Location: Manchester
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What to do and see in Manchester, England: The Best Room Escape Games
Famed for its soccer team and music scene, which has produced the likes of the Smiths and Oasis, this center for sports and the arts is a down-to-earth and friendly city. The so-called Capital of the North has overcome industrial decline, bombing (in WWII and by the IRA) to become a confident and cosmopolitan city of well over two million. It is well served by a bus and light rail network. Top attractions include the Lowry art complex, arcade Affleck's Palace and Canal Street gay village.
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1. Breakout Manchester
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 2,954 reviews
A unique experience that will leave you wanting more. Breakout is a real life escape room game. Using common sense + brain power you have 60 minutes to escape a locked room. If you are looking for a unique and fun activity then this is for you. Teams of 2 - 5 friends, family, co - workers or puzzle enthusiast can attempt to escape. It is a great team building, hen / stag or birthday activity.
Reviewed By soraiaa655
Amazing time breaking out of the sabotage room with friends. Djamila was an amazing game operator, super funny and approachable :D Definitely coming back.
2. Lockin