleasant depending on which of our Horror rooms you’ve got yourself locked up in) surprise. Just make sure not to take this too far! If you are trying to force something, that means you are veering off track. AND, we never hide clues beneath the floorboards or above doorframe height, so don’t go pulling at the chandelier or tearing up the Persian rug… they’re props, not clues. Duh.

Strategy #3: Use the Candles

If you find a candle in any of our escape rooms, light it up from the bottom and use it as an additional light source… you never know what clues hide in the dark corners and crevices of our rooms. This one seems quite a logical tip, but you’d be surprised how many teams forget to use the candles.

Strategy #4: Divide and Conquer

Once the countdown begins, you only have 60 minutes to escape, so effectively using what resources you have at your disposal is especially important. And what are the most valuable resources in any escape room? YOUR TEAMMATES! Team members should be spread throughout the room looking for different clues and puzzles to solve. If multiple people spend too much time in certain parts of the room, you may be missing out on other important clues. But remember, communication is key to success so talk it out!!

Strategy #5: Use Clues When You Need Them

Yes, it is an impressive feat to complete an escape room with zero clues, but doing so is very unlikely, and might even cost you your successful escape. Don’t have too much pride to ask for clues! In nearly every escape room game, your group will come to a stalemate where you do not know how to proceed. When you need that extra little hint, ask for a clue. Have your team wave at our CCTV camera and one of our eagle-eyed Gamesmaster will drop you the clue you need to hopefully help you along your way.

If you haven’t yet successful escaped one our Escape Rooms, we hope this post helps get you there. Next time you step into an escape room, keep these strategies in mind and be ready to execute. You’ve got one hour... good luck!

Gift Adventure this Festive Season

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 08:06:38 GMT

An Escape This gift voucher opens the door to Worlds of Adventure...

Love the thrill of an escape room experience?! Think your family and friends might also get a kick out of racing against the clock to free themselves? Gift an Escape This gift voucher this Christmas and bring them in on the adventure!

Escape rooms are an on-trend adventure activity that have all of Perth talking (Urban List Perth, Perth Is Ok!, Destination Perth, Hello Perth… we’ve been featured by them all!), and are our fully immersive themed rooms are the ultimate example; there's a reason we are the best customer rated escape rooms operator in Western Australia!

For experienced escapees, an Escape This gift voucher makes for the ideal gift. Even if they’ve beaten all of our rooms, you can rest assured we’re always working hard on our next room launch, so there’s plenty of opportunity to redeem a voucher. Or get a latecomer through our doors with an escape room gift voucher and let us turn them into an expert!

With a diverse mix of escape rooms on offer, we’ve got a voucher to suit everyone, from children right through to grandparents! Whether you take on one of our one-hour challenges with a group of mates, colleagues, family or significant other, our escape rooms are a great way to create shared memories that last a lifetime.

So, what should your recipient expect from an Escape This experience?

From start to finish, our escape room sessions are filled with fully immersive fanfare and fancy. Our Gamesmasters welcome all wannabe escapees before orating a safety briefing. Challengers are then led into their escape room… Haunted mansion ? Dracula’s tomb ? Bank vault ? Pirate ship ? We offer an escape room to excite every type of escaper!

Then, when the door is locked and the countdown commences, it’s up to the players to search every nook and cranny for clues, using logical thinking and their finest puzzle solving skills as they do to blitz the challenges and make it out before their hour ends.

Escape This Gift Vouchers

Give the gift of Adventure an Escape This gift vouche r , the perfect present for anyone and any occasion. Starting from $40, our gift vouchers can been redeemed by your recipient towards any of our awe-inspiring escape rooms (find out more about them here ). You can also purchase several gift vouchers online at a time if you’re looking for multiple gifts for family, friends or even for corporate gifting!

How to use an Escape This gift voucher

Gift vouchers can be redeemed online via our BOOKINGS PAGE , or over the phone with Box Office bookings team. If you’ve received one of our eVouchers or gift vouchers, you can redeem it by simply entering the unique voucher code at checkout. Simply select the escape room experience and available time that appeals most to your sense of adventure, then add it to your cart. At checkout, you will see the option to enter a gift voucher code; here, add the code and continue the steps at checkout. Once payment is complete, you will receive an email confirming your booking details.

Festival of Spooks round-up

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 07:53:47 GMT

Perth's Spookiest Halloween event is set to return in 2022...

T he spookiest time of year has come and gone, but this year’s Halloween is one all of Perth will talking about for a long time to come!

