Peter Hoare

Loved this, some amazing ideas and puzzles that I have never seen before and probably never will again. So many clever little things, smart high tec stuff, implemented in such a clever way. If you are thinking of building escape rooms, you have to see this one as inspiration of whats possible. Also some very unexpected moments that again, were very original. 

A must-do and worth travelling to. 

A split start room, and overall quite difficult, especially for a small team, a nice ending

Nice room, some interesting puzzles and quite high tech too. 

A nice room, one of the better mad hatters teaparty ones Ive done. Some nice technology, and some fun silly moments. 

Great technology, very strong clear storyline which devlelops throughout. Good hosting too, fun. 

Quite a hard room for a team of two. Theming a little less extreme than the other pier point rooms but still a good room, and a proper challenge. 

Nice room, as you'd expect from pier pressure. Good hosting, nice theming. 

Amazing room, theming is about the best there is. Reminds me a little of Pudding lane in the theming, which is a very good thing. Worth a long trip to do this one. 

A nice room, relatively high tech, everything worked well, and well hosted. 

Very high tech, very busy, loads to do, not a single padlock in sight. The kind of room that you could potentially play more than once. 

Really impressive. 

First room here, a decent standard escape room, if you have done loads of rooms, this won't impress you much but its decent with no major flaws or anything like that. Good hosting, however when we finished, we just kind of re appeared back into the hall, and the game master had not noticed this and I had to go back in the room to use the clue request system to tell them we had finished, which was a little strange. 

Will be back to do the others. 

Quite a surprise, a big, beautiful, high tech labyrinth of rooms, loads of surprising impressive high tech elements, some familiar concepts to an escape room nerd, but also some unusual things you don't see often. 

Great hosting too, really fun twist at the start. Loads to do, quite difficult, would not recommend for small teams unless you have done a good number before. Theres space and puzzles for larger groups. 

Owned and run by two really cool guys who have clearly poured their heart and soul into this room. Looking forward to seeing their second. 

One of those rooms that keeps going. A good mix of old fashioned analogue and a bit of higher tech stuff. Some good funny surprise moments. 

A nice ship theme room, some original puzzles in there and some nice surprises along the way. A slightly unusual format with a kind of puzzle dump thing with a mad rush at the end. 

A rare 'lockless room', which is great, lots of high tech stuff that all worked well. Quite difficult, a lot to get through. 

This was billed as a scary room, and quite a few reviews on here have marked it as creepy, but I didn't find that at all. It was well lit, and generally nothing scary besides a bit of the theming, so if you are not into scary rooms, do not discount this one, you will be fine. 

Other than that, quite hard in places, and very creative use of space. 

A nice straight forward room, good puzzles although there was one that made no sense to me that I think few people would get without a hint. Other than that, they were all good. some nice high tech stuff too. 

A very unusual format, a bit like a reverse bank vault type set up. very well themed, great fun, good ending. Really great hosting. 

Took us a while to get round to this one but glad we waited. Lots of technology, everything worked. Good fun and a varied theme throughout. 

A nice room, in an actual vault with a massive thick heavy door, which was nice. Unusual for a vault style room, was not a cash grab type thing, but more of a normal paced escape room. 

Some interesting puzzles and good technology, and some unusual tasks you don't often see. 

Probably the smallest room there, and not the most impressive but still worth doing. If you are only going to do one or two, choose Alien encounter or the Pharos room first.  

A nice room, some very satisfying puzzles, good scenery and a nice surprise extra moment at the end. Great hosts too. 

A nice enough set, but not a great room overall. Pretty illogical with some non existent signposting leading to some very frustrating vault opening at the end. Some props that either didn't work at all, or clearly used to work but were now just part of the scenery. 

Found this really quite frustrating. Some simple signposting would help a lot. 

Quite an unusual room, clearly designed for experienced players. i would not recommend this for first time escape roomers, there are some unusual puzzles and unusual rules to the game that made this very difficult and at times, quite frustrating to fully 100 percent complete. Theming is not amazing but its well worth doing especially if you are a more experienced player. 

A nice jungle room, with some interesting physical moments, some nice puzzles. Not too outlandish for a jungle room, I kinda feel they are all fairly similar, but this is one of the better ones ive done. 

A huge room, that just keeps on going and going. Quite hard for a team of two, same as the other rooms at Tulleys. 

Another great room, expansive with some great technology and surprises. Quite hard for a team of two. 

Amazing, expansive room, with a great split start and some really amazing surprises. Quite hard for a team of two, we overran but they let us keep going as we had said we wanted to see the whole game. 

Another good room, no padlocks at all, no keys, no combinations or codes - which I find very refreshing. Everything was automated, lots of moving parts and motorised stuff, all which worked flawlessly. Good sound effects and music which all synchronised perfectly with the game. 

Some good puzzles, creative and clever tricks and elements. 

Why this venue does not have a golden padlock, I can't work out. This room and the alien encounter are both really decent. 

A really great game, one of those that continues to surprise as you work through. Lots of unique puzzles, its clear the designers made an effort to come up with their own unique games, rather than be inspired too heavily by the more standard escape room puzzles. 

Great host, and by the sounds of it, working on another room in the same building. 

Surely a future golden padlock location. 

This is surely a future golden padlock room. Probably one of the most impressive builds ive seen, loads of technology, loads of automatic moving stuff and it all worked flawlessly. The story has twists and turns, surprises and choices to be made. It really is quite special, and not a padlock in sight. One not to miss. 

