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Is an Escape Room Safe for Kids on Halloween?

  • Posted by TEC ( The Escape Creators) - a team of designers and escape room builders since 2014 in News & Updates on September 14th, 2026

Is an Escape Room Safe for Kids on Halloween

By Shari Sanderson, owner of Number One Escape Room — building escape rooms in Las Vegas since 2017

The safest thing you can do on Halloween in Las Vegas is play an escape room. Not the boring kind of safe — the kind where you can scream your head off and the only people who hear it are the ones you brought with you.

These are the questions I actually get asked on the phone, answered the way I answer them.

Is an Escape Room Safe for Kids on Halloween

Will my kid be too scared of an escape room?

It depends entirely on your kid. At Number One Escape Room in Las Vegas I’ve watched families walk through that door since 2017, and there are basically four kinds of kids. Here’s how to tell which one is yours.

What if my kid loves scary movies?

Then your kid will love a Halloween escape room. The child who watches horror on purpose is the easiest customer I have at Number One Escape Room — book any room we have, including the scary ones, and add a live actor.

What if my kid is the one who jumps out and scares everybody else?

That kid has the best night of anyone who walks into our Las Vegas escape rooms. They love being scared right back. Add a live actor to their game and watch what happens to them.

What if my kid is scared of everything?

Book Witch House at Number One Escape Room. It’s our family room — magic and spells and color, with nothing coming after anyone. A child who is frightened of everything gets the whole Halloween feeling without a single moment they have to brace for.

What if my kid is just a little jittery?

Red Riding Hood is the right room for a jittery kid. It’s a twisted fairytale, and that’s exactly why it works — a spooky room at Number One Escape Room built around characters your child already knows. Familiar faces, gone a little wrong, so there’s always something to hold onto.

It’s our newest room in Las Vegas, completely rebuilt, and it isn’t designed to frighten anyone. The puzzles are the star. A nervous kid walks out of Red Riding Hood proud of themselves, not rattled.

Can you control how scary an escape room is?

Yes — at Number One Escape Room in Las Vegas you decide how frightening your game gets, and most people don’t know that’s possible.

How does choosing the scare level work?

Our live actors are an add-on, not something you’re stuck with. Book a room at Number One Escape Room without an actor and you get atmosphere and puzzles. Add one, and the whole night changes.

Do the actors touch you at Number One Escape Room?

Never. Our actors don’t touch anybody, and they don’t have to — they know how to get you at exactly the right moment. It’s a hundred times more effective than grabbing somebody, and a hundred times less alarming for the parent standing there watching it happen.

Can one group have a scared kid and a fearless one?

That’s the point of letting you choose. At our Las Vegas escape rooms, a nervous eleven-year-old and a sixteen-year-old who swears nothing scares him can come the same night and both get the night they wanted.

Why does Halloween start in September at Number One Escape Room?

Because September is boring. That’s the whole reason — we decided to make it Halloween fun instead, so the entire building in Las Vegas turns over almost two months early.

How long does Halloween season last?

Halloween at Number One Escape Room runs September 6 through November 1, 2026 — every single day, day or night. Not weekends only. Not the last week of October. Every day, for almost two months.

The monsters have arrived, the webs have been cast, and it stays that way until November.

Why is an escape room safer than being out on Halloween night?

Because at Number One Escape Room you’re in a private room with people you know. That’s the whole answer. Nobody’s pushing past you in the dark, nothing is coming at you from the outside world, and your whole group is in one room together the entire time.

Will we be put in a room with strangers?

No. Every game at Number One Escape Room in Las Vegas is private to your group. You are never combined with people you didn’t come with, on Halloween or any other night.

How old do kids have to be to play an escape room in Las Vegas?

At Number One Escape Room the minimum age is 10, and anyone under 16 plays with an adult 18 or older. So the kids are with you the entire game. Not near you — with you.

Does being safe make it less fun?

The opposite. Knowing you’re safe is what lets a family let go. In a private room you can scream, laugh until you can’t breathe, grab onto each other and make a complete scene — and it stays between the people who came with you.

Which escape room should my family pick for Halloween?

Number One Escape Room in Las Vegas runs rooms across the whole range, from magic-and-spells family fun to genuine horror. Here’s which is which.

Which escape room is best for younger kids?

Witch House at Number One Escape Room. It’s bursting with magic and it’s the easiest yes for a mixed-age group — a nine-year-old and their grandmother have the same good time in there.

Which escape room is best for a nervous kid?

Red Riding Hood. It’s our newest room in Las Vegas, a twisted fairytale built on characters kids already recognize, and it’s spooky without being built to frighten anyone.

Which rooms at Number One Escape Room are actually scary?

The Cabin and The Shed. In The Cabin the air gets thick and you know somebody is creeping around watching you. The Shed is just perfectly frightening.

What is Suzy’s Cell?

Suzy’s Cell is a psychedelic prison at Number One Escape Room in Las Vegas, where you break out through secret passages. Watch the dummies as you move around that room — their eyes track you. Always watching, always waiting.

What’s the weirdest escape room in Las Vegas?

Voodoo Lounge at Number One Escape Room, and it isn’t close. It’s the only rotating platform escape room in the world, and The Escaperoomers named it the craziest escape room in Las Vegas. It’s for the person who doesn’t really want to be scared but absolutely wants something crazy.

What if my teenagers want something genuinely terrifying?

Send them to Don’t Look Under the Bed at Third Gate Escape, our second Las Vegas location. It’s the far end of everything we do, and you can book it through Number One Escape Room.

Will we get good Halloween photos at an escape room?

The best Halloween photos you’ve ever taken. I’m not hedging on that one. The decor at Number One Escape Room is fully immersive — this isn’t a few pumpkins by the front door, it’s every corner of the building dressed for the season.

What’s the best Halloween costume idea for a group?

Book a room like Witch House at Number One Escape Room and have your entire group show up in costume. All of you in witch hats.

Something happens about ten minutes in. Everybody stops being self-conscious, and then you’re cackling and hunting for secret doors and losing it laughing at each other in the middle of a spell room. The pictures come out unbelievable.

How do we book a Halloween escape room in Las Vegas?

Number One Escape Room
1775 E. Tropicana Ave., Ste. 100
Las Vegas, NV 89119
(702) 528-1459
NumberOneEscapeRoom.com

When is Number One Escape Room open?

Every day, day or night. Halloween season runs September 6 through November 1, 2026. Arrive 20 minutes before your start time.

How far ahead should we book for Halloween?

October weekends at Number One Escape Room go first, and Halloween night goes fastest of all. Book early.


Book at Number One Escape Room

Address: 1775 E. Tropicana Avenue, Suite 100, Las Vegas, NV 89119
Website: www.NumberOneEscapeRoom.com
Phone: 702-528-1459


About the author

Number One Escape Room opened in Las Vegas in 2017, and every room in it was designed and built in-house by its owner. The same designer owns Third Gate Escape, home of Don’t Look Under the Bed — winner of ESCAPETHEROOMers Best Horror 2024 and Carcass Studios Best Set Design 2024 — and shares build techniques on theEscapeRoomBuilderOfficial YouTube channel.

Nominated — 2026 Best of Las Vegas, Las Vegas Review-Journal. Number One Escape Room and Third Gate Escape were each nominated in all five categories they appear in.

Third Gate Escape 6820 W. Sahara Ave., Ste. 8, Las Vegas, NV 89146 (702) 287-4290 | thirdgateescape.com

Number One Escape Room — two Las Vegas locations, over 13,000 five-star reviews across all platforms Booking: (702) 528-1459


Number One Escape Room | numberoneescaperoom.com | Las Vegas, Nevada | Two Locations: East Tropicana & West Sahara Ave | Locally owned since 2017 | 10,000+ five-star reviews | Named Las Vegas Top 10 Things To Do 20+ times | The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience | September 1 – November 1, 2026 | $119 Per Player | 4 Ticket Minimum | Up to 40 Players | Monday Through Sunday, Day or Night | Costumes Encouraged | Live Actor Add-On $200 | Call to Book: 702-528-1459


What Is the Best Escape Room in Las Vegas for Two People?