Having kicked off on the Friday before Halloween, Escape This’ heritage listed Northbridge escape rooms centre was transformed into the freakiest ‘Haunted House’ Perth has ever seen.

Encased in spiderwebs, guarded by the skeletons of failed escapees, swarmed by vampire bats, and with more jack-o-lanterns than pumpkins in a pumpkin patch, 48 Lake Street was a spooky sigh t to behold over the Halloween weekend, and that’s without mention of our ghostly light show and the actual ghosts paranomal investigators, Etheral Sisters Paranormal, uncovered on the night!

Like our building and costume-loving gamesmasters, we asked Halloween escapers to ‘dress up and turn up’ at our Halloween festival of spooks and boy did our customers deliver! From ungodly nuns to sheets ghosts and characters from the Saw film franchise, we witnessed a plethora of spooks enter our escape rooms. We were so impressed in fact; we’ve put photos below for your amazement too!

A worldwide first, our Witching Hour midnight escape room sessions were a HUGE success too! Every one of our rooms – Horror and Adventure themed – ran at midnight on All Hallows’ Eve, which does, at least in part, explain why Halloween 2021 was our busiest weekend on record!

For those that joined us in celebrating Halloween 2021, thank you for your enthusiasm! To everybody else, we hope to see you in 2022 when we take Halloween to new, spookier heights!

Halloween Escape Rooms

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 02:27:10 GMT

A Halloween like never before in Perth...

Less than a week to go until Halloween! And w hat does Perth's best escape rooms operator have planned to mark the occasion?

Well, next weekend, you can expect...

�� Trick-or-treating for the whole family, all weekend!

��‍♂️ Street performers in full costume (stop and pose for a pic?)

�� The best decorations in the city... jack-o'-lanterns, ghouls, giant spiders and much, much more!

�� Our Gamesmasters dressed in their Halloween best all weekend.

�� Midnight escape sessions (super limited availability, BOOK YOURS NOW !)

�� A ghostly light show every night from sunset.

Perth hasn't ever before seen a Halloween like ours! Grab your friends, dress up the kids, rope in your teammates or colleagues - it's going to be a blast!!

Oh yeah, and you could win your Halloween weekend escape for FREE! Read on to find out more...

�� C O M P E T I T I O N ��

To encourage your inner spook this Halloween weekend, come dressed in your Halloween best, and you could win your entire team’s escape for FREE!

To find our more about our Halloween festivities, visit our Halloween page .

Wracking your brain for end-of-year event ideas? Here we are!

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 23:00:02 GMT

Book an escape this festive season!

The festive season is very nearly upon us, and if our end-of-year event bookings are any indication, it’s going to be a crazy busy one at Escape This!

The holidays are all about spending time with the people closest to you – whether that’s family, friends, your sports team, or colleagues – and that usually means parties or functions! While large gatherings and mass events might still be a bit a risky post-COVID, it is more important than ever to engage in activities that keep us connected and engaged… and what better activity to do that than an escape room?!

Let’s take a look at some of the reasons that escape rooms are the perfect end-of-year get-together activity.

Escape rooms are FUN for all

Unlike traditional team building activities and corporate events (think your family-friendly Adventure World picnic, a personality workshop, Friday afternoon drinks at The Royal, or a "motivational speaker"... *yawn*), escape rooms provide an adrenaline pumping hour of brain-teasing activity that your team members will actually be excited about!

Escape the 9 to 5 rut

Perth’s best rated, most immersive escape rooms really will have you escape reality! For the one hour that you are locked in your room, nothing else matters. You’ve become part of a story and your sole objective is to put on your detective hat and escape the room; all other distractions in your life will have to wait. Forget that excel spreadsheet that’s been driving you crazy, or that tomorrow is bin day – you have a mission to complete! Because of this, escape rooms are a great way to refresh and reset your mind while having a great time.

Escape Rooms are a Great Bonding Experience

Nowadays, it’s increasingly difficult to fully engage with your friends, family and colleagues. Working from home, social distancing, and tech dependency have all put a screen – electronic or Perspex – between us.

Escape rooms provide the perfect environment to undo that... to fully engage with others. Upon walking into your escape room, you and your team are fully immersed in your surroundings. To achieve your objective and escape the room, you must communicate with the people in your group to find clues and solve puzzles.

What better way to get your team working together towards an end goal - all while fine-tuning their soft skills and creative thinking processes - than to have them ushered into a dark room, lock the door behind them and insist they work together to flee their... Escape Room!

