Houdini’s Escape Room Experience Gloucester: Hexmore School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

A contender for the worst escape room we've ever done.

There weren't really any puzzles, just tasks really. The one thing that resembled a puzzle was broken, so I'm pretty sure we bypassed it. 

There was also no immersion, no intro at the beginning to tell us why we were there or what we were trying to achieve. And the format involved the host entering each time we'd achieved something, to give us the next item we'd need.

A few specific flaws I could name too but I don't want to spoil anything.

This was a TERRIBLE room to start our family on Escape Rooms! 

We were given a pair of torches at the outset, one of which didn't work, and the lackluster, bored host was completely uninterested when we said so. This is a perfect metaphor for the rest of our experience.

Stuff was broken, the room hadn't been reset properly, a 'ghostly apparition' screen was a Windows error screen... It was a mess, and you couldn't hear your teammates talking (or the aforementioned rubbish host) due to an excessively loud backing track.

Came as part of an 'escape room and pizza' booking deal where the 'pizza' was a single-serve oven ready pizza between two... So HALF a pizza to go with half an escape room. 

AVOID, AVOID, AVOID. 

I did send an email complaint and we were comped a free other room to try, which was better (less broken, but still tired!) and so was the host, but still wouldn't recommend the venue! 

The fact that another reviewer here had a similarly awful experience a whole month after ours just shows how little they care. 

A contender for the worst escape room we've ever done.

There weren't really any puzzles, just tasks really. The one thing that resembled a puzzle was broken, so I'm pretty sure we bypassed it. 

There was also no immersion, no intro at the beginning to tell us why we were there or what we were trying to achieve. And the format involved the host entering each time we'd achieved something, to give us the next item we'd need.

A few specific flaws I could name too but I don't want to spoil anything.