A night here costs less per person than a mid-range hotel room.
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The Great Escape Parkside was built for one thing: play. It is the bigger sibling of The Great Escape Lakeside, a block away on the same street, and home of the world’s first billiard-table swimming pool. Mornings go to the lazy river and the waterslide, afternoons disappear into two escape rooms, the laser maze, and the Jumanji 2.0 theater, and evenings end with a campfire under ten acres of mature trees. The whole estate is yours alone, one group at a time.
Larger than the pools at many hotels, the billiard "pool pool" is a swimming complex styled as a giant pool table. A theme-park-style lazy river swooshes you around on two motors set at just the right speed, or swim against the current for a workout. The 7 person "chalk cube" hot tub rests on the pool's ledge facing a big outdoor TV with streaming apps, and you control the bubbles from a simple keypad. A custom cue stick doubles as a water cannon, a romantic bridge makes a hideaway, and the deck adds resort loungers, ping-pong, seating for more than 55, and a real outdoor billiard table to play the game that inspired it all.
From the roughly 13 foot high platform above the billiard pool, a pre-recorded billiard industry commentator calls your shot. Cross your arms, cross your legs, and SHOOT: the Straight Shooter fires you down its flume and into a 3 foot freefall off the end, landing you right over the white mosaic cue ball tile. Custom-designed and commercially built to fit the story of the pool pool, it is fast enough for seasoned water park enthusiasts yet friendly enough for kids taking on their first real waterslide. Best of all, the only people in line are your own friends and family, so ride it as many times as you like.
The Never-Be-BORED Game is a Great Escape Parkside exclusive, built for ages 7 to 107. Roll the giant dice, advance around the outdoor board, and when you land on a specially marked game square, strategically pick an opponent to face you in one round of the giant game shown there. Battles play out on a nearly 7 foot tall Battleship, a giant Connect Four, an oversized Jenga set, a Tilt-a-Marble race against a huge hourglass, and much more. Win a round and you move ahead, lose and you slide back, with each challenge carrying its own rewards and penalties. First player all the way around the board wins bragging rights for the whole stay.
Bowling shoes off and no gutter talk: hop inside the giant zorb ball and roll, or be rolled, into the soft, giant bowling pins, knocking down as many as you can and definitely having a ball along the way. Beside the lane hangs a large dry erase version of the classic bowling scoreboard, so you can track pins, strikes, and spares like a proper league night. House rules are yours to set: let the person inside the ball do the rolling and earn their own points, or have teammates outside launch them down the lane. The estate now alternates this attraction with Human Soccer Billiards, so one of the two will be set up during your stay.
In Soccer Billiards, also known as Snookball, you become the human cue stick on an enormous larger-than-life billiard table, kicking soccer balls styled as stripes and solids toward the right pockets. It fits the billiard-mad estate perfectly, and the house reports guests play it over and over for hours at a stretch. Parkside now alternates this attraction with Human Bowling, and Soccer Billiards has been winning the popularity contest: it delivers more hours of play during a stay and, unlike the zorb ball, it does not get super hot in the Florida sun. Rack up, pick your teams, and settle who in the family has the deadliest kick.
It is exciting just to write about how fun this one is. One player takes on the role of whacker while everyone else becomes a mole, hiding in their own cubby areas and popping up sneakily to steal plastic balls from the middle ring. Get spotted and whacked, and you drop back down empty-handed; succeed, and you hoard your loot in the net at your mole station. When the balls run out, the mole with the biggest stash wins. Fun fact from the house: Great Escape owner Andrew Greenstein is one of the moles dodging the whacker in the site photos, taken while playing with one of Parkside's very first guest groups.
Standing nearly 7 feet tall, this custom-built version of the classic naval duel turns a tabletop standby into a backyard showdown. Hide your fleet behind the towering grid, call your shots, and do your best to sink your opponent's ships before they sink yours. The giant board also pulls double duty as one of the head-to-head challenges in the estate's exclusive Never-Be-BORED Game, so expect it to decide a few tournament fates during your stay. It even has screen credits: a celebrity couple from Buzzfeed played it competitively for the premiere episode of their travel show, Checked Inn.