All Escape This Bookings Are Private

At Escape This, all escape room games are private. It’s your room, your team, your challenge, your hour. This isn’t a COVID measure, it’s just our policy here at Escape This.

The only strangers you’re going to meet in our rooms are Dracula or our pirate captain, Calico Jack, if you’re unlucky in your escape! Otherwise, your bookings is entirely your own. And because of it, your experience is more intimate, more immersive. No need to break the ice with strangers like at other escape room centres; you and your team are good to jump into the action the second we lock the door behind you.

Unlike bowling, golfing, or even a pub Christmas party, when you book an Escape This escape room for your end-of-year event, we GUARANTEE you will be the only people in the room!

Extend your Experience with our Bar & Restaurant Partners

We know you’ll want to extend the fun of your end-of-year escape room fun, so this year we’ve partnered with some brilliant local bars and restaurants to secure you some AWESOME deals on food & beverage before or after your escape!

From free ENTRY to 10% off meals, we’ve got a range of exciting offers at venues literally on our block in Northbridge – think vibey Convenients bar, flavoursome Louder Louder, and bustling Northbridge Brewing Company.

Read all about our group food & beverage offers here .

So, what are you waiting for?! Book your end-of-year Escape This escape room NOW before we’re fully booked out!

Halloween, what's it really about?

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 02:54:39 GMT

It's not just trick-or-treating...

It’s October and you know what that means… HALLOWEEN!

Being an escape rooms centre with 5 thoroughly unnerving horror themed rooms within the walls of our haunted heritage listed building, we’re all about Halloween, obviously. But what’s this spooky tradition really all about? Let us fill you in…

Ancient Origins of Halloween

Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago, mostly in the area that is now Ireland and the UK, celebrated their new year on November 1.

This day marked the end of the summer grain harvest and the beginning of the winter, a time of year they associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before their new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth.

In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future.

To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other’s fortunes.

All Saints’ Day

On May 13, 609 A.D., Pope Boniface IV dedicated the Pantheon in Rome in honour of all Christian martyrs, and the Catholic feast of All Martyrs Day was established in the Western church. Pope Gregory III later expanded the festival and moved the observance from May 13 to November 1.

By the 9th century, the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands, where it gradually blended with and supplanted older Celtic rites. In 1000 A.D., the church made November 2 All Souls’ Day, a day to honour the dead.

All Souls’ Day was celebrated similarly to Samhain, with big bonfires, parades and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels and devils. The All Saints’ Day celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints’ Day) and the night before it, the traditional night of Samhain in the Celtic religion, began to be called All-Hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween.

Halloween Goes to America

By now well established in Europe, as the beliefs and customs of different European settlers began to mesh with those of Native Indians in America in the 1700s, a distinctly American version of Halloween began to emerge. The first celebrations included “play parties,” which were public events held to celebrate the harvest. Neighbours would share stories of the dead, tell each other’s fortunes, dance and sing.

Colonial Halloween festivities also featured the telling of ghost stories and mischief-making of all kinds. By the middle of the 19th century, annual autumn festivities were common, and by second half of the 19th century, America was flooded with new immigrants, especially Irish, who helped to popularise the celebration of Halloween even more.

History of Trick-or-Treating

Borrowing from older European traditions, Americans began to dress up in costumes and go house to house asking for food or money, a practice that eventually became today’s “trick-or-treat” tradition. Young women believed that on Halloween they could divine the name or appearance of their future husband by doing tricks with yarn, apple parings or mirrors.

In the late 1800s, there was a move in America to mould Halloween into a holiday more about community and neighbourly get-togethers than about ghosts, pranks and witchcraft. At the turn of the century, Halloween parties for both children and adults became the most common way to celebrate the day. Parties focused on games, foods of the season and festive costumes.

Parents were encouraged by newspapers and community leaders to take anything “frightening” or “grotesque” out of Halloween celebrations. Because of these efforts, Halloween lost most of its superstitious and religious overtones by the beginning of the twentieth century.

Halloween on the Big Screen

Halloween movies also have a long history of being box office hits! Classic Halloween movies include the “Halloween” franchise, based on the 1978 original film directed by John Carpenter and starring Donald Pleasance, Nick Castle, Jamie Lee Curtis and Tony Moran. In “Halloween,” a young boy named Michael Myers murders his 17-year-old sister and is committed to jail, only to escape as a teen on Halloween night and seek out his old home, and a new target.

