Houdini’s Escape Room Experience Acton: A Curious Case at the Haunted Manor

By | December 29, 2022

by Houdini's Escape Room Experience Acton (website)

Royale Leisure Park, Western Ave, London W3 0PA

West London

2-6 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

A Curious Case at the Haunted Manor is a surreal escape experience in which you must solve puzzles, find clues and collect items to find Lady Farringdon's last will and testament in order to gain access to her sizable fortune. Will you be the sole beneficiary or will you have to share?
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based on ratings from 29 users
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Margot Lefevre rated this:Rated between 1 and 1 out of 5
zchaaln rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 24 Mar 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 49:02 Outcome: Successful escape!
cleverimmersivestory-driven
Alex Valnarov-Boulter rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 24 Mar 2023 Team size: 2 Time taken: 49:02
cleverimmersivestory-driven
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Foxybingo2785 experienced rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 28 Feb 2020 Team size: 3 Outcome: Failed 🙁
illogicaloverpricedvery difficult
rileypeverall experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
value for moneyoriginalimmersivequite difficult👻scary
BillyCaitlin2302 experienced rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Played: 12 Feb 2023 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivegreat hostingintensequite difficult👻scary

Immersive and scary!

Fantastic room with great puzzles and theming.

This is a single room location with one games master who made the whole experience amazing and very immersive from as soon as you arrived.

Would definitely recommend to anyone looking for an intense and memorable room. 

Stevie Davies expert rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: December 2021 Team size: 2
illogical
taleviooo rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
😨creepy
dave470003 rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Failed 🙁
immersivestory-drivenquite difficult
StaceyF expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 2018 Outcome: Successful escape!
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Instead of trying to escape, you're trying to retrieve a bottle of wine; while that makes little practical difference, it's nice to vary the genre a little. The room is one of the physically smallest I've done, though we had a team of five and it felt cozy but not cramped.

The puzzles are structured as a set of tests, which gives a good sense of progression and makes it easier to tell how well or otherwise you're doing. It also means this is a fairly linear room, though I don't remember that be...

How can you fit so much fun into such a small space?! A great in character GM and a bottle of wine to boot, made this room a winner for us!
And here's your host, Gabriel… Outside the room Lady Chastity's Reserve is not something to be taken lightly. That much was obvious from the moment that I laid my eyes upon Gabriel across the bar. A stout man with a strong beard, this was not some run of the mill host, recruited from a student bar.
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Lady Chastity’s Reserve absolutely lived up to the hype for us, and I’m thrilled that we chose it for our very first escape room of 2022. Start the year as we mean to go on, eh?

We head into a pub in Clapham, London where there is an escape room that they say combines clues with comedy and immersive theatre. Will we be toasting a great room, or drowning our sorrows?
Lady Chastity’s Reserve is a wine. A wine of legend. A wine that, if you succeed in the game, you get to take home a bottle of. And by ‘home’ in our case I mean the pub the game is based in, where we drank it all. And now I have to remember enough of the game to write a review.
We ventured intrepidly into the wreckage of Lady Chastity's hedonistic final party, in order to try to retrieve a bottle of her legendary aphrodisiac wine. Did we leave with our thirst quenched?

A highly thematic room, let down here and there with slightly frustrating puzzles. I think it would have been more enjoyable with two or three people, so I’ll try my next one of their rooms with fewer people.

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