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Looking for something to do in San Antonio? Do you attend Ronald Reagan High School in San Antonio? How about Southwest High School in San Antonio? Or maybe you’re a student at Churchill High School San Antonio?

Then it’s the perfect time to visit Extreme Escape!

Special Escape Room Discount for San Antonio High School Students

San Antonio high schools are as diverse as the city itself. There are massive public high schools, private schools and specialized magnet schools. Thousands of students across the city’s school districts work hard throughout the year to crush the STAAR test and get average SAT scores as high as 1,121. There are also districts that have earned A+ ratings due to the exemplary performance of students.

After all that cramming, quizzing and testing, San Antonio high school students deserve some fun. Extreme Escape wrote the book on fun. We have a PhD is having a good time and are happy to share what we know.

Right now you can enjoy an escape room session for 25% off the regular price!

We’re running a special promo for San Antonio high schoolers. (Heck, if you go to high school somewhere else we’ll give you the discount too!) The Extreme Escape Facebook page promo can be used by any and all students who attend high schools in San Antonio. All you have to do is use the code “HighSchool19” when you reserve a ticket online for any of our escape rooms.

The great thing about our San Antonio escape rooms is that you still get to work your mental muscles, but it’s a lot more fun than test prep. See if you’ve got the smarts to escape!

Call or Visit Us Online to Reserve an Escape Room in San Antonio!

If you were told there was one thing you could do to help your team communicate better, trust each other more and improve collaboration you’d be interested in that one thing, right?

Well, there’s good news! That one thing is team building activities.

Before you start picturing lame games in the office that make your employees wish they were working, know that isn’t the team building activities we’re talking about. Oh, no. That type of team building doesn’t do much for morale and productivity.

But when you choose the right type of team building activity it can have a huge impact.

Team building has the ability to boost employee engagement. That’s a big deal because a survey from Gallup found that 70% of employees are disengaged and that costs businesses an estimated $500 billion a year.

A study from MIT’s Human Dynamics Laboratory made a few profound discoveries about commonalities among the most successful companies. The researchers found that the most productive teams had strong communication and lots of face-to-face interaction. Therefore, interactive team building activities that build communication skills have the ability to dramatically improve performance.

Here are a few more things that make team building highly effective for businesses of all sizes in any industry.

What Makes Business Team Building Activities Actually Work

There are a few commonalities that effective team building activities share. Take a look below to see if your team building efforts will make a difference.

Get Out of the Office

The best business team building activities aren’t just another a regular day at the office. You want to take employees out of their element and get their attention focused on the activity. Events that are nothing like the normal work environment are also more memorable and that’s good for long-term benefits.

Don’t Make It About Learning a Lesson

Some of the best lessons in life are learned when you least expect it. If you try to make team building activities all about learning a certain business lesson some people are going to take it the wrong way. It can seem like they are being preached to or micromanaged.

Enjoyment Gets People On Board

If you focus on fun team building activities you’ll get the opposite effect that you get with events that are lesson-based. People will be on board from the get-go, which is exactly what you want. Employees will approach the activity with a more positive mindset and be open to trying different things that can have a positive effect on teamwork.

Shared Experience With a Common Goal

Instead of making the activity another work project, what’s most important is that it’s a shared experience with a common goal. This will get employees bonding in a natural way and encourage them to pull together.

Try Something New

Doing something new together gets people to see things in a different way, pushes them outside of their comfort zone and creates a strong connection among the participants. Employees can bring all of these things back to the office to boost productivity and creativity. If nothing else, doing something unique is a team building activity that won’t soon be forgotten.

A San Antonio escape room checks all the boxes above. You’ll find some of the best team building activities in San Antonio, TX at Extreme Escape. We’ve been rated the #1 corporate team building experience in the city!

Customers that have tried Extreme Escape for team building in San Antonio agree it’s an enjoyable experience that brings coworkers closer together. We have dozens of reviews on our Facebook page and TripAdvisor from corporate leaders and employees that think it was a great investment for the entire team.

Give us a call to reserve an escape room in San Antonio for your next team building activity!

You’re probably getting geared up for the office holiday party, and everyone is busy wrapping up projects before the end of the year. Of course, everyone is also partaking in the many holiday festivities with their family members during their offtime.