Every pool hall needs a dartboard, right? Of course, so Parkside positioned this 15 foot tall inflatable beauty directly behind the center of the billiard table swimming pool. Kick the velcro soccer balls at the towering target and they stick firmly wherever they land, turning every attempt into instant bragging rights or instant heckling material. Landing a true bullseye is harder than it looks, which is exactly the point: this is the kind of game that AIMS to keep you coming back again and again, round after round, until someone in your group finally nails the center and never lets anyone forget it.
Out on the grounds, giant checkers holds court not far from an equally giant Connect Four. Though the big Connect Four also serves as one of the challenges in the estate's Never-Be-BORED Game, it plays beautifully on its own, and the house has noticed a pattern: many groups discover they have one undefeatable Connect Four champion among them. Do you already know who yours will be? Best of all, the two games balance each other perfectly. Even if the reigning champion runs the Connect Four table all week, there is always the checkers board a few steps away where you might just school them right back.
Spread around Parkside's 10 gorgeous acres you will find sports courts for tetherball, volleyball, and basketball, each waiting for a pickup game whenever the mood strikes between rounds of the estate's stranger attractions. Creative signage is planted across the manicured acreage to tell you a bit about each game as you wander, and plenty of sports balls are provided, so nobody has to pack equipment or argue about who forgot the pump. Shoot around at sunrise, run a family volleyball tournament at sunset, or let the kids discover the simple, dizzy joy of tetherball while dinner comes off the grill nearby.
This outdoor gym was designed by owners Austin and Lisa Hair, who are American Ninja Warrior national finalists, so it comes with serious credentials. It has everything you need for a great body weight workout: high and low pull up bars, dip bars, push up bars, sit up pads, and push up bars that double as balance beams. Get creative with the equipment and you can piece together a workout for every muscle group, all in the fresh air of the estate's pine-framed grounds. Earn your next round at the outdoor kitchen, or just keep your training streak alive without ever leaving vacation.
Beyond its bright lights and high-tech attractions, The Great Escape Parkside is a 10 acre gated retreat sitting in the middle of a gorgeous pine tree forest. There is plenty of room to relax, unwind, and escape the pressures of everyday life, though not LIFE the board game, which is very much still on offer inside. The manicured grounds include a large campfire site for evening gatherings, several cozy hammocks strung among the trees, and plenty of picnic tables and benches for meals in the open air. When was the last time you had an afternoon nap outdoors? Game on.
You enter through an old-fashioned lobby where a little 90s TV plays a VHS tape of the classic Jumanji film above a showcase of movie relics, including an autographed Robin Williams photo. A hand-painted legend on the wall explains how the owners got carried away playing a video game and stepped into the jungle of the sequel. Now it is your turn. Inside, six luxury cinema seats recline all the way back in front of a giant screen with a high-end projector, a Blu-Ray player, and a ROKU streaming popular apps. There are even gaming consoles hooked up, so today's hottest games play jungle-sized. Do not be surprised if someone wakes up in here at least once.
Step into a vividly imagined carnival tent packed with classy midway fun. The toughest in your group will battle for the hammer strike high score, everyone will love the arm wrestling machine, classic whack-a-mole, and grueling air hockey matches, and the giant Speed Of Light game is a standout of every stay: race to slap glowing blue lights the instant they turn on. The Mirror Me photo booth, a 6 foot touch screen mirror, plays games and texts you your photos instantly. Vintage booths hold Stand The Bottle and Ring Toss, a multicade plays thousands of titles, and the room spills onto a screened porch overlooking the pool that doubles as Skeeball Alley.
Along with sister property Great Escape Lakeside, Parkside is one of only two homes on the entire planet with an actual commercial laser maze installed. Swipe the start light and a large digital clock counts upward while a mission control voice guides you to key checkpoints. Touch a laser, even slightly, and it vanishes with an alarm blast and 30 penalty points, and the lowest score wins. Roll, crawl, duck, dodge, and run, then come back again and again to beat your best time. There are two completely different games with multiple skill levels and 1 or 2 player modes, plus LASER SMASH, a minute-long laser smashing frenzy, and even laser tag guns in the room.