I would personally recommend teams of three or four. I think it would be hard to do as a two and some of the story elements are more suited to teams of three or four. 

Great room, great hosting. Some unusual quirks with the hosting at the start that we weren't sure of at first but the hosting was done in a very immersive way without being too annoying, so it worked out well and we loved it. 

The room itself was full of surprises, some good unique puzzles and a fun ending. 

A nice room with one particular surprising high tech element which was really fun and worked really well. An awful lot of locks and keys, but some original puzzles that were very satisfying to work through once we had worked out the solution. 

Nicely themed, with a good heist ending 

Great room, with some puzzles and ideas id never seen. 

Another great room, some very unique puzzles, good technology, some good plot twists and nice surprises. 

When we heard this venue was closing, we rushed over before it was too late. very glad we made the trip. One of the most high tech and immersive rooms ive seen, and not a single padlock, key or anything in sight. All automated, and everything worked. A shame its closing. 

Our third and final room here, and its a shame there aren't more. The hosting here is like nothing else, very theatrical, the games hosts are very in character and do not break at all. The hosts were amazing (Rusty and Brandy). The game itself was really well themed, well maintained, everything worked. There was one puzzle that made no sense to us, and even when we had been spoonfed clues, it still didn;'t make sense. When we finally got it, it was a bit disappointing to realise what the solution was, as it just seemed like a really badly thought out puzzle and I cant image many people get it without help (although maybe they do?!) 

The rest of the game was great though, great start, great ending. 

They also somehow remembered us from last time, and one particular incident involving a bottle of mayonaise that I had with me last time, and im not sure how because the two hosts we had today were not involved with that, but somehow they recognised us anyway and dropped a little private joke in, which is very impressive. 

A nice room, very well maintained, some nice automated stuff and technology, and some nice surprises. The puzzles were very logical and well signposted, we finished this witihout a single clue in 48 minutes. Im not sure if it was easy or if it was just so logical that it flowed easily. It felt challenging, had a good time. 

This is apparently the oldest room at Paradox Parlours, and I was nervous we were going to walk into a padlock salesman's showroom, but no, despite this being their first room, it has been well maintained, the scenario matches the surroundings and theres a good amount of automation and technology in there. A good storyline, and one particularly interesting puzzle that feels like it just keeps on going right til the end (but in a good way) 

I was intrigued about this room, and it turned out to be nothing like I imagined. Theres some very creative fun puzzles, some stuff ive not seen before, and some nice technology. 

Our first room at paradox parlours. I had heard about the high tech nature of this, so was looking forward to it. Others have said its small, but I don't think that feels obvious when you are playing. Its not cramped, and certainly dos not feel small.

Unfortunately for us, one of the main technological elements crashed half way through, it did not impact the game play but we did miss out on some of the interaction. The team at Paradox parlours could not have been more apologetic and they refunded 100 percent to us before the game was even over. Can't complain, still had a great time. 

A nice room, a good combination of locks and automatic stuff, a very interesting addition to the clue delivery system that id not seen before too. 

We found it quite easy and flew through it relatively quick, the puzzles are logical theres nothing confusing, no red herrings or anything that takes a frustratingly long time. 

A good well thought out fun room with lots to see and do. Will be back to do the other one. 

Our first room here, the theming is incredible, nice and high tech, lots of new areas to uncover. Great host who stayed in character throughout. We found it a little easy, it would have been nice if there were a few more elements in there to make it last a little longer, particularly in the final area. 

Our second Hounds room of the day. The host was more in character than anyone thats ever lived, an extreme level of being in character, she flawlessly delivered the setup and ran the room all without dropping it for a second. 

The room was great, good start, good end, some nice puzzles and quite high tech. 

This was our first EO room, and the whole no shoes thing was intriguing but made total sense when we got in there. Some unique and interesting puzzles, but of all the EO rooms we have done, this is the one that we felt the most disconnected from, some of the puzzles were simpler than we realised and we over thought and wasted a bit of time. We had a great time but there was some frustration which was entirely our own fault - learned a lesson not to over think stuff. 

A fun room with a split start, with some clever and unique collaboration puzzles between the two starting rooms. The main area of the room is really fun, well themed and again with lots of fun puzzles and a heist style 'puzzle' dump at the end gave a really fun tense suspenseful ending. 

I was nervous going into this, having always avoided 'scary/creepy/horror' rooms, and having one bad experience in the past, I was apprehensive, but I didn't need to be. The hosting was respectful, no gratuitous jumpscares or distractions, so you were free to get on with the puzzle solving without too much fear.  A great room in its own right, with great theming and hosting. 

Great room with a great start, some interesting unique puzzles, some nice surprises and great hosting from an absolute escape room addict, overflowing with escape room passion and care.

Our second room here after doing Pathogen. Again, a very high tech, well themed exciting room, with levels of technology ive never seen before in an escape room - and it all worked flawlessly. Some great puzzles and games, and great hosting again. 

Shame these guys only have two rooms. We will be back as soon as they open anymore. 

I wish more escape rooms were like this. So well integrated, so much custom technology which worked flawlessly. Barely a single padlock in sight. Immersive, clever, perfectly maintained, great hosting, some amazing props. 

I really wish more escape rooms were like this, this is the perfect combo of theming, puzzles, technology and hosting. 

Probably will rank among the best ive done so far.