Considered a classic horror film down to its spooky soundtrack, it inspired 11 other films in the franchise and other “slasher films” like “Scream,” “Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Friday the 13.” A direct sequel to the original "Halloween" was released in 2018, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle. More family-friendly Halloween movies include “Hocus Pocus,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Beetlejuice” and “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.”

Black Cats, Ghouls and Ghosts

Halloween has always been a holiday filled with mystery, magic and superstition. It began as a Celtic end-of-summer festival during which people felt especially close to deceased relatives and friends. For these friendly spirits, they set places at the dinner table, left treats on doorsteps and along the side of the road and lit candles to help loved ones find their way back to the spirit world.

Today’s Halloween ghosts are often depicted as more fearsome and malevolent, and our customs and superstitions are scarier too. We avoid crossing paths with black cats, afraid that they might bring us bad luck. This idea has its roots in the Middle Ages, when many people believed that witches avoided detection by turning themselves into black cats.

…and today?

Halloween is a holiday celebrated each year on October 31, and Halloween 2021 will occur on Sunday, October 31. Nowadays, Halloween is a day of activities like trick-or-treating, carving jack-o-lanterns, festive gatherings, donning costumes, gobbling treats… and now, Witching Hour escape room sessions .

In our heritage-listed building in the heart of Northbridge, the site of 12 deaths since its construction in 1897 (as featured by Perth Is Ok! ), our Hall of Horrors escape rooms including The Haunting , Cannibal and Dracula are sure to have you hearing things go bump in th e night for days and weeks after your escape!

In the true spirit of Halloween though, our venue will be taken over with Halloween spirits – alive (live performers) and not (our resident poltergeists) - eerie fog, jack-o-lanterns and ghoulish decorations to complete the festivities and lure in unsuspecting trick-or-treaters across the entire Halloween weekend.

What are you doing this Halloween? Dare you enter the fully immersive festival of spooks that will be our venue?? Halloween escape room bookings are open now, book yours here !

Adele “Boo”, Beatrice Fanny “Doll” & Emily Mary (Mother) Atkins at 48 Lake Street Perth, now Escape This. Emily Mary was the first of 12 recorded deaths at our venue ��

Spooktober is upon us!

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 04:00:42 GMT

Halloween has never been so terrifying!

If you thought our escape rooms couldn’t get any spookier, think again! Spooktober is here and we at Escape This are going all out with immersive-as-ever Halloween experiences that will have you thoroughly unnerved.

In our heritage-listed building in the heart of Northbridge, the site of 12 deaths since its construction in 1897, our Hall of Horrors escape rooms including The Haunting , Canniba l and Dracula are sure to have you hearing things go bump in the night for days and weeks after your escape – that’s if you make it out alive in the first place! But that’s nothing new for us…

What is new though… our special Buried Alive Spooktober promotion! For the entire month of October, all Buried Alive games are $49 per head... that's $20 off‼️ No coupon needed, so grab your coffin mate (choose wisely, your survival depends on it!) and jump online to book NOW .

Then there’s our Witching Hour Sessions on All Hallows’ Eve (that’s European speak for Halloween ;-) just FYI).

According to old folklore, the witching hour or devil's hour as it’s also known is the time of night that is associated with supernatural events, whereby witches, demons and ghosts are said to appear and be at their most powerful. So we thought, why not keep our doors open a little later for Halloween and run our Horror rooms when the twelve souls trapped in our building are at their most active? Could be fun… could be terrifying… I guess we’ll find out soon enough!

These Witching Hour Sessions are LIMITED. For those brave (or crazy) enough to spend an hour at midnight in a haunted building trying to outwit Dracula and Creepy Cathy, these are the ONLY available sessions:

October 30, 2021 @ 11pm

The Haunting

Dracula

Cannibal

Buried Alive

and

October 31, 2021 @ 12:30am

The Haunting

Dracula

Cannibal

Buried Alive

If you’re keen on a Witching Hour Session, keep your eyes peeled for when booking opens! Unlike our resident ghosts, once these sessions are gone, they’re gone for good!

For those that miss out though, don’t fear! Our entire venue will be taken over with Halloween spirits including live performers, eerie fog, jack-o-lanterns and decorations to complete the festivities and lure in unsuspecting trick-or-treaters across the entire Halloween weekend.

We’re really going all out with the decorations and festivities this year and hope you do too! So, to encourage your inner spook, we’re also running a competition over the course of the weekend. Come dressed in your Halloween best, and you could win your entire team’s escape for FREE!

All you must do… grab your crew of escape artists, get them dressed in costume, rock up for your booked escape, and if our Gamemasters think yours is the best dressed, best spirited team they’ve seen on the day, your escape will be fully reimbursed.

