Escape Hunt Cheltenham: Alice in Puzzleland

By | November 28, 2020

by Escape Hunt Cheltenham (website)

Unit D1, The Brewery Quarter, High St, Cheltenham GL50 3FF

Cheltenham

2-6 players

60 minutes

Step into Wonderland, where the Hatter has been accused of stealing the Queen’s Tarts. With Alice nowhere to be seen, it’s time for you to fill her shoes.

You find yourself at the Hatter’s cottage. The table is set but no one is around.

A sign on the lawn reads ‘Tea Party Cancelled by Royal Decree’. Curiouser and curiouser…

Find and return the Queen’s Tarts in 60 minutes, or it’s off with the Hatter’s head. Chop chop.

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based on ratings from 64 users
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Cat.P rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: Feb 22 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulmagical
Alwaysablast rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Failed 🙁
illogicalpoor hostingquite difficult

This room had a really good set and should have been good, but the puzzles didn't really flow and the games master seemed quite distracted, which meant we waited a long time if we got stuck. 

Chris Tongue rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Ellie experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Played: 2020-12-19 00:00:00 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

Our favourite of the Escape Hunt games played so far. Gamesmaster was friendly and the Cheltenham venue is open and welcoming. Lovely props, decent puzzles and good links to the Alice in Wonderland story. Only complaint would be that there were some bits were a bit stiff or not in the best condition (one was sticky :->), which is surprising for such a newly opened venue.

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 1.5 and 1.5 out of 5
Played: 8 Aug 2024 Team size: 3 Time taken: 41:20
broken techoverpricedunoriginalvery easy

Basically just a ripoff of the old Time Trap game with similar theming, but done so much worse. 

phudson2907 rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Time taken: 47 Outcome: Successful escape!
originalimmersive
Alwaysablast rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 7 Jul 2024 Team size: 3 Time taken: 43.47 Outcome: Successful escape!
story-drivenbroken techoverpriced

This should have been a really good room, as it has potential, however a lot of the tech was either totally broken or flawed. A lot of time was wasted thinking a solution was wrong when actually it just hadn't triggered what it should and we ended up having to explain solutions to the GM over the tannoy so they could manually override catches when we did have the solution right, or just having to fiddle with putting the same thing into a the same place multiple times to get it to trigger. Real shame.

SupertrampEcho experienced rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 21 Jul 2024 Time taken: 58 mins Outcome: Successful escape!
magicalillogicalbroken tech
spbc expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 26 Oct 2023 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingfunneeding tlc
2For1 experienced rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 30 Aug 2023 Team size: 3 Time taken: 38:10 Outcome: Successful escape!
immersivestory-drivenbroken tech
Fun family room, we took our 12 year old, she loved it, good room for beginners. 
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Whilst Alice in Puzzleland is available to play at multiple sites across the UK, we chose the closest to London: Reading. During our experience there, we were led by the Cheshire Cat (played by the awesome Games Master Hamish) through the rabbit hole and into the magical world of Wonderland.


Our GM declared we were the best team he had ever seen play this game. But actually...

Overall, a really good game with some lovely game play and well designed props. Escape Hunt Resorts World is based in the middle of a shopping centre which felt very unusual but means there are lots of people and passing trade.
We headed down to Puzzleland via Oxford to help save the Mad Hatter from Execution! Sinister stuff! See if we managed to find the Queen’s Tarts and what we thought about our Alice in Wonderland themed experience.

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