300 Lytham Road, FY1 6EY
2-6 players
60 minutes
Overall rating
based on ratings from 36 users
combined with 6 pro reviews
Your review
Player reviews
Lab Life
I’m sad to hear that Escape Blackpool is no longer open, as this was an impressive room.
Story
You and your fellow scientists have contracted a virus that’s killing the world. Create a vaccine and escape the locked-down laboratory before it’s incinerated! A scenario that I now know is very, very common in the world of escape rooms, but this was my first time saving the world from a deadly disease.
Puzzles
This was a very tricky room! There were several clever features and quirky uses of apparatus that you’d expect/hope to see in a lab-themed escape.
Mise-en-scène
Very white, very polished, very lab-like! The props provided appropriate touches: science utensils, reading material and gear. I love any room where outfits are given, and so the lab coats were appreciated.
Final Comments
We only received one hint from our Game Operator, and this was on how/where to use a particular tool. She clearly knew exactly what time(s) teams need a hint. It was a good room for a team of both beginners and more experienced players.
A nice escape room with some tricky puzzles and good theming.
We had a good time but it felt a little too linear - there were some idle moments for the group
Reviews by escape room review sites
Humanity is once again in peril, this time from an epidemic that's swept the globe and left your team as the last scientists on Earth. Fortunately there is an antidote hidden somewhere in a laboratory, if you can reach it in time.
The Escape franchise has spread to something like 14 different cities in the UK now, with a couple more on the way, so they must be doing something right. I've now played six of their games, and they tend to follow a straightforward format based around a mostly linear...
The premise of Operation Contagion is fairly straightforward. There’s a zombie apocalypse sweeping the globe and the world is in lockdown – not too hard to imagine post-2020, hey! – but this laboratory has developed a cure. Great! We’re saved! Only the lab is also in lockdown and there’s just 60 minutes before it self-incinerates. Ahh, not so great.
See also
- Escape Newcastle: Contagion (Newcastle upon Tyne) (closed)
- Escape Sheffield: Contagion (Sheffield) (closed)
- Escape Dundee: Contagion (Dundee) (closed)
- Escape Edinburgh: Contagion (Edinburgh) (closed)
- Escape Glasgow: Contagion (Glasgow) (closed)
- Escape Ipswich: Contagion (Ipswich)
- Escape Hull: Contagion (Kingston upon Hull) (closed)
- Escape Peterborough: Contagion (Peterborough) (closed)
- Escape Leamington Spa: Contagion (Leamington Spa) (closed)
- Escape Lincoln: Contagion (Lincoln) (closed)
- Escape Dublin: Contagion (Dublin)
- Can You Escape York: Operation Contagion (York)
- Gamesaints Sheffield: Vaccine Vault (Sheffield) (closed)