Escape Colchester — Local services in Colchester

Huge fun with a range of very cleverly created escape room scenarios that are regularly tweaked so you can keep coming back. We did the Sherlock Holmes one with our whole family including 2 young adult sons and our ten year old daughter. Everyone was able to be involved, the puzzles are all slightly different and require thinking outside the box which children are often better at. Hints appear on the screen of you need them. Very clever and lots of fun. Only negative - loos could do with a bit of tlc. Staff friendly, helpful and enthusiastic; lovely touch at the end taking a photo for us with our time on a whiteboard. No photos or that would...

Perfectly good but quite impersonal and like many under the Escape franchise looks tired and battered from thousands of games.: cracked paint, codes scrubbed off, lots of signs telling you not to touch...

While the Boudicaa room we did was mechanically fine with some decent puzzles, the link to Boudicaa was non existent. It was a generic 'Roman' themed event which was fine but we booked deliberately on the local history premise. There was no story to it.

The room is also far too dark. We were told we couldn't have torches 'because of COVID' which is bizarre....

My flat and I went here and we absolutely loved us. There were 9 of us total so we were able to split up into two rooms for the hour. My group of 4 was able to complete the room in under the hour allowed and so did the other group of 5.

They have 4 rooms, Baker Street, Wizards and Witches, Pirate and cabin. I did Baker Street which was a Sherlock Holmes themed one. The other group did Wizards and Witches which is a Harry Potter type room.

I would love to go back as the staff was friendly and I had a great time. Heres a photo op we took...