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Opening and running a leisure venue

Direct answers to the questions project owners ask, written from the sites we have run.

Written from building sites, not from a blog.

How to open an escape room
What to line up before opening an escape room, in order: the space, the story, the budget and the schedule. Plus the three mistakes that cost the most.
How much does it cost to build an escape room?
What actually makes up an escape room budget, line by line, and why the ranges you find online are of no use to you.
How to open an indoor entertainment centre
How many activities, in what flow order, with how many staff. The real risk of an indoor centre is not the concept, it is the programming.
How much floor area does an escape room need?
Play area is not the area you lease. What has to be added around a room, and why the calculation runs the opposite way to what people assume.
Refreshing an escape room
When to renew, what to renew, and why rebuilding everything is almost always the most expensive and least effective decision.