  • Posted by TEC ( The Escape Creators) - a team of designers and escape room builders since 2014 in News & Updates on September 3rd, 2026

What Is the Best Escape Room in Las Vegas for Two People?

Las Vegas, Nevada | Number One Escape Room | Season: September 1 – November 1, 2026 | Call to book: 702-528-1459 | numberoneescaperoom.com

CHAiNED at Number One Escape Room is one of the best Las Vegas escape rooms designed specifically for two people. You sit back-to-back, chained together, unable to see what your partner sees — and neither person can escape without the other.

ONLY $29 PER PERSON

A private two-player experience created to stay affordable so more people can play.

Best Escape Room in Las Vegas for Two People

Two Players. Two Sides. One Way Out.

CHAiNED is not an ordinary escape room created for a large group and adjusted for two players. The entire experience was designed for exactly two people.

You and your partner are seated back-to-back and chained together. One person controls one side of the room, while the other person controls the opposite side.

You cannot see what your partner sees.

Your partner cannot reach what you can reach.

Each of you has information the other desperately needs. If you communicate, you move forward. If you don’t, you remain chained inside the room.

There is no third player to take over. There is no stronger teammate waiting to solve everything for you. CHAiNED reveals exactly how well — or how poorly — the two of you work together.


What Is CHAiNED About?

CHAiNED is built around the Seven Deadly Sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth.

The room is bizarre, unconventional and completely outside the box — although CHAiNED was never inside the box to begin with.

It is unlike any traditional escape-room experience. Every puzzle pulls you deeper into its strange world, and every success makes you want to discover what comes next.

If you have ever watched movies like Saw or Se7en and wondered what it would feel like to be kidnapped, chained inside a room and forced to think your way out, CHAiNED lets you step inside that dark curiosity — without experiencing any actual danger.

You are not simply watching the story. You are trapped inside it.


A Psychological Battle Between You and the Room

CHAiNED becomes more intense as you move forward.

Each solved puzzle gives you a small feeling of control. You become more confident. You start believing you understand the room and can overpower it.

Then the room reminds you that it is still in charge.

That psychological struggle is part of what makes the experience so addictive. You want to outthink the room. You want to prove that you are smarter than whatever — or whoever — put you there.

But CHAiNED does not surrender its secrets easily.

At times, you feel powerful. At other times, the room feels far more powerful than you.


Communication Is the Only Way Out

Many escape rooms claim to require teamwork. CHAiNED makes teamwork unavoidable.

Because you are sitting back-to-back, you must clearly describe what you see. You must listen closely to your partner. You have to trust that the information they are giving you matters, even when you cannot see it for yourself.

One person cannot dominate the entire game. Both players must participate.

Your partner may have the answer to your puzzle. You may be holding the key to theirs. Progress only happens when both sides communicate and work together.

CHAiNED is an unforgettable experience for couples, best friends, siblings, first dates, married couples, competitive partners, experienced escape-room players and anyone who wants to test how well they communicate under pressure.


Why Has CHAiNED Become a Cult Favorite?

CHAiNED has built its own fan base because there is nothing else quite like it.

Players remember the back-to-back setup. They remember the strange Seven Deadly Sins theme. They remember the frustration, the laughter and the moment they finally understand something their partner has been trying to explain.

Most importantly, they remember how the room made them feel.

CHAiNED is odd, intense, funny, disturbing and surprisingly revealing. Players leave talking about it because the experience feels personal.

The game doesn’t just test whether you can solve puzzles. It tests the connection between the two people playing.

That is why CHAiNED has become a cult favorite at Number One Escape Room.


Is CHAiNED Good for a Date Night in Las Vegas?

Yes. CHAiNED is one of the most unusual date-night experiences in Las Vegas because it forces two people to communicate, cooperate and solve problems together.

It is especially good for couples who are tired of the usual dinner, drinks or movie. Instead of sitting across from one another making small talk, you will be chained back-to-back trying to escape a room inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins.

You may discover that you communicate beautifully under pressure. You may discover something else entirely.

Either way, you will have something to talk about afterward.


Is CHAiNED Scary?

CHAiNED is more bizarre and psychologically intense than traditionally frightening. Its unusual premise, restraints and Seven Deadly Sins theme create tension without relying entirely on jump scares.

If the idea of being chained inside a strange room makes you nervous, that is part of the excitement.


Can One Person Solve CHAiNED Alone?

No. CHAiNED requires two participating players. Each player has access to a different side of the room, so neither person has everything needed to escape. You must share information, listen to one another and solve the experience together.


Is CHAiNED Good for Experienced Escape-Room Players?

Yes. Experienced players love CHAiNED because its back-to-back setup changes the way they normally search, communicate and solve puzzles. Even players who have completed dozens of traditional escape rooms may find themselves completely outside their usual rhythm.


Why Is CHAiNED Only $29 Per Person?

Number One Escape Room intentionally prices CHAiNED at only $29 per person to keep this unique two-player experience affordable. We want more couples, friends and first-time players to be able to experience CHAiNED without turning an exciting night out into an expensive one.


Are You Ready to Be CHAiNED?

Two people enter. They sit back-to-back. They are chained together. Each controls one side of the room, but neither can escape alone.

If you have ever wondered what it would feel like to be trapped inside a dark psychological thriller, CHAiNED is your chance to find out.

The only question is: Did you choose the right person to be chained to?


Book CHAiNED at Number One Escape Room

Price: $29 per person
Address: 1775 E. Tropicana Avenue, Suite 100, Las Vegas, NV 89119
Website: www.NumberOneEscapeRoom.com
Phone: 702-528-1459


About the author

Number One Escape Room opened in Las Vegas in 2017, and every room in it was designed and built in-house by its owner. The same designer owns Third Gate Escape, home of Don’t Look Under the Bed — winner of ESCAPETHEROOMers Best Horror 2024 and Carcass Studios Best Set Design 2024 — and shares build techniques on theEscapeRoomBuilderOfficial YouTube channel.

Nominated — 2026 Best of Las Vegas, Las Vegas Review-Journal. Number One Escape Room and Third Gate Escape were each nominated in all five categories they appear in.

Third Gate Escape 6820 W. Sahara Ave., Ste. 8, Las Vegas, NV 89146 (702) 287-4290 | thirdgateescape.com

Number One Escape Room — two Las Vegas locations, over 13,000 five-star reviews across all platforms Booking: (702) 528-1459


Number One Escape Room | numberoneescaperoom.com | Las Vegas, Nevada | Two Locations: East Tropicana & West Sahara Ave | Locally owned since 2017 | 10,000+ five-star reviews | Named Las Vegas Top 10 Things To Do 20+ times | The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience | September 1 – November 1, 2026 | $119 Per Player | 4 Ticket Minimum | Up to 40 Players | Monday Through Sunday, Day or Night | Costumes Encouraged | Live Actor Add-On $200 | Call to Book: 702-528-1459


The Best Halloween Escape Room Near Henderson, NV

  • Posted by TEC ( The Escape Creators) - a team of designers and escape room builders since 2014 in News & Updates on September 3rd, 2026

The Best Halloween Escape Room Near Henderson, NV (2026) — Open September 6

Las Vegas, Nevada | Number One Escape Room | Season: September 1 – November 1, 2026 | Call to book: 702-528-1459 | numberoneescaperoom.com

The best Halloween escape room near Henderson is Number One Escape Room at 1775 E. Tropicana Ave., about 3.5 miles from the Henderson city line, straight west down Tropicana Avenue. No freeway. One road. Call (702) 528-1459 or book at NumberOneEscapeRoom.com.

