With the summer holidays quickly approaching, it can be difficult to find fun and interesting activities to do with your family to keep your children entertained over the summer months. Since the British summer mostly consists of rain, this in turn makes the task a lot more difficult for you parents out there, but don't worry as we are here to help you. We are a fun indoor activity which will keep your children entertained whilst also getting their brains active too! What better way to bond as a family than being locked inside a room together for 60 minutes and the only way to escape is by working together as a team!

Although our rooms are mostly designed for adults, children have lots of fun when playing our rooms, but certain ages find some of the puzzles a bit difficult. Due to this, we recommend the minimum age to partake in the room is 10 with an adult in the room with them, and the minimum age to partake in the room without an adult is 16.

Our rooms are perfect for families as it requires you to work as a team in order to escape, and our puzzles require mental abilities such as problem solving, numerical knowledge, common sense and a side order of riddles. These puzzles help get your childrens brains working without them even realising, as they are so caught up in the moment and focused on trying to escape. Our escape rooms are a great alternative from going to other indoor activies, such as the cinema, as it helps keep everyone on their feet and get their brains working. All of our rooms are equipped with CCTV cameras so if you all hit a brick wall and need a bit of help, your game operator will send you a cryptic clue through to the TV screen in the room to help give you a nudge in the right direction. 

Our rooms also offer a sense of competition too, so if you and another family both wanted to play, you could race against each other in different rooms to see who will escape first. Alternatively, if you wanted to make it more even by playing the same room at the same time, our Manchester second site just introduced their new Re:Classified game where both groups are in identical rooms racing to beat the other team!

A couple of our rooms may be too difficult or unsuitable for younger children, but our Shipwrecked, Wanted, Cursed Carnival and Classified rooms are perfect for all ages, so you parents can get involved too! Sometimes you may find that your children will end up being a lot better than you inside these rooms, so you should also be prepared for that. I once ran a game for a family where the parents contributed almost nothing whilst the kids pretty much done everything themselves, so parents; be warned!

If you are out of the city during the summer and are lost for something to do, our Cursed Carnival room has just opened up in our Cardiff site, so why not go check that out too?

So if you wake up one day this summer and you are greeted with the rain hitting your windows (once again), and you have run out of ideas to keep your children entertained, go straight over to our website, pick a room to play, and then book it! Don't worry, we will always be here to offer you a lifeline when the weather decides to postpone all outdoor activities.