Mexican Wave
This is one element of our Treasure Hunt which encourages bit of crowd sourcing. The team has to get as many strangers as possible to do a Mexican Wave, after meeting one of our costumed characters on their route.
Here’s a team with a crowd of tourists close to St Paul’s in London having a great time.
Our Treasure Hunt team go to any lengths to make your event a success. They are fun and outgoing and play a variety of characters on different event including Victorians (Jack The Ripper), a Mexican, Spies and a Monk. We have something for every theme, but often it’s the random characters that really make things fun.
Here’s Gordon playing a naughty schoolboy in the New Forest…
Treasure Hunt Character
I just love Edinburgh as a Treasure Hunt location. It’s a visually stunning location and the best bits are really accessible and close enough to enjoy on foot in half a day. You can experience the impressive scale of Princes Street with the wonderful Scott Monument before scaling Calton Hill for more interesting monuments and a wonderful view of the city. Then you can head towards The Royal Mile and down into the old city which is crammed with interesting sights and history.
London is my favourite Treasure Hunt location, but I have to say that Edinburgh comes a close second.
Treasure Hunt Character
Our Treasure Hunt characters are an important part of our Treasure Hunts. Teams seek them out and they will usually have a challenge that they need to complete before they move on.
Here we have a monk waiting for teams in an atmospheric stone alcove in a Treasure Hunt we ran at the beautiful Penha Longa Hotel in Sintra in Portugal.
It was a fabulous event much helped by a beautiful day at a lovely location. The ancient Monastery was the perfect backdrop.
We were asked to organise a Treasure Hunt themed on the postal service for one of the UK’s leading courier companies. It’s interesting when the happens because it challenges you, as the writer, to think outside the usual perameters and come up with new ideas.
Often approaching treasure hunt writing from a theme means that you find exciting new locations, and this occasion was no exception. A short stroll from St Paul’s Cathedral we found Postman’s Park, a peaceful little spot amongst the hustle and bustle where we found one of the most fascinating memorials in London. A wall contains a selection of plaques commemorating acts of bravery from the late 19th Century. Some of them tell astonishingly moving stories, for example the little boy who saved his younger brother from a carriage in the road but lost his own life.
I think it’s too poignant to be a regular treasure hunt clue, the event is supposed to be fun and lighthearted, but if you’re ever in the St Paul’s area take a moment to visit Postman’s Park. It’s not something that you will forget.
As darkness falls around this characterful part of London participants tells us that it all starts to feel a bit spooky. Is that footsteps on the cobbles behind?
Canary Wharf
When we were first asked to put together a Treasure Hunt around Canary Wharf we were concerned that there wouldn’t be enough of interest. Usually we recommend that teams travel to Tower Bridge and run around an area with enough points of interest for 1,000 treasure hunts.
However, we were surprised to find that there is a lot of history and plenty to do around Jubilee Park and West India Docks. We were able to put together a good treasure hunt, photo challenge and scavenger list complete with a couple of costumed characters.
The event lasts for a couple of hours and makes a good team building evening finishing at a local bar. It can be run after work, which is very popular at the moment with companies preferring not to take days out of work.
Treasure Hunting Team Meets Ken Livingstone
Added to the list of celebrities spotted on our London Treasure Hunt is former London Mayor Ken Livingstone who met one of our teams and was kind enough to stop for a photo. It always adds to the fun when one of the teams meets someone famous and can earn them vital bonus points.
Can treasure hunts be themed? The answer is yes they can and probably more so than any other corporate event. You can theme to nations, languages, films and even abstract concepts such as Cockney Rhyming Slang. I would challenge someone to come up with a theme that we cannot work with!
They key is to build the theme in as naturally as possible so that it doesn’t feel contrived and take away from the enjoyment of the event. However, a good treasure hunt writer will be able to work with their client to make this work without compromise.
So, your treasure hunt can be themed as as to what to choose it’s as broad as your imagination.
Treasure Hunt photo of the week
This is a great photo of a team having fun on a treasure hunt. There are actually three people in the photo, one of whom is being really supportive!
We have four boxes full of fancy dress costumes so we can add this to your event if you really want to have fun. People love dressing up and you can see the delight on their faces when we open up the fancy dress boxes. We often hear about a very stern manager who is unlikely to get involved, only to find that he is the one dressed as a Spice Girl at the end of the day!
