The Kharkiv Times will today highlight a new and fashionable leisure activity. If you enjoy outdoor activities in company and tire of staying at home or going to boring restaurants, then why not visit the Kharkiv Quest Centers.
Quest room – a game which has moved beyond the browser-type quest “Escape the room”. Typically, this room is specially furnished depending on the subject, from which you need to find a way out within one hour. Various clues and riddles will help you to escape. This is a team game, you need to actively interact. The team may consist of 2-4 (sometimes 1-5) persons.
1. Izolyatsiya (Isolation)
Without a doubt, the leader is “Quest Center” Izolyatsiya. The room functions for more than 1.5 years, not only in Kharkiv and Ukraine, but also abroad (Yerevan – Armenia, Ljubljana – Slovenia).
Price for the team: 300-500 UAH
Number of rooms: 11
The easiest room – “Prison cell” (record time 28 minutes to escape)
The most difficult – “Circus”, “An interrogation room”, “Quarantine”.
Rooms are adapted for English-speaking teams – “Prison cell”, “Laboratory”, “Garage”. Works English speaking staff.
How to find: Chernyshevska 42, Sumska 13, Chichibabina 9.
Phone: 063-899-59-18, 066-173-57-47, 067-254-99-74
Page Vkontakte and official website.
Promotions/Bonuses. Each month new banch of deals, details on the website.
Nika Nicks: “The strength of Isolation is the entourage, the room is always very interesting, even if it’s scary – it is still beautiful.”
Julia Kurlyuk: “For the first time in the quest room and in darkness. Very unusual feelings and a lot of adrenaline. There was a time when I felt really scared.”
2. IQuestkomnata
Price for the team: weekdays – 350-400 UAH, weekends – 500 UAH
Number of rooms: 10
The easiest room – “Sherlock Holmes of the 19th century” (record time 25 minutes to escape)
The most difficult – “Secrets of the Illuminati” (with the clues from administration you will manage to escape)
Rooms are not adapted for English-speaking teams.
Promotions / Bonuses. The Birthday -100 UAH. Discount -100 UAH for the next room.
How to find: Myronosytska 88, Hromadska 17, Pravdy Ave 1, Mayakovsky 14
Phone: 095-223-31-98
Page in Vkontakte and official website.
Darina Danilenko. “Very positive, very high quality difficult puzzles, mysterious atmosphere and a lot of surprises.”
Vladislav Aleshechkin. “Sherlock” – 9 out of 10 for overall impression! This is my 8th room and I have something to compare with! Riddles level is on top! Mechanisms really amazed”.
3. KEYHOLE
Price for the team: 250-600 UAH depending on the time of day.
Number of rooms: 7
The easiest room – “RedRoom” (record time 17 minutes to escape)
The most difficult – “Saw” and “Garage”
Adaptation of rooms for English-speaking teams to be ordered in advance by phone call.
How to find: Plekhanivska 92a, Shekspira Ln 5
Phone: 050-607-07-04, 063-353-44-74
Page in Vkontakte and the official website.
Promotions/Bonuses. Special offers are valid for students, schoolchildren, pensioners; there are regular shares in social networks.
Darina Kibkalo. “Tasks are moderately challenging, the design is fun and interesting.”
Olga Kuksova. “We arrived early, the administration treated us with tea! =) The room has a great atmosphere and the smell of an old book helps to deepen into the story!”
4. Quest House (Pushkin & Mafia)
Price for the team: 400-600 UAH
Number of rooms: 7
The easiest room – “Harry Potter” (record time 24 minutes to escape)
The most difficult – “Machinarium” (over 30% of people do not manage to escape during an hour)
Ability to pass a certain room for the English team should be specified on the phone.
How to find: Myronosytska 64, Myronosytska 82
Phone: 067-700-55-11, 050-460-57-75
Page in Vkontakte and the official website.
Promotions/Bonuses. Thursday – family day (for a family -50%), Wednesday – time for students (-50%).
Olga Bort: “Incorrect attitude of the staff to clients. We had a reservation in advance, no one called back for a day to confirm the reservation.”
Roman Bondarenko: “There are great rooms and there are boring ones sometimes, the locks are not always working properly, but in general there are more positive moments…”
5. Vnutri (Inside)
Price for the team: 250-500 UAH
Number of rooms: 5
The easiest room – “Steampunk labyrinth” (record time 25 minutes to escape)
The most difficult – “Real elevator” (over 30% of people do not manage to escape during an hour)
Offers English-speaking staff. Quests in English need to be ordered 2 days before the booking date (up to 200 UAH extra).
How to find: Danylevskoho 31, Bazhanova 21/23
Phone: 095-432-8-423, 099-56-55-002
Page in Vkontakte and the official website.
Promotions/Bonuses. There are special offers for children’s birthday parties and corporate events.
