Escapism – Escape Rooms

The popular Escape Room experience, often done as a fun family or business team building activity, is now available on the Hibiscus Coast.

Owner David Dennis says he and wife Danni have had a lifelong passion for movies, games and theme parks and have always had a drive to create unique experiences that enable people to escape the ‘everyday’ and be taken to another word. 

He decided to start building his first Escape Room a few years ago, but plans were delayed by covid. In the interim, he returned to work in IT while the couple started a family.

However, David never gave up on his dream and when the timing was right, he poured all his passion and focus into creating a new business, and Escapism in Karepiro Drive, Whangaparāoa, is the result.

“Finally, the timing was right and we found a great location to hit the ground running.” he says.

Escape Room experiences involve a team of players discovering clues, solving puzzles and accomplishing tasks in one or more rooms in order to accomplish a specific goal in a limited amount of time.

David has two more escape rooms on the drawing board with one nearing completion.

He says he is keen to get feedback from visitors so he can develop the rooms to deliver the best experience possible.

In addition to individual bookings, Escapism offers venue hire. Future plans include attracting the corporate market but, for now, the plan is to focus on events such as Halloween and pop-up escape rooms.

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