Whether you want to improve your team cohesion or just celebrate an event (anniversary, holiday season, etc.), in Paris, you can find several original activities in unexpected settings which will put your employees’ skills to the test and strengthen their bonds. So look no further, here is our list of ideas for your team-building activities in Paris.
Top Chef Cooking Workshop
Pépite Paris will definitely test your creativity and organization skills in the kitchen!
Under the scrutiny of a professional chef, you must prepare a dish in 2 hours with an all-organic food supply.
You will compete against two other teams to prepare the best dish possible. In the end, the chef will taste each dish and then point out what you did right and what can be improved.
Choosing this activity is the ideal recipe for an entertaining and instructive moment!
Price: €140 per person
For more information, check the official website. (Link in French)
2CV Rally
Discover the mysteries surrounding Paris while taking a trip around the city in an authentic 2CV.
This unusual activity is completely tailor-made: you can choose the starting location, establish the entire route and insert your own questions themed around the company.
This is the perfect opportunity to discover Paris in a different way.
Price: €110 per person.
For more information, check the official website.
Bubble Bump
The Bubble Bump is an original sport created by Bump Games.
The rules are similar to football with a few exceptions. The teams are made of 4 or 5 players and everyone must wear a big rubber bubble-shaped costume. It’s almost impossible not to bump into the other players.
Whether you’re sporty or not, you will be able to play a game of Bubble Bump.
You can also get the whole game videotaped, and bring it back home as a souvenir.
Price: From €12.50 per person (8 to 20 people).
For more information, check the official website. (Link in French)
Street Art
It’s true that graffiti has a bad reputation, but Graffiti Paris will let you discover this urban art in a new light while fostering an atmosphere of mutual help and sharing.
In this purely creative activity, professional artists will teach your team street art techniques in order to make an entirely original creation.
You can organize the activity outdoors, in restricted areas, or indoors.
Price: from €100 per person.
For more information, check the official website.
Darts Tournament
At Les Petites Flèches, the staff plans futuristic darts tournaments with UFO-shaped targets.
During the day and in the evening, up to 70 people can have fun competing.
You will also enjoy the drinks and delicious tapas offered by the bar’s staff.
This is the perfect activity to include new staff among your team as well as cultivate both competition and collaboration.
Price: €350 to rent out the bar.
For more information, check the official website. (Link in French)
Intripid Sportive Tour
At the heart of the Bois de Boulogne, you will go through a series of wacky trials with Intripid. If you want to have a chance at winning, you will need to surpass yourself.
Among the selection, tug-of-war and canoe races are part of the classics. But you will find more unusual trials as well like quidditch, or a zombie invasion.
Sportive tours composed of 6 or 9 trials are the usual options, but it is possible to add additional trials and craft your own tour.
Price: From €48 per person.
For more information, check the official website.
Singing Studio
It’s time for a singing contest!
In a private studio straight out of a TV show, a voice coach will train your group in order to become the best singer.
Judges will grade your performance at the end. This is the perfect time to show yourself and go beyond your fear of the crowd.
The best team wins the trophy embellished with your company’s brand.
After the contest, you have the possibility to stay and enjoy a karaoke night until 1:30 A.M.
Price: From 75€ per person.
For more information, check the official website. (Link in French)
Treasure Hunting in Montmartre
With TeamIdeas, you will live an adventure full of puzzles where several actors will give riddles to your team in this animated tour of the Montmartre district.
You will obtain precious hints to help you in your investigation if you find the correct answer to these riddles.
Group coordination and a taste for challenges are required to succeed.
Price: From €35 per person.
For more information, check the official website. (Link in French)
Murder Party 5e Acte
Get your brain cells working at full capacity by solving a murder which happened in your own company.
The 5e Acte’s staff will create a crime plot from scratch and perform it directly in your company or in a privatized place.
The murder can take place in the middle of a corporate party or a seminar, but also in the Musée Grévin or at Maxim’s (Parisian restaurant) in a unique plot made just for these two places.
