Escape Skegness: Carnival of Curiosities

My experience here wasn’t great. The host was reading the brief from a laminate sheet and had to stop half way through to attend to a hint request in another room so they were running more than one game at a time. No personality. No engagement for the customers that were RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM. Also booking people into the Lazer Quest at the same time… 

If the room was phenomenal then the pre game would have been forgiven. But it wasn’t. The room looks tired. Lots of broken props. At one point some coloured balls drop and I’ve never seen anything so filthy in an escape room. It needs a good clean! 

One puzzle didn’t make any sense whatsoever so I ended up guessing the combination based on what we knew WAS right. When asked to explain the puzzle after the room , the game master didn’t actually know how to solve it and they “just know what to solution is”. Not a great experience by any stretch. 

This game has been closed for a while so it seems so  it get improved… who knows?