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Room build and theming was quite immersive for this and good fun. Lots of the puzzles felt very pratical, and some of them we found a bit challenging but felt rewarding to work out.

We were really amazed by this room the minute we were in there. Looks aboslutely stunning, incredibly atmospheric, so much to look at and interact with. It's a great set off point, and the host did an amazing job of getting us immersed and rolling with our banter. Had an amazing time. All of the rooms had really distinct and different themeing - all of which were great, and there was a great variety of puzzles that were involved, some great original stuff we found really cool, and were really fun and benefited from a big group to go searching and put heads together. Hands down the most impressed we've been at an escape room and the best time we've had as a group. Host was amazing afterwards, offered to get us some really great photos in the room which we treasure, absolutely great energy.
Had one tech hitch the host helped with on a puzzle that honestly would have been insanely cool had it worked, but there was so much else to love and have a great time with that we barely noticed.

This was a great set up, very spooky and immersive, absolutely great fun. EXIT Newcastle always has very on-theme different electronics depending on the room for hints, which my group has never been stuck enough to use but it's a really nice touch. A very intense start and a couple spooks throughout, very atmospheric. Easy to split into pairs to work on different puzzles to play to our strengths as a team.

Rooms were very built very well with theme and immersive (I work in a lab, I'm not sure if that's a good or bad bias). Puzzles felt very integratd into the room, were challenging and the steps to them were quite involved. The use of screens and announcements for hints and timers were really great. Only hinted when were clearly struggling and kept it fun. Drove a feeling of chaos with its story very well, and definitely rewarded paying attention and having a keen eye for the details.

The friends (DnD group) I play rooms with tend to prefer the clue systems used by Escape Reality - we prefer that hints are entirely optional, the iPads aren't particularly immersive but there's options to ask the host for hints - we usually put the tablet down at the start and forget about it. This was the first room we ever did and started off our love for them. 

Theme was pretty straight forward and nice, and the use of props throughout were fun.

We've had great experiences with the hosts at Edinburgh.