Break Escape

Mark A

9 months ago

Break Escape Room and the restaurant Chick N Fizz share a common space. I don’t think this highlighted in many people’s reviews. And at first this confused me. The escape room is on one side and the restaurant is on the other. There is no partition between the two. I discovered Break Escape Room through GroupOn. I did the Double Trouble room in which your group is trying to prevent a nuclear meltdown. The escape room was fun. The production value is somewhere in the middle. The puzzles were very creative. There were only two padlocks that needed to be opened. The room is non-linear, so multiple puzzles can be solved at the same time. Although, I would think a group of 4 probably is ideal, since the room is not that big. You get 3 clues if you get stuck. The restaurant is fun to hang out in before or after the escape room. They have a lot of fried foods (chicken wings, mozzarella sticks, etc) that could be used as a snack. They also have a wide selection of specialty sodas. Some just have to be tried to be believed. I got the funky monkey which uses Mountain Dew as its base and adds banana flavoring, chocolate, and cream. You would not think this combination would work, but it sort of does. So come for the escape room and stay for the restaurant. But I will also mention that the parking situation can get a little interesting. There is not a lot of parking at the strip mall and different store fronts claim certain spaces. Downtown Arlington Heights is walking distance if you wanted to park in downtown and walk here.

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Veronica Julia

4 months ago

Michael was incredible! We had such a fun time at Break Escape, it was our first time in years going to an escape room and this was the perfect reintroduction to it! Super helpful and knew when we were completely lost 😂 would highly recommend this place! And they have a chicken and soda shop attached so you can do both!

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Christle Stezskal

8 months ago

Our game master was nice. The room was well decorated. But it was pretty lame if I’m being honest. We took our two daughters, 8 and 10. We had to call to even find where to go in because there’s a big “Break Escape” room at the end of the strip mall that was locked…called and our game master came and waved to us from the other end of the strip mall where Break Escape is located with a Chick N Fizz. Interesting… We did Last Mission to Mars. We got out with 22 minutes remaining. The whole escape room was confined to a box (okay three) with no clues being found around the room or with the props. I legit could have bought this at a store and done it at my kitchen table. There were also a couple of “glitches” with the box. Our game master had to help us on two occasions where we were doing the correct thing but it wasn’t registering. The clues were very straightforward. Not too much to really think about. Our kids said their favorite part was the Photo Booth afterwards.

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Stephanie Tadda

3 months ago

This was so fun!! We struggled but it was such a fun experience. Everyone was incredibly kind in both the escape room and restaurant. Loved it here - 10/10 recommend!!

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Felipe Pulgarin

11 months ago

Super fun escape room and friendly staff that made our experience very enjoyable for our family. My 5yr daughter got really into it too! We did the "US Customs Entry Denied" room and were able to escape with just a few seconds left....with some good help from the staff. ;-) Looking forward to doing another one soon!! They have many rooms to choose from. Very clean location in downtown Arlington Heights. They also have a free camera to take selfies at the end, and they have various eyeglasses and other props and funny signs for great pictures.

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