Escape Hunt Watford: Escape The Wild West

Where to begin…. I was so disappointed with this room/experience. To be fair the host was trying to manage a number of rooms all at once due to staff shortages and this did show. 

The game started late. 

The noise from outside the room from the reception/bar area was a bit off putting. 

A number of the puzzles were not in keeping with the theme and required psychic ability to work out how to make a couple of ‘now completed’ puzzles work. 

Some puzzles are still in the room even though they are no longer part of the game and don’t work. 

The door into the second room did not open with the key unless you turned the key to a particular point of the lock. 

Two padlocks had been accidentally swapped when the game had been reset and consequently as the padlock code clue was heavily reliant on the item it was attached to plenty of time was wasted trying to open them. 

The room is very tired with a number of broken parts. 

I wouldn’t recommend. Even though we successfully escaped, we came out feeling unfulfilled and deflated.