by One Way Out (website)
ROL House, Long Row, LE156LN
Up to 6 players
Languages: EN
This is no ordinary self-catering stay. It’s a fully immersive, story-driven escape room experience—except instead of racing the clock in a locked room, you’ll have an entire charming Victorian cottage (and possibly a village…) to explore at your leisure. The cottage is in the beautiful village of Belton-in -Rutland, four miles west of Uppingham and six miles south of Oakham. We’re in the heart of the country, in England’s smallest, and possibly proudest, county of Rutland.
At the heart of it all is the delightfully eccentric Jannet Bambleforth—a sociable, brilliant antiquarian with a passion for curious objects, clever puzzles, and meaningful friendships. Rather than leaving her beloved cottage to family, she’s devised a far more entertaining plan…
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We had such a fun time staying at Curious Cottage. As a family group, we decided to stay for a couple of nights and have a weekend away.
The way the story is set up, with six different puzzle strands, means that you get a great mix of puzzles. You could work on multiple at once, but we wanted to take our time and do them all as a group. The teenagers wanted breaks after each completed puzzle strand, while I poked around the house finding things that I desperately wanted to solve. (“Mum, why are you like this?” from Teen One)
We didn’t need to use the hints system as it seemed to flow naturally. It’s not a hard room, but the joy often came from the clever use of the house which makes it a bit different.
This is our first ‘escape house’ but we’ve done 50+ rooms. All four of us had a brilliant time and wanted to give it 4.5-5 stars. Teen Two decided it might be his favourite ever escape room within about half an hour!
It’s also a comfortable (and quirky!) place to stay, in a very sweet and quiet village. I think it would have been a rush to get it done in one night as a family though - two nights meant we could relax. One night would be fine for groups of friends happy to stay up late though.
We had such a good time in the cottage. 6 different paths of puzzles to follow and a small finale connecting everything together. Lots of fun puzzles and tricks throughout- we enjoyed how elements of this house felt particularly like a normal ish escape room too. Read everything carefully as it is possible to break a puzzle or two if you don’t! Only downside is that generative AI has been used for the posters throughout the experience - would look a lot better with something home-brewed instead!