Front and centre is the Xmas Adventure, our tour for the festive season. You can book any of these tours as a team building event.
In teams, you puzzle your way through Nanaimo, collect points, and afterwards celebrate the team with the most points over dinner. The programme comes from myCityQuest, you choose the venue and menu yourselves.
A Christmas party in Nanaimo works best when the two halves of the evening actually fit together. You already have a room, or you're about to book one — a restaurant table somewhere in the centre of Nanaimo where the team can eat, drink and talk once the formal part of the year is over. What's usually missing is the bit before that: something that gets people out of their coats and into conversation before the starters arrive. That's the part myCityQuest provides. We bring the programme, you bring the venue and the menu, and the two meet naturally because the teams are already walking through the centre of Nanaimo when the tour ends.
The programme itself is a puzzle tour, played in teams through our app. Depending on what suits your group, it runs as an Xmas Adventure, an Escape Game, a Murder Mystery Tour or a Treasure Hunt — all built the same way underneath, all playable with nothing but a charged phone. The app leads each team along a fixed route through Nanaimo, past places such as Nanaimo Harbour ferry terminal and the Nanaimo Museum, setting riddles, codes and photo challenges as they go. It's roughly four kilometres on foot and about three hours, though how briskly a team moves through it is entirely their own choice. Every team is up against the others, a shared team chat keeps the banter going, a live leaderboard shows who's ahead, and all the photos land in one gallery everyone can look through afterwards.
Booking is straightforward: from $ 16.99 per person plus VAT, with your company fixing the date and start time, right up to two days before the event. Invoice, credit card or PayPal all work, and you'll always get a proper VAT invoice for it. Once the tour finishes, the walk to your table is a short one — exactly as it should be for a Christmas party in Nanaimo.
Our customers come from a wide variety of sectors. Whether industry, retail, government or services: myCityQuest scavenger hunts are an excellent teambuilding event for your company outing, department party or team event - and that at 6,467 locations around the world.
How about a puzzle tour through Nanaimo with the myCityQuest app as the program before dinner? Your team heads out in small groups, solves challenges at landmarks across the city, and competes team against team for the top spot on the live leaderboard. Several themes are available, and the tour ends in time for the meal.
The tour comes before the meal: about three hours outdoors in Nanaimo, and everyone is back in time for dinner. You book the restaurant, and the program before it comes from myCityQuest. For the organizer, that leaves little more to do than picking the date and putting the teams together.
A Christmas party that starts out in the city instead of at the table: your company splits into teams and heads through Nanaimo before the meal, collecting points against the other teams. If a team gets stuck, a myCityQuest guide is just a chat message away. The date is yours to pick, even at short notice in December, and venue and menu stay entirely your decision.
The tour through Nanaimo is priced from $ 16.99 per person, and you receive an invoice for the booking. Food and drinks afterward are planned by you, so the budget for the evening stays in your hands.
Yes, in a single booking, split into teams that all start together. The price per person stays the same regardless of group size. Mixing departments when forming the teams works well and gets colleagues talking who otherwise rarely cross paths.
You choose the date and the time. The booking is valid for any day you like, in December just like the rest of the year, and the tour starts once the whole team has arrived. Short-notice bookings work too.
Around three hours. That makes it the first half of the evening: the tour first, then dinner with plenty to talk about.
The tour takes place outdoors in Nanaimo, and you can pause it at any point. If the rain gets heavy or the snow piles up, warm up somewhere dry and pick up right where you left off. Warm jackets and sturdy shoes are part of a Christmas party in December.