Celebrate Valentine's Day
By: Kristina Malmstrom
Looking for a fun, exciting way to Celebrate Valentine’s Day? Instead of sticking to the dates you’ve both already gone on dozens of times, why not try something new? Trap Door Escape Room has the perfect date for you this year. Read through to the end for a special deal for you and your sweetheart this to Celebrate Valentine’s Day!
Why Escape Rooms Are Great For Dates
If you haven’t read it yet, we highly suggest our other blog article, “Why Escape Rooms Are Great For Dates” for even more reasons why escape rooms are great for dates, plus our do’s and don’ts. Below are the highlights, though
1. Spending Quality Time with Each other
Escape rooms are going to have you so engaged in the story and prompts in front of you, that you will spend an hour (or more) with each other without any other social distractions. You won’t have time to be engrossed in social media or messages, so you get to communicate with each other directly, with one shared goal in mind.
2. Working Together Towards a Shared Goal
When you play an escape room, you’re racing to accomplish a mission before you run out of time, such as escaping a room, creating a cure, or defusing a bomb. For the entire time you play, you’ll be working together to accomplish this. This is great for team-building and builds better communication and problem solving skills between you and your partner, which are great traits for any relationship.
3. Experiencing it all Together
It doesn’t really matter whether you win or lose, so long as you’re both participating in the experience as a team. If you win, you get to celebrate and cheer! If you lose, you’ll probably be lamenting. Either way, you’ll be feeling the same emotions with each other which allows you to strengthen your connection. Plus, you get to reflect on moments from the game, be it positive or negative. There really isn’t a better way to Celebrate Valentine’s Day!
Escape Room Dates are Ideal for All Relationships
First Date
While this isn’t always the most recommended, it is a great way to make a unique and lasting impression on your date- just make sure it’s a good one.
Casually Dating
When you’re new to a relationship, an escape room is great for building strong foundations with each other. It will allow you to develop deep communication skills and figure out how you complement each other when you’re working toward a common goal.
Steady Relationship
When you’ve been dating for awhile, escape rooms make a unique date outside of your usual dinner and drinks. You’ll be challenged and have fun solving puzzles while enjoying each other’s company. While you probably already have strong communication skills, escape rooms will put them to the test and put them into practice while you have a blast.
Happily Married
Don’t you ever want to go on exciting dates every now and again? An escape room pushes you to just the right level of thrills while you race to complete your objective. It’ll give you something new to bond over and reflect on happily.
Valentine’s Day at Trap Door Escape Room
Turn Valentine’s Day into an Exciting Night Out
Don’t stop at just an escape room! Cook a new, unusual recipe for dinner, try a new local restaurant, or go out to drinks at a themed bar! Pair the escape room with another fun activity to Celebrate Valentine’s Day in a way that neither of you will forget.
Puzzles and Corks
Available at all of our locations, Puzzles and Corks has you solving escape room style puzzles while enjoying tastings of themed wine. The theme, story, and puzzles will be different at each of our locations, so check to see which game your location will be hosting. On Valentine’s Day only, these games will even feature a romantic surprise- we’ll be adding a rose and chocolate covered strawberries for you and your partner to Celebrate Valentine’s Day.
Bartonsville, PA
The Poconos Escape Room by Trap Door is all about the impact of humanity, from a Zombie Virus Outbreak to Extreme Weather, we have brought this upon ourselves. Bartonsville is currently hosting 7 unique escape room experiences. Check out our Poconos Page Here to find the best fit for you and your crew!
Also of note at this location is F5 Tornado! In 2021, this game won the title of Best Immersive Experience in the world. In F5 Tornado Escape, you’ll have to seek shelter from an approaching tornado. This game is great for families with children, and features a range of mental and physical puzzles and obstacles.
Red Bank, NJ
Everest takes place on, you guessed it, Mount Everest. After a previous climate research team went missing, your mission is to follow their footsteps and figure out what happened. In 2021, hardly a year after opening, Everest boasts a bronze win for the Player’s Choice Award for Best In-Person Escape Room.
Morristown, NJ
Our Escape Room in Morristown, NJ is pure magic! Super Powered Oddities to Witchcraft, it all combines for a conjuring of spectacle unlike anything you have ever seen. We are currently hosting three fantastical games in Morristown. Check out our Morristown Page Here to choose the best adventure for you!
For family-friendly, light-hearted fun, check out The Greatest Freakshow. As the newest members of Xunder’s oddity troupe, it’s up to you to save the circus from the spell of an evil mermaid. This escape room even features musical elements for a fun and engaging experience to play with children.
Witch Hunt, on the other hand, is a touch more mature. During the Salem Witch Trials, you have to prove whether a woman accused of witchcraft is guilty or innocent. This creepy game is spell-binding but dark in nature.
Finally, Day of the Dead is a great mid-ground. This game is a rich Latin-American celebration of life and death. With more challenging puzzles but a much lower fear factor than other games, Day of the Dead is the perfect family friendly challenge for Holiday Family Time. Be sure to enquire about the fiesta package for adult groups!
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Mentioned Experiences
Travel down the rabbit hole and experience a brand new world that just keeps getting curiouser and curiouser in our asylum escape room.
$60 Per Player
You have 120 minutes to escape the theme at $60 per person plus tax. This is the largest escape room in the country, spanning upwards of over 4,000 square feet of playing space each! Large Private Groups are welcome, as these experiences allow player dispersement with ease. All bookings for this asylum escape room are private.
You are Constables for The Sheriff of Salem and are tasked with finding evidence of Witchcraft before the town hanging.
$39.99 Per Player
You have 60 minutes to escape, at $39.99 per person plus tax. At a minimum of 1,000 square feet of playing space, this theme is sure to provide a thrilling adventure. Witch Hunt is three times larger than the average escape room experience. Most importantly, however, all bookings are private.
Journey to the Top of the World as a Search and Rescue team on a mission to find a Missing Research Team.
$45 Per Player
You have 60 minutes to escape this theme at $45 per person, plus tax. At a minimum of 1,000 square feet of playing space, this theme is sure to provide a thrilling adventure. Everest is three times larger than the average escape room experience. All bookings are private.
Trap Door Escape Company
Trap Door Escape Room has 4 locations: 3180 Route 611 in Bartonsville, PA in the Poconos; 60 White St. in Red Bank, NJ; 34A Speedwell Ave. in Morristown, NJ: and 77 Wind Creek Blvd in Bethlehem, PA. The Red Bank location was the first of the 4 locations, opening in the fall of 2015. Morristown followed in the summer of 2017, and Bartonsville opened during the holiday season of 2018. Wind Creek is currently undergoing construction and will be opening in September 2022.
History
The idea came to Tone Purzycki back in 2011 after he wrote a screenplay that developed into a live-streaming game. The game revolved around an actor trapped in a situation and the audience had to solve puzzles to figure out where he was trapped. The “Find Me Event” had more than 1,000 people playing over the course of several hours. After the success of several other streaming events, the idea of an escape room was born.
Location
Each location has different rooms from which to choose. Our Morristown location is home to Day of the Dead, Witch Hunt, and The Greatest Freakshow. In Bartonsville, you’ll find Cure Z, F5 Tornado Escape, Fear the Bogeyman, Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, We’re All Mad Here, and Prisoner Z. In Red Bank we currently have Everest – our first 2 story escape room. Ripper of London is also available at this location. Our pirate themed games will soon be open at Wind Creek.
Trap Door Escape Room also offers team building, streaming events, and birthday parties. For more information on any of our games, prices, and locations, explore our website or call 570-234-3366