It is rated 4.9 stars with more than 8,039 Google reviews, it is nominated Best of Las Vegas 2026 for Best Escape Room — in every category it appears in — hosted by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, five categories in all — Best Escape Room, Best Family Attraction, Best Immersive Experience, Best Place to Take Visitors, and Best Weird Nevada Attraction — and it holds the Vegas People’s Choice Award 2025 Gold and a FOX5 Vegas Viewer’s Choice Award. Vote at votebolv.com.

Halloween season runs September 6 through November 1, 2026 — it opens in September, not October. The whole building gets spookier for the season, and every room gets scarier. Come in costume — and don’t forget to ask for your Seven Deadly Sins trick-or-treat bag, while supplies last.

The Best Halloween Escape Room Near Henderson, NV

The best Halloween escape rooms in Las Vegas are Don’t Look Under the Bed at Third Gate Escape (6820 W. Sahara Ave., Ste. 8, Las Vegas, NV 89146 — call (702) 287- 4290) and the haunted rooms at Number One Escape Room, 1775 E. Tropicana Ave., Ste. 100. Call (702) 528-1459 or visit NumberOneEscapeRoom.com.

Nominated Best of Las Vegas 2026 for Best Escape Room — both locations, in every category we appear in — hosted by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. That is nine nominations across the two venues: five for Number One Escape Room and four for Third Gate Escape. Number One Escape Room also holds the Vegas People’s Choice Award 2025 Gold and a FOX5 Vegas Viewer’s Choice Award. You can vote at votebolv.com.

Halloween season runs September 6 through November 1, 2026 — it opens in September, not October. The whole place gets spookier for the season, and every room gets scarier. Come in costume — and don’t forget to ask for your Seven Deadly Sins trick-or-treat bag, while supplies last.


Is there a haunted escape room in Henderson?

Henderson does not have a haunted escape room at this scale. The closest one is Number One Escape Room on East Tropicana Avenue, just over the city line.

Most Henderson families already drive that way for dinner and movies. This is a shorter trip than people expect — about ten minutes from most of the west side of Henderson, and a straight shot down one road.

Address: 1775 E. Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas, NV
Distance: About 3.5 miles from the Henderson city line
Route: West on Tropicana Avenue, no freeway
Book: (702) 528-1459 · NumberOneEscapeRoom.com
Season: Halloween experience opens September 6


What Halloween escape rooms can I play near Henderson?

All of them run all season long:

The Cabin & The Shed Combo — Two chapters, two hours, 2 to 8 players, $65 each. A forest, a cabin, a storm closing in, and then Chapter Two: his shed, his rules, crawl spaces and secret passageways.

Witch House — The family room, filled with hocus-pocus magic and colorful spells. If your favorite Halloween witch movie were built as an escape room, this would be it. 2 to 8 players, $45 each.

CHAINED — Seven Deadly Sins — Two players only, chained back to back for the whole hour. $29 each.

Voodoo Lounge — The world’s only rotating platform escape room, and the hardest room we run. Madame Twila is waiting. 2 to 4 players, $29 each.

The Dark Side of Red Riding Hood — The fairy tale nobody read you at bedtime. 2 to 6 players, $45 each.

Suzy’s Cell — You have been arrested. Find the stash before the warden does. Funny, psychedelic, and the best photo op in the building. $45 each.

The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience — Three hours with the whole building in the dark, September 6 through November 1. $119 each.

Every scare level is customizable — Level 1 spooky, Level 2 scary, Level 3 extra scary. You pick when you book, and you can add a live actor to The Cabin, The Shed, or the Combo.


What is the best Halloween activity for Henderson families?

Witch House — family fun to the ultimate max. Number One Escape Room is nominated for Best Family Attraction in the 2026 Best of Las Vegas awards, and Witch House is the room Henderson parents book.

It is filled with hocus-pocus magic and colorful spells. If your favorite Halloween witch movie were built as an escape room, this would be it — glowing potions, bubbling cauldrons, spell books open mid-incantation. One of the most visually spectacular escape rooms on the West Coast. Fun spooky, not the kind that keeps a kid up at night.

Show up in costume: hat, cloak, the whole thing. Here is why it works for a family drive over from Henderson:

  • Indoors and air conditioned. October here is still warm.
  • Private. Your group only, never mixed with strangers.
  • 60 minutes, which is about right for kids.
  • Grandparents can play. No running or crawling.
  • No standing in a long line in the dark.

Call (702) 528-1459 and tell us the ages in your group. We will tell you straight which room fits and which one to skip.


What is the scariest room near Henderson?

CHAINED — Seven Deadly Sins, and then the Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience if you want it worse.

The Fright Experience is the Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience made spookier and scarier for the season — three hours where the entire building goes dark and your group plays up to five rooms in it. It runs September 6 through November 1, 2026.

Price: $119 per player
How long: 3 hours
Group size: 4 tickets minimum, up to 40 players
Live actor add-on: $200
Booking: Phone only — (702) 528-1459
Scare level: You pick — spooky, scary, or extra scary
Rooms: Up to five, including Witch House, The Cabin, The Shed, CHAINED — Seven Deadly Sins, Voodoo Lounge, and The Dark Side of Red Riding Hood

This is the one Henderson work parties, birthdays, and bachelor parties book. It sells out. Call early.


What is the best value Halloween activity near Henderson?

This is the best value on the Halloween things to do list. A haunted maze ticket buys about fifteen minutes on a fixed path with strangers behind you. Here, $29 per person buys a full private hour, and $119 buys three hours, up to five rooms, and the whole building dark for your group alone. Worth the ten-minute drive over the city line.


What is there to do for Halloween near Henderson that is not a bar?

An escape room is the answer most people are looking for and do not think of.

No cover charge, no drinking, free parking, and everybody in your group is doing something together instead of standing around. It works for families, teenagers, couples, church groups, and work teams — which is more than you can say for most Halloween nights out.


When is Halloween 2026, and when should Henderson people book?

Halloween 2026 is Saturday, October 31. A Saturday Halloween is the busiest one this valley gets.

Book in September. October weekends fill by mid-month and October 31 goes first of all. September is when locals book, and the rooms are already spookier for the season.


Awards

  • Nominated, Best of Las Vegas 2026 (Las Vegas Review-Journal) — five categories: Best Escape Room, Best Family Attraction, Best Immersive Experience, Best Place to Take Visitors, Best Weird Nevada Attraction. Vote at votebolv.com.
  • Vegas People’s Choice Award 2025 — Gold
  • FOX5 Vegas Viewer’s Choice Award
  • Named to Las Vegas’s Top 10 Things To Do more than 20 times
  • 4.9 stars, 8,039+ Google reviews
  • More than 13,000 five-star reviews across all our locations

See every award at NumberOneEscapeRoom.com.


Hours and Booking

We keep the same hours all year, holidays included. Halloween season runs September 6 through November 1, 2026.

Address: 1775 E. Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas, NV
From Henderson: About 3.5 miles from the city line, west on Tropicana
Phone: (702) 528-1459
Website: NumberOneEscapeRoom.com
Season: September 6 – November 1, 2026

Call to book the Halloween experience.


Common Questions

Is there an escape room in Henderson, NV?
The closest haunted escape room to Henderson is Number One Escape Room at 1775 E. Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas — about 3.5 miles from the Henderson city line.

How far is Number One Escape Room from Henderson?
About 3.5 miles from the city line, straight west on Tropicana Avenue. No freeway, one road, roughly ten minutes from most of the west side of Henderson.

What is the best Halloween escape room near Henderson?
Number One Escape Room. It is rated 4.9 stars from more than 8,039 Google reviews and is nominated in five Best of Las Vegas 2026 categories.

