The happiest job that there is to do while updating this web site is to turn a red dot on the map to yellow; congratulations to Escape Land of London, who (the bookings page suggests) took their first booking today and have further bookings lined up for tomorrow and next week. The list of sites, Timeline and map have all been updated. This site hopes to learn before long if the puzzles match up to the gorgeous web site and images.
Next cab off the rank may well be Clue HQ of Warrington, taking bookings now in advance of officially opening two weeks today on Saturday 28th June, but the first weekend is already booked up with private events.
If it’s not Clue HQ, the next most likely contender – also claiming a predicted June opening – is Escape Live of Birmingham. Not much new information, and their web site still only has a splash screen, but their Facebook page has some rather interesting-looking pictures showing the degree of progress that has been made. the phrase “Dr Wilson is busy investigating a murder case at the moment but will see you in his office soon!” sets the tone for the game, too.
Also in progress is Can You Escape? of Edinburgh, which has made an early web site available (no content, though!); no official opening date yet, but discussion on Twitter points to being open in time for the Edinburgh Festival. That runs through August, which points to opening in July.
In less happy news, Cryptopia of Bristol claim to be sold out through June and July, but they’re still taking bookings for 31st July onwards. It’ll be interesting to see if there are changes installed over June and July.
ABC Radio National ran a feature on Escape Rooms this morning. Reporter Rachael Brown joined the hunt in north Melbourne. There’s audio and a transcript, because the Australians do these things well.
Ooh, cool! Thanks for spotting and sharing – and, indeed, rather a cute piece. I look forward to see whether my automated search engine phrase alerting service will throw it up a few hours after you have done!