In San Antonio, there’s holiday fun happening every day in December. With so much going on during the San Antonio Christmas season it’s actually a great time to treat employees to a festive team building activity. After all, they are your work family!

Our elves have done the busy work for you and found three awesome ways to enjoy holiday team building in San Antonio.

Unleash Sweet Creativity Building Gingerbread Houses

The Gingerbread Workshop is all about bringing out the inner child in adults. It’s an instructional services company that has mastered the art of gingerbread house building, and they love sharing what they know with others. Your team members can build a house from scratch or use a kit to construct a delectable, one-of-a-kind masterpiece.

The Gingerbread Workshop is hosting a public event on December 7th at the NEISD Community Education Center that corporate teams can join, but they also cater to businesses year round with private events.

Have a Holiday-Inspired Volunteer Day

The San Antonio holidays are a time of joy and fun for most locals. But there are a lot of people who aren’t as fortunate and can use a helping hand to make the holidays a little brighter.

Fortunately, there are dozens of charitable organizations that work overtime during the holidays to make that happen. Doing a volunteer day is the perfect way to bring your team together and lift their own spirits during the Christmas season. Volunteering as a corporate team has been shown to boost productivity because it’s a personal and emotional experience that’s uplifting for weeks after the event.

If you’re interested in doing a team building volunteer event during the holidays:

• Wrap presents for the Elf Louise Christmas Project
• Help out at one of the H‑E‑B Feast of Sharing holiday dinners
• Join United Way to work the food line or answer letters to Santa
• Work at ChildSafe’s Santa Shop

You can bring the holiday team giving into the office by having your own toy drive in conjunction with a local charitable organization. Employees can bring in unopened toys when they come to work so giving is super easy. You can turn it into a team building activity by making it an office project that employees can volunteer for. At the end of the toy drive celebrate your success together with a catered lunch or happy hour as a group.

Play a San Antonio Escape Room for a Good Cause

You can give back and get a fun experience this holiday in San Antonio. It’s giving central at Extreme Escape during the holidays. Throughout the year we donate to a local charity of your choice when you book a team building event. During December we also team up with a local charity like the Salvation Army San Antonio to donate a portion of ticket fees for their holiday events.

We promise it’s a team building activity in San Antonio unlike any other! We’ve been voted the #1 corporate team building venue in the city because everyone takes something away from the experience whether it’s clearer communication, a different perspective on approaching challenges or knowing their coworkers a little better.

Give us a call for personal assistance reserving an escape room in San Antonio for your next team building event.

Why is San Antonio called Military City USA? It’s nicknamed Military City USA for one very good reason – San Antonio trademarked the term. But more importantly, it’s because there are four military installations collectively known as Joint Base San Antonio. That means San Antonio has one of the highest concentrations of military families in the country.

As you can imagine, the San Antonio military city status means there are a lot of things to do around town that cater to military families. Here are a few of our favorite activities that are fun for the whole family and offered for a special rate when you’re active duty.

TAKE A COMPLIMENTARY TRIP TO SEAWORLD

SeaWorld San Antonio is located in the “green zone”, an area of the city not far from Lackland Air Force Base where many of the military families live. Their “Waves of Honor” program provides four complimentary tickets each year (one for the active military member and up to three tickets for dependents). Veterans and their family members also receive discounted tickets.

The aquatic theme park has also had special military appreciation events and concerts in the past. If you really want to make it an all-American excursion plan to visit SeaWorld on the 4th of July.

Similar military-family friendly attractions:

The San Antonio Zoo

San Antonio Aquarium

Six Flags Fiesta

Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch

LEARN SOMETHING NEW AT THE DOSEUM

The DoSeum museum for kids is an iconic San Antonio attraction. There are tens of thousands of square feet both indoors and outdoors full of interesting exhibits and hands-on activities. The museum may be designed for kids 10 and under, but the entire family can spend a whole day exploring and interactive learning. There are even adult nights for military families with older kids.

Some exhibits, like Big Outdoors, remain the same year round, but there are also special exhibits that are only open for a short time. So get down to the DoSeum before they disappear. And don’t forget to ask about the military discount when you get tickets.

Similar military-family friendly attractions:

Morgan’s Wonderland

The Alamo

Tower of the Americas

PRACTICE YOUR TEAMWORK AT A SAN ANTONIO ESCAPE ROOM

Military families are mission driven units that know the importance of teamwork. You can sharpen your teamwork skills at an escape room in San Antonio!