Whether you grew up on the board game or have never set foot in an escape room, you will have an amazing time turning detective in CLUE 2.0. You get 60 minutes to locate 20 hidden Clue cards taken from a deck of 23, and most cannot be found without cracking safe codes, unlocking briefcases, and outsmarting some tricky high-tech contraptions. The three cards you never find reveal, by elimination, who dunnit, where they dunnit, and with which weapon. An android tablet running a custom app acts as your game master, tracking your progress and offering hints, with a clock penalty after your second clue. Parkside and Lakeside are the only two houses in the world with bonafide escape room games.
Attention soldiers, it is Papa Lima Alpha Yankee Tango India Mike Echo: headquarters has selected you to compete against rival cadets in cracking enemy codes and deciphering cryptic puzzles. What makes War Games unique is that two teams race head to head from opposing bedrooms, and some of the puzzles sit in the shared Battleship Latrine, so you must work in silence while keeping your opponents from spying out your intel. Each team hunts down and captures the other side's 10 Stratego pieces, then their flag, entering the inscribed codes into an app from headquarters. The app tracks both clocks and offers intel at a price: one minute for the first tip, two for the second, and so on. Fastest platoon wins.
The puzzle solvers in your group will literally get lost in fun on the Wall of A-MAZE-Ment, the world's largest printed maze. Standing about 9 feet tall and stretching more than 10 feet wide, it will boggle your mind for hours as you plot your course with the dry erase markers provided, and stools are on hand so even the vertically challenged can chase the high routes. There is exactly one correct path from start to finish. Solve it and there is a bonus waiting: the wall carries a pair of framed Spot The Differences photos of a maze with 10 subtle differences hiding between them.
Hung along this puzzling hall are pairs of game-themed photos set in handsome frames. At first glance they read as ordinary art, but each pair invites you to stare until you spot the subtle differences between them. Not great at this sort of puzzle? No worries: one wall is labeled easy and built for beginners, while the medium and difficult walls wait for those who love a proper mental challenge. And the game does not end at the hall. Similar photo pairs hide in just about every other room of the mansion, so walk into the Ms. Pac-Man bedroom and you will find two suspiciously similar Pac-themed pictures near the door.
What looks like an ordinary coffee table is a playable foosball table. Plinko boards and carnival distortion mirrors line the stairs up to the midway, a custom Connect Four and a vertical chess set hang on the walls, and a network of phones is installed just for the game of Telephone: listen for the station that rings, send someone to fetch the message, and laugh at how far it drifted from station one. An estate-wide Monopoly Scavenger Hunt challenges you to find every property from the board to win a discount on your next stay, one dining-room wall asks "Which Game Doesn't Belong?", and the main dining table was custom-built to showcase and store playable high-end editions of the classics, with dozens more board games around the house.
There is more in this room than any still photo can show. Foosball is built under the glass of a classy coffee table, accent stands are carved to look like giant dice, and large, elegant chess pieces stand on the chessboard floor for both show and play. A beautiful 6 foot tall Scrabble board hangs above the only giant Mencala game of its kind, another wall carries a finely crafted Connect Four, and the killer sound system plays music from your own device while you take in views of the world's only billiard table swimming pool. Add scavenger hunts, an interactive game of telephone using real phones, a twirling spun chair, chests of classic board games, and a couch hiding a sleeper sofa.
The Slice-N-Dice kitchen has just about everything you could need for mealtime: silverware and service for more than 60 people, plenty of pots and pans for the family recipes, a Keurig and a coffee maker, two refrigerators and two freezers, and every common major and minor appliance. The immediate dining area seats 28, opens into a larger room with extra folding tables and chairs, and spills onto the giant pool deck, so you could host a meal for 80 plus people using both kitchens together. Being a game house, it also plays: Hungry Hungry Hippos, Apples to Apples, and Sushi Go live here, a vertical chess board hangs on the wall, and the custom dining table has built-in Checkers, Chinese Checkers, and Backgammon.