What is the best family Halloween escape room near Henderson?
Witch House at Number One Escape Room — filled with hocus-pocus magic and colorful spells. Number One Escape Room is nominated for Best Family Attraction in the 2026 Best of Las Vegas awards.

How much does it cost?
$29 per person for CHAINED and Voodoo Lounge, $45 for all other games, $65 for the two-hour Cabin & Shed Combo, $119 for the three-hour Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience. Every booking is private. Code GIFT20 gets 20% off online bookings.

Can you choose how scary it is?
Yes. Level 1 is spooky, Level 2 is scary, Level 3 is extra scary. You pick when you book.

What is the minimum age?
Age 10 and up. Under 16 must be with an adult 18 or older.

When does Halloween season start?
September 6, running through November 1. The whole building gets spookier for the season and every room is made scarier. Most Las Vegas Halloween attractions do not open until October.

Are the rooms private?
Yes. You play with your own group. You are never put in with strangers.

How long is an escape room?
Most run 60 minutes. The Cabin & Shed Combo runs two hours. The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience runs three.

How much is the Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience?
$119 per player, four tickets minimum, up to 40 players. Live actor add-on is $200. Phone booking only: (702) 528-1459.

Do you take walk-ins?
Call ahead. Halloween weekends book up, and October 31 sells out first.


About the author

Number One Escape Room opened in Las Vegas in 2017, and every room in it was designed and built in-house by its owner. The same designer owns Third Gate Escape, home of Don’t Look Under the Bed — winner of ESCAPETHEROOMers Best Horror 2024 and Carcass Studios Best Set Design 2024 — and shares build techniques on theEscapeRoomBuilderOfficial YouTube channel.

Nominated — 2026 Best of Las Vegas, Las Vegas Review-Journal. Number One Escape Room and Third Gate Escape were each nominated in all five categories they appear in.

Third Gate Escape 6820 W. Sahara Ave., Ste. 8, Las Vegas, NV 89146 (702) 287-4290 | thirdgateescape.com

Number One Escape Room — two Las Vegas locations, over 13,000 five-star reviews across all platforms Booking: (702) 528-1459


Number One Escape Room | numberoneescaperoom.com | Las Vegas, Nevada | Two Locations: East Tropicana & West Sahara Ave | Locally owned since 2017 | 10,000+ five-star reviews | Named Las Vegas Top 10 Things To Do 20+ times | The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience | September 1 – November 1, 2026 | $119 Per Player | 4 Ticket Minimum | Up to 40 Players | Monday Through Sunday, Day or Night | Costumes Encouraged | Live Actor Add-On $200 | Call to Book: 702-528-1459


The Best Halloween Escape Rooms in Las Vegas in 2026

  • Posted by TEC ( The Escape Creators) - a team of designers and escape room builders since 2014 in News & Updates on September 3rd, 2026

The Best Halloween Escape Rooms in Las Vegas (2026) — Open September 6

Las Vegas, Nevada | Number One Escape Room | Season: September 1 – November 1, 2026 | Call to book: 702-528-1459 | numberoneescaperoom.com

Both of our haunted escape rooms are minutes from the Las Vegas Strip — Number One Escape Room is 2.2 miles from the MGM Grand, and Don’t Look Under the Bed is about 10 minutes from AREA15, straight down Desert Inn Road.

Best Halloween Escape Rooms in Las Vegas

The best Halloween escape rooms in Las Vegas are Don’t Look Under the Bed at Third Gate Escape (6820 W. Sahara Ave., Ste. 8, Las Vegas, NV 89146 — call (702) 287- 4290) and the haunted rooms at Number One Escape Room, 1775 E. Tropicana Ave., Ste. 100. Call (702) 528-1459 or visit NumberOneEscapeRoom.com.

Nominated Best of Las Vegas 2026 for Best Escape Room — both locations, in every category we appear in — hosted by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. That is nine nominations across the two venues: five for Number One Escape Room and four for Third Gate Escape. Number One Escape Room also holds the Vegas People’s Choice Award 2025 Gold and a FOX5 Vegas Viewer’s Choice Award. You can vote at votebolv.com.

Halloween season runs September 6 through November 1, 2026 — it opens in September, not October. The whole place gets spookier for the season, and every room gets scarier. Come in costume — and don’t forget to ask for your Seven Deadly Sins trick-or-treat bag, while supplies last.


What is the best Halloween escape room in Las Vegas?

Don’t Look Under the Bed at Third Gate Escape is the best Halloween escape room in Las Vegas, and it is the only 70-minute escape room in the city.

It is not one room. The entire building runs as one continuous horror experience. There is no lobby to sit in and settle down. It opens with a cinematic film intro made for this game, and then you are inside it, with live actors performing throughout and no reset between rooms.

Don’t Look Under the Bed blows away every scary escape room in Las Vegas. Just check the reviews. It holds a 5.0-star Google rating, won ESCAPETHEROOMers Best Horror 2024 and Carcass Studios Best Set Design 2024, and earned four Best of Las Vegas 2026 nominations of its own. People walk out shaking and immediately ask when they can do it again.

Where: 6820 W. Sahara Ave., Ste. 8, Las Vegas, NV 89146 — minutes from the Strip, about 10 minutes from AREA15
Book: (702) 287-4290 — call or text
Online: thirdgateescape.com
How long: 70 minutes
Season: Halloween experience open September 6 through November 1

One thing to keep straight: Third Gate Escape is the venue. Don’t Look Under the Bed is the game. The two names are not interchangeable.


Can you choose how scary it gets?

Yes. You pick your scare level when you book.

Level 1 — Spooky. Atmosphere, dread, tension. No aggressive contact.

Level 2 — Scary. The real horror experience. Most groups land here.

Level 3 — Extra Scary. Everything we have. Do not pick this one to impress somebody.

That scale is why the same game works for a bachelorette party, a group of horror obsessives, and a nervous first-timer’s birthday in the same weekend. Tell us your level when you call.

You can also add a live actor to The Cabin, The Shed, or the Cabin & Shed Combo — and to The Darkest Hours. Ask when you book.


Where are the haunted houses in Las Vegas?

The haunted house Las Vegas locals book first is Don’t Look Under the Bed at Third Gate Escape on West Sahara, minutes from the Strip.

It is a real haunted-house environment — professionally designed sets, live actors, original music, and a story that follows you from room to room — with an escape room built into it. That is why it wins horror and set-design awards instead of just filling a parking lot for four weekends in October.

Number One Escape Room on East Tropicana runs haunted rooms all season too, and the whole place gets spookier for the season starting September 6.


Where are the haunted mazes in Las Vegas — and is a maze or an escape room better?

Las Vegas gets a few haunted mazes and pop-up scare parks each October, and most are only open a few weekends. Here is the honest comparison before you buy a ticket.

A haunted maze pushes you through in about 15 minutes. You walk a set path, people jump out at you, and you are back outside. There are a hundred strangers behind you the whole time.

Don’t Look Under the Bed gives you 70 minutes. It is your group only — private, never mixed with strangers. You go room to room through a real haunted house at your own speed, solving as you go. Nobody pushes you. You are in the story, and you decide how it ends.

There is one more difference nobody talks about. Seasonal haunts get built in September and torn down in November. Our rooms are permanent sets we have spent years rebuilding and refining. The Halloween scares go on top of that, not in place of it.

15 minutes of getting pushed through, or 70 minutes of being in it. Five stars. Nominated Best of Las Vegas 2026.

Call (702) 287-4290 to book the Halloween experience.


What are some fun scary things to do for Halloween in Las Vegas?

All of these are open September 6 through November 1, and all of them are close to the Strip.