Dmitry Cherednichenko: “Were now in an elevator! Everything at the highest level! Thank you for the pleasant emotions!”
Anastasia Gaevaya: “A lot of the mechanical interaction, interesting and unusual puzzle caches. Impressions: stunning, 10/10.”
6. EXTREMAL-QUEST
Price for the team: 300-500 UAH
Number of rooms: 5
The easiest room – “The Mystery of Pripyat” (record time 25 minutes to escape)
The most difficult – “District Department” (with the clues from administration you will manage to escape)
It is possible to adapt any room for an English-speaking team. There is an English-speaking administrator.
How to find: Kulykivskyj descent 5, Liubovi Maloj Ave 93
Phone: 095-721-96-11, 073-438-99-78
Page in Vkontakte and the official website.
Promotions / Bonuses. Lotteries on the social networks.
Victoria Bagirova: “The “Mystery of Pripyat” was boring, and not enough space for 5 of us. The unpleasant surprise was an incident with the “wrong key.” The organizers assured that it was a human factor and offered discounts for other rooms.”
Victoria Zaitseva: “When you come into the room, it seems that in this room, nothing can be hidden, only a couple of puzzles and that’s all, but is a whole bunch. All logical and consistent.”
7. Quest-Group
Price for the team: 350-500 UAH
Number of rooms: 2
The easiest room – “Viy” (record time 19 minutes to escape)
The most difficult – “Mezhyhirya robbery ” (over 50% of people do not manage to escape during an hour)
Room “Viy” is suitable for an English-speaking team.
How to find: Hvardiitsiv-Shyronintsiv St 43
Phone: 099-151-06-46, 063-648-02-38
Page in Vkontakte and official website.
Promotions/Bonuses. Regularly updated details on the website.
Aleksandr Saenko: “The atmosphere is breathtaking. And no stupid lock tasks!”
Ekaterina Nesmeyanova: “Entourage pays careful attention to details. It was funny to watch each other as everyone was trying to find sense in any detail.”
8. Quest-dom
Price for the team: 400-500 UAH
Number of rooms: 2
The easiest room – “Mystery of Thrones” (record time 25 minutes to escape)
The most difficult – “Gardener. Mystery of Benjamin Benediktovich” (about 25% of people do not manage to escape during an hour)
Adaptation of rooms for English-speaking teams should be ordered in advance by phone call.
How to find: Sumska 13
Phones: 063-457-57-33, 099-66-99-870
Page in Vkontakte and official website.
Promotions / Bonuses. Lotteries on the social networks.
Julia Hludeeva: “Room “Gardener” – did not seem difficult, a lot of tasks for using tools, I had to think to understand. I liked the idea and the scenery.”
Igor Bondarenko: “The Mystery of Thrones was a good, but easy quest. You do not need to watch the series to succeed here.”
9. Koma-quest
Price for the team: 400-500 UAH (+50 UAH for additional person)
Number of rooms: 2
The easiest room – “Motel: crime scene” (record time 40 minutes to escape)
The most difficult – “Clown’s Makeup room” (about 40% of people do not manage to escape during an hour)
English-speaking staff works here. Organizers recommend the room “Clowns make-up room” for teams who do not know Russian.
How to find: Sumska 126
Phone: 066-320-81-88, 093-665-20-94
Page in Vkontakte and official website.
Promotions/Bonuses. Discounts for birthdays, regular shares on holidays and weekends.
Svetlana Logvinova: “Good Rooms! But the photo of the team appears not instantly. We played a week ago, and it is not in the gallery yet.”
Valeri Ovsyanikova: “Thank you! We loved it! Excellent quests for the company.”
10. AMNESIA QUEST
Price for the team: 400 UAH (up to -50% in shares)
Number of rooms: 1
“Ward №6” (record time 28 minutes to escape)
How to find: Maksymilianovska 11
Phone: 093-078-40-00
Page in Vkontakte and official website.
You need to listen to audio elements in Russian. Without them you cannot proceed.
Promotions/Bonuses. Every Tuesday and Thursday 50% for students. Repost minuses 100 UAH. Those having Birthday get 50% on the day of birth + 3 days.
Pauline Papuna: “For the first time in the quest room! We have made a lot of stupid things, have surrendered even had no desire to continue further, but still got 12 minutes before the end.”
Gregory Shors: “In general, everything is fine! The friendly managers and an interesting room, a pity that only one.”
The ranking depends on the number of rooms and pricing. We have processed a huge number of comments: around 90% were positive. Negative reviews are mainly associated with work of staff responsible for the booking and appointment of guests (5%); problems with supplies (4%); add photos to social networks (1%).
Now the choice is yours … After going through any kind of quest-rooms, you can share with us your impressions in the comments in the group TKT Vkontakte and Facebook.