Overlooking the pool, the BurgerTime summer kitchen features a large grill, dishwasher, prep sink, ice machine, and plenty of counter space, with silverware and service for dozens and dozens of people. A large flat screen TV hangs on the wall facing the grill so the chef never misses the game, and rock speakers all around the pool carry the soundtrack. The outdoor kitchen and pool deck together provide seating for more than 60 guests, with room for 50 plus more around the pool deck, which makes this the natural gathering spot for long, lazy cookout evenings between cannonballs and lazy river laps.
When you would rather play than cook, Parkside keeps a bench of trusted food options ready. Maurice Bichette of Hidalgo Catering is one of the most popular choices among guests, offering customized menus for daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner or just one special meal. River City Catering covers everything from full-service carving stations and buffets to feasts presented by their wait staff, and Clermont Custom Confections makes cakes, cupcakes, and sweet treats to your specs. UberEats and DoorDash deliver from several dozen area restaurants, Instacart brings the groceries, and the approved vendor list goes bigger still, with poolside Hawaiian luau dinner shows and immersive murder mysteries on offer. The full approved vendor list (PDF) ›
Most guests report never leaving the property because there is so much to do at the house, but Clermont rewards the curious. It is one of the only parts of Florida with actual rolling hills, plus a gorgeous chain of about a dozen interconnected freshwater lakes. Paradise Airsports offers tandem hang gliding flights barely 5 minutes away, Revolution Off Road runs ATVs and SeaDoo rentals, and the local winery hosts tours, tastings, and festivals. Locals argue over the best BBQ between Ellie Lou's and Mahon's, and swear by Root-n-Branch, The Southern on 8th, the Salt Shack, and Pepe's Cantina. Add the President's Hall of Fame wax museum under the Citrus Tower, and Orlando's theme parks right up the road.
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Do not pass Go, just go to bed. Parkside's tribute to the game that ends friendships, upgraded to the Luxury Edition. Two twin beds sit in a room where the theme runs floor to ceiling: the ceiling fan spins blades of Monopoly money, and the closet is dressed as a jail cell, so somebody in your group is definitely going directly to jail. A playful, premium start to a mansion where all 15 bedrooms are games you can sleep in.
A Monopoly board shower curtain, a framed Water Works deed on the wall and Electric Company towels: the game carries straight into the ensuite.
Mr. Boddy checked out. You check in. The first of two CLUE escape room bedrooms at Parkside, version 2.0 of the classic whodunit theme. A queen bed anchors the room, and the mystery styling pairs it with the neighboring CLUE Me In bedroom so board-game detectives can take over the whole wing. By day it is a comfortable queen suite. By night, well, somebody in this house did something, and the clues are closer than you think.
Colonel Mustard's CLUEless bathroom sits between the two CLUE bedrooms and continues the escape room game, mustard-yellow walls, suspect portraits and clues you will need next door.
It was the guest, in the bedroom, with the queen bed. The second CLUE bedroom, dressed in deep red: an escape room game built inside a Clue board game bedroom. The room itself plays along with the mystery, so detectives can work the case without leaving the covers, then sleep on their theories in a proper queen bed. Team it up with its Get A CLUE twin and your group holds the entire investigation.
Colonel Mustard's CLUEless bathroom sits between the two CLUE bedrooms and continues the escape room game, so keep your eyes open in the shower too.
Waka waka your way to lights out. Sleep inside a 360-degree pac-maze: the maze wraps the entire room, with a classic stand-up multicade standing guard right beside the bed plus two old-school TVs wired to Atari and NES consoles. It is a love letter to the 80s arcade, from Ms. Pac-Man on down, and the machines are in the room rather than down the hall, so the high-score battle can run until someone finally surrenders to the king bed at the center of the maze.
The bedroom's Pac-maze continues across the bathroom walls and wraps up over the shower in a medley of scene acts from the game's intermissions.
Come on down. Then lie down. A master suite themed around the TV game shows you grew up shouting answers at.Game-show styling carries through the whole suite, giving the grown-ups a room that is playful without giving up an inch of comfort.
