Escape Entertainment London: Bank Heist

By | March 20, 2019

by Escape Entertainment London (website)

George Yard, EC3V 9DH

Central London

2-6 players

60 minutes

6 copies
In this adventure, we ask you to rob the crown jewels from the bank. We have hacked their security cameras, providing you a small window of opportunity. Find the clues and solves the puzzles to get one step closer to breaking into the vault! 60 minutes…the clock is ticking.
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Overall rating

Rated between 2.5 and 3.5 out of 5

based on ratings from 9 users
combined with 4 pro reviews

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Player reviews

StaceyF expert rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Played: 5 Nov 2024 Team size: 3 Time taken: 59:59 Outcome: Successful escape!
quite difficult

We did not get on in this room. From the off, it had my back up by combining the breaking of two rules of escape rooms as the very first "puzzle." It didn't get a lot better. There aren't a lot of puzzles in this room, and for whatever reason, we found them very hard. A couple were just difficult, and that's fair enough, but others required leaps of logic that were not signposted well at all. 

Also, reading through the other reviews for this gameβ€”and my thoughts while we were playing itβ€”I noticed that some of the puzzles in this room have been stripped down/changed. I have no idea if it would have improved our experience had the originals been in place. The decor in some places was extremely worn. 

We only just managed to get out (although I had doubts we really did), and I was too grumpy to stay for the photo opp at the end. 

I don't recommend it for enthusiasts at all.

BubbleAndSqueak experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 13 Mar 2017 Team size: 2 Outcome: Failed πŸ™

It was a fun room with decent puzzles, but be wary if you have bad knees. It required a lot of sitting on the floor and crouching, which I struggled with, causing us to run over by 2 minutes. They let us finish the room because we were so close. A few pretty cool puzzles, although one was a little janky. As a couple doing this room, the waiting area and initial briefing felt very corporate-focused, but the room didn't.

Theming: 7/10
Puzzles: 8/10
GM: 6/10
Value: 7.5/10
Fun: 7/10

Overall: 7/10

πŸ†Annagramma expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 22 Apr 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 36.29 Outcome: Successful escape!

Amazing venue with lovely staff, very fun photo opp at the end of your game too! Room had some good puzzles, nice mixture, some nice touches.

jakea256 expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
kman expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 12 Jul 2016 Team size: 6 Time taken: 59m 50s Outcome: Successful escape!
Mark Crossley experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 3 Jul 2019 Team size: 4 Time taken: 59:50 Outcome: Successful escape!
value for moneystory-driven

We chose this room as a company activity as we had two teams and they had more than one room with the same theme.  This added the 'competition element' and so more fun for us all...

Jayescape rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Matthew Canner rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Flutter.dumplin experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 30.03.18 Team size: 6 Time taken: Outcome: Failed πŸ™

Reviews by escape room review sites

This room stood out for the sheer crazy number of keys involved - when you're used to getting excited over each hard-won key, it's entertaining to have such a profusion of the things.

For a heist theme I'd point players to Enigma Quests or maybe ClueTrace first, but this was a perfectly decent series of puzzles.

Outside the room Back in October, Escape Entertainment appeared on the London scene, taking over the venue that used to house Escape Hunt. We'd visited in December and, while Prohibition Pandemonium was better than its predecessors, I still found it disappointing – not enough to keep ten people occupied, obtuse puzzles and uninspiring decor. With that, Bank Heist had fallen to the
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Escape Entertainment is best equipped for corporate team-building days... And yeah! It makes sense. There are in fact 6 identical "Bank Heist" rooms in the building, allowing for up to 36 players to simultaneously go head to head. On the rainy Saturday morning we'd chosen, the site was deserted. 

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