by Houdini's Escape Room Experience Swindon (website)
Whitehill Way, Shaw Ridge Leisure Park, Swindon SN5 7DN
2-10 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
As you drive through the night your car suddenly breaks down. With no other options, you and your friends decide to stay at a nearby hotel. The hotel is big and clean, there's just one thing. It has only one room available... that burned down 100 years ago!
Will the spirits within be friendly or are they looking for a few more permanent residents?
Escape before room 13 has you!
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Great host, however lack of countdown clock in the room or method of sharing clues remotely is somewhat immersion breaking.
This was the best of the 3 rooms at Swindon Houdini's and in my opinion is the only one worth doing. I really loved the decor - it does feel like you're in a hotel and it's a multi room experience which is always a winner. There was (as with all games we have played here) some broken tech so the GM game in as we tried to open the directional padlock just in case it didn't work.
As I've described in my other reviews at Houdini's, the clue system for the games games (at least in the Swindon branch) is the GM just appearing in the room to give you hints. It's very disconcerting and completely ruins the immersion. We only had 1 hint for this room so only saw the GM twice during the room but if I'm honest, one time is too many!
I still wouldn't really recommend doing this room - although I enjoyed it, Houndini's seems to have a lot of broken tech which takes them a long time to fix so it may not be very good on another day of the week.
Excellent game. Very creepy and intense. Storyline was great.
A lot of the games in this escape room really did not make sense. Some of the puzzles seemed like they were there for the sake of it. A lot of illogical puzzles like measuring something that has nothing to do with the story or room. Also, the hints they used were really unclear and had not connection to the tasks or they were ordered wrong.
Supposed to be "scary" but the only "scary" thing was them banging on the door or trying to forcefully open the door like "someone trying to get in", maybe because it was my first ever escape room, but I would not recommend this one.
This room was quite a let down the puzzles were quite difficult and didn’t follow along in any sort of manner - the scare factor was very poor with us being asked how intense we would like the game we replied very this response was banging on the door once or twice.
there was a smell puzzle where they all smelt the same
See also
- Houdini's Escape Room Experience Thurrock: Room 13 (Purfleet) (closed)
- Houdini's Escape Room Experience Walsall: Room 13 (Walsall)
- Houdini's Escape Room Experience Greenwich: Room 13 (East London) (closed)
- Houdini's Escape Room Experience York: Room 13 (York)
- Houdini's Escape Room Experience Southampton: Room 13 (Southampton)
- Houdini's Escape Room Experience Doncaster: Room 13 (Doncaster)
- Houdini's Escape Room Experience Milton Keynes: Room 13 (Milton Keynes)
- Houdini's Escape Room Experience Dundee: Room 13 (Dundee)
- Houdini's Escape Room Experience Worcester: Room 13 (Worcester)
- Houdini's Escape Room Experience Stafford: Room 13 (Stafford)
- Houdini's Escape Room Experience Sheffield: Room 13 (Sheffield)
- Houdini's Escape Room Experience Chester: Room 13 (Chester)
- Houdini's Escape Room Experience Chichester: Room 13 (Chichester)
- Houdini's Escape Room Experience Manchester Harpurhey: Room 13 (Harpurhey)
- Houdini's Escape Room Experience Exeter: Room 13 (Exeter)
- Houdini's Escape Room Experience Wakefield: Room 13 (Wakefield)