CHALLENGE YOUR SENSES IN THIS NEW ESCAPE ROOM EXPERIENCE

BOOK THE TRAPPED BELOW ESCAPE ROOM CHALLENGE

San Antonio’s newest and most interactive Escape Room is here! Trapped Below will push all boundaries as you venture deep below the Earth’s surface in a dilapidated elevator lift where teamwork and use of your senses is needed to try and capture a legendary treasure and escape!

Trapped Below Escape Game can accommodate up to 8 challengers at once. Each team will be given 1 hour to unfold the story and escape in time!

Trapped Below is the first Escape Room to incorporate motion, fully immersive settings, theatrical special effects and lighting, and never before seen puzzles and interactive elements! Thrills and surprises await challengers around every corner.

If you want to best the clock use these tips for escape room games.

You’re sure to have a memorable experience playing an escape room in San Antonio, but there’s no denying victory makes it even sweeter. But are there escape room strategies that can give you an edge?

Beating an escape room game takes wits, cunning and coordination to be sure. However, if you want to increase the odds of making it out on time try these tried and true insider tips.

Pick Your Fellow Players Wisely

Who you play with can make all the difference between getting out in time versus missing a win by a few minutes. You’ll want a team of players that have a diverse skill set because you never know what challenge you’ll come across. We often tell people that even a small kid can be an asset because you may just need their small hands.

Bonus Tip: Make someone the group leader. This will help facilitate clear communication (an essential element) and keep things organized. Instead of running around, the group leader receives information from players, keeps everyone informed and assigns tasks.

One of the best tips for escape room games

Know That Escape Room Clues Are Everywhere

If you expect the clues to be obvious you may miss them. Go into the game knowing that anything and everything in the room can be a clue. We fill our San Antonio escape rooms with floor-to-ceiling decor that draws you into the game and provides plenty of places to hide clues. With that said, you shouldn’t have to dissemble anything to get to a clue.

Bonus Tip: Always check under things. It’s a common place for hiding clues out of plain sight.

Ask for a Hint When You Need It

All escapists want to win the game completely unassisted, which is possible. But sometimes you just get stuck and can’t figure out a puzzle or find the clue you need. You watch those seconds turn to minutes feeling the pressure build.

That’s when it’s time to ask the game master for a hint. Most escape rooms will allow you to ask for a hint once or twice in the game so use the option wisely. The game master won’t give you the answer, but they give you that extra piece of information that keeps the game moving along.

Bonus Tip: Watch out for red herrings. They are the exact opposite of a game master hint.

Resist the Urge to Cluster

With just 60 minutes on the clock, the best strategy is to divide and conquer. If everyone gets clustered together in the same spot or working on the same task it’s not the best use of your manpower, especially if you are in a nonlinear escape room. One way to avoid clustering is to assign a portion of the room to each player. If things seem to stall rotate and have everyone move to a new portion.

Pay Careful Attention to the Instructions

Failing to pay attention to the game master instructions is a rookie mistake. This is when you learn about how the room is set up, the types of codes and puzzles you’ll come across and may even pick up a covert clue that will help you during the game.

Use these tips to get a win – reserve a San Antonio escape room online!

Extreme Escape gives back: Christmas partnership with the Salvation Army in San Antonio, TX

Extreme Escape is all about giving back. We love giving our San Antonio escape room guests an experience they’ll never forget. We enjoy giving our employees a positive work environment where they can thrive. And we are always looking for ways to give back to our local community.

Extreme Escape gives back on a very personal level by inviting our local heroes to come play an escape room in San Antonio for free every Monday. It’s our way of showing appreciation for the risks military members, police, firefighters and EMTs take to protect everyone else.

But that’s not enough. San Antonio has given us so much, we want to do more. That’s why we’ve started teaming up with The Salvation Army San Antonio Area Command. Helping out this worthy organization during the holidays is easily one of our favorite ways of giving back to the community.

Many members of our team get involved personally, and during December we offer guests a special discount PLUS we donate $5 from every ticket sold to the Salvation Army’s Christmas programs. The programs make the holidays happier for thousands of San Antonio children and their families.

It’s just one way Extreme Escape is helping bring joy and fun to San Antonio!

ALL ABOUT THE SALVATION ARMY ANGEL TREE PROGRAM

The Angel Tree Program is one of the Salvation Army’s biggest events of the year. It was started in 1979 by a couple in Virginia. Charles and Shirley White had local kids write their Christmas wishes on a card that had pictures of angels. The cards were then put on a tree at the local mall so that shoppers could pick a child in need and donate the wish list items. In the first year alone more than 700 kids were given a merrier Christmas.