For the kiddies and scaredy-cats among you?! Don’t fret, we’ve got all kinds of family-friendly activities planned in daylight hours across the Halloween weekend. Our Wizard and Pirate will be out in force snapping polaroids and handing out candies – both at our centre, and also roaming the streets of Northbridge and CBD every Saturday this month. Keep an eye out for them!

Escape This is THE place to be this Spooktober… Dare you enter?

Escape boredom these school holidays!

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 02:46:24 GMT

They're bored? Let us lock your kids up!

Skip the queues at the Perth Royal Show, forget Adventure World, leave Rotto for warmer weather… create your own adventure, dictate how your story ends, and bring some of the kids’ school friends along for the ride with an escape room challenge these September school holidays.

WA’s term 3 school holidays run September 25 – October 10; that’s two weeks your kids expect YOU to keep them entertained, and we all know how hard it can be to keep things exciting when you’re working, have grocery shopping to do, and juggling children of all ages.

LET US HELP, let us lock the kids up these holidays!

Book your family one of our escape room challenges these holidays and we’ll give them an experience they’ll still be bragging about at show and tell come Term 4. Plus, our escape rooms are designed so you that you can sneak in a little mid-holiday education cleverly disguised as an AMAZING FUN TIME as kids and families improve their communication, team building, and problem-solving skills. It’s holiday education without all the moaning about maths homework and “boring” reading – sounds perfect to us.

BUT DO KIDS REALLY HAVE THAT MUCH FUN AT ESCAPE THIS?

Kids absolutely do have fun in escape rooms! In fact, at Escape This , kids are often amazing at solving puzzles, completing tasks, and having full and totally uninhibited fun… sometimes their inquisitive nature even has them doing better than the adults!

Our Adventure escape rooms are a totally immersive experience full of whimsy, fun, laughter, and fast-paced problem-solving; what about that wouldn’t your kids love?!? Each game runs for 60 minutes and gives a group of people a timed experience that has them solving puzzles, riddles, finding clue and hints to figure out a way to break out of the room before the hour is up.

IS ESCAPE THIS A FUN EXPERIENCE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY?

Of course! In an escape room game situation, you will be met with a myriad of different challenges, including problem-solving, leadership, communication, and a need to find solutions fast for problems that need to be solved within a certain time frame. For families, this is an experience that can bring the members together to enjoy an experience that a simple board game cannot duplicate. Grandparents, parents, teens, and children over the age of 9 years ALL have a blast playing together at Escape This , just read our Google Reviews !

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN AN ESCAPE THIS ESCAPE?

• Choice of 60-minute themed escape room

• Valid for two to eight players

• Available 7 days per week, from 9am to much too late for children ;-)

• See available spots here

AND OUR ESCAPE ROOMS?

The Wizard’s Chamber

You've found your way into the headmaster’s secret Wizard Chamber deep beneath the School of Magic, but you might not be alone for long! The Dark Lord is also in search of the Wizard’s Chamber, intent on stealing its magical elements and potions. You must discover the Chamber’s clues and solve its puzzles before the chamber will entrust itself to your protection. But don't delay! You’ve got one hour…
Recommended for kids aged 9 and older. 80% escape rate. Recommended for 2-6 players.

Pirates

Your journey to the New World has been a long and tedious one, but land is just on the horizon, finally! BUT, so too is something else... an ominous looking galleon... one flying the Jolly Roger! It’s the dreaded ship of Calico Jack - the fastest ship to sail the Caribbean Sea, helmed by the blood thirstiest pirate of them all! Raising the white flag of surrender, suddenly you find yourself the captive of this dastardly pirate and his motley crew… will you make off with the pirate treasure or find yourself walking the plank?
Recommended for kids aged 9 and older. 75% escape rate. Recommended for 2-8 players.

Bank Heist

You have put in the hard yards; you handpicked your team, they’ve scoped the bank, you’ve timed the security walkthroughs, chosen your getaway car. And now, after weeks of backbreaking tunnelling, you’re inside the vault! Finally, you think. Suddenly, your tunnel collapses! You’re trapped. Will you make it out before the police arrive?
Recommended for kids aged 9 and older. 85% escape rate. Recommended for 2-4 players.

