Visited the new Escape Rooms in Edinburgh by Escape Rooms Scotland with a group of friends. After doing a few of their other rooms in Glasgow and Dundee I knew I wasn’t going to be dissapointed.
We started in Outbreak which I have to be honest was the room I was least looking forward to as it’s not a room theme I would normally put myself into being a complete and utter wimp. But I did it and it was amazing. The puzzles were yet again great with something for everyone. Help was just a call away if needed! The room was amazing and I really did enjoy my time in there!
Second room for us was Bunker. Wow wow wow! I think it was utterly amazing. Such a clever room with great puzzles to solve! Up there in one of my favourite escape rooms (I don’t think anything can beat Black Pearl!)
Both rooms were large enough to comfortably hold larger groups.
The location of these escape rooms is easy to get to and we found free parking in a nearby street.
The hosts were (as always) amazing and great to chat too…I’m smitten with the new furry member of their team.
Wonderful games! Something for everyone and great fun. Thank you!!

We played the Riddler room as a group of friends. Two of us had played the Jail Break before, the rest were first-timers and some were less keen than others… safe to say by the end everyone was a convert - as soon as we had left everyone was asking when we can go back again.

It’s a fun challenge and you have to work as a team. You quickly get engrossed in solving the puzzles to “save the city”. The Escape Rooms staff will give you as much or as little help as you need via the intercom and in the end we escaped with less than a minute left on the timer.

If you are thinking of playing an escape game but aren’t really sure I would encourage you to do it. I went and bought gift vouchers for my brother and sister for their Christmas straight away.

So we (a group of 6 friends) saw the Escape Rooms in Dundee and thought we’d give it a go. Split between us, it didn’t cost much and it was something to do for Halloween. We chose the Black Pearl adventure. Not really sure what to expect, we headed off. None of us have done Escape Rooms before but we heard of them from TV. Well, when we arrived, we went up the steps and entered a waiting room where our host greeted us. We watched a humerous video about basic health and safety and rules of game play and we were led to a room. WOW, Our host opened a wooden door, quite out of place in the rest of the corridor. We walked in. We were below deck of a pirate ship. The theming was simply perfect. I’m sworn to secrecy of what was in there but really, WOW. We were locked in! (there’s an emergency key and a phone should we need it) Our host contacted us on the phone if we were stuck (oh yes, we got stuck) and offered us hints - he also gave us time updates as our count down was an hourglass. After a bit of a start we got in the swing of it. We worked as a team and the puzzles kept coming thick and fast. Deciphering this, working out that. Nothing what I’d call taxing. Everything was in the room that we needed and we didn’t need any outside knowledge but I recommend a keen sense of observation. We had a good laugh as we realised how obvious some problems were having spent several minutes trying to calculate it out. Bleep… The phone goes. 2 minutes left! WHAT? it felt we’d only been in there for about 20 minutes. frantically rushing to get the last of the puzzles done. The Door Unlocks. Our host steps in. Oh no! we’d ran out of time. What a laugh we had when our host went over some of the puzzles and showed us how to complete the quest.
We are definitely going back to do another room - This time, we’ll be ready!
I heartily recommend this for adults and teens, possibly team building for work. Definitely a good night out.