The Whites kept the giving tradition going after moving to Nashville several years later. It was there that the Angel Tree Program, as it was then known, got national attention. Today, The Salvation Army is the sponsor and arranges Angel Tree programs across the country every year.

Want to help out this worthy cause? Fill out a Salvation Army Angel Tree Program application to get started!

Are you a San Antonio organization that wants to team up with Extreme Escape on a philanthropic project? Then we want to hear from you! Give us a call at 210-402-3722 (Stone Oak Location) or 210-641-2828 (Colonnade location) or connect with us on Facebook. Let’s give back to the great city of San Antonio!

Want to venture away from downtown San Antonio for fun you can’t find along the Riverwalk? There’s plenty of entertainment and excitement to be had in northwest San Antonio.

Here are just a few reasons to head up I-10 or 281 for an entire day of amusement.

Try a San Antonio Escape Room

The newest Extreme Escape location recently opened in Stone Oak not far from our Colonnade escape rooms. We’re bringing all of the adventure and live-action of a first-class San Antonio escape room to the northwest.

Never tried an escape room in San Antonio? People of all ages can step into another world unlike anything in the Alamo City. Our escape rooms feature fantastic floor-to-ceiling set design, special effects and challenging puzzles that test your ability to escape the room in 60 minutes or less.

Our Stone Oak and Colonnade escape rooms are also great team building activities for all the businesses in the area. USAA has already strengthen their teamwork by taking on our escape rooms at the original location. Book an escape room online or give us a call to learn more about planning your adventure.

Six Flags Fiesta Texas

One of the 16 Six Flags parks is located right here in northwest San Antonio. Visiting Six Flags Fiesta Texas is one of the most popular things to do in San Antonio during the holidays when the amusement park turns into an illuminated winter wonderland. But throughout the entire year you can hop on dozens of rollercoasters, watch live shows on the main stage and play games to take home a prize.

Monster Mini Golf

Looking for low-impact, high-energy physical activity with your entertainment? Monster Mini Golf is a screamingly good time for kids of all ages. The indoor mini golf course is illuminated by black lights that give a cool glow to the monster theme decor. After playing 18 holes you can hit the arcade to keep the fun going.

The Shops at La Cantera

Even if you don’t buy anything, it’s worth the trip to stroll through The Shops at La Cantera. This upscale, open-air shopping center draws in thousands of shoppers who can appreciate the meticulously maintained courtyards, huge selection of premier shops and fantastic eateries. You can easily spend the entire day indulging in retail therapy, dining at one of 15 restaurants, getting a salon treatment and leisurely perusing a bookstore to find reading material.

San Antonio Aquarium

Already visited SeaWorld a few times? The aquatic entertainment can continue at the San Antonio Aquarium. Pet a stingray, watch sharks feed and have loads of fun with the interactive exhibits. Even though it’s an aquarium, you’ll also get to see colorful parakeets, amphibians and hundreds of reptiles. The San Antonio Aquarium is on the small side compared to some aquariums, but the variety of animals and hands-on activities more than makes up for the size.

Fun is Around Every Corner in Northwest San Antonio

Explore the Area and Book an Escape Room Today!

N.I.S.D. Students, Get Ready to PLAY at Extreme Escape Stone Oak in San Antonio!

In the Internet era it’s seems to be increasingly difficult to get the family together free of distractions and really interacting. And recent research shows quality time with kids is vital. A large-scale study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family shows that time spent with children doesn’t matter as much as what you do with them.

Activities where parents and children spend one-on-one time together giving all of their attention to one another has a positive impact on social behavior, emotional wellbeing and academic achievement. Even just a few hours a week makes a difference.

Wondering how you can get in this quality time and still keep the family entertained? A San Antonio escape room is one of the best ways to bring everyone together for an epic family night. Here’s why!

It’s Family Game Night for the Modern Era

Escape rooms are the best of both worlds. It’s like a real-life video game without the screens, electronics and Internet distractions, which is much more important than many parents realize. Being locked in the escape room together keeps everyone focused on the game at hand. There’s no pulling out a smartphone or wandering off to the kitchen for snacks like a regular family night at home.

An Escape Room is Age Appropriate for the Entire Family

At Extreme Escape we have eight different escape rooms across two locations. All of themes are appropriate for tweens and older individuals, and there are also a few rooms that are just as fun for younger kids. If you have players as young as 8 years old we recommend the Mutiny or Trapped Below escape rooms in San Antonio.

Encourages Communication and Interaction

The nature of an escape room game requires interaction among the players. Getting out of the room in 60 minutes or less is a group effort that involves teamwork and constant communication. That’s something you don’t get every day on a normal family excursion.

