Butlins Bognor Regis: Area 51

By | September 29, 2024

by Butlins Bognor Regis (website)

Upper Bognor Rd, Bognor Regis PO21 1JJ

Bognor Regis

2-6 players

Languages: EN

60 minutes

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The secrecy surrounding Area 51 has fuelled countless conspiracy theories over the years with many claiming the site hosts an alien spacecraft. You and your team discover that a UFO has crash landed right here at Butlin’s and a full-scale alien invasion is imminent! Race against time to find the secret research facility and bring highly classified information to light about strange alien lifeforms. Do you have what it takes to save Planet Earth? 
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based on ratings from 24 users
combined with 5 pro reviews

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Tatticorn rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Time taken: 50.01 Outcome: Successful escape!
simsi747 experienced rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
dave470003 rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Team size: 3
beautiful
Sandie Morris rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: Aug 2019 Team size: 6
funny
StaceyF expert rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 10/03/2019 Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
Speedy Sloth expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
TheEscapeBoomers expert rated this:Rated between 2 and 2 out of 5
Team size: 2
plain

This is was great day trip to Ikea.. Plain and boring. 

πŸ”James Bloodworth expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 11/12/2022 Team size: 3 Outcome: Successful escape!
hi-techgreat hosting

This is a sci-fi room with no padlocks or other types of physical locks, progress is made by opening keypad locked doors or using RFID equipped objects.  We found it difficult to start before we found our flow and it's quite easy to overthink some of the problems.  Host was excellently on point and gave us a nudge when we needed it.  The story didn't quite make sense and it felt like a story for a different game but this was good fun.

kman expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 17 Dec 2016 Team size: 5 Time taken: 46m 00s Outcome: Successful escape!
Catherine K experienced rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
thehermit experienced rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Outcome: Successful escape!
great hostingplainunoriginal

.A very basic game had some great little puzzles but was very generic.

grogu42 experienced rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
great hostingplain
Anonymous experienced rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 26 Feb 2022 Team size: 4 Time taken: 37.23
story-drivengreat hostingplainquite difficult

Good hosting. Quite a high amount of key and code based puzzles. Some intuitive problems but some not so much. Nice theme and storey. Managed to bypass the last few puzzles which was slightly annoying.

Ollie C rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 12 May 2017 Team size: 5 Time taken: 58 Outcome: Successful escape!
illogicalplainvery difficult

When booking the name at first made it sound very interesting. However once inside it was very plain and it was mostly white walls and a LOT of padlocks. Some of the puzzles were tough and there was a few moments where we were unsure where to move onto next as the puzzles didn't flow together very well. There was also no confirmation that you had escaped. We finished a puzzle and spent a while wondering what we had to do next before realising the exit door had unlocked and we could push it open.

Simon (The Overthinkers) expert rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Played: 28 Dec 2018 Team size: 2 Time taken: 54:30 Outcome: Successful escape!
Brandon experienced rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
quite difficult
livharvey rated this:Rated between 4 and 4 out of 5
Team size: 5 Outcome: Successful escape!
value for moneyhi-techcleverquite difficult😨creepy
Lise expert rated this:Rated between 2.5 and 2.5 out of 5
Played: 2017 Team size: 5 Outcome: Successful escape!

I was a bit disappointed by Area 51 which was way less atmospheric that the others with low decorations and a very high difficulty. But the room has been changed to Legacy which is worth the visit!

Anonymous rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
🦑cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
🦑cipherdelic virtuoso rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
James Van Der Hoorn rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: 7/2/17 Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!

Not as good as the other room, and one of the first I've played, but seem to remember it being pretty decent still.

Matthew Canner rated this:Rated between 3 and 3 out of 5
Arjay Henshall expert rated this:Rated between 3.5 and 3.5 out of 5
Played: Team size: 5 Time taken: 62 Outcome: Successful escape!

Reviews by escape room review sites

Playing on a separate occasion, I'd agree with those comments, although I'd add in a note of appreciation for the game having more than one room, good puzzle variety, skilful and entertaining hosts, and a refreshing lack of frustration points - generally whenever you've solved a puzzle, it's clear that you've done so.

Compared to the Casino room I did at the same venue immediately beforehand, the game structure is more linear and the content somewhat easier. Experienced teams will find it easy ...

A decently themed game which was generally enjoyable but was badly let down by a flawed puzzle and a broken lock.
Escape London invite you to travel back in time to a top-secret, 1950s laboratory investigating other-worldly happenings in Roswell. Those little grey folk look friendly...
Highly linear, lots of different and new kinds of puzzles to enjoy in a sci-fi themed adventure. Accessible for beginners.

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