If there’s one UK city brimming over with potential treasure trails, it’s London. There are Crime Trails to be stalked, Movie Location Trails to move along, TV Comedy Show Trails to titter to, Musical Theatre Trails to be choreographed and Famous Pub Trails to imbibe. Landmarks such as The Tower of London, Globe Theatre, Gherkin, The London Eye and Camden Market may be on your itinerary but so might lesser known curiosities. These could include the fabulous Horniman Museum, the ancient Roman bath below the Embankment, the grave near Kings Cross of the first modern clown, or the plaque marking the Tyburn gallows at Marble Arch. You could also have clues to finding the brass nose on the walls of Admiralty Arch and the shrapnel marks from the bombs dropped by a World War I Zeppelin that still scour the walls of Barts Hospital.
Create your own London-based treasure hunt. But if you want to give that job to someone else, try CCC Events (https://www.cccevents.co.uk/team-building-london) or City Treasure Hunts (www.citytreasurehunts.com/locations/)
Raise a glass and learn a thing or two about taste combinations and cocktail-making in the Northern powerhouse of Leeds – near stunning Yorkshire countryside.
What’s the perfect gin-to-tonic ratio? How do you like the aroma of your gin: juniper-led dry or citrus or floral? You’ll be tutored in making the ultimate G&T and other cocktail classics such as Kir Royale and French 75.
Combine your team experience of making superior drinks with a cocktail of Leeds-flavoured tourism. There’s lots to see and do in this fantastic city: a trip to the Briggate area, which is famous for its historic shopping arcades, plus further retail joys at The Corn Exchange, and excellent art galleries in the centre.
For something different, head to the cavernous Fab Café – The world’s first cult television and movie theme bar.
More information about Gin & Fizz here: https://www.adventureconnections.co.uk/ideas/gin-fizz-tasting/. Gin tasting experiences also available in Birmingham, Bournemouth, Oxford, Edinburgh, Portsmouth and many other locations.
The doors are locked, and your team’s way out depends upon its ingenuity and ability to work together.
Challenges, conundrums, riddles and clues are promised to raise your lateral thinking and powers of logic to new levels. Only when you’ve “cracked it” are you released.
The escape room challenges are themed. Why not ask your team to draw upon skills they might not normally use? Give them the task of stealing a priceless gem in the Heist Room. Or confine them in a zombie’s lair, a mummy’ tomb or ask them to find Sherlock Holmes (he’s gone missing).
Once you’ve escaped there’s plenty in Cardiff to explore.
The city is rich in history, with a medieval castle and Victorian gothic mansion at its heart. Its most recent star is Europe’s largest city waterfront development, an eight-mile lake plus walkway/cycle track in Cardiff Bay festooned with eateries, bars and events.
More information about Escape Rooms Cardiff here: www.escaperoomscardiff.co.uk.
And we do mean weird – but fun!
Lock long, candy-coloured poles in Segway Jousting; settle who’s on top form by playing Human Football; be an expert in the field of duck herding.
And if those seem too odd by half (and they’re not, they’re a giggle), there are traditional team activities run by the same organiser. These include paintball, falconry, archery, clay shooting, cookery and off-road Land Rover Experience.
The events take place in a manor house in Devon with a cottage garden and deluxe accommodation.
Deer Park Country House is not far from Exeter, Dartmoor and the pretty, rolling red stone coast around the coastal towns of Sidmouth and Beer.
More information about Deer Park Country House here: www.deerpark.co.uk.