By the end of the game you’ll be communicating more clearly, which can be a benefit long after you’ve escaped the room.

Everyone Wins Together

Even if you have a family game night at home that usually means breaking people up into teams or acting as individual players. Some people will win and some people will lose.

At one of our San Antonio escape rooms the entire family wins together. It’s a real positive bonding moment for everyone. Up to 10 family members can play in an escape room together at the same time so extended family can get it on the fun too.

Honoring Heroes With Family Discounts

Every Monday is Heroes Play Free day at Extreme Escape. We offer huge discounts for military members, police officers, firefighters and EMTs along with their family members. Heroes play for free and family members enjoy 15% off each game.

Plan Your Next Family Night at Extreme Escape

Reserve an Escape Room in San Antonio Online!

When Valentine’s Day rolls around your initial thought is:

1. Hallmark holiday.
2. Good thing I made dinner reservations right after New Years.
3. What? It’s already almost Valentine’s Day?

Personally, this Valentine’s Day we’re going to enjoy our escape rooms in San Antonio. Why? Because we love them, and Valentine’s Day is all about love. But in all honesty, it’s actually one of the most fun things to do in San Antonio for couples whether it’s your first date or the 100th.

Really, our San Antonio escape rooms are the perfect Valentine’s Day idea no matter how you feel about the upcoming holiday. It’s definitely not a mainstream, cliche Valentine’s Day idea that’s for sure. It can be a romantic date in terms of the way it reveals things about your escape room partner and brings you closer together. And if the calendar changed to February but Valentine’s Day snuck up on you, then you need a break to have a little fun.

But seriously, Valentine’s Day should be spent doing something you love with someone you love. The places to go for Valentine’s Day in San Antonio are anywhere that you want to go. Make it a day that you take a break from the everyday norm and enjoy doing what you love to do.

The origins of Valentine’s Day may be stranger than The Other Side, but at least modern-day traditions are a little more flexible. Almost anything goes as long as you buy your sweetheart (or yourself) some chocolates.

If you’re a diehard romantic who thinks that idea is sacrilege consider this: the festival of Lupercalia, a Roman holiday that’s somewhat of a basis for Valentine’s Day, involved the sacrifice of a dog and a goat. Do you really want to be a stickler about doing Valentine’s Day the way it’s traditionally done?

Non-traditional Valentine’s Day activities have been growing in popularity the last few years thanks to the Galentines Day concept. Groups of female friends celebrate their friendships on February 13th instead of or in addition to a relationship with a significant other. It reached pop culture status when Parks and Rec aired a Galentines Day episode in 2010.

So this Valentine’s Day, don’t sweat putting together a super romantic (overpriced) date with all the standard-issue stuff. Plan a night of fun with your significant other, family, friends or roommate doing whatever makes you love life in San Antonio.

If you’re a history lover explore one of the five missions that were built hundreds of years ago. All you nature lovers can take a break from your urban lifestyle at the Government Canyon State Natural Area. And all of you puzzle-loving, crossword crushing, gaming enthusiasts can join us in a heart-racing escape room adventure.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

There’s something else to enjoy this month beyond the November holidays and pumpkin spice everything. At Extreme Escape we’re having our fall Facebook promotion!

For a limited time, you can play the best escape rooms in San Antonio for a great discounted rate. Anyone and everyone can take advantage of the fall discount any day of the week.

Looking for a different kind of date night? See if you can escape the room together. Trying to find a fun activity for the entire family? We have escape rooms that are appropriate for kids as young as eight years old. Need a fresh team building activity that actually gets coworkers communicating? Extreme Escape is San Antonio’s #1 spot for team building.

Our escape rooms put you in the middle of the action where you have to use your wits and cunning to beat the clock before it runs out. If you’ve never tried a San Antonio escape room now is the time to find out if you have what it takes to get out!

Try an Escape Room in San Antonio This November and Save 25%

Clear a day (or two) on your November calendar to try a San Antonio escape room during our fall Facebook promotion. All you have to do is use our escape room promotion code when you reserve a spot to get 25% off!

When you reserve an escape room online:

• Choose an escape room.
• Select a day and time.
• Enter your information.
• Enter the promo code “Fall19” on the right hand side of the check out page.
• Click the add button to apply the promo code.

You can also mention the promo code when you reserve an escape room over the phone.

The promo code applies to any of our escape room games. There are two locations with 8 escape rooms to choose from:

Stone Oak Location

The Cursed

The Lost Tomb

Encounter

The Other Side

Colonnade Location

The Undead

Trapped Below

Master of Illusion

Mutiny

Make sure to keep checking out the Extreme Escape Facebook page for our December specials that help you save and support a deserving charity during the holidays.