Locked In A Room Center Parcs: Parallax

By | March 20, 2019

by Locked In A Room Center Parcs (website)

Centre Parcs Longleat Forest, Longleat Forest, Wiltshire, BA12 7PU

Longleat

3-6 players

60 minutes

Professor Pottenger has been kidnapped and your team have located the hideout of those responsible. Gather your team and race against the clock to solve the mystery kidnapping of the time-travelling super genius as you attempt to escape the room in 60 minutes or less. Locked In A Room Parallax is an immersive, fun and frantic escape room activity where you join forces with family and friends and attempt to solve clues to escape the room. You'll need three to six people in your team for this more difficult room - choose them wisely!
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Overall rating

Rated between 2 and 5 out of 5

based on ratings from 19 users
combined with 2 pro reviews

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Player reviews

SupertrampEcho experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 5 Sep 2024 Team size: 4 Time taken: 40 Outcome: Successful escape!
madhatter rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
story-drivenoverpricedvery difficult
Some bits were confusing. One bit we knew exactly what we needed to do, but took forever to do it and were becoming frustrated because we couldn’t reach! Only just made it out! We all had fun
Laura Knight expert rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Mark Jackson experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 9 Oct 2022 Team size: 5 Time taken: 56 Outcome: Successful escape!

Solid room. Nothing ground breaking but a solid play. Lots of combinations.

Richard Gauger rated this:Rated between 5 and 5 out of 5
Played: 7 Jul 2021 Team size: 4 Time taken: 60 Outcome: Failed 🙁
originalcleverquite difficult

Great staff and a great puzzle!  Took too long on one of the tasks, resulting in timing out.  Would recommend this more for experienced "escapers" who know what too look for (I was the only first-timer on our team).  Great fun and would definitely recommend.

Emily Milton rated this:Rated between 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5
Laura Knight expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 16 Oct 2024 Team size: 2

Perfectly good game. A couple of clues left us a little confused even after we solved them. Would recommend for beginners and team building sessions. 

DopamineDino rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 25 Feb 2023 Team size: 4 Time taken: 59:27 Outcome: Successful escape!
Izy Rhodes experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
story-driven
We had a nice time in this room. Some good puzzles that I still remember today. Story was the focus which was nice and we enjoyed the setting too. 
Anonymous rated this:Rated between 1 and 1 out of 5
JoeRaymond experienced rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
TeamDenton experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Team size: 5 Time taken: 39 mins Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivestory-driven

This was a nice room - well themed and with a range of puzzles. Some of our team hadn’t played an ER before but are big video game players so had no problem with the puzzle solving elements. There was one puzzle that seemed to require long arms but maybe we missed something to make it easier? Overall good fun! 

SupertrampEcho experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
story-drivenintenseepic
Philip & Gemma rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 18 Nov 2017 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingenjoyableplain

We won't waste your time rewording something that already exists, as Toby in the EtR pro review below has hit the nail on the head.
Puzzles made sense, theming nothing to write home about, enthusiastic hosts.

Jasmine Barrett rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivestory-driven
Sam Carr experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
cleverstory-drivenquite difficult
abunai expert rated this:Rated between 1.5 and 1.5 out of 5
Wesley Mead expert rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Brian experienced rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!

Reviews by escape room review sites

Parallax is a perfectly acceptable game, but I wouldn’t necessarily  recommend enthusiasts playing it at Center Parcs simply due to the price

In enthusiast discussions, Locked In A Room is a company that rarely gets mentioned, and for good reason: enthusiasts are absolutely not their target audience. Their high-capacity branches with multiple copies of each game room are set up above all for corporate outings, and their games fall into that middle ground where they're not notably atrocious nor sufficiently high quality to stand out.

Parallax was the third of their rooms I'd tried, and it followed the style of their others: a strictly...

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