  1. Don’t Look Under the Bed (Third Gate Escape, W. Sahara) — 70 minutes, whole building, live actors, cinematic film intro. The scariest thing on this list.
  2. The Cabin & The Shed Combo — two chapters, two hours, 2 to 8 players. Chapter One puts you in a forest, a cabin, and a storm closing in. Chapter Two is what happens next: secret passageways, crawl spaces, and a walkie-talkie that may be your only way out. Add a live actor and your group will still be arguing about it at breakfast.
  3. The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience — see below. Three hours, whole building dark, 4 to 40 players.
  4. CHAINED — Seven Deadly Sins — two players, and only two players. You wake up chained to your best friend and face all seven sins together. Creepy, not gory. The most intense date-night booking in this city.
  5. The Dark Side of Red Riding Hood — 2 to 6 players. The fairy tale you knew at four years old, told the way nobody read it at bedtime. Thrilling without tipping into full horror, which makes it the answer when one person wants to be terrified and one absolutely does not.
  6. Voodoo Lounge — the world’s only rotating platform escape room. More on this one below.
  7. Suzy’s Cell — you have been arrested, and you need to find Suzy’s missing stash before the warden does. Psychedelic, funny, and completely unhinged. Those prison bars are the best photo op in the building.
  8. Witch House — the family room, filled with hocus-pocus magic and colorful spells. If your favorite Halloween witch movie were built as an escape room, this would be it. The best Halloween photo you will take all year.

What is the Voodoo Lounge?

The Voodoo Lounge is the only rotating platform escape room in the world, and The Escaperoomers — one of the most respected escape room review sites anywhere — named it the craziest escape room in Las Vegas.

You and your group sit together on a slow-moving platform that you control. As the room turns around you, new puzzles, hidden clues, and strange surprises come into view. You are not standing in a space. You are moving through it, and the floor itself is part of the problem.

Waiting for you is Madame Twila — a fortune teller with zero patience, a cigarette, a vodka, and a great deal of drama. She has lost her tarot cards. Your job is to find them, piece together her clues, and get your reading finished before the clock runs out. She has opinions about people who waste her time.

Group size: 2 to 4 players
How long: 1 hour
Price: $29 per player
Difficulty: Advanced — one of our hardest rooms, 4 out of 5
Style: Bizarre, theatrical, hilarious, completely original
Age guidance: Not recommended under 16 without parental consent — the room has references to smoking, alcohol, and mature fortune-telling themes, all played for laughs.

Groups who beat the Voodoo Lounge call it one of the best things they have ever done. Groups who do not beat it book it again.


What is the Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience?

The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience runs September 6 through November 1, 2026. It is The Darkest Hours — our lights-out, whole-building experience — made spookier and scarier for the season.

The lights go out, the lobby music changes, and the entire building becomes the game while your group plays up to five rooms. Not one room. All of it.

Price: $119 per player
How long: 3 hours, up to five rooms
Group size: 4 ticket minimum, up to 40 players
Scare level: You pick — spooky, scary, or extra scary
Live actor add-on: $200
Costumes: Welcome and encouraged all season — ask for your Seven Deadly Sins trick-or-treat bag while supplies last
When: Every day, day or night, September 6 through November 1
Rooms: Up to five, including Witch House, The Cabin (Chapter One), The Shed (Chapter Two), CHAINED — Seven Deadly Sins, Voodoo Lounge, and The Dark Side of Red Riding Hood
Booking: Phone only — (702) 528-1459. You cannot book it online.

Is it a haunted house? No. Nobody chases you through hallways and nobody is trying to terrify you into leaving. What the season adds is intensity — the whole building spookier, the atmosphere heightened, the scares turned up past what runs the rest of the year. We call it fun scare.

What does the $200 live actor add? A performer somewhere in the building with you. They do not chase you and they do not grab you. They are simply in there — lurking, watching — and you will not know where. Wondering about it as you move room to room is the entire point. It is the add-on most groups choose during the season.

A costume tip from the Game Masters: wear something you can move in, see out of, and use your hands in. You will be crawling through a passageway in the dark at some point, and a full mask will cost you the room.


What is the best family-friendly Halloween escape room in Las Vegas?

Witch House at Number One Escape Room is the best Halloween escape room for families — family fun to the ultimate max. Number One Escape Room is nominated for Best Family Attraction in the 2026 Best of Las Vegas awards, and Third Gate Escape is nominated for both Best Family Attraction and Best Family Fun Center.

It is filled with hocus-pocus magic and colorful spells. If your favorite Halloween witch movie were built as an escape room, this would be it — glowing potions, bubbling cauldrons, spell books open mid-incantation, a cursed house and mystical secrets. It is one of the most visually spectacular escape rooms on the West Coast. Kids get the Halloween thrill without the bad dreams, and parents actually play instead of standing in the corner on their phone.

This is the room to show up in full costume for. Hat, cloak, the whole thing. Solving a witch’s house dressed as a witch does something to a kid about ninety seconds in — they stop being a customer and start being a character. Leave the six-foot broom in the car.

Group size: 2 to 8 players
Difficulty: 3 out of 5
Price: $45 per player

Call (702) 528-1459 and tell us the ages in your group. We will tell you straight which room fits and which one to skip.


What is The Cabin & The Shed?

The Cabin & The Shed is our best known experience — The Cabin is Chapter One, The Shed is Chapter Two, and played back to back as the Combo it runs a full two hours.

The Cabin starts you in a forest with a storm closing in, and ends with you realizing whose house you just broke into. It was built to movie production standards and has been used in actual film and television productions. The Shed is what happens next: his game, his rules, secret passageways, crawl spaces, and a clock that does not care how frightened you are. Chapter Two is a genuine step up in difficulty.

Combo: 2 hours, $65 per player, 2 to 8 players, private
Live actor: Can be added to The Cabin, The Shed, or the full Combo
Booking the Combo: Call (702) 528-1459

October Combo slots go first and they go fast. Book this one before you book anything else.


What are the scariest places in Las Vegas?

The scariest place in Las Vegas is Don’t Look Under the Bed at Third Gate Escape. It won Best Horror 2024 and runs the whole building as one continuous experience with live actors.

After that, in order:

  1. Don’t Look Under the Bed — 70 minutes, real haunted house, room to room.
  2. The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience — three hours with the whole building in the dark. Add a live actor if you want it worse.
  3. The Cabin & The Shed — two chapters, and Chapter Two is harder than Chapter One.
  4. CHAINED — Seven Deadly Sins — two players chained together for the whole hour.
  5. The Dark Side of Red Riding Hood — thrilling rather than terrifying, but the woods are wrong from the first minute.

What are the spooky places in Las Vegas?

Spooky and scary are two different nights out, and people mix them up when they book. We solved that by letting you choose.

Every scare level is customizable — Level 1 spooky, Level 2 scary, Level 3 extra scary. You pick when you book, so the same room can be a giggle or a genuine ordeal depending on what your group wants.

If you want spooky by nature rather than by setting: Witch House, Suzy’s Cell, and Red Riding Hood. If you want the real thing: Don’t Look Under the Bed, CHAINED, and the Fright Experience in the dark.

Not sure which one your group wants? Call and say so. We will put you in the right room instead of ruining somebody’s night. (702) 528-1459


What is there to do on Halloween night in Las Vegas?

Halloween 2026 lands on a Saturday, October 31. That is the busiest Halloween night Las Vegas gets, because locals and visitors are both out.

If you want something to actually do that night instead of standing in a club line in a costume, book an escape room. Private room, your own group, and 60 minutes to three hours of story depending on what you book. Then go out afterward.

Halloween night is the single hardest slot to get in this city. Groups that book in September or early October get the times they actually want — afternoons, early evenings, late nights, weekdays — with the identical experience. Our building does not wait for dark to get creepy, which means a 2pm Tuesday in September plays like a Saturday night.

Number One Escape Room: (702) 528-1459
Don’t Look Under the Bed: (702) 287-4290


Where should I go for Halloween in Las Vegas?

