Go and (re)discover Montpellier through a selection of unusual and entertaining activities to do with your friends or family. Far from the museums and off the beaten track, the city nicknamed “la Surdouée (the Gifted)” has many secrets to reveal.
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Unusual Tours
Treasure Hunt and Beer Tasting
Go search for the ingredients of the miraculous beer, the only surviving chance of Montpellier people, during a life-size treasure hunt in the heart of Montpellier.
Solve the puzzles and the quizzes and go in the different bars of the different neighborhoods that await you for this unusual treasure hunt.
An amusing game scenario that has you discover the history of beer and the city-center of Montpellier at the same time. The game ends with a delicious and well deserved beer tasting (and soft drinks for children of course).
Price: from 26€/person
Duration: 3h
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Urban Rally
This is an ideal activity to discover Montpellier in a playful manner: you will lose track of time!
Launch yourself into a picture rally in complete autonomy with your smartphone and the app, which will give you puzzles to solve and clues.
Be the fastest to solve the puzzles to find the monuments and take pictures of them so as to receive the laurels, and make everlasting memories.
Several options exist: the discovery rally, the challenge rally (where teams fight against each other) and the bachelor party rally, to have a crazy time with the bride or the groom-to-be, with forfeits into the bargain.
Price: from 39€/group
Duration: from 1h30 to 2h30 depending on the rally
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Private Stroll by Electric Scooter
Discover the historical center of Montpellier, its charming alleyways and its emblematic monuments during a private stroll on an electric scooter.
An original way to discover the city, accompanied by a guide from Montpellier who will reveal all the good tips to know in order to enjoy your stay as a local.
Your guide will even customize your itinerary according to your longings.
Price: from 20€/person
Duration: 1h
Old and New Neighborhood Tour by Segway
Discover all the sides of Montpellier, from its old neighborhoods and their emblematic monuments to the most recent neighborhoods and their modernity, and make stops to take pictures.
An overview of the city and its evolution, all of this by Segway, an amusing two-wheeled vehicle, so as to see as many things as possible in two hours.
Each tour will begin with a brief about security and the handling of your Segway.
Price: from 50€
Duration: 2h
Guided Tour and Pictures of You
Follow your keen on history guide, who is from Montpellier, for an enriching and beautiful tour.
Modernity and history meet in this unique visit.
The unusual detail? Your guide will take professional pictures of you in front of the monuments you want and will give you a link to get the pictures online in Ultra HD quality.
Have a lot of memories and a smile on your face.
Price: from 33€
Duration: 2 to 3h
Discover Montpellier with a local pilot
Admire Montpellier and its surroundings, looking down from the sky!
Get on board a private plane with a passionate pilot and simply enjoy the trip and the breathtaking landscapes.
Incredible views and everlasting memories await you.
Prepare for take-off!
Price: from 150€
Duration: about 1h
The Villa des Cent Regards (The Hundred Looks Villa)
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Enter the surprising Villa des Cent Regards, which looks like a medieval dwelling.
Apart from its appearance and its construction in reinforced concrete, its whole history is original!
With its hundred windows that offer a hundred different views of the surroundings of the edifice and of the world, the Villa des Cent Regards offer you a unique and unprecedented experience in Montpellier, a cultural hotspot where artistic manifestations and exhibitions take place.
1000 rue de la Roqueturière, 34090 Montpellier
Official website (In French)
Well-being and Revitalizing Day
Stroll in all the green places that define the Montpellier urban landscape. A revitalizing walk for a quiet return to your roots.
The program includes: a yoga course with a professional, the discovery of the Jardin des plantes, a bike ride to recount the evolution of the floral landscape with the “new Montpellier”, a drink stop at the Lez market and a picnic on the lawn of the esplanade de l’Europe.
Price: from 60.52€
Duration: about 6h
Investigations and Games
The Outdoors Harry Potter escape Game
The fans of Harry Potter’s magical universe will be able to visit Montpellier in the best possible way.
Visit the 4 houses of Hogwarts and find the four secret codes to save the wizarding world, all of which with Montpellier as your playground.
A unique and fantastic experience, fit for connoisseurs and novices.
Price: from 69€ (6 people tops)
Duration: 2h
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Rise of the Dead Self-guided Escape Game
Let your smartphone guide you through the whole town to the points of interest where you will have to solve puzzles and fulfill missions.
Form a team of 6 people tops and visit Montpellier in the way of a treasure hunt/investigation.
By day or by night, choose the best moment to launch into this race against time and escape from the zombies.
Price: from 39.99€/team (6 people tops)
Duration: 2h
Fun and Interactive City Game
Let your smartphone guide you to the most beautiful places of Montpellier and solve puzzles and missions during this interactive trail.
Score as many points as you can and beat the best score with your friends or family.
The big extra of this City Game? The place, the date and the time are completely free for you to choose, you can take a break in the middle and start again later.
Enjoy your activity the way you like it.
Price: from 29€/group (6 people tops)
Duration: 2 to 3h
Fun Indoors Activities
Prison Break Escape Game
Enter an escape room based on the world of the Prison Break series.
In a prison under high surveillance, you have one hour to fulfill the mission: “Prison Break”.