One of the best aspects of an escape room is that people of all ages can play it together. At Extreme Escape we’ve had multigenerational families work together to solve puzzles in our live action escape rooms. Racing against the clock is sure to get everyone to band together and start communicating, which is harder to do in our Internet connected world.

Since San Antonio is a military city, Extreme Escape wants to show appreciation for the men and women that serve to protect us. Every Monday is Heroes Play Free Night. All military service members, EMTs, police officers and firefighters can play any escape room for free! We also give family members a discount and provide complimentary Uber rides home.

Similar military-family friendly attractions:

Ripley’s Believe It or Not

Amazing Mirror Maze

Enjoy the Ultimate Family Game Night Together – Book a San Antonio Escape Room!

Many people (ironically) have a love-hate relationship with Valentine’s Day. They’re either all about Valentine’s Day and go all out with flowers, candy, presents and a special dinner, or they think it’s a “Hallmark holiday” that’s nothing but a way for businesses to make money.

We think there’s a lot more to Valentine’s Day than canoodling couples and jaded lovers. In our minds Valentine’s Day is the perfect opportunity to celebrate friendship. When you think of it that way the holiday isn’t just a lovefest but a reason to get together with friends and have some fun.

Here are a few ideas for how you and your friends can celebrate your special relationship in San Antonio this Valentine’s Day.

Throw a Galentine’s Day Get Together

One of the latest Valentine’s Day trends is getting together with your girlfriends for a Galentine’s Day. As the name suggests, Galentine’s Day is an event for female friends to buck the holiday tradition on February 13th. The idea first came about on the television show Parks and Recreation when character Leslie Knopp wanted “ladies to celebrate ladies” instead of identifying themselves through a relationship with a man.

If you want to throw a Galentine’s Day get together in San Antonio you’re in luck! There are a number of establishments that are hosting Galentine’s events.

• DIY Studio – Gals can whip up their own Valentine’s treat during Sara’s Sweetheart Cupcake Class.
• Taco Cabana – Enjoy a few margarita’s and Galentine’s Day food specials at your local Taco C.
• Folklores Coffee House – Groups of 4+ girlfriends will be treated to complimentary mimosas.
• Alamo Drafthouse – The Alamo Drafthouse on 410 Loop is having special Galentine’s Day showings of What Men Want and Isn’t It Romantic.
• El Luchador – Belt out “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” at a special Galentine’s Day karaoke night at El Luchador.

Get Over Your Ex at Bowl & Barrel

There’s no better support system than your friends if you’re getting over an ex around Valentine’s Day. Bowl & Barrel is also making it easier with their Shred Your Ex event. Bring in a picture of your ex to shred and you’ll get free hors d’oeuvres to enjoy while you bowl out the relationship angst with friends.

Get Close in a San Antonio Escape Room

There’s no better way to get to know your friends a little better than trying an escape room in San Antonio. After all you are locked in a room for an hour. While you’re there you won’t be sitting around twiddling your thumbs. You’ll be working together to find clues and solve puzzles in order to make your way out.

The reason why a San Antonio escape room is such a great non-traditional Valentine’s Day event is because you have to interact and communicate. You’ll have next level bonding while experiencing something new together.

Extreme Escape has the best escape rooms in San Antonio for friends that are looking to have fun on Valentine’s Day. You can choose to play eight different escape rooms in two locations, both of which offer complimentary craft beer and wine. Come see why Extreme Escape has been voted one of the best attractions in San Antonio.

Reserve a San Antonio escape room to celebrate Valentine’s Day in a different way!

Are you ready for the ultimate escape room experience? Do you have what it takes to become an elite escapist? Well, now is your chance to prove it!

If you tried a San Antonio escape room and got hooked, we totally understand. We’ve created the special Elite Escapist program for all you fanatics that love testing your skills in room escape games. Let the challenge begin!

How to Become an Extreme Escape Elite Escapist

Not everyone can become an Elite Escapist, but everyone can try. Here’s what you need to do to earn the title:

Assemble Your Team

Taking on an escape room in San Antonio is something you can’t do on your own. You’ll need a team with a variety of talents to make it out of the rooms on time. Extreme Escape adventures can accommodate up to 10 players at a time.