A swanky dressing room overflowing with granite and high-end finishes: the Bluetooth vanity mirror plays music from your own device, and the toilet, the hot seat, has Japanese-style electronics for warming and washing.
The house always wins, and tonight you are the house. A high roller suite themed around the casino floor, with a king-sized bed for when you finally cash out. The attached Royal Flush bathroom keeps the Vegas bit running right through your morning routine. Casino decor fills the room from the door on in, so the swagger is included in the rate and nobody loses the rent money.
Porcelain and marble finishes with custom tiles made to look like high-end playing cards scattered across the floor, and a fanned royal flush over the vanity.
Six bunks, zero screen-time limits. The room every kid claims first: six twin bunks with bedside screens wired to a stack of Xbox and PlayStation consoles, so every bunk is its own gaming station. Nobody argues over the controller when the controllers come with the bed. Sleep is technically possible in here; it just tends to lose the vote.
A Nintendo Switch is wired to the bathroom wall, so the game never has to pause; the controller shower curtain sets the tone.
Lights out means game on. The Laser Games 2.0 room: with the glowing ceiling lights on it is a luxurious king bedroom with an ensuite bath; in the dark it becomes a commercial laser maze. Climb over and crawl under the beams while the clock counts up, every touched laser costs 30 points, and the lowest known score is 20.6. LASER SMASH flips the game, 30 seconds to hit as many lasers as you can, and laser tag guns are waiting when you are done. Nearly $35,000 of tech in one bedroom.
Keep calm and play laser tag: a sequin shower curtain and glowing accents carry the theme into the ensuite.
Dig in, then roll for sleep. Minecraft meets Dungeons and Dragons in one blocky build-and-battle bedroom. Two twin beds sit inside a world of pixel decor, where the crafting spirit of one game shakes hands with the dungeon-crawling soul of the other. It is the room for the kids who spend half their lives in block worlds and campaign maps, now with a real-world place to respawn every morning.
The hall bathroom near this room has a full Chinese Checkers board set into the wall, a granite vanity and Chinese-script doors.
Right foot red, lights out. A 360-degree, immersive Twister experience in a bedroom, and yes, it is fully playable. The queen Murphy bed hides in the wall when it is time to play, the floor becomes the board, and the ceiling fan is the spinner calling the shots from overhead. Parkside says this room runs circles around all other vacation rentals, which is exactly the kind of pun a Twister room should commit to. Fold the bed back down and the game turns back into a bedroom.
Twister dots on the shower curtain and the game's four colors all the way through.
Global domination, then lights out at ten. A queen bedroom with its own war games escape room built in: the RISK theme covers the room and the escape game runs right where you sleep. Plot your campaign, crack the game, then hold your territory from a comfortable queen bed. It shares its war-room spirit with the Stratego bedroom, so rival generals can bunk on the same front.
The porthole-mirrored Battleship Latrine sits between the RISK and Stratego bedrooms and holds some of the War Games puzzles, so solve in silence.
Every game at once, all night. Six twin beds in two triple bunks, in a riot of games and color that refuses to pick just one theme. The signature move is the floor: giant Lego bricks underfoot, thankfully far too big to hurt. This is the room built for the kids' crew, where the whole cousin pile lands at the end of the night and the games never quite get put away.
The scene is just as crazy as the bedroom: a Lego-brick shower curtain, a Boardwalk deed on the wall and a Colonel Mustard note over the door.
Steady hands get the top bunk. Operation, sized up to 2.0: a bunk room where you can actually play giant Operation, the larger-than-life edition of the game that made a generation flinch at a buzzer. Two triple bunks put real beds under six, so the whole surgical team stays together. Test your nerves before bed; the funny bone is exactly where you remember it.
Red-cross details and hospital signage continue the Operation theme into the ensuite.
Guard your flag, claim your bunk. The Stratego bedroom doubles as a war games escape room, with the escape game woven through the room itself. Four twin beds in two bunks billet your squad, and the classic capture-the-flag board game sets the tone: ranks, bluffs, and one well-hidden flag. Solve the room, defend the bunks, and try not to let the youngest recruit outrank you.
