Six to eight teams, one phone each, 60 to 120 minutes on foot. €5 per pupil, teachers free.
More than 3,000 classes and groups have played Questo together.
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We are a group of language students and we played the game with our teacher: a great and fun way to practise, and learn interesting stuff about our city that we didn't know.
Perfect with a group of A Level pupils. Loved it.
Quests for classes
A Questo school day in Brussels stays mostly in the compact old centre: the Grand-Place, the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert, the Sablon and the Mont des Arts, with one quest crossing to the European Quarter and the Parc du Cinquantenaire. Upper Key Stage 2 classes do well with Brussels, Capital of Comics, which follows the comic strip murals from the Galeries to Manneken Pis. Key Stage 3 groups can play A Journey Through Time around the guild houses of the Grand-Place, and GCSE or sixth form pupils can take on Murder Mystery: Death in the Shadows, available in English and French. Quests cover ages 8 to 18.
107 min · 3.3 km · 16 stops
Starts at The Royal Theatre of the Galleries
The Belgian comic strip tradition through murals of Lucky Luke, Asterix and Obelix, Thorgal, Nero, XIII and Yoko Tsuno
145 min · 4.5 km · 14 stops
Starts at Porte de Flandre Tram Station
Medieval Brussels at the Black Tower, Coudenberg and Saint-Géry
104 min · 4.9 km · 12 stops
Starts at Parc du Cinquantenaire
The European Quarter: the European Parliament, Luxembourg Square and the bust of Robert Schuman
95 min · 2.5 km · 10 stops
Starts at Hotel
Museums of the Mont des Arts area: the Musical Instruments Museum and the Magritte Museum
60 min · 2.4 km · 11 stops
Starts at Les Galeries Royals Saint-Hubert
The Grand-Place guild houses, Le Cygne and Maison du Pigeon, with the Hôtel de Ville and the Maison du Roi
69 min · 3.6 km · 13 stops
Starts at Maison du Roi
People linked to Brussels: Marie Curie and Einstein, the Brontë sisters, Jacques-Louis David, Rubens and Jacques Brel
90 min · 2.1 km · 12 stops
Starts at 1
Deduction and close reading: weighing clues to solve a fictional case
Teams of 3 to 5 share one phone.
Under-14s: one adult per 2 to 3 teams with agreed checkpoints; 14 to 18 per school policy. Lanes around the Grand-Place get very crowded.
The centre is compact and walkable.
STIB-MIVB's €15 "School group aged -18" pass covers up to 30 people, including 2 adults, all day on metro, tram and bus; validate every person each boarding.
The City of Brussels has only 12 public toilets, all free.
Its "accessible toilets" network lets anyone use toilets in over 50 cafes, bars and shops free; museums and stations are fallbacks.
The Parc de Bruxelles, opposite the Royal Palace, has benches and paths for a packed lunch.
In rain, experience.brussels at Place Royale lends school groups its Agora picnic room free, booking required.
The covered Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert, experience.brussels (free, school groups book) and federal museums, free from 1pm on the first Wednesday, all suit groups.
A rained-off quest can be replayed free within 30 days.
Caution: Pickpockets work the Grand-Place, Rue du Marché aux Herbes and the Central and Midi stations. Pupils should keep the team phone and any money zipped away, never in back pockets.
Medieval and early modern Brussels (the Black Tower, Coudenberg, Saint-Géry, the Gothic churches of the Sablon and Saint Nicholas), the Grand-Place guild houses, mostly from the late 17th century and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the First World War through Cardinal Mercier and Gabrielle Petit, and the Parc du Cinquantenaire, laid out in 1880 for the 50th anniversary of Belgian independence.
Urban geography of a capital city, comparing the old centre around the Grand-Place with the upper town at the Sablon, the Royal Palace and the Law Courts, and with the European Quarter. Pupils practise map reading and orientation as they navigate from stop to stop, and see bilingual French and Dutch place names such as Porte de Flandre / Vlaamsepoort.
Reading and following written instructions and solving text-based puzzles. Most quests can be played in French and German, and the Comics and Historical quests also in Spanish, so a language class can play in the language it is studying.
The European Parliament and Robert Schuman as part of how the European Union began, plus teamwork: sharing one phone, dividing up tasks, agreeing answers and keeping to checkpoint times.
Price and terms
No minimum group, no time slot.
A class of 30 on one quest: €150.
Choose a questTell us the quest or city, the class size and the dates. We send an invoice to the school.
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