New escape room to deliver immersive, fun-filled experiences to Quakertown | Eat, Sip, Store

QUAKERTOWN, Pa. – A brand new leisure venue, that includes circus-, drive-in- and saloon-themed experiences, is coming quickly to higher Bucks County.

Clockwork Escapes, an immersive escape room facility with a number of experiences, is predicted to open in early June at 238 S. West End Blvd. in Quakertown, co-owner Hannah Longie advised 69 News.

The new facility will occupy a soon-to-be up to date area that beforehand housed a taekwondo studio within the Country Square purchasing middle.

Longie and her enterprise accomplice, Zachary Moser, are renovating the unit to characteristic a number of escape rooms.

The plan is for Clockwork Escape to debut with three escape rooms and progressively introduce extra later for a complete of six when solely full.

Each escape room may have its personal theme with distinctive décor, puzzles, codes and clues, and gamers must full the rooms’ goals earlier than time runs out.

The first three escape rooms will embody:

• Clocky’s Drive-In: It’s the summer season of 1999 and tonight is your first shift on the native drive-in movie show. And, no stress, however you might be imagined to be airing one of many greatest hit motion pictures of the 12 months. There’s just one drawback: the film is meant to start out in 1 hour and the movie reel has gone lacking! Find it earlier than the film is meant to start out or the one ending anybody might be seeing tonight is your profession.
• The Fortune Teller and the Freak Show: The 12 months is 1875, and the touring circus has come to city. You’re excited to test it out – particularly the fortune teller – however one thing feels off as quickly as you enter the tent. Something sinister is occurring on the circus. Trapped there, you could work out what is going on and put a cease to it, or you’ll develop into a part of the present!
• The Lucky Horseshoe Saloon: You and your posse of roaming bandits are on the run from the legislation. The sheriff is scorching in your heels, however you’ve got heard rumors concerning the proprietor of a close-by saloon holding some costly valuables stashed there. You cannot resist the small detour. Find the property and get out earlier than the legislation catches as much as you.

The value might be $32 per individual for every hour-long expertise, and all teams will get pleasure from personal experiences.

No individual underneath the age of 9 might be allowed to play or enter the experiences, and people who’re 14 or youthful will want a paid chaperone (older than 18).

Hours are nonetheless being finalized, however the facility will possible function Tuesday by Sunday from midday to eight or 10 p.m. relying on the day, Longie stated.

Longie, a resident of Montgomery County, and Moser, a resident of Allentown, are massive followers of escape rooms and noticed a main alternative to create their very own facility whereas filling a void in Quakertown’s leisure scene.

“We’ve played a lot together and separately on our own with friends and family, and we also both previously worked at an escape room,” Longie stated.

“… So, we have a passion for [escape rooms], and we also have some good ideas. So, we put it into motion.”

Clockwork Escapes might be Quakertown’s first escape room, and the companions are excited to deliver a brand new spot for interactive enjoyable to the borough.

The Quakertown space is dwelling to a bowling alley and movie show, however different leisure choices are few and much between, Moser stated.

The group has additionally expressed pleasure concerning the new escape room.

The enterprise has not achieved a lot advertising but, however a number of people have already proven curiosity on-line and chatted with Longie and Moser concerning the idea on the property, Longie stated.

“We’ve heard nothing but positive feedback from everybody,” Longie added.

At Country Square, Clockwork Escapes is becoming a member of a various mixture of tenants that features Subway, Sal’s Pizza Randa, Total Liquidators, For Cats Only Veterinary Clinic and Eastern Dragon Chinese and Japanese restaurant, amongst others.

The purchasing middle additionally welcomed My Size City, an indoor kids’s play area that includes playhouses, a storytime nook and toddler play space, in 2024.

For the newest Clockwork Escapes updates, comply with the enterprise’ pages on Facebook and Instagram.