And for the teens, something a little scarier…

Dracula

For centuries, it was assumed that Count Dracula was dead, impaled by stake through the heart at the hands of vampire hunter, Van Helsing. Recent archaeological discoveries have changed all that though with the discovery that Dracula's tomb is devoid of remains... will you escape Dracula, or leave his tomb with an undying blood thirst yourself?
Recommended for teens aged 16 and older. 1% escape rate, Dracula is Australia’s HARDEST escape room ! Recommended for 4-10 players (believe us, you’ll want 10 brains working in this one).

Dare you enter these school holidays? We promise worlds of adventure await you!

The President's Briefcase

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 03:02:54 GMT

The President's Briefcase

" Communication with Air Force One has been lost! Somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, POTUS is flying blind with no comms in or out. But that's not half the problem... "

Are you competitive?

Do you like to battle head-to-head?

Do you thrive under pressure?

If you've answered yes to all of these questions, Escape This' latest room launch is perfect for you!

'The President's Briefcase' is the first escape challenge of its kind in Australia: twin briefcases, 30 minutes of gameplay, both briefcases playing simultaneously... BUT which team will beat the other?

What makes this escape challenge truly unique though is that it can COME TO YOU!

That's right, we can put The President's Briefcase on the road. In your office or home, our team of Secret Service agents will arrive, briefcases in hand, to transform your venue into a fully immersive escape experience.

What's inside the Briefcase is top secret. You'll need a secure venue with a table to work at before you attempt to open the case. That's the only requirement.

As always, time is of the essence with this escape game! The difference... millions of lives rely on your problem solving, cooperation and communication skills, so bring your A game!

Want to hone your problem solving skills or find who in your team/family/party is a born leader? The President's Briefcase is perfect for that!

Did you hear too that escape rooms are exceptional for job interviews?

Put your candidates' problem-solving and teamwork potential to the test with The President's Briefcase to see who cracks and who thrives when the pressure is on!

Want to bring something unexpected to a bucks or hens night? You've found it!

If you don't want strippers but want an epic night, hire The President's Briefcase with its (fully clothed ) Secret Service agent to brighten your night. Take on a challenge with your best friends or play two teams against each other to see who truly is the smartest!

What about finding natural leaders in schools?

If you need teams or cohorts to cooperate, why not challenge them to discover the natural leaders in the group? Escape room challenges require teamwork and communication - exactly what you want of your students, right?!

Where could you deploy The President's Briefcase to encourage problem solving, teamwork and communication? We've listed a few situations below:

- Job interviews

- Corporate events

- Team building activities

- Cross-department conflict resolution

- Student leadership workshops

- Teacher development

- Bucks and Hens nights

- Family games nights

... the possibilities are endless.

So will you be inviting a Secret Service agent to your workplace, school, party or home?

T-minus 30 minutes...

Buried Alive is LIVE!

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 02:07:04 GMT

Could you escape being Buried Alive?!

ESCAPE THIS HAS JUST LAUNCHED AUSTRALIA'S MOST EXTREME ESCAPE ROOM!

Our Northbridge venue is now even more packed to the brim with terrifying, thrilling, and gory escape rooms. Though we must say, Buried Alive tops the charts!

At Escape This, we aim to create fully immersive escape room challenges unlike anything else anywhere in Perth (or Australia oftentimes), which is why we're home to the hardest escape room in Australia, 'Dracula,' with a 1% escape rate, and also the most terrifying room, 'The Haunting', which promises to have even the bravest escapers jumping in fright. Now, Buried Alive, built for just two escapers at a time, pushes olayers to their emotional, physical and mental limits - all while locked in a coffin!

Want to take on the challenge of being buried alive? This scenery deprivation experience will challenge players like never before. You'll have to be physically and mental prepared for this escape room! Bernie Janes, co-owner of Escape This, said:

"We all need to take the escape room to the next level, which obviously involves blinding folding, handcuffing and locking people in a box!"

Escape rooms are known to test a player's problem solving skills and communication abilities, bu Buried Alive takes this to a whole other level. Players are left to find solo clues, and communicate what they find with their teammate to solve partner challenges... but from separate coffins! They have to work their brains and test their skills alone, without influence.

Oh, and did we mention you're deprived of all senses except touch?!

Yes that's right! This escape room strips everything from players except for touch. Janes says; "its time to take control of scenes", and have the MOST immersive experience for the most extreme game! Guests are blind folded entering the room, and once in the coffin are blind in darkness. Sight, sound, taste and scent won't help you here. You'll need to rely on touch and what you find in your coffin to piece together the puzzle.

Buried Alive is a one-of-a-kind escape, and is only for the brave hearted! You'll want to bring your best team-mate and be ready for the hardest hour of your life - because you'll literally be fighting for it.