Get the Punch Card

It all starts with your punch card. This is what validates you’ve taken on one of our San Antonio escape rooms. Without it you won’t be able to complete the challenge. Don’t lose it!

Choose an Escape Room Experience

Now you’re ready to start playing! Choose any escape room experience at our Stone Oak or Collonade locations and let the adventure begin. You can attempt the escape rooms in any order you want. There are varying levels of difficulty, but they’re all major fun. If you want advice on where to start just give us a call or come by one of the locations for a tour.

Our escape rooms include:

Mutiny

Master of Illusion

The Undead

Trapped Below

The Other Side

Encounter

The Cursed

The Lost Tomb

Get Your Punch Card Verified on Site

Once you finish the escape room game you’ll need to get your punch card verified on site. Don’t forget to complete this step! It lets us know that you did in fact take on the room.

Choose Another Escape Room in San Antonio and Repeat

Playing one escape room is for novices. For an Elite Escapist, it’s a warm up. Continue the challenge by trying to escape another room.

Attempt All 8 Rooms to Collect Your Elite Escapist Swag

You’ve done it! After attempting all eight rooms you can call yourself an Elite Escapist! You don’t have to finish all of the rooms in under 60 minutes, although if you do you’ll have some serious bragging rights.

When that final room is verified on your punch card you’ll get:

• An Exclusive Elite Escapists T-Shirt
• Certificate of Completion
• Take Home Puzzle
• Magnet/Sticker
• Social Media Shout Out
• And More

More importantly you’ll have earned the coveted title of Elite Escapist. Congratulations!

Ready to Start? Book Your First San Antonio Escape Room Online!

For many of us the holidays are a time to reflect on the past year and make a resolution or two for the coming months. The goal is to break old habits, make better lifestyle choices and/or improve some aspect of our life. People have the best of intentions, but unfortunately over 90% of resolutions aren’t achieved.

It turns out there are a number of reasons why resolutions have a high failure rate. Some people simply get too ambitious and make too many resolutions all at once. Others make huge resolutions that are really hard to attain. And changing habits isn’t nearly as easy as it seems.

The trick is to start small and make the process fun. We can’t think of a better way to work on resolutions than taking on an escape room. Here are four New Year resolutions that you can actually complete by visiting a San Antonio escape room – plus one more reason a visit can help you meet your goals.

Try Something New

Have you felt like things are on autopilot in your life? Then you may have made a resolution to try new things in the coming year.

An escape room in San Antonio isn’t just a new activity for most people. It’s an easy way to experience what feels like an entirely different time and place without having to travel far from home. And at Extreme Escape we have two locations each with four unique adventures so you can experience something new eight times!

Get More Physically Active

Improving physical fitness is by far one of the most common New Year resolutions. We live in a sedentary world where many people sit at work and everyday pastimes are also done sitting down. It’s no wonder that doctors say sitting is the new smoking.

But what if you’re the type that isn’t excited about hitting the gym? Start small by doing a few activities in your free time that get you up on your feet. An escape room is ideal for this extremely popular New Year resolution because people of all physical fitness levels can participate. You’ll be up and moving for an hour, but it won’t seem like a workout at all.

Meet New People

If you’ve just moved, work from home or simply want to expand your network then you may have made the resolution to meet new people. Mingling with others isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you reserve an escape room, but that’s exactly what can happen.

Since the escape room accommodates up to 10 players you could be paired with people you just met. Sharing the experience together will bring you closer together in an hour than you ever thought possible.

Give Back

Some people make their resolution more about others than themselves by making it a goal to give back. It could be by joining a certain community group, donating to charity or volunteering. Either way this is a great New Year resolution because it helps people in need and provides health benefits for you.

During certain times of the year you can have a blast while you give back by reserving one of our escape rooms in San Antonio. Extreme Escape is a philanthropic local business that’s always giving back to the community with special events and partnerships that raise money for charitable causes like the Salvation Army. We also offer military members, EMTs, police officers and firefighters discounts every Monday.

Make an Escape Room Adventure Your Resolution Reward

There’s one easy way to dramatically improve your chances of reaching a New Year resolution – reward yourself with a trip to Extreme Escape! In addition to focusing on one goal at a time, rewarding yourself when you accomplish a resolution or reach a milestone also helps to keep you motivated and makes the process more fun.

Reserve a San Antonio escape room to celebrate reaching your resolution!