The Battleship Latrine sits between the Stratego and RISK bedrooms, with a sunken-ship shower and some of the War Games puzzles hidden in plain sight.
A triple word score for sleeping in. The Scrabble Deluxe bedroom: a king bed ringed with puzzles and word games, ensuite bathroom included. Word people get an entire room that speaks their language, with the deluxe treatment on the comfort side to match the theme on the walls. Bring your best seven letters; the bed alone is worth a bingo.
Giant Scrabble tiles climb the walls and a playable Scrabble board hangs beside the mirror.
The beds keep going after the bedrooms stop. Beyond the bedrooms there are 7 twin tri-fold and rollaway beds and a sleeper sofa with its own fold-out twin, and a few more can sleep in the fully reclining seats of the Jumanji theater. Two or three pack-n-play cribs and high chair attachments are kept on site; call ahead if you need the third.
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Host the ceremony and the reception on-site: vows under a ten-acre canopy of mature trees, cocktail hour by the billiard-table pool, and the after-party in a house built entirely for play, with up to 150 day guests welcome while 54 sleep on site.
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We absolutely love this place! Our group was already asking when we would return. There was something for everyone. And the owner made our day showing up with a special birthday present! This is the place for the best family game nights. Definetly more than a 5 star rating.
Loved it! Lots of nonstop things to do for our huge family, in house and nearby! We especially loved the pool! Didn’t even have time to turn on a tv! The hosts were super nice, accommodating and responded immediately with any questions or concerns! We highly recommend them!!
Went on an amazing family vacation, had adults and children of all different ages and everybody always had something to do! Having a big family with a place to sleep 40 people was hard to find but with The Great Escape house they accomplished everybody needs. Definitely coming back in the future!!
We have stayed at The Great Escape Lakeside and The Great Escape Parkside, both of these houses are amazing. The service is out of this world. The adults have had as much fun as the kids. The slides at both houses are definitely a highlight of the houses. Before we left we already booked our stay for next year.
Our party of 20 stayed here for three nights and we had a great time! The pool was probably where we spent the majority of our time. The lazy river was a favorite with the group. All my questions were answered quickly by Alyssa, she was very helpful and polite. We will definitely look into booking another trip in the future!
We stayed here for a family reunion and it was amazing! Alyssa met us at check in, showed us around and answered any questions we had. There is so much to do and no one complained about being bored! We had all ages…infants to 80’s.
We just spent 6 days here at the Great Escape Parkside and we had a great time with the family!! The water slide and lazy river were the best part of it all. We also did the Clue Escape Rooms and it was a great experience.
This place is a blast! Our entire family ages 1-65 have not been bored or should I say “Board”...There is always something to do. Even the kitchen table and coffee table are games. This is the ultimate Themed vacation home. We are already planning our next vacation. We have 8 families represented this week. We hope to add more next time!
3rd time staying here at one of the great escape vacation spots. Great place to spend family vacation once a year we will be customers forever! Can't go wrong with this spot! All 40 of us feel the same way!
This place is amazing. You will not be bored in this house. There are so many things to do. The pool and lazy river is one of the coolest things I've seen. The water slide was so much fun and really fast. Also the clue escape room was so much fun I didn't want it to end. I cannot wait to try one of there other houses! I will be back try the great escape lakeside!
Just spent an amazing 4 nights at the Great Escape Parkside with 35 family members! Great customer service and great accommodations!! From 8 months to 80 years old, all had a blast!
Omg we had the best vacation at the great escape. So many things to do for the whole family. The hunt for the lotto ticket was fun and holding the record for the fastest time to complete the world’s biggest maze is exciting. I completed it in less than 10 mins!!!! It was so much fun and the kids are still talking about it. Great Escape is awesome. You won’t regret booking it!!!!
All I can say is WOW!! The detail of every single room is amazing. They even have an escape room “clue” that was challenging to solve. This is definitely a must see and stay.