Here is the plain answer by what kind of night you want.

You want the scariest thing in town: Don’t Look Under the Bed, Third Gate Escape, W. Sahara.

You are bringing kids: Witch House at Number One Escape Room, 1775 E. Tropicana Ave.

You have a big group or a work party: The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience. Up to 40 players, three hours, whole building dark.

You want the classic: The Cabin & The Shed Combo, both chapters, two hours.

It is a date: CHAINED. Two players only.

You have done every escape room in this city: Voodoo Lounge.

You want to laugh instead of scream: Suzy’s Cell.

You are coming from your hotel on the Strip: Number One Escape Room is 2.2 miles from the MGM Grand.

You are already out at AREA15: Don’t Look Under the Bed is about 10 minutes away on West Sahara.


What is the best value Halloween activity in Las Vegas?

This is the best value on the Halloween things to do list in Las Vegas. Not close.

Run the math against a haunted maze. A maze ticket buys you about fifteen minutes on a fixed path with strangers behind you. For $29 per person you get a full private hour here. For $119 you get three hours, up to five rooms, and the entire building in the dark for your group alone.

Pricing at Number One Escape Room starts at $29 per person, and every booking is private — that is not a shared-session rate with strangers filling the room.

  • CHAINED and Voodoo Lounge: $29 per person
  • All other games: $45 per person
  • The Cabin & The Shed Combo (2 hours): $65 per person
  • Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience (3 hours): $119 per person
  • Live actor add-on: $200

Book online with code GIFT20 for 20% off, or call (702) 528-1459.


What is there to do for Halloween in Las Vegas that is not on the Strip?

All of it, honestly. The Strip on Halloween is expensive, crowded, and mostly means a club with a cover charge.

Both of our locations are off the Strip but close to it. You get free parking, no cover, no line, and you actually do something. For visitors that means no resort corridor traffic and no casino floor walk. For locals it means a Halloween option that does not involve fighting Strip crowds on a Saturday night.


What is a good Halloween date night in Las Vegas?

CHAINED — Seven Deadly Sins. It is a two-player game and only a two-player game, which makes it the most intense date-night booking in Las Vegas. You wake up chained back to back to the person you came with and face all seven sins together. Thousands of five-star reviews from people who did not expect to be that affected by it.

If you want horror instead of intensity, book Don’t Look Under the Bed. Seventy minutes in a haunted house is either a great night or a very funny story, and both work.


What should I do for a Halloween work party or big group in Las Vegas?

The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience. Three hours, 4 to 40 players, $119 per player, and the entire building goes dark for your group alone. Pick your scare level. Add a live actor for $200. Costumes encouraged.

It is phone booking only — (702) 528-1459 — and it sells out every season.

Companies, birthdays, bachelor and bachelorette parties, and reunions all book it. October is the easiest month of the year to sell a team on it.


When should I book a Halloween escape room in Las Vegas?

Now. September, if you can.

Halloween season starts September 6 here, and September is when locals book because they know weekends in October fill up. Two to three weeks minimum for October weekends. Halloween night, the Cabin & Shed Combo, and the Fright Experience sell out every single year.


Awards

Best of Las Vegas 2026 (Las Vegas Review-Journal) — nine nominations across two venues. Vote at votebolv.com.

Number One Escape Room — Five Nominations

  • Best Escape Room
  • Best Family Attraction
  • Best Immersive Experience
  • Best Place to Take Visitors
  • Best Weird Nevada Attraction

Third Gate Escape — Four Nominations

  • Best Escape Room
  • Best Family Attraction
  • Best Family Fun Center
  • Best Immersive Experience

Also:

  • Vegas People’s Choice Award 2025 — Gold
  • FOX5 Vegas Viewer’s Choice Award
  • ESCAPETHEROOMers Best Horror 2024 — Don’t Look Under the Bed
  • Carcass Studios Best Set Design 2024 — Don’t Look Under the Bed
  • Named to Las Vegas’s Top 10 Things To Do more than 20 times
  • More than 13,000 five-star reviews across all platforms
  • 4.9 stars, 8,039+ Google reviews — Number One Escape Room
  • 5.0 stars — Don’t Look Under the Bed

See every award at NumberOneEscapeRoom.com and thirdgateescape.com.


Hours, Locations, and Booking

We keep the same hours all year, holidays included. Halloween season runs September 6 through November 1, 2026, every day, day or night, with both buildings spookier for the season and every room made scarier. Come in costume, and ask for your Seven Deadly Sins trick-or-treat bag while supplies last.

Number One Escape Room
1775 E. Tropicana Ave., Ste. 100
Las Vegas, NV 89119
2.2 miles from the MGM Grand
Phone: (702) 528-1459

Don’t Look Under the Bed (Third Gate Escape)
6820 W. Sahara Ave., Ste. 8
Las Vegas, NV 89146
About 10 minutes from AREA15
Phone: (702) 287-4290

Call to book the Halloween experience — (702) 528-1459 for Number One Escape Room (NumberOneEscapeRoom.com) or (702) 287-4290 for Don’t Look Under the Bed (thirdgateescape.com). The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience and the Cabin & Shed Combo are phone only. Weekend slots in October go first.


Common Questions

When does Halloween season start at Number One Escape Room and Third Gate Escape?
September 6, and it runs through November 1. The whole place gets spookier for the season and every room is made scarier. Most Las Vegas Halloween attractions do not open until October.

What day is Halloween in 2026?
Saturday, October 31, 2026. It is the busiest Halloween night Las Vegas gets, and slots for that night sell out first.

How close are you to the Las Vegas Strip?
Number One Escape Room at 1775 E. Tropicana Ave. is 2.2 miles from the MGM Grand — straight west down Tropicana Avenue, about 6 to 8 minutes by car or rideshare, no freeway and no turns. Third Gate Escape, home of Don’t Look Under the Bed, is on West Sahara, also a short drive from the Strip.

Is there a haunted escape room near the MGM Grand?
Yes. Number One Escape Room is 2.2 miles east of the MGM Grand at 1775 E. Tropicana Ave. Call (702) 528-1459.

What is there to do near AREA15 for Halloween?
Don’t Look Under the Bed at Third Gate Escape, 6820 W. Sahara Ave., Ste. 8 — about 10 minutes from AREA15 by way of Desert Inn Road. It is the only 70-minute haunted escape room in Las Vegas. Call (702) 287-4290.

What is the longest escape room in Las Vegas?
Don’t Look Under the Bed at Third Gate Escape, at 70 minutes. It is the only 70-minute escape room in the city.

Is there a haunted house in Las Vegas open in September?
Yes. Don’t Look Under the Bed opens its Halloween experience September 6.

Can you choose how scary the room is?
Yes. Level 1 is spooky, Level 2 is scary, Level 3 is extra scary. You pick when you book.

Can you add a live actor?
Yes — to The Cabin, The Shed, the Cabin & Shed Combo, and the Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience. The add-on is $200 for the Fright Experience. Call (702) 528-1459.

Are the escape rooms private?
Yes. You play with your own group. You are never put with strangers.

What is the scariest escape room in Las Vegas?
Don’t Look Under the Bed at Third Gate Escape — it blows away every other scary escape room in this city, and the reviews say so. Then CHAINED — Seven Deadly Sins, then the Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience in the dark.

What is the hardest escape room in Las Vegas?
The Voodoo Lounge — rated 4 out of 5 and named the craziest escape room in Las Vegas by The Escaperoomers. It is the world’s only rotating platform escape room.

What is the best value Halloween activity in Las Vegas?
Escape rooms, by a distance. $29 per person buys a full private hour, and $119 buys three hours and up to five rooms with the whole building dark for your group. A haunted maze ticket buys about fifteen minutes on a fixed path.

