lsugaralmond

Really fun room, very child friendly but still fun for the grownups! Host is a very active participant which was a bit weird at first but we got used to it and then it was quite enjoyable. Nothing super unusual in terms of puzzles but all worked well and were satisfying to solve. We had a great time.

Enjoyed this room although frustrated with a bit of broken tech. We spent ages trying to make it work and at the end the gamesmaster told us it was broken. Wish we’d known at the start as we wouldn’t have wasted so much time on it.

Otherwise a fun room with some cool surprises and clever theming. 

Had fun solving this with my 14 year old daughter. We got out in 45 minutes with minimal clues. We’ve played a few escape rooms and there was nothing particularly new here but it was all well done and enjoyable nevertheless. Lots of fun puzzles at a good difficulty level and good opportunities for team work. We enjoyed ourselves 

We did this as two adults and two kids aged 12 and 9. We really enjoyed it and the challenge level was just right. A great variety of puzzles and lots for everyone to get on with.

At the beginning one of your group is locked up and the others have to free them. This was fun but I was glad it was only for the first part as it was nice to be able to work as a team for the main solve.

This was well constructed and well hosted and I highly recommend it. 

Really enjoyed this excellent Egyptian themed escape room in Villages Nature just outside Paris. All of the text was written in English and French which was helpful! And the hints were given in English for which we were very grateful. Our games master was very attentive and encouraging.

The room itself had great theming and lots of different rooms and doors to open. We kept finding more rooms to explore that we hadn’t expected and the puzzle held together well with every element playing its part in the solve. We got stuck at one point when we just had no clue what to do next and had to ask for help but other than that it was a logical progression with a great variety of puzzles and only one padlock. Really recommend this room and will come back and try the Mayan one next.

Played this with my 11-year-old daughter and we managed it without too many hints. It was very well constructed and all the pieces feel high quality. I like that it can be entirely reset and reused multiple times. We enjoyed it and everything worked well except we never received an email clue that we should have been sent so we had to resort to the hints to get through that stage. Otherwise everything worked perfectly and it was a satisfying conclusion with some clever twists along the way.

Fantastic hosting as always from the team here. We’ve done several escape rooms at several different venues and the hosting is always far and away the best at Kingston Escape Rooms - attentive, helpful and humorous. The room itself is great fun and we loved all the different costumes to put on. Lots of padlocks to deal with and no big surprises but it’s a reliably satisfying solve with excellent theming.

We really enjoyed this room which is on a theme we haven’t seen before. We were a group of two adults and two kids (ages 11 and 8) and a lot of the puzzles were beyond the younger one. She still had fun though and the 11 year old was fully engaged throughout. The theming is excellent and you really do feel like you’re on a runaway train and you get the sense of panic as the time is running out. The puzzles were varied and clever and very satisfying. Lots of original elements we hadn’t seen before. My only minor criticism was our host was running two games at once so sometimes they were slow to respond if we did something that required them to trigger something. That was frustrating. For example we tried something we thought should work but nothing happened and then five minutes later the host gave us a hint to do the thing we’d tried and this time something unlocked. Clearly they just hadn’t been looking the first time we did it! But anyway a very enjoyable hour and a satisfying solve with lots of good teamwork elements. Highly recommend!

Positives first: The room looked brilliant and the theming was great. Our games master was responsive and helpful. Some of the puzzles were interesting and innovative and very satisfying to solve.

BUT several elements were broken, and the structure of the game was quite illogical. Quite a few things in the room we never figured out what they were for or how to use them and we completed the room without them. It’s not clear if they were red herrings or just broken so not in use. But it’s frustrating to have spent ten minutes trying to work out how (for example) to move two balls through a maze on the wall only to ultimately complete the room without ever doing it. There were a few things like this. Also there was one puzzle which required us to use our sense of smell but only 1 of the 5 smelly things actually smelled of anything so it was impossible. We got there in the end but only by random chance.

On the whole a mediocre experience and not very satisfying because the room just didn’t seem to follow a logical route to completion. 

Crazy Cat Lady was perfect for our family of two adults and two kids ages 8 and 11. We made it with just over a minute to spare! Really enjoyable and the challenge was pitched just right for all of us with such a variety of puzzles that everyone got a chance to shine. Really well thought out and great fun. We’ll be back for sure!

We had so much fun here! You have to be quite silly and we all got the giggles. The puzzles were challenging and varied and the frantic rush to grab the gold at the end was really exciting. The host was excellent. We had a blast!