We have had an amazing vacation at the Great Escape Parkside. Our party of ages 18 months to grandparents all had lot and lots to do. The swimming pool and hot tub are large and well designed! It’s been a wonderful place to reconnect with family while playing, laughing, and exploring. Andrew and Belinda have a beautiful vision for lovely spaces and places to enjoy each other’s company.
Came here for my 50th birthday...was way beyond our expectations!! They thought of everything when creating this house. Had a BLAST!!!
Had an amazing time! Had our 25th wedding anniversary vow renewal dream wedding and the house was perfect for it!
Our family has enjoyed more than one Great Escape location, and we keep coming back because they are the best trips ever! It is the perfect way to vacation with families - especially with little ones! We have a 3 & 6 year old and there is never a dull moment! From countless games to play, to a personal movie theater, and no one could miss out on the amazing personal pool with a lazy river and slide!
We had an 80s themed 40th birthday party for my husband and had the best, most relaxing and fun-filled weekend. It's the perfect house for whatever you feel like doing. Half of the group can chill at the pool/hot tub, while the other half plays games. Our karaoke night may have just been my favorite night! They have truly thought of EVERYTHING and our whole group was wowed. We found the hidden lotto ticket.
Amazing place to stay! By far the most creative and thoughtful design of any home you can rent. We were only a group of 5 which allowed us to take full advantage of everything the home has to offer. Would HIGHLY recommend to anyone! With two young children it was also nice not having to leave and go to various attractions, this is thE attraction! Thank you to Andrew, Alyssa and the whole team.
This was my second time staying at The Great Escape Parkside. The house is a blast for our entire group- multiple families with ages from toddlers to grandparents and everywhere in between. It is evident the owners have put a lot of time and effort into all the game options and home decor. There is always something to do. My child is happy to spend all day in the pool going down the side or floating around the lazy river.
Amazing can’t begin to describe this place! My family created lifetime memories in four days. The theme in each room and attention to detail was the key. Our favorites were the Jumanji Theatre, the midway carnival and the lazy river. We barely slept because there was so much to do. We ranged from ages 3 to 81 and there was something for everyone! The staff (especially Harley) was accommodating and I would return in a heartbeat.
If you’re thinking about doing this, YOU SHOULD! The house is incredible but what really made our stay unforgettable was the team that runs this house. If we needed anything, they had it delivered to us.
We had a family group of 50+ people from ages of 18 months to 90 years old. We stayed for a week and everyone was totally entertained the entire stay. There is just so much to do. Of course, my favorite was the lazy river around the pool. Many hours of relaxing were accomplished. I would say that our family used just about everything the house offered. The house is well stocked with everything you need.
This place is amazing! We stayed for 4 days for a wedding and the entire wedding party was able to be housed. We did not even come close to being able to finishing all the games that are available! The pool area was unbelievable and that's where you found most of us! It was a once in a lifetime experience and I was so thankful to share it with the group I went with! The staff goes above and beyond to assist with your comfort and stay.
We had an epic vacation at the Great Escape Parkside! Everyone loved the "pool" pool with waterslide, hot tub, lazy river, plenty of outdoor chair and table space, pool table, music, outdoor kitchen, and beautiful trees & sunshine. The rooms are very creative, and we had a great time with the escape rooms and laser room. The house had everything we needed ... towels, cribs, high-chair, dishes, lots of fridge space, laundry facilities. So much to do!
We had such an amazing time celebrating my 50th birthday last weekend! There were about 50 people, adults and kids, and everyone had so much fun!! Some of our favorite things to do at the house were the lazy river, the giant water slide, the Not So Bored Game, the Twister room, the laser room, skeeball, all the carnival games (especially the speed of light), the Pac-Man room, karaoke, & the escape room!!
This place is amazing! Every single thing has so much attention to detail. There are so many great rooms, with themes of specific games from your childhood. I think my favorite was the twister room with the fan as the spinner. My husbands favorite room was pac man but he didn't really want to give me a favorite because he also loved the scrabble carpet and the Jumanji movie theater. The pool (billiard) theme pool is so unique as well.
