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 Pontoise, 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 Pontoise works best when the two halves are kept separate: you sort the room and the menu, we sort what happens before anyone sits down. That is the whole idea behind this page. Your team plays a puzzle tour through Pontoise — on foot, in small teams, guided by the app rather than a guide — and once the last riddle is solved, the walk to your dinner is short, because the tour runs through the same centre where Pontoise's restaurants are.
The app does the organising: it shows each team their route, sets riddles, codes and photo challenges, collects the answers and keeps a running leaderboard, so every team can see where they stand against the others. A shared team chat and a shared photo gallery keep the whole company connected even while groups are spread across Pontoise, past the Musée Camille Pissarro, the Carmel de Pontoise or the Allée couverte de Dampont. Nobody needs anything beyond a charged phone. Depending on what suits your group, the tour comes as a Xmas Adventure, Escape Game, Murder Mystery Tour or Treasure Hunt — all built on the same format, each tour's route fixed through Pontoise's centre, with roughly four kilometres and about three hours on foot, though how briskly a team moves through it is entirely up to them.
Prices start from $ 16.99 per person plus VAT. You choose the date and time when booking, and bookings are possible up to two days beforehand. Invoices are settled by bank transfer, credit card or PayPal, and you always receive a proper VAT invoice for your records.
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 Pontoise 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 Pontoise, 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 Pontoise 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 Pontoise 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 Pontoise, 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.