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.
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.
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!
The Bond Girls
We have a variety of themed treasure hunts and James Bond is always one of the popular subjects. Here you see a team posing for one of their treasure hunt photos with a pair of our James Bond stautes.
Treasure Hunt Capers
We give each team a digital camera on our Treasure Hunts and they have to capture specific photographic targets but they also bring back a record of their fun and experiences over the course of the day. It’s funny, on every event one team always ends up in bed together!
Some of the photographs we get are hilarious, check out the reel of shots below. Since the advent of digital cameras and the whole social networking movement people have become much better at taking amusing photographs.
Set within the clues of a well written Treasure Hunt will be a series of challenges. Teams will be given a camera and asked to bring back certain pictures, and one which works very well is a reproduction of a scene from a famous film.
Treasure Hunt Task
In this case the team have found a cinema and reproduced the poster outside and the result is really effective, probably because the people look fairly similar to those on the poster (from a distance).
A good Treasure Hunt has plenty of challenges that add to fun of the overall event. The key is to give the individuals in the team the chance to share fun, positive experiences as this is what builds relationships.
Treasure Hunts for corporate groups can be arranged around the UK and Europe with various themes and formats.
City Treasure Hunts are a fantastic way to explore the sights of a city. Capital cities such as London and Paris are obvious choices and the key is not to choose major tourist attractions, for no-one wants to spend their event standing in queues. There are many fascinating off beat places to visit and the experienced writer will ensure that the treasure hunt is filled with these.
Cathedral cities in the UK make excellent locations for a treasure hunt, for example Oxford and Winchester.
Treasure hunts are a great way of exploring a city but they also work well in the country. The tempo is a little slower but you can run over a greater distance to ensure that there’s is still plenty of challenge. The New Forest is a great location and doing the event on mountain bikes is a wonderful experience. Treasure hunt writers look out for interesting things, for example this plaque hidden deep in a village somewhere.
Treasure hunt clue
“As a bee gathers nectar without harm to the flower, so let a wise man dwell in the village” Guatamo.
Solent Events organise treasure hunts on water. They can arrange events on The Thames in high speed ribs, stopping off on land to hunt for clues. They also have a Land, Sea and Air concept featuring boats and helicopters. Very cool!