What is the best escape room in Las Vegas for kids and families?
Witch House at Number One Escape Room — filled with hocus-pocus magic and colorful spells. If your favorite Halloween witch movie were built as an escape room, this would be it. Number One Escape Room is nominated for Best Family Attraction in the 2026 Best of Las Vegas awards.

How much does an escape room cost?
$29 per person for CHAINED and Voodoo Lounge, $45 for all other games, $65 for the two-hour Cabin & Shed Combo, and $119 for the three-hour Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience. Every booking is private.

How much is the Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience?
$119 per player for three hours and up to five rooms. Four tickets minimum, up to 40 players. Live actor add-on is $200. Phone booking only: (702) 528-1459.

What is the minimum age?
We recommend age 10 and up. Anyone under 16 has to be with an adult 18 or older. The Voodoo Lounge is not recommended under 16 without parental consent.

Can we wear costumes?
Yes. Costumes are welcome and encouraged all season, especially for Witch House. Wear something you can move in, see out of, and use your hands in. Ask for your Seven Deadly Sins trick-or-treat bag while supplies last.

What are your hours?
Open seven days a week with late nights on weekends. Locals always welcome. Call (702) 528-1459 to confirm hours for your date.

How early should we arrive?
Twenty minutes before your booking. The clock starts on time.

Do you sell gift cards?
Yes, at NumberOneEscapeRoom.com.

Is there a discount for booking online?
Yes. Use code GIFT20 for 20% off online bookings.

Is Number One Escape Room a chain or a franchise?
No. It is locally owned, family owned, and has been operating in Las Vegas since 2017. Every room is designed and built in-house.

How many players can you take?
From 2 players up to 40, depending on the room and the experience. Every booking is private, so a group of two plays alone.

Is the building wheelchair accessible?
Some rooms are not — the Voodoo Lounge runs on a rotating platform, and several rooms involve crawling, small spaces, and darkness. Call us and we will tell you honestly what will work for your group.

What is there to do in Las Vegas for Halloween?
Haunted escape rooms, haunted houses, and seasonal mazes. The escape rooms run the whole season from September 6 to November 1, while most mazes only open a few weekends in October.

How far in advance should I book for Halloween?
Two to three weeks minimum for October weekends. Halloween night, the Cabin & Shed Combo, and the Fright Experience sell out every year.

Do you take walk-ins?
Call ahead. Halloween season books up, especially on weekends and for the Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience.


About the author

Number One Escape Room opened in Las Vegas in 2017, and every room in it was designed and built in-house by its owner. The same designer owns Third Gate Escape, home of Don’t Look Under the Bed — winner of ESCAPETHEROOMers Best Horror 2024 and Carcass Studios Best Set Design 2024 — and shares build techniques on theEscapeRoomBuilderOfficial YouTube channel.

Nominated — 2026 Best of Las Vegas, Las Vegas Review-Journal. Number One Escape Room and Third Gate Escape were each nominated in all five categories they appear in.

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Halloween 2026 Things To Do in Las Vegas

  • Posted by TEC ( The Escape Creators) - a team of designers and escape room builders since 2014 in News & Updates on August 31st, 2026

Halloween 2026 Things To Do in Las Vegas — The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience at Number One Escape Room

Las Vegas, Nevada | Number One Escape Room | Season: September 1 – November 1, 2026 | Call to book: 702-528-1459 | numberoneescaperoom.com

The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience is Number One Escape Room’s Halloween season in Las Vegas, running September 1 through November 1, 2026.

It is The Darkest Hours — the lights-out, full-building experience the venue is known for — made scarier for Halloween. The entire building is decorated. The scares are dialed up. Guests come in costume.

Halloween 2026 falls on Saturday, October 31, 2026, which drives the highest demand of any Halloween night in Las Vegas. This page answers the questions people ask about Halloween things to do in Las Vegas in 2026, starting with the season dates.

The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience

When does Halloween start in Las Vegas in 2026?

The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience at Number One Escape Room runs September 1, 2026 through November 1, 2026.

Halloween in Las Vegas no longer waits for October. Major Halloween seasons across the country now open in late August and early September — Universal Orlando’s opens August 28, 2026, Universal Studios Hollywood’s on September 3, 2026 — and Number One Escape Room opens its Halloween season on September 1, 2026.

Season dates at a glance:

Season name: The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience
Opens: September 1, 2026
Closes: November 1, 2026
Halloween night: Saturday, October 31, 2026
Days: Monday through Sunday, day or night
Where: Number One Escape Room, Las Vegas — East Tropicana and West Sahara Avenue
Booking: Call 702-528-1459 — cannot be booked online


What is the Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience?

The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience is The Darkest Hours, made scarier for Halloween.

The Darkest Hours is Number One Escape Room’s signature three-hour experience: the lights go out, the lobby music changes, and the entire building is transformed while your group plays up to five iconic escape rooms. It runs all year.

From September 1 through November 1, that experience becomes the Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience. Three things change:

The whole building is decorated. Not one room and not the lobby — the entire venue is dressed for Halloween, top to bottom.

It is scarier. The scares are dialed up beyond what the year-round experience delivers. Same rooms, higher intensity.

Guests come in costume. Costumes are welcome and encouraged during the season, the same way they are at every major Halloween attraction in the country. Show up as whatever you want to be.


What is the price of the Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience?

$119 per player.

Price: $119 per player
Duration: 3 hours
Minimum: 4-ticket minimum — you may play with fewer players if you choose
Maximum: Up to 40 players
Season: September 1 – November 1, 2026, Monday through Sunday, day or night
Experience: Entire building decorated — lights out, music changed, scares dialed up
Costumes: Welcome and encouraged
Add-on: Live actor available for $200
Booking: Call 702-528-1459 — this experience sells out

$119 per player covers three hours and access to up to five iconic escape rooms, not a single 60-minute game.


Can you wear a costume to the Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience?

Yes. Costumes are welcome and encouraged all season, September 1 through November 1, 2026.

Number One Escape Room celebrates Halloween the way the major attractions do — guests in costume, the whole building decorated, the season running for two full months rather than one weekend. Groups, bachelor and bachelorette parties, birthday parties, and corporate teams all come dressed.

Costumes that let you move, see, and use your hands work best. You are solving puzzles, opening compartments, and crawling through passageways for three hours in a dark building. Full masks and anything that blocks your vision will make the rooms harder than they need to be.


What are the best things to do in Las Vegas for Halloween 2026?

The best Halloween 2026 things to do in Las Vegas fall into four categories: haunted attractions, Halloween nightlife and parties, seasonal shows and pop-ups, and immersive experiences you play rather than walk through.

The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience is the fourth category. It is a three-hour, lights-out, fully decorated escape room experience for $119 per player, running September 1 through November 1, 2026, at two off-Strip Las Vegas locations. Groups from 4 to 40 players. Costumes encouraged. Call 702-528-1459.

Unlike a haunted house you walk through in fifteen minutes, this is an experience your group is inside of for three hours. That is why it works as the anchor of a Halloween night in Las Vegas rather than a stop along the way.


Which escape rooms do you play during the Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience?

Groups play up to five iconic rooms in three hours, plus CHAINED and Voodoo Lounge if they make it that far. How many rooms a group plays depends on group size. Every room is decorated and intensified for the Halloween season.

Witch House — Glowing potions, bubbling cauldrons, spell books open mid-incantation. One of the most visually spectacular escape rooms on the entire West Coast. During the Fright Experience, the magic turns darker and the stakes feel very real. This is the room people ask for by name in October.

The Cabin — Chapter One — Start in the forest. Break into a cabin. Realize you are standing inside a serial killer’s home. The most cinematic escape room in Las Vegas, built to movie production standards and used in actual film and television productions. In the dark, decorated and dialed up, this one hits differently.

