To the left, find an all-day dining café and bar à vin that begins with coffee and breakfast and ends on late-night snacks, cocktails, and wines by the glass. Take a seat at the bar, and ease into a classic aperitif, the prelude to a savoured snack or petite a la carte. To the right, experience the splendid sophistication of the grand brasserie dining room and mezzanine for indulgent dining with a side of savoir-vivre. An escape room is an immersive, real-life, puzzle solving and storytelling experience.
The delivery of a mysterious box, which contains a cryptic ransom note, will start you on a fast paced thriller that will have you gripped ’til the end. With great elements of action, a lot of suspense and intriguing puzzles, you will be kept on your toes for the entire 60 minutes. Participants need to think fast, work together to solve the various puzzles they will have to face, in order to reach the goal. If you fail to complete the Escape Room on time then you are allowed to finish the game at a later date. But, you won’t be able continue from where you left off , and you’ll have to begin at the beginning.
There’s one inspired by The Godfather and another similar to Jumanji, too. The rooms are designed for all ages, but not for those who get spooked easily. In this game, players board a plane that crash lands in a remote jungle.
Keep all your clues – used and unused – neatly gathered in two distinct areas so that, if you get stuck, you can quickly refer back to the relevant pile. Don’t completely disregard items you’ve already used, either; some might serve more than one purpose and could be vital again later. If there is any fight left in you after you’ve escaped the other dimensions, you can battle it out against your friends in VR shooting games with full-body tracking, haptic vests and high-quality graphics. Is this the work of Sydney’s powerful rival gangs or a dark act of jealousy? We were a group of 5 ranging in age from teens to in their thirties and this was so much fun! I hadn’t ever done an escape room before but everyone else in our group had and they all agreed it was a good one and I had a lot of fun as a first timer.
It also designs and build custom escape rooms for pop-up experiences — including for movies, week-long activities and school outings. Those include Enigma Room’s Temporal Tangle, which Next Level Escape designed and now also offers as an online experience through its own website. Not surprisingly, its in-house experiences are impressive in their own right, too. The Expedition brand expanded from Canberra to Sydney in 2018, snatching up Cope Street digs and launching with The Forgotten Son. One of Sydney’s more unique escape room experiences, the journey lead players on a dangerous trek through the Australian outback.