The Great Room Escape! You have to try this!!!

Who

Just about anyone can enjoy the entertainment and team building that Great Room Escape offers.  Since opening in July of 2016, Great Room Escape in Layton has hosted many different groups of people including families, church youth groups, birthday parties, group dates, bachelor and bachelorette parties, reunions, game enthusiasts, and out-of-town guests from Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado.  We have hosted corporate events including law enforcement officers, military officers, and educators.  Grandparents and young teenagers alike enjoy the immersive experience Great Room Escape offers, many returning again in order to beat their previous time or just try to figure out that clue they didn’t have time to solve the first time around.

Four partners have pooled their resources and know-how to bring Great Room Escape to Northern Utah.  All Utah natives, the team has been visiting other escape rooms across the country and is pleased to bring the experience to their friends and family at home.  

What

What exactly is an escape room?

Picture this:  A dozen people are locked in a room for an hour, with only their wits and problem-solving skills to find a way out as the stress builds around them.  Some call it a murder mystery on steroids, gamified theater, a living puzzle, real-life video games, interactive entertainment or an intense team-building experience.  Northern Utah calls it the Great Room Escape, and the first franchise in the state opened its doors in Layton in July of 2016.

Each room concept has a tension or pressure element, making it just a little more challenging to recall simple spelling and arithmetic needed to solve puzzles.  This element makes the escape rooms the perfect environment for team building.

In the Zombie Room, between four to 12 guests enter an alleyway leading to the mansion of a crazed doctor intent on seeking a way to live forever.  Inside the mansion also resides the caretaker, who may have been shut up in the mansion maintaining the property and befriending the doctor a little too long.  Clues in the room appeal to many different kinds of people and test knowledge in literature, art, math, games, riddles, mechanics and music.  While the caretaker guides guests to the keys needed to escape, guests must avoid contact with the doctor, whose shackles lengthen every five minutes.   

In the Houdini Room, guests attempt to help Houdini’s widow, Bess.  Houdini, the world’s greatest escape artist and famous magician, made a pact with his wife to try and make contact from beyond the grave upon his death. They also set a deadline by which they would give up and Bess was to move on with her life. As the appointed hour approaches, guests must discover the final item so that Bess may make one last attempt to contact her beloved husband.

The team hopes to add at least two other rooms to their Layton location in the future.  All rooms are over 1,000 square feet, allowing ample room for the experience.

When

Your group can request almost any time and day year-round to experience Great Room Escape with prior arrangements.  Currently, regular hours include one show each Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evening.  Thursdays help guests anticipate the weekend with as many as three shows.  Weekends often fill up in advance, currently offering four Friday evening shows and as many as nine Saturday shows.  

As the escape room increases in popularity, show times will increase. Limited walk-ins are allowed as room permits, so online ticket purchasing at http://greatroomescape.com/saltlake/ is encouraged.  Visit our location to talk with staff members and book your show. For corporate events or special events outside of regular hours, please call to arrange a time.