Why Pay for an Escape Room When You Can Try Leaving a Perth Car Park After 5pm?
Our columnist says the city has offered immersive puzzles for free for decades.
A car park barrier: Perth's original escape room. Photo: Jaggery, “Overhead barrier at a Worcester car park entrance - geograph.org.uk - 5479723”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
Plans for escape rooms on St John Street have been met with excitement, and I am excited too. But Perth has been offering escape experiences for decades, free of charge, in every multi-storey car park.
Picture it: the ticket machine won’t take your card. The barrier will not lift. A queue forms behind you. You have 60 seconds to find a coin, a code or a man in a hi-vis vest. That is an escape room. That is theatre.
Then there’s the South Inch on a dark winter evening, which I would call horror-themed, and the Friarton Bridge during lane closures, an endurance challenge with a lovely view.
Still, best of luck to the new venture. If the puzzles are too easy, I can recommend Broxden at 5.15pm. Nobody has ever escaped.
The real story: Escape room plans for former shoe shop (The Courier)
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