We recently celebrated our 20th anniversary with 54 of our closest family and friends at The Great Escape PARKSIDE and it was the most amazing time!! We spent 5 days making memories to last a lifetime for us and our kids/their cousins! The house was non stop fun! We all played from sun up to sun down. It is spacious and clean! The escape rooms are so fun and the waterslide and lazy river was loved by everyone! We can't wait to book again!
We just returned from our second annual family vacation from "The Great Escape Parkside" and we had an absolutely wonderful time. There were 36 of us and we all fit comfortably. There is so much to do for the kids that you barely know they are there. They stayed so busy having fun that we had to keep checking on them because they were always playing in one of the many themed rooms or game room. The "Jumanji Theater" is so cool.
I'm a 2-time Great Escape-er. I know most people use these locations as vacation destinations for their big families or extended families, but we used it for a corporate event. It was AMAZING! A PERFECT location for an event focused on game design and creative problem solving. The collection of classic games and other electronic toys and gadgets ALL WORKED! I can't even get most of my gadgets and tech to work in my own home.
My fiancée and I held our joint bachelor/bachelorette here and we had an absolutely amazing time! This house is incredible! It's even more impressive in person than it is in photos/videos. All of the facilities are very well maintained and everything works. The team and especially Alyssa are delightful to work with. During our stay, Alyssa was attentive and made everything so effortless. The functioning lazy river was a hit and the slide is so fun!
WOW! If you want a truly unique experience, this is the place to go. There is something to do for all ages. There are many super sized outdoor games like Human Bowling, a gigantic outdoor dart board, Wack A Mole, Chess and my favorite the Never Be Bored Game. This is a huge interactive board game that incorporates activities like Yahtzee, Connect Four, Jenga, Marble Race and Tether ball.
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56 date ranges are already reserved. Call or text to confirm your date.
Planning a wedding or large group? Most organizers start with a call. Call or text 352-717-7872
The fifteen bedrooms hold 5 king beds, 4 queens, and 26 twins across twin rooms and double and triple bunks, and the additional sleeping area adds rollaway and tri-fold beds and a twin sleeper sofa: a bed for every one of your 54 guests. See the floor plan.
Without a doubt. It is a high-end fifteen-bedroom luxury estate with extravagant finishes and unforgettably comfortable bedding, and the escape rooms, laser maze and billiard-table pool are some of the best team-building an adult group will find anywhere.
The Slice and DICE kitchen is stocked with everything you would expect in an upscale vacation rental and then some, plus a full outdoor kitchen by the pool.
Yes. Two to three pack-n-play cribs and high chair attachments are kept on site. If you absolutely need three, call ahead so the third is ready for you.
In abundance. Every one of the thirteen bathrooms has a full set, and more than fifty striped and solid towels are provided for the billiard pool.
Check-in is 4pm and check-out is 10am. With same-day guest transitions, the housekeeping, pool and maintenance crews need every minute of those six hours.
No. Every game and attraction shown on this page is included with your stay.
You can cancel up to 120 days before check-in. The only penalty is a $285 cancellation fee, plus any credit card fees if a card was used for the deposit.
The entire estate as one reservation: fifteen bedrooms sleeping 54 overnight, with room for up to 150 at an on-site event. You never share the property with another group.
Minimum stay varies by date. Check the date picker for your dates; shorter stays may be available for gaps between bookings or last-minute arrivals.
From $800 a night before tax, varying by season. Gatherings of 55 or more people carry an event fee of $995 (55 to 69 guests), $1,995 (70 to 94) or $2,995 (95 to 150), plus a 1-day event insurance policy. The event fee is waived for stays of seven nights or more. Taxes and additional fees apply. A deposit holds your dates and the balance is due before arrival. Booking direct skips the platform service fees.
A dedicated agent from first contact, an in-person tour of the estate when you arrive, and fast assistance all day and most of the evening. Questions before you commit? Call or text 352-717-7872.
8357 Wild Flower Ave, Clermont, FL: ten privately gated acres in Central Florida’s countryside, a block from its sibling The Great Escape Lakeside and about 35 minutes from Walt Disney World. Open in Google Maps ›
