Originally posted on Invitation To Events All escape rooms have their own unique touches. One thing Escape Reality has that we had not used in other escape rooms was an ipad to give clues and hints. Did it work? Well, not really. We found that when we used it to give us a clue, it told… More “The dice have been rolled”
Clue Cracker was created by Ben Thornton, Tom Swift and Katie Haygarth. They opened the first Margate escape room in 2016, with a pop-up game at Dreamland. That’s where we played their game and managed to escape from Standfast Prison. Clue Cracker are now opening Jailbreak in Tunbridge Wells from 27th July 2019. Review adapted from an original… More Escape from Standfast Prison!
Originally posted on Invitation To Events Enigma Quests in London offer you the chance to graduate from their School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An escape room with a difference. This is more of a quest than an escape room as you have missions, or should I say lessons, to complete. Our team were given 60 minutes to… More The School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
A number of Escape Games that were reviewed on Invitation To Events blog have moved location or closed since they were played by ITM Games Teams. Originally posted on Invitation To Events in 2015 Escape Land has moved to 37-39 Oxford Street, London W1D 2DU The story behind the Escape Land adventure is that scientists have developed the technology… More Escape Land adventure (original location)
A number of Escape Games that were reviewed on Invitation To Events blog have moved location or closed since they were played by ITM Games Teams. Escape Hour Edinburgh has closed Originally posted on Invitation To Events in 2016 Major Plott’s Revenge The story goes that Major Plott used to run the world’s best spy-ring. However, it… More Escape rooms that have closed
A number of Escape Games that were reviewed on Invitation To Events blog have moved location or closed since they were played by ITM Games Teams. The Crystal Maze Live Experience is now at 22-32 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 7EU The Crystal Maze Studios is at Lower Byrom Street, ManchesterM3 4FP Originally posted on Invitation To Events in 2016 The Crystal… More Start The Fans Please!
A magical afternoon tea in Central London. Running through the rain in Soho one summers afternoon we arrived at Cutter & Squidge, London’s only 100% all natural bakery. They make everything from scratch and use British ingredients and British producers. While the ground floor holds the bakery and tea room, their basement holds a surprise. Descending… More Wands at the ready!
Middle Ages The idea of making life-size wax figures, wearing real clothes, stems from the funerals of European royalty in the middle ages. Originally the corpse would be carried, fully dressed, on top of their coffin at royal funerals. However this was unpleasant in hot weather so a wax effigy was used instead. As the “body” was… More The history of the Wax Museum
If you venture down to Mile End, you can explore Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. This is a historic cemetery that is now a local nature reserve. Although there are still a large amount of gravestones and funerary monuments spread around the cemetery, the area now resembles natural woodland, with many bird and insect species making it their… More Exploring A Cemetery At Mile End
Lawnmowers – a very British obsession? Did you know the lawnmower was invented in Gloucester by Edwin Beard Budding in 1830? He was deemed a madman for making such a contraption and had to test his machine at night so no one would see him. But Budding was not mad at all and his machine… More Discovering an unusual museum in Southport