Escape Room Enthusiasts
By: James Butler
As you do more and more escape rooms, you learn that just like there are different levels of escape rooms, there are also different levels of escape room enthusiasts. While some groups enjoy an escape room every other weekend or so, others are even more enthusiastic and travel far distances, planning vacations and weekend getaways around escape rooms.
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Planning the Perfect Escape with Fellow Escape Room Enthusiasts
They share the size of their team, how many games they have completed, and what they have enjoyed about the rooms they have played. The conversations often turn to favorite restaurants and bars as well as local businesses that complement escape room play like bookstores, small shops, museums, historical sites, and Main Street businesses that a family or group of friends can enjoy together.
A day trip to escape rooms is fun, but people need to eat and give their adrenaline glands a break from counting down while completing puzzles.
Research the Area that Your Escape Room is In
In a recent poll in the Facebook group Escape Room Enthusiasts, 75% of players have a meal and/or drink after they play a room. So if you’re going to travel to an escape room it’s good to know the local places for your post-game debrief refreshments.
Escape Room Enthusiasts Love Trap Door
Some Trap Door locations already combine some drinks with escaping. For example, at Trap Door Morristown, you can enjoy Puzzles and Cork’s pairing of wine and playing. Trap Door Poconos features Madness Distillery and coming soon to Trap Door Bethlehem— a rum bar. In short, escape enthusiasts looking to enjoy spirits as part of their experience can do both in one spot at any Trap Door location!
Reasons Escape Enthusiasts Do Multiple Experiences in a Day:
Finishing an immersive escape room often feels like walking out of a great movie. While still enjoying the experience, you can’t help but be excited for the sequel. After visiting another world or time in an escape room, it’s common to immediately start planning your next room.
1.) Less Schedule Conflicts
It’s hard enough to get more than two people to coordinate schedules to do anything. Between work, school, kids, and just life– it’s never easy to get a lot of people in the same place at the same time. Scheduling multiple trips is damn near impossible sometimes. Playing multiple rooms makes it easier to enjoy several rooms in one trip.
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2.) Gas Prices Are Almost as High as Mt. Everest
With the price of gas rising, many groups are looking to play several games in a day. Trap Door Escape in Bethlehem will feature a six-hour multi-room escape experience for players ready to accept the challenge.
Other Trap Door locations also have discounted rates for teams looking to complete all the games in a location in one day. That is to say, escape room enthusiasts know that playing multiple escape rooms in one day is the most bang for your buck!
3.) Outdo Other Escape Room Enthusiasts
Seeing escape room enthusiasts build day trips and vacations around escape rooms is inspiring and sometimes feels like a challenge. Especially when you see them making a whole immersive day around their escape room theme.
The teams that are choosing their attire, jewelry, and even meal and drink choices to fit the rooms that they are playing have really raised the bar. What is a good post-game drink after beating the zombie apocalypse (maybe a Mind Eraser) or a Salem Witch Trial (rye whiskey) Investigation?
Concluding Thoughts on Escape Room Enthusiasts
Whether your destination is a car ride or a flight away, completing multiple escapes in one day can save you money and help you enhance your group’s experience. Find a local restaurant to plan your pre-game strategy and a place to have that celebration drink after you escape.
Today’s Tip from an Escape Room Enthusiast:
Temperamental locks. I’ve lost count of how many times we entered the right combination of numbers or letters in a lock and still been unable to open it. First, make sure you are lining up the solution with the correct mark or line on the combination lock.
Some locks are finicky and need the digits lined up precisely to open. Those silver dials in dim lighting can make it hard to read what’s an 8 and what’s a 9. With most locks, you can feel the digits click into place.
Patience is Key . . . Literally
Also, have a little patience with the antique grandpa locks. They make a game even more immersive, but sometimes need a little jiggling and TLC to open.
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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