The crucial part isn’t just to catch the criminal. A true detective shines when he can formulate a coherent theory which leads him to the murderer.
Price: On quote (up to 100 people)
For more information, check the official website. (Link in French)
Laser Tag
Both outdoors and indoors, a game of laser tag will put your team’s organization to the test.
Equipped with infrared laser tag blasters, you have to shoot targets of your opponents’ gear.
Volt Events’ Laser Tags are tailor-made and can take place outside and in your premises, with a choice of several game modes.
Furthermore, the company will even build an obstacle course with random stuff they can find in your company.
Price: From €400 for 24 people.
For more information, check the official website. (Link in French)
Magic Show
Keep your eyes wide open during these interactive sleights of hand acts!
You will be able to choose from three different cohesion activities at the Double Fond café-théâtre.
You can either attend a magic show, create your own from scratch, or even create a team challenge to win the prize for best magician!
By day or night, reveal the magic hidden within yourself and become a true artist!
Price: €50 to 89 per person (12 people)
For more information, check the official website.
Escape Room
Inside an escape room, you must seek a way out of a locked room within a time limit. To succeed, you’ll have to manipulate all kinds of items and machines, to solve brain-bending puzzles.
In other words, this is the perfect activity to evaluate how your team manages an emergency situation or to evaluate candidates during a recruitment session.
Epsilon Escape will immerse you in a mental hospital setting, where logic and communication are necessary to get out in time.
When you’re stuck for too long on the same puzzle, a game master will give you some hints off-stage without breaking your immersion.
Lastly, if you wish to prolong your team-building experience, Epsilon Escape’s partners will offer you other types of activities to do such as a lock-picking or wine tasting.
Price: From €40 per person.
For more information, check the official website. (Link in French)
Commando Training
Push your limits above and beyond in a military-like training camp.
Surrounded by nature, Xtreme Nature Bootcamp offers several immersive courses in Paris and Montpellier to suit both high-level sportspeople and people who have never exercised before.
There will be no time to rest on your laurels between the close combat training, the commando obstacle course, and the nocturnal orienteering.
These intense conditions are perfect to relieve workplace stress.
Price: From €40 to €115 per person.
For more information, check the official website. (Link in French)
Short Film Making Course
Lights, Camera, Action!
At the Ateliers du Court-Métrage, you will learn to make your own short film.
The staff will lend you high-quality equipment to ensure the most professional result on screen.
Theme-wise, anything goes. Whether you shoot an ad remake or a classic movie parody, your imagination is the limit.
In the end, you can get the finished work on a USB key or a DVD.
Price: From €85 per person.
For more information, check the official website. (Link in French)
Quiz Room
At Quiz Room, several teams face each other to answer surprising trivia questions.
To raise the tension, the candidates are placed face-to-face in a room straight out of a TV show like Weakest Link.
To win the game, you need to show both your intellectual skills and lightning-fast reaction.
Each company can customize its questions and answers, and it’s possible to privatize the place for a cocktail party or a presentation.
Price: From €25 per person.
For more information, check the official website. (Link in French)
Flight Simulator
Prepare for take-off in this thrilling flight simulator where you get to be an airliner pilot.
At Full Flight Simulator, you will take the commands of a flight simulator while being coached by a real flight instructor.
Every procedure is followed to a T. You will need to both take-off and land the plane while keeping your cool and do a few flight maneuvers as well.
You’re sure to lose the fear of flying at the end of this enriching experience.
Price: Tailor-made estimates (up to 50 people).
For more information, check the official website. (Link in French)
Virtual Reality
The Reality studio uses the latest virtual reality technologies which are sure to leave a lasting impression on your employees.
In the future, several economic sectors will start to generalize the use of this truly innovative tool.
First, you will watch short videos to get used to the technology.
Then, you will hold your breath in a deep-sea diving session where you can watch beautiful coral reefs as if you were really there. Watch out for the sharks swimming around!
And to finish off, you will play collaborative games where, for instance, you need to defuse a bomb by following the other team’s instructions.
Price: From €35 per person
For more information, check the official website.
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