Escape the Hotel: Survive Your First Shift
A workplace-themed escape room where new Arlington Hotel employees solve realistic HR and safety scenarios to unlock the staff room before their first shift.
A free Escape Room for Adults at CEFR C1 level. Topic: Escape the Hotel: Survive Your First Shift.
It's 6 a.m. and you've just been locked in the staff break room of the Arlington Hotel after your induction session ran late. Your supervisor left a note: solve the training puzzles to prove you understand hotel policy, and the door code will unlock automatically. Outside, the morning shift is…
Solve all five workplace puzzles to collect the letters and unlock the staff room door before your first shift begins.
Puzzles
- 🛎️ Puzzle 1: The Ringing Phone: A guest calls the Arlington Hotel front desk, clearly irritated, saying his key card won't open his room. Which response best reflects the hotel's professional communication standards?
- 🤝 Puzzle 2: Dignity at Work: Read the passage about a situation at the Arlington Hotel, then decide if each statement is true or false.
- 🔐 Puzzle 3: Policy Match-Up: Match each Arlington Hotel policy area with its correct description.
- 📋 Puzzle 4: Calling in Sick: If you feel unwell before your shift at the Arlington Hotel, you must ____ your supervisor at least two hours in advance so that cover can be arranged.
- 🔒 Puzzle 5: The Locked Door: Decode this word using A=1, B=2, C=3... Z=26. It names the department responsible for protecting guests, staff, and property at the Arlington Hotel.
Printable worksheet
This Escape Room comes with a free printable worksheet: 1 part for students to do after the game, and an answer key for the teacher. It prints at three levels (Support, Core and Challenge); this is the Challenge sheet. Sign in free to print the whole sheet.
What's on the worksheet
- Escape on paper · Open every lock. Fewer options to choose from this time.
Part 1: Escape on paper
Open every lock. Fewer options to choose from this time.
- 🛎️ Puzzle 1: The Ringing Phone A guest calls the Arlington Hotel front desk, clearly irritated, saying his key card won't open his room. Which response best reflects the hotel's professional communication standards?
- 🤝 Puzzle 2: Dignity at Work Read the passage about a situation at the Arlington Hotel, then decide if each statement is true or false. During a busy breakfast shift, a supervisor repeatedly mimics a new colleague's foreign accent in front of other staff, laughing each time. The colleague looks…
- 🔐 Puzzle 3: Policy Match-Up Match each Arlington Hotel policy area with its correct description. Guest Privacy Password Protocol Grievance Procedure Health and Safety The formal process for raising a workplace concern with management. Reporting spills, hazards, or broken equipment immediately to…