Upside Down House - Brighton — Attraction in England

I'm unable to fairly comment as I personally didn't go inside and visit (i stayed outside with my newborn in her pram, while my husband and kids went inside.

We joined the queue just after 2pm in the Easter half-term, during a nice sunny day, and the queue did seem quite long, but you quickly realise it's because "large parties" are visiting, so when you finally do enter, the queue reduces very quickly, because the parties are entered as one admission. I overheard someone asking if the Bluelight card was accepted and the member of staff said to ask the admissions desk. I never found out if the Bluelight discount did apply, as it's not on the Bluelight app, so if it is accepted - this would be useful for the venue to put up more clearly.

You have a choice of booking in advance (there is a QR code outside of the venue), or queue on the day. Tickets are just under £8 per person, and just under £15 if you want to fast-track.

Based on my family's feedback and photos, they had a really good time. They had a lot of fun, found it quite "trippy", and were clearly told that it would be normal if they felt nauseous because the house is upside down, and the floors are uneven. There was also someone inside guiding you in how best to take your photos - which was really helpful!

Based on my family and other parties from ahead of us in the queue (and obviously dependant on how many photos you want to take and what kind of experience you want), it took approx 20-25 mins.

I also chose not to go inside because there is a second floor of the house with a narrow and winding set of steps, so don't think the pram would have been ideal to go inside. I'm sure they would have somehow accommodated me (be it fold the pram and leave it to one side), but I preferred to stay outside and keep the baby asleep.

All in all, I think it's a must-see for those who want to look back on very cool/quirky photos. It's a great talking point for others who have...

The audience management on this art installation severally dampens the 5 minuets of fun you might get from looking around.

You can not book time slots when booking online, and you still have to join the tickets on the doors queue if you have booked online rendering the online booking system pointless, the staff admit 10 people upstairs and 10 people downstairs at any one time giving each group 10 minuets on each floor but more people are not filtered in until everyone has left. We were gleefully told by the attendee on the door that people queue for 2.5 hours to get into this event and running a venue myself i know that this time could be speed up considerably by counting people and groups in and out individually, when we left there were only 2 remaining people upstairs and they still weren't admitting more people until upstairs was completely empty and everyone from downstairs had been sent upstairs. On-top of this the queue could be considerably speed up by managing the queue and filtering smaller groups further back in the line around the big groups.

The event its self was mildly amusing but was not entirely believable as an upside-down house, it just had a normal staircase and laminate flooring on the floor/ceiling. As a family we felt it could do with more ingenuity such as upside-down food to be discovered in the cupboards and illusions such as "water" coming out of upside-down taps or upside-down drinks to pose with.

As it was we spent over half an hour queueing for an event we had already booked tickets online for and only spent 5 minuets inside the house leaving...

Visited yesterday (Friday). It was staffed by just one person and nobody was on the kiosk when we got there. As we had booked tickets online we just went straight in (no barrier or signs were up to say to wait for assistance, or “please queue here”, “back in 5 minutes” etc.) There were two large groups inside when we entered, and as we were waiting the employee then appeared from upstairs and told us all to get out and that we shouldn’t have entered (there were another ten or so people behind us who had also just come in the doorway.) I felt bad that she was on her own but a simple sign or putting the chain barrier up would have been a better option than to be annoyed at customers who had already paid in advance. Once we did get in, we were given about 20 minutes to take photos - not really worth the price that you pay for entry, when you’re taking all the photos on your own device anyway. There was also broken and missing props (you could see as glue was still on the wall), wallpaper that was ripped in some areas and it all looked rather tired and as if it hadn’t been cleaned for a very long time. I always hate to leave a poor review, but I also don’t want people wasting money like we did, on an experience that wasn’t really worth it. Also hope to see it being staffed correctly in the future as I know first hand how difficult it can be to lone-trade a...