Escape Troy is open for small business – The Troy Messenger

Escape Troy is open for small business

Published two:06 pm Friday, March 17, 2023

Escape Troy is presently open for small business.

Escape Troy is officially open, bringing a special, immersive expertise to Pike County for these seeking for a challenge.

Escape Troy is owned by Aaron Johnson, who also owns and operates Escape Enterprise in Coffee County. At the moment, Escape Troy delivers one particular complete escape area along with VR headsets and a mini escape area, which is also transportable. Escape Troy plans to bring the mini escape area to events about the location, as properly.

“We’re difficult ourselves to build anything of excellence that provides men and women joy and challenges you,” Escape Troy Manager Lelon Creazzo mentioned. “When you go to a film, you are just there to watch you are not participating, you are a witness. Right here, we’re attempting to build an hour-extended occasion exactly where you are immersed into an expertise.”

The immersive expertise at Escape Troy starts the minute you stroll in the door.

That feeling of immersion, which Creazzo says is the focal point of Escape Troy, starts the minute you stroll by means of the door.

“It’s a completely immersive expertise,” he emphasized. “We are going to challenge you from the minute you stroll into the door. You have to figure out how to get into the constructing from the begin of your expertise. Portion of an escape expertise, the sort of experiences we’re developing, is emotionally driven.”

Creazzo mentioned that all the things from the music getting played to the appear and really feel of the rooms aids with that immersion. After a person walks into Escape Troy, the consumer is greeted with a note explaining how to enter the constructing. You can select from a beginner’s, a lot easier challenge and a much more hard expertise.

Escape Troy’s key escape area is named “Death Row” exactly where these playing will enter a realistic jail cell and are also met with an electric chair. You have to beat the clock and escape your way out of the cell. Escape Troy also delivers up a Virtual Reality Suite that characteristics 3 virtual reality headsets and 13 distinctive experiences.

The “Death Row” escape area characteristics an “electric chair” as you attempt to escape from your cell.

“I assume a lot of our customers love the reality that they’re experiencing anything distinctive,” Creazzo mentioned. “It is an escape area but we’re setting a stage and tone and mood that aids you overlook that. That is exactly where the immersive aspect of it comes in. So, it is an escape area but we’re a tiny bit much more than that, also.”

Along with supplying men and women, households and groups escape area possibilities, Creazzo mentioned that Escape Troy delivers group bonding workout routines for organizations, schools and teams.

“We’ll run you by means of our experiences and then we’ll debrief you just after,” he mentioned. “We’ll give you your strengths and your weaknesses at the finish of all the things.”

Escape Troy also characteristics virtual reality headsets. (Pictures by Josh Boutwell)

Escape Troy does not strategy to cease expanding anytime quickly, either. Creazzo and Johnson are presently operating on Escape Troy’s second complete-size escape area and Creazzo mentioned they strategy to expand to even much more VR headsets, as properly.

At the moment, Escape Troy is open Thursdays by means of Saturdays from three till ten:30 p.m. The price for the mini escape area is $two per individual, when VR experiences are $15 per individual. The “Death Row” escape area is $30 per individual with discounts for larger groups. Though stroll-ins are welcome, reservations can also be created on-line at escapetroy.com. Escape Troy is positioned at 110 University Boulevard in Troy, subsequent to Moge Tee.