The Blackpool Tower Dungeon: The Escape

A Truly Horrifying Experience 👎

Merlin Entertainments has clearly seen an extra opportunity to get an extra £50 or so per hour by bolting on this hollow room to its Dungeons attraction.

Story

Escape a cell before you’re executed.

Puzzles

They were pretty commonplace, and a bit too varied in terms of difficulty. As soon as we moved on to the next puzzle, a hint flashed up on the screen: the host was far too keen to give us clues. Several previous reviews echo my feelings about this, so it’s clear that staff simply hold players’ hands and pull them through as quickly as possible. Needless to say, we got out with about 1/3 of the time left.

Mise en scene

The room itself- a mostly empty space- is uninspired (impracticably dark, too). This surprised me given the detailed/engrossing environments found in the Dungeons themselves.

Final Comments

Its location inside The Red Lion pub is ill-considered: the chatter and general noise from patrons massively took away from the story. At £22.50 each, it was undeniably overpriced. I emailed Merlin who assured me that the feedback will be taken onboard and provided me with a full refund (I only asked for vouchers for another attraction, so this was a surprise).