Escape Entertainment London: Bank Heist

This was a very boring, unoriginal room that is clearly for corporate team building exercises. Very limited decor, illogical and broken puzzles, and poor hosting. Waste of time. 

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 game—and my thoughts while we were playing it—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.

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

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.

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...