Trapped Escape Rooms

We have such mixed feelings about this room. Its not really a normal escape room.

Positives:

Easily the most beautiful, biggest and well themed room we've ever done, particularly if you are kingsman fan! Even with out annoyances with the room, im so glad we got to see it.

The host dresses up brilliantly and even the props are perfect. 

We really did get into it all and mostly enjoy ourselves.

The host only gave hints when asked and its all on theme.

Negatives:

The hosting was a bit poor. He made some sarcastic and cutting comments to us when we missed a sign asking us to close something we'd opened. Felt rather rude.

The 'puzzles' are extremely difficult and we dont really see how anyone escapes as there is far too much to do in an hour, especially with a small team. He explained what we still had left to do and we easily would need another 20/30 minutes. Feels like you need to be pros to do this room.

Our biggest gripe was that some of the 'puzzles' simply dont make sense unless you are in the hosts head. We were told going in not to move or touch certain things, but then we actually need to touch and move them for the puzzle and to move on which was really frustrating. 

One particular puzzles involves doing something other escape rooms would tell you off for, potentially kick you out, which was so confusing. 

The room was wonderful to look at, looked like something out of a movie set. The host, however we found to be quite narcissistic, rude to one of the players at one point and the initial briefing highly contradictory. E.g. we were told don't go off pulling things apart and looking for things, you don't need to (yes you really do); there are no codes to find (yes there are); take things highly literally, don't overthink (don't take it literally, it's lateral thinking). 

The room is excellently built and it has the potential to be a truly fantastic room, but it's been spoiled by personality. Looking at other reviews, it would appear that others have had the same experience over the years. We can't all be wrong. 

Overall a good escape room and more unique than some others, my only gripe is although the puzzles are fun to solve they are more time consuming than they are difficult and a single small mistake near the end caused us to fail - however would recommend as it is cheaper than most other rooms and has good quality  

A tough review due to an amazing concept, good themeing with it being based on the Kingsman films, being true to the film and a clever idea for the end... But massively let down by the GM and execution by purposely trying to make the initial start difficult. The GM has an air of arrogance and seemed to undermine before the game even started... My biggest gripe was being told we wouldn't have to search for anything and yet at a dead end at the beginning, was told to search for something we needed. And then informed us he wouldn't be available for 5-10 minutes, luckily we had found a flow after the hard start. Such a shame that poor GM and needlessly difficult elements let down what could be a great room.