BUT, should being buried alive prove too much for you, we have fitted your coffin with a safety button which ends your escape then and there... in cowardice!

Learn more about or BOOK Buried Alive:

www.buriedalive.com.au

Why team building?

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 07:25:31 GMT

Why team building?

Unlike traditional team building activities and corporate events (think your family-friendly Sunday picnic, a personality workshop, Friday afternoon drinks, or a "motivational speaker"... *yawn*), escape rooms provide an adrenaline pumping hour of brain-teasing activity that your team members will actually be excited about!

Best of all, however, escape rooms promote a whole range of soft skills that can be directly applied in the workplace come Monday morning! For Perth-based organisations of four to to 400+ staff, our escape room sessions are designed to bring out the very best in your team.

But how does an escape room setting work for team building? It's quite simple really.

Choose a location, our site or yours. Book your team building event for 4 to 400+ staff at our Northbridge escape centre, or we can come to you with The President's Briefcase and transform your space (warehouse, boardroom, office or retail space) into an escape room experience.
We'll lock away your team. In teams of between 2 and 10 people depending on the chosen escapes, we'll provide your team an introduction to the escape room process before we close the door on them and turn the key... and being able to run multiple sessions simultaneously, we can have up to 100 of your staff locked away per hour.
They work as a team to escape. As soon as the countdown begins, your team will need to employ their teamwork, problem solving, time management and communication skills to find the clues & solve the puzzles that will allow their escape.

Escape rooms by their very nature force the escapers to apply their soft skills in a team setting to creatively solve the challenges presented to them if they’re to escape. But what are those soft skills, and how could they be relevant to your organisation?

Time Management.
Our escape rooms excel at putting your team under time pressure. This is when personalities are the most visible, and most vulnerable. You will witness time management skills either emerge or evaporate. You will learn more about your team in the last 5 minutes of our escape rooms than you could in any conventional

5-hour team building exercise.

Teamwork.

Solving the challenges of an escape room requires impeccable teamwork. Good or bad, you’ll find out which of your colleagues are lone wolves, and which are part of the pack. Can they remain calm under pressure, or will they show signs of stress? Will they realise everyone has different strengths that add to the overall success of the team?

Problem Solving & Critical Thinking.
Overcoming complex hurdles with well honed problem solving skills is a key challenge in the workplace, just as it is an escape room! Our rooms force your team to switch gears and to think through problems or puzzles like never before, to don their 'creative thinking caps’ and brainstorm solutions to the clues they are presented.

Communication.
Teams play out a fully immersive themed scenario in which they must communicate over a variety of distractions: the chaos of the unknown, and a time crunch. “Active communication” will test the boundaries of each player's personality. You’ll learn which of your team are wall flowers, and which jump in and exhibit winning team skills to get the job done within the time limit.

Leadership & Delegation.
Our escape rooms will draw out your colleagues' natural abilities to plan, delegate, motivate and execute. Who will take the lead to direct the group or assign tasks? Watch as teammates automatically fall into their natural roles and perform according to their natural strengths to beat the clock and win the day!

Logical Reasoning.
Not everyone can logic their way through a problem – much less in a busy, distracting group environment. Regardless of the difficulty of the escape room, our puzzles are a particularly good way to hone logical-reasoning skills. Best of all, your team will be forced to adopt a collaborative approach to structural thinking!

So... why team build in an escape room?

This fun activity promotes teamwork and cooperation
Flexes your team's lateral thinking muscles
Allows emerging leaders to rise to the top
Allows for healthy competition amongst teams
It’s a super fun way to get your team out of the office!

To learn more about escape rooms as a team building exercise, or to discuss hosting your next team building exercise with Escape This, visit our team building site TeamEscape.com.au

Are you an Escape Room Beginner?

bernie@escapethis.com.au (bernie janes) — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 02:34:21 GMT

Are you an Escape Room Beginner?

If so, let me offer you some guidance...

Escape rooms are one big puzzle, find your first clue and you're on your way!

So what should you expect when locked in an Escape Room?

Escape rooms have existed for more than a decade, each offering a fun and unique physical puzzle which guests have to piece together to resolve one objective. Every escape room has a set objective, i.e. 'defeat the Dark Lord' or 'rob the bank', and these reflect the theme of the room, with each clue linked to the next to form an adrenaline-pumping narrative.

Escape room themes will vary from company, to venue, to country. Each will have a unique narrative which plays out throughout the course of the room. The escape room will have multiple stages before you reach the final objective - escape! Typically at the start of the game you'll hear what your objective is, and from there you can problem solve your way out.

