Last month, we decided on a whim to try and escape room with our older kids. Usually something we’ve done with other adult, friends and family members, it was actually an incredible way to spend an hour with your older kids, working cooperatively to solve puzzles and escape a room. Since then, they’ve asked to go back multiple times, prompting us to try new rooms with our kids, and revisit rooms that we’ve completed, as adults, experiencing it together, anew.

Here are three family-friendly escape rooms you should try in Edmonton this Month - November 2021

Senator’s Quest at Escape Hour 

Without going too much away, Senator’s at Escape Hour is a great introduction to Edmonton escape rooms, with older kids. The room had incredible flow, and challenges that were ranging from tricky, to very tricky, but enough that children aged 9+ could actively take part in the puzzles. You’ll love the wrench twist. We beat this one, and it was the first room that we had attempted with our kids. 

At Escape Hour, you’ve got an iPad in the room with you, and that’s how you’ll get any hints you require delivered. Before you play, you’ll chooses which mode you want the experience to be: easier, with hints delivered when the host notice the group is struggling, harder, where you can verbally ask for hints and they’re delivered in a message on the iPad, or difficult, where no hints are offered, unless everyone in the group requests, and agrees. As the adults in our group were more experienced escape players, we opted for the hardcore level, and we won! 

Cost: $24.99/guest, no youth discount 

Mutiny at Escape City 

This was an escape room with great flow, unique challenges and perfect for a family-friendly escape adventure. There was one part that we particularly loved, and made us laugh, and look back on the room (like so many others, right?) and say - oh! That was so obvious. You’ll get it, when you get it - and you’ll love it. Every single puzzle was so involved in the theme, we loved that about the room.

This room was fun, the theme was fantastic and again, another immersive experience like Escape City is known for, and felt like it had the perfect amount of puzzles for a family of four to work together to solve, and also gave us a couple of opportunities to work as part of a team. We nearly escaped this one, with just a few minutes past the deadline, but the staff were incredible, and let us have a few extra minutes to solve the last puzzle and escape!

At Escape City, hints are delivered by Game Masters through recordings. You can request a hint with a quick push of a button, and have the hint delivered to you contactless, easily. Also, it’s one escape room that’s licensed, so you can grab a white claw, or craft beer to enjoy while you’re in the room!

Cost: $26.50-$30/16+ and $20.50/ages 8-15

The Cabin at Escape City 

For families searching for more of a ‘creepy’ escape room experience, the cabin is a fantastic choice. It’s a crowd favourite, for the immersive design of the room, without being too frightening for the younger people in your group. The puzzles to solve in the Cabin aren’t math heavy, like other rooms we’ve played, making them a great choice for the first few Edmonton escape experiences for families. The Cabin gets bonus points for having a spooky local ghost origin story. 

The introduction to the cabin is fun, immersive and you’ll immediately be thrown into the game by a message relayed by a staticky television message. At Escape City, hints are delivered by Game Masters, if you find yourself stuck on a puzzle! 

At Escape City, hints are delivered by Game Masters through recordings. You can request a hint with a quick push of a button, and have the hint delivered to you contactless, easily. Also, it’s one escape room that’s licensed, so you can grab a white claw, or craft beer to enjoy while you’re in the room!

Cost: $26.50-$30/16+ and $20.50/ages 8-15

Stay tuned next month for the next three family-friendly escape rooms you can try in Edmonton!