Here, the purpose is not to escape the prison but to erase all proof of your escape.
An ideal game to develop team spirit and your sense of observation, within the expected time frame.
Price: from 29€/person
Duration: 1h
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Harry Potter Escape Game
Enter the world’s greatest School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: Hogwarts.
Armed with your magic wand, get into a race against time in this fantastic escape game.
You have one hour, and not one minute more, to evade Hogwarts and defeat He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
Many magical puzzles await you.
Price: from 29€/person
Duration: 1h
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Sensas Montpellier
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Discover the crazy experience that tests your 5 senses: Sensas Montpellier invites you to participate in 6 sensorial workshops and 3 SAS where you will have to fulfil challenges, most of the time in pitch black setups, in order to find amulets.
A unique and fun concept to have you rediscover your senses.
The big extra of Sensas Montpellier? The more amulets you find, the more money is given to an association which fights against disabilities.
A good deed and a great time to share with your friends at the same time.
Price: 28€/person
Duration: 2h
Official website (In French)
Prison Island
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This is the ideal activity for Fort Boyard fans.
Proceed in realistic and crazy settings in the heart of a prison which you will have to evade by passing through many cells and resolving puzzles and missions.
An incredible immersive experience, fit for children and adults alike, which will have make you think and will challenge all your senses.
Price: from 19€/person
Duration: from 1h
Official website (In French)
Upside, Virtual Reality Center
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Upside has you discover virtual reality and the worlds in which it can make you travel, through numerous solo and team games.
Three game modes are available, each of which offers many games: arcade games, escape games and simulators.
Let yourself be tempted by one game mode, or even all of them, for a unique and sensational experience.
Price and duration:
- Arcade Games
- 17€/person for 25 minutes
- 28€/person for 55 minutes
- Escape Games
- 30€/player for 45 minutes
- 35€/player for 55 minutes
- Simulators
- 5€/person for the car simulator
- 10€/person for the roller coaster simulator
Official website (In French)
The Cluster, Virtual Reality Arena
This original activity is at the crossroads between video games and laser tag.
Put on your virtual reality sensor suit, enter a 200m2 arena and fight in teams in entirely virtual settings.
Weapons, superpowers, action… play a life-size video game in this unique and breathtaking immersive experience.
Price: 20€/person (25€ on weekends)
Duration: 20 minutes of game (1h in total)
Official website (In French)
Out of the Ordinary Sports
Axe throwing
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Have you ever dreamt of being a Viking? You wish to display your skill or just to let off steam?
Come and try axe throwing, always safely, at Lance ta Hache, for a really original and fun moment.
And if you discover that you have incredible skills at axe throwing, you can participate in organized tournaments!
Price: 17€/person (3 people max/target)
Official website (In French)
Free Fall Simulator
Do you dream of skydiving but you are afraid of getting on a plane? Do you wish to experience the sensations of a flying – or falling, depending on the point of view – skydiver?
The free fall simulator offers you the intense experience of a 4,500m jump, at 280km/h, but securely.
Put on your jumping suit, enter the wind tunnel and let the blower do the rest.
Price: from 55€/adult
Duration: 2 flights of 50 seconds each
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Indoors Playful Climbing
Try out the experience of indoors and secure climbing on one of the many original and colorful climbing blocks available in this place.
Two different spaces are available: The Fun Climb, for the children 4 years old and older, where they will find colorful blocks with luminous or turning grips and monsters and planets; and the Climb&Play, which combines climbing and video games with augmented reality blocks, targets and vibrating walls for more difficulty.
Price: from 8€/person
Duration: from 30 minutes
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Muggle Quidditch
Who said that quidditch was only made for Hogwarts witches and wizards?
Climb on your broom and launch into a frenzied quidditch game, (almost) like in Harry Potter’s universe.
Here, there are no flying brooms, but there is everything else! Score points and avoid the bludgers of the opposing team and bring home victory.
An unusual activity to try with your friends and family.
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Unusual Restaurants
Pirate Paradise
Pirates of all ages are invited to share a meal in this Pirates of the Caribbean-like lair.
Breathtaking settings await you there, as well as a wide playground and pirate-themed shows!
A really unusual restaurant to eat well (several children’s menus are available to suit all tastes) and to have fun with your friends or family.
Odysseum, Allée Ulysse, 34000 Montpellier
Official website (In French)
The Restophone
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Welcome to a themed restaurant, with a dance floor and a DJ, which organizes many events such as karaokes and live music nights.
An ideal place to meet people, especially thanks to the unusual detail of this place: each table has a telephone which enables you to contact other tables of the restaurant.
A completely unique and crazy concept in a festive and convivial place, to have you spend the best evenings with your friends.
321 Rue du Mas St Pierre, 34070 MONTPELLIER
More information (In French)
The 1789
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The 1789 is an elegant lounge restaurant that offers you a cuisine à la carte and refined and gourmet set menus.
But what makes this place an unusual restaurant is its superb dining room installed under stone vaults, which will give you the impression of dining in a castle just like real nobles of the 18th Century court.
Enjoy bistronomic cuisine in an intimate and enchanting setting.
1789 Restaurant Lounge, 2 Impasse Périer, 34000 Montpellier, France
Official website (In French)
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