Ultimate Guide to the Best Team Outings in NYC

Are the walls of your office starting to close in around you? Are you in need of a little excitement and a burst of creative adrenaline? It might be time to round up your colleagues for a team outing in NYC! While strategy sessions and planning meetings help to align your company's mission, they can be a little mundane. Nothing bonds team members like experiencing something new together. A team that plays together, stays together, even when the going gets tough. With all that New York City has to offer, you can plan a team outing in NYC that will shake up the routine, and remind them why they're glad to be on your team. Take a look at 7 of our company outing ideas in NYC to connect with your team and reignite enthusiasm and team bonding in the workplace.

YOUR NEXT TEAM OUTING IN NYC

1. Create Your Company's Cocktail

The perfect group activity for food and drink! Liquid Lab takes the concept of cooking classes and stirs in a little bubbly. Your team will have a blast with their mixology class as you create a signature cocktail. This festive team building activity is a favorite among companies like Google, Yahoo, and Universal Studios. The creators of Liquid Lab are pioneers in their industry, offering health inspired cocktails, molecular mixology, and artisanal prohibition-era cocktails. Get your team's creative juices flowing as you learn more about each other's preferences and personalities. Liquid Lab will also come in handy for your next office party or catered event, since they offer consulting, event service, and menu design. Be sure to reserve fun transportation for the whole team, so everyone can safely enjoy the libations. 

2. Travel Through Time and Solve Puzzles

Clue Chase is the ultimate escape room event & team building experience. At their brand-new location right off of Herald Square, their escape games immerse your team in cinematic stories that invigorate group dynamics and promote long-lasting bonds. Together your team will use their escape rooms to sharpen their skills in an unforgettable 60-minute experience. With some of the highest rated escape room activities in NYC, Clue Chase has the capacity and quality to match. Book with them here!

3. Set Sail on Competitive Seas

Let your hair down, and raise the sails up, faster than the rest of your team! Classic Harbor Line offers an immersive adventure far from the normal company outing. Teams board a sailboat at Chelsea Piers and break into groups of 4-6 with a lead crew member to compete in raising a sail, tying a knot, and racing to tag different parts of the boat. This exhilarating team outing in NYC will be a first for your coworkers, and will bring out a competitive spirit they can carry back to their work week. Seeing each other in a new environment deepens relationships and provides a chance for coworkers to wow you with undiscovered talent. Want to feel the wind in your hair, with a little more elegance than effort? Try Hornblower Cruises and Events, where you can engage in everything from scavenger hunts on the Hudson River to salsa cook-offs, or just socialize amid the sights of the city like the Statue of Liberty and Battery Park with craft cocktails and fine cuisine. 

4. Throw Dough at Pizza School

Pizza School is everything we wish high school could have been- good food, good drinks, plenty of laughter, and no homework to do! But chances are, you'll choose to do "homework," if it means recreating this mouth-watering pizza. "Cleverly disguised as a pizza cooking class," Pizza School is more like a party with your favorite colleagues. You've already scoured the city for the best pizza pie, why not learn how to make it yourself? Your team will make the dough and sauce from scratch, sprinkle it with toppings, and cook it to crispy perfection. With options for vegetarians and meat-lovers alike, it's the quintessential NYC team outing. Hall of Fame winner of TripAdvisor's Certificate of Excellence from 2015-2019, and a 5-star favorite on Yelp, this team outing in NYC features a festive welcome reception with curated wines, craft beers, specialty sodas, and party favors, before your chef adventure begins. Skip the school bus and hop on a party bus to head to the best school in town.

5. Become a Human Picasso

At Beat the Bomb, you'll try not to get splattered in paint, but if you do, you'll be in good company. Teams from Google, Etsy, Spotify, Tough Mudder and Citigroup are just a few of the brave groups who transformed into Bomb Defusal Operatives to defeat the massive paint bomb. Think escape room on steroids. Your team will play 5 immersive live arcade games, including "lazer maze," and "hack attack," to build up time to defeat the bomb. Beat the Bomb can tailor an event to groups of all sizes, and can break your team into groups of 2-6 to battle it out in friendly competition. Paperwork will be a distant memory when strapped into hazmat suits to beat this thrilling deadline. No other fun team building activites in NYC will light up your social media quite like this one! 

6 . Experience a Magic Show unlike any other

At Fun Corporate Magic, prepare to be amazed. Matias Letelier is one of the best magicians in NYC. His illusions and magic will astound you as his performance focuses on effective teamwork for corporate team building. Forget museum tours. Prepare for fun and shock as he will customize his performance for your company. Watch as 4 of your team members magically float in mid-air. Everyone at the workplace will be talking about this experience for years to come.

7. Travel by Team Trolley

No matter where you plan to go, don't forget to book a party trolley to take your team on the adventure to any and all activities in in NYC. New York Trolleys will make sure all your colleagues arrive on time and celebrate safely, saving them the cost of individual transportation. We provide conversational seating space for your whole team to mingle while you traverse the city. Start and end your night with a toast to your team when you BYOB on our trolleys. We play your favorite playlists and proudly advertise your company on the side of our trolleys while you celebrate your team's success. Why stop at one outing location? Our trolleys can take you wherever you want to go whether it is Central Park, the Museum of Natural History, Times Square, food tours, pizza school NYC, Empire State Building, or a museum hack! In fact, our trolleys are a destination in and of themselves. Take a look at our photos to see why the best memories are often made on the way to your destination in the big apple. 

It's time to take the boredom out of the boardroom- give your coworkers something to really talk about! Nothing inspires creativity and camaraderie like taking on a new challenge together. Plan an event that will create lasting memories, hilarious moments, and untapped talents on your team. Contact us to book an epic team outing in NYC that will brings people together on your team. Our group activities in NYC are unparalleled.