New UK escape rooms March 2024
Happy Easter! Like fluffy chicks or a shower of chocolate coins, here’s a clutch of freshly hatched escape rooms for your enjoyment. And I haven’t even made any ‚eggcelent‘ style puns.
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EtR Players Choice 2024 Award Winners
With many thanks to everyone who took part in the voting in January and February, it’s time to announce the winners of the regional awards! 🥁
Escapology Santiago: Los Mineros
Santiago, Feb 2024
English-friendly games in Chile are a rarity, but Escapology is a franchise of a large US chain, and so set up slightly better for international players, with three of their rooms officially playable in English. In practice that meant that all writte… (more)
Escape Room Mendoza: El Laboratorio del Dr. Boeiro
Mendoza, Jan 2024
Having played Refugio, we impulsively asked if they had availability for Laboratorio, the other game available in English and the one they’d told us was a good option if we were first time players. They did, so after a short pause while they reset it… (more)
Escape Room Mendoza: El Refugio de la Montaña
Mendoza, Jan 2024
Mendoza is near the Andes, so I guess this theme is a natural fit for the location: stranded by bad weather, you seek refuge in a lodge that turns out to have dark secrets. Escape Room Mendoza is part of Argentina’s largest escape room chain, with tw… (more)
Sinapsis: The Forbidden Classroom
Buenos Aires, Dec 2023
Generally in Argentina, the claim ‘available in English’ needs to be treated with a pinch of salt; I think this game at Sinapsis was the first one we found in the country that genuinely didn’t need any Spanish knowledge whatsoever.
It starts you off… (more)
Game House: El Otro Lado
Buenos Aires, Dec 2023
El Otro Lado was the third room we played at Game House, and it’s based on the TV series Stranger Things. I’ve tried a few different escape rooms with that theme now, and it tends to work well – the setting provides some immediate distinctive element… (more)
Game House: Parana Airlines
Buenos Aires, Dec 2023
You’d think that there could be only so many puzzle ideas available in the familiar environment of a plane cabin, but perhaps because it’s a relatively rare setting, each new take on the theme seems to manage a new twist. In this case the freshest an… (more)
Eureka: El Atraco
Buenos Aires, Dec 2023
There are plenty of escape venues in Buenos Aires, but this branch of Eureka was just down the road from where we were staying, so we couldn’t not try one there. Their Facebook page suggested that El Atraco (The Robbery) was the newest of the ones av… (more)
Escape Obligado: El Reactor Atómico
Buenos Aires, Dec 2023
Having now played nine rooms in Brazil and Argentina, I’ve come to expect a simpler level of decor than what’s currently typical in Europe. So it was a pleasant surprise to find ourselves plunged into a convincingly high tech, atmospheric rendition o… (more)