The puzzles within the room must be unlocked in succession. Once you've unlocked one there may be a new clue hidden inside. Check carefully and don't leave anything behind! Now, follow your clues carefully because your next puzzle may be linked to the previous ones. You are the main character in the escape room, so take charge and work as a team. It's rare in escape rooms that you'll be left alone, they require team work and different perspectives to solve the clues.

Below is a list of handy tips to ensure your escape room experience is one you'll love.

Escape rooms will offer you a set of clues, if you can't quite decipher your clue(s), you can signal that you need a hint from the Gamemasters to get the ball rolling once again. At Escape This, we ask every member of the group to stand waving at the camera to draw our Gamemaster's attention, but each venue is different so listen and ask before you're left to fend for yourself.

Each room will have hidden features so keep your eyes peeled and touch EVERYTHING. Some escape rooms will have hidden rooms, secret compartments and jump scares. So be prepared for the small room you start in to expand and link to the next. Anything that seems out of place may be there for a reason.

Escape rooms are designed to be an experience - an escape from reality for an hour or so. Leave your worries, stresses and problems at the door and go into the space open-minded. Before you know it, you'll have escaped (or not, maybe), and will be signing up for your next escape!

Should you fail in your escape, you can of course repeat the room until you do manage to get free. The beauty of escape rooms is, "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again". There is no shame in giving it another go. Heck, at 'Escape This' the same group will come back multiple times just to say they've finally beaten a room. And when you do escape, be sure to keep track of your score time, because its always fun to beat yourself and make it into the escape room leader board.

Now, as promised a list of what you'll need to look for. Remember you are the biggest asset you can bring to the game. So be careful and patient.

What to look for in an Escape Room:

Find the locks.
One easy tactic is to find the locks before you search for clues. Once you know what you are looking for, the clue may jump out at you. If you see you need to find three numbers for a number combination lock, look around for three numbers. If you're looking for a key, search where a key may be hidden. Look carefully, because what you need is there somewhere.

Enter a theme you'll enjoy.

There is no point doing a horror room if you can't think or concentrate when your nerves are on a knife's edge. But if you work best under pressure, look at the difficulty ratings and find a room which fits you're skills. You don't know what your skills are? It's always best to start easy and work up from there. You can never be too good at escape rooms.

Communication is the key.

Have a good team around you. Once you step into the room you need to work together and communicate what you find. You'll naturally fall in to your strengths within the group, so work with people you trust and have a bit of fun. Escape rooms are fantastic for team building. Once you're locked in a room together with the same objective, all rivalries fall way as you work together to escape.

Touch everything (carefully).

In an escape room you never know where the clues are hidden. So touch everything, if it moves inspect it to see if it has a hidden meaning. Some clues are left in pain sight and are easily overlooked, so take care and be thorough. Before you enter the room the games master will tell you what you shouldn't touch and what doesn't move. So listen carefully and don't mess around, they'll be watching.

Don't break anything!

Each room is hand designed and a lot of care and repair goes into the maintenance of each prop, set and puzzle. If it doesn't easily open it isn't meant to move. Don't break or shove anything just in the hope of the next clue. You're mostly like missing a piece of the puzzle, so look around and use your brain not your muscles. Be patient and careful. Everything has a reason.

You have everything you need.

Everything you need to escape the room will be within the four walls of your escape room. There is nothing additional you need to bring or add. You don't need any prior knowledge to complete an escape room, everything will be there. Check the room and props carefully to find whatever you're missing.

Don't give up.

You can ask for clues, so don't give up hope. One clue may change the whole game. Remember when you're stuck, ask for help. Ask your Gamesmaster before you start what the signal is for a hint, there will always be a movement, or word. Few escape a room without a little guidance.

Have fun.

Escape rooms are big physical puzzles. You need to have a bit of fun and laugh at anything that goes wrong. Although the pressure keeps you accountable, you'll find a way to ignore the time and work together. Celebrate every clue and puzzle you complete and soon enough you'll be out and free again.

So there you go, you're now ready for the challenge. Go in open-minded and keep your eyes peeled. You are your greatest assist so don't doubt yourself.

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The President's Briefcase

The President's Briefcase

Buried Alive is LIVE!

Could you escape being Buried Alive?!

Why team building?

Why team building?

Are you an Escape Room Beginner?

Are you an Escape Room Beginner?

This Friday the 13th, taunt fate with a totally terrifying Perth escape room at Escape This!