![]() ![]() Price Per Person: $45 Monday – Thursday/$52 Friday – Sunday Best for Families: Jumanji – 60outĪddress: 7270 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046 ![]() LA Girl Tip: Use all five of your senses. The game is entirely immersive and allows plenty for each person to do, even for their largest group of 11. ![]() Expect many validating “aha” moments! If that’s not reassuring enough, hints are generously given throughout the 90-minute experience making it certified newbie-proof. We love that each puzzle is challenging but in a fair and logical way. Big-time LA drug lord notorious in the streets as Ray Jones has one simple test for you: find all the drugs stashed in the apartment and flush them out before the cops arrive, or face the consequences. Centered on a Los Angeles crime theme, you are invited to a small apartment in Koreatown to discuss a business opportunity, only to find out it’s a test of life or death. This unique and local plot setting makes for a raw experience. Price: $40 per person, minimum 4 people per session with a different theme by early spring.Address: 4267 W 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90020 Race/LA is planning to add another Escape Room L.A. “You can make it a whole 1940s experience if you want to,” Hennessy said. There are also restaurants in the area like Nickel Diner and Cole’s, which have been around since then. “It’s cool to have an experience where you go back to the ’40s and then you can walk around and see architecture and buildings from that time period,” Hennessy said. is located downtown near gallery row, which helps attendees immerse themselves in the era. If we didn’t get out of the room all of us failed.”Įscape Room L.A. “I had never done something that everybody contributes to on a large scale and if you don’t accomplish it, the whole group doesn’t accomplish it. ![]() You can take in what’s going on and gravitate toward something that you can hopefully contribute to,” Gamboa said. She explained that the group breaks up into smaller teams to work on the puzzles, each selecting one where they can best apply their talents. Her favorite part was solving the puzzles. Monrovia resident Jennifer Gamboa also played Escape Room L.A. Jones’ group was able to get out of the room in 48 minutes. “It’s a nice, fun activity to kill an hour and challenge yourself in a way that you don’t normally challenge yourself day to day.” “Anybody who’s looking for a fun, different activity, I would recommend it to them,” Jones said. She added that it was a little expensive, but worth the money. She said that the setting looked so realistic that it was easy to become immersed in the experience. “We were expecting to have a good time but nervous because a few of our friends had tried it earlier in the week and had not gotten out,” Jones said. “It’s also only an hour and such a unique kind of experience.”Īimee Jones of Studio City had previously participated in Race/LA and Room Escape Adventures’ Trapped in a Room with a Zombie, so she was looking forward to Escape Room L.A. There are games like this you can play on your cellphone or iPad where you’re in a room and you have to figure out how to get out of the room,” Hennessy said. One, it’s just like being in a real-life video game. “People are really enjoying it and I think there are a couple of reasons for that. The game isn’t scary but because of its difficulty it is recommended for ages 14 and up. If you are unable to complete the puzzles, you will be released at the end of the hour, although you won’t have the pride of accomplishment. is an interactive mystery game in which 12 people are locked in a room (in this case, it is a 1940s private detective’s office) and have an hour to follow clues and solve puzzles to find their way out. Hennessy thought an escape-from-a-room experience would be a perfect addition to Race/LA’s offerings, plus it would be different in that it would be held indoors and the participants would have to work together as a team. Race/LA is the company that produces CityRace, urban adventure hunts at 20 locations throughout Southern California, and RaceLA, an event inspired by CBS’ “The Amazing Race” that’s held annually in the L.A. “I got the idea for it in the spring of last year because I read a story about one of these escape-from-a-room events that was in Budapest, Hungary, and I thought it sounded like the coolest thing and I wanted to go try it out,” said John Hennessy, director of Race/LA. Is this the “Twilight Zone”? No, it’s Escape Room L.A., a new interactive adventure. The door locks and you discover you’re in a 1940s private detective’s office, trapped in a film noir-esque Hollywood mystery that you must solve and then find your way out of the room - within the hour. ![]()
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