Exciting Escapes Southampton: Change The Record

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by Exciting Escapes Southampton (website)

100 High Street, Shirley, SO16 4FB

3-7 players

60 minutes

closed

The year is 1989, as the Soviet Union breaks down British Intelligence has heard rumours of communist activity behind the locked doors of a record shop in Southampton. You are recruited to enter the record shop and uncover the enemy agents’ plans.

But with only 60 minutes before he returns, can you face the music and get out in time?

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Team size: 4 Time taken: 57:10 Outcome: Successful escape!

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Team size: 6 Outcome: Successful escape!

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If a record shop sounds like an odd setting for an escape game, never fear: according to the game premise, the proprietor is a secret agent from the far side of the Iron Curtain, and your job is to ferret out and thwart his nefarious plans.

Something unusual about Exciting Escapes as a venue was that, although all my team liked all three of their rooms, we were very split on which we liked best. Each is designed around a particular decade, and has a different feel to it: the 50s game had a subt...

Dance along to the 80s in this escape room packed with musical nostalgia. Good puzzles and an engaging theme add up to a lot of fun. Don't rush this game - relax and you'll soon get into the groove.

It’s a challenging room, but it’s nothing insurmountable and instead, incredibly satisfying when you finally crack the codes and figure out what to do. More than anything I just enjoyed being in the physical space. Bopping along to the 90s hits we had a great rhythm in this room and a very fun interaction with our Games Master afterwards. So much so, we immediately booked another room to play directly after.