Fix Your New Year's Resolution Woes With Escape Games!

So it’s time to stop saying Happy New Year!

February has hit, and the busy winter period of Work Parties and Family Christmas Get-Togethers is a thing of the past.  Blue Monday is too, and we’re solidly into 2020.

For me, my New Year Resolutions are often to improve my love life, read a poem-a-day, sort out my career and travel the world (well, at least pop to Whitby for some sea air).

I doubt for many people ‘Do An Escape Room’ is a top of their New Year Resolutions list.  Time Magazine’s top New Year Resolutions include*:

  • Spend More Time with your Family 

  • Learn Something New

  • Travel to New Places

But venturing into (or, rather out of) an escape room really should be on this list as it really can help with all three of these classic New Years resolutions. Want to spend more time with your family?  What better way to strengthen those family ties than being stuck in a room with them for up to 60 minutes?  Revisit the old habits of making a mess in front of your parents, bickering with siblings, but ultimately having a fantastic time together.

And if you want to learn something new, why not learn How To Escape An Escape Room?  Escaping involves puzzle-solving, delegation, collaboration, observation and a myriad of other skills (as well as learning how to deal with the aforementioned siblings!).

And if you want to travel to new places, you’ll find escape rooms across the globe. But if you’re worried about your carbon footprint then simply book into a nearby escape room and support a local business. Here in York, you can play Operation Lone Eagle and travel into a world of spies and evil scientists, or book for Operation Hero and travel into a world of super-heroes and evil hackers. Both games topped NowEscape’s polls in 2019, winning the the titles of York’s Best (and second best) Escape Room!

It’s February and spring is in the air. You’ve had time to try the trickier, typical New Year’s resolutions, now why not try something lighter and more fun at an escape room?

*Time Magazine also listed ‘Try not to get stressed’ as a popular resolution, and if you can keep your cool when there’s only 30 seconds left to save the world that’s got to be good training for the real world!

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