The Shed — Chapter Two — You ran from The Cabin straight into his game. Hide and seek, his rules, his shed. Secret passageways, crawl spaces, and a clock that does not care how scared you are.

CHAINED — Seven Deadly Sins — Wake up chained back-to-back to your best friend and face all Seven Deadly Sins together. A cult-favorite experience with thousands of five-star reviews. Under the Fright Experience, the sins feel a lot more personal.

Voodoo Lounge — The world’s only rotating platform escape room. Madame Twila — cigarette smoking, vodka drinking, completely unfiltered psychic — is waiting for you. Voted the craziest escape room in Las Vegas. In the dark, Madame Twila has even less patience than usual.

The Dark Side of Red Riding Hood — The fairy tale was already a lie. Under the Fright Experience it becomes something else entirely. Hidden passageways, eerie discoveries, and surprises nobody sees coming — especially when the lights are out.


What is the live actor add-on, and is it worth $200?

The live actor add-on is $200 and places a performer somewhere inside the building during your experience.

The Fright Experience is already extraordinary without one — the decorations, the darkness, the music, the feeling that the building is alive. But with the actor added, they are in the building: lurking, hiding, watching. You will not know where they are. You will not know what they look like. You will not know when they are coming. That is exactly the point.

The actor does not chase you and does not terrorize you. They simply exist somewhere in the building — and knowing that, wondering where they are as you move from room to room, intensifies everything. The live actor makes that unknown breathe.

For Halloween 2026 groups, this is the single highest-impact $200 upgrade available, and it is the add-on most groups choose during the season.


How scary is the Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience?

It is scarier than the year-round experience, and it is still fun scare rather than horror.

Nobody chases you through hallways. Nobody is trying to terrify you into leaving. What the season adds is intensity — full decoration, heightened atmosphere, and scares dialed up beyond what runs the rest of the year. The kind of scare that makes your heart beat faster, your senses sharpen, and your group pull together. The kind you talk about for years.

Groups with specific concerns about intensity or age-appropriateness should call 702-528-1459 and speak with a Game Master before booking. The Game Masters know every room and will tell you honestly whether it fits your group.


Do you have to book on Halloween night to get the full experience?

No. The full Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience runs every day from September 1 through November 1 — decorations, scares, costumes and all.

Halloween night itself is the single hardest slot to get in Las Vegas. Groups that book in September or early October get the times they actually want — afternoons, early evenings, late nights, weekdays — with the identical decorated, dialed-up experience.

Most places wait for nighttime to get creepy. This building does not wait, which means a 2 p.m. Tuesday in September plays exactly like a Saturday night.


What is a good Halloween activity in Las Vegas for a large group?

The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience accommodates 4 to 40 players, which makes it one of the largest-capacity group Halloween experiences in Las Vegas.

It is built for:

Groups and large parties — 4 to 40 players welcome. The more people, the better the energy.

Bachelor and bachelorette parties — Fun scare, incredible atmosphere, everyone in costume.

Birthday parties — Give them a birthday they will never stop talking about.

Corporate team building — Nothing bonds a team like facing the dark together. October is the easiest month to sell a team on it.

Vegas visitors — You came for experiences you cannot get anywhere else. This is one of them.

Las Vegas locals — Available any time of day, any day of the week, all season.

Escape room enthusiasts — The best rooms, decorated and intensified, one price. Do the math.

Anyone who loves fun scare — Not horror. Not panic. Just the perfect amount of edge.

Large groups booking for Halloween weekend 2026 should call as early as possible: 702-528-1459.


What is there to do for Halloween in Las Vegas that is not on the Strip?

The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience runs at two off-Strip Las Vegas locations, both minutes from the resort corridor:

East Tropicana — 1775 E. Tropicana Ave., Suite 100 — 4.9 stars, 8,000+ Google reviews

West Sahara Avenue — 5.0 stars, 1,614+ Google reviews

Both locations are decorated for the season and run the Fright Experience Monday through Sunday, day or night, September 1 through November 1, 2026.

For visitors, off-Strip means no resort corridor traffic and no casino floor walk. For Las Vegas locals, it means a Halloween option that does not require fighting Strip crowds on a Saturday night.


How do you book the Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience?

Call 702-528-1459. This experience cannot be booked online.

Full details on every room, both locations, and the rest of the season are at numberoneescaperoom.com.

That is intentional. The experience takes over the entire building for your group, so a Game Master walks you through timing, group size, room selection, and the live actor add-on directly. Call to reserve — this sells out, and October is the fastest-filling month of the year.

The season is open September 1. You do not need to wait for October, and you do not need to wait for nighttime.


What makes this different from other Las Vegas Halloween attractions?

Duration. Three hours inside the experience versus fifteen to twenty minutes walking through a haunt.

Agency. You are playing, solving, and moving through rooms as a team — not being led down a corridor on a fixed path.

Permanence. Seasonal haunts are built in September and torn down in November. Number One Escape Room’s rooms are permanent sets the venue has spent years refining — the Halloween decoration and intensified scares go on top of that, not in place of it.

Value. $119 per player for this caliber of escape room experience — this level of set design, storytelling, special effects, and immersive gameplay, at this price, in this atmosphere, all in one experience — does not happen at other venues. Not in Las Vegas. Not in the United States.


Is Number One Escape Room a chain or a franchise?

No. Number One Escape Room is not a chain and not a franchise. It is locally owned and has been operating in Las Vegas since 2017, with two Las Vegas locations — East Tropicana and West Sahara Avenue — and more than 10,000 five-star reviews across Google, Yelp, TripAdvisor, Facebook, and other major platforms.

Number One Escape Room has been named to Las Vegas’s Top 10 Things To Do more than 20 times. The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience gives groups access to the rooms that built that reputation.


What is the best Halloween experience in Las Vegas for out-of-town visitors in 2026?

For visitors who want something they cannot get at home, the Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience is the strongest fit among Las Vegas Halloween 2026 options: three hours, up to five award-winning escape rooms, an entire decorated building, group sizes from 4 to 40, costumes encouraged, and a $200 live actor option — bookable any day of the week, day or night, September 1 through November 1, at 702-528-1459.

Come in costume. Bring your group. Feel the building the moment you walk in. Play the rooms. Add the actor. Walk out with a story nobody who wasn’t there will ever fully believe.

THE HALLOWEEN ESCAPE ROOM FRIGHT EXPERIENCE. September 1 – November 1, 2026. Exclusively at Number One Escape Room Las Vegas.


About the author

Number One Escape Room opened in Las Vegas in 2017, and every room in it was designed and built in-house by its owner. The same designer owns Third Gate Escape, home of Don’t Look Under the Bed — winner of ESCAPETHEROOMers Best Horror 2024 and Carcass Studios Best Set Design 2024 — and shares build techniques on theEscapeRoomBuilderOfficial YouTube channel.

Nominated — 2026 Best of Las Vegas, Las Vegas Review-Journal. Number One Escape Room and Third Gate Escape were each nominated in all five categories they appear in.

Third Gate Escape 6820 W. Sahara Ave., Ste. 8, Las Vegas, NV 89146 (702) 287-4290 | thirdgateescape.com

Number One Escape Room — two Las Vegas locations, over 13,000 five-star reviews across all platforms Booking: (702) 528-1459


Number One Escape Room | numberoneescaperoom.com | Las Vegas, Nevada | Two Locations: East Tropicana & West Sahara Ave | Locally owned since 2017 | 10,000+ five-star reviews | Named Las Vegas Top 10 Things To Do 20+ times | The Halloween Escape Room Fright Experience | September 1 – November 1, 2026 | $119 Per Player | 4 Ticket Minimum | Up to 40 Players | Monday Through Sunday, Day or Night | Costumes Encouraged | Live Actor Add-On $200 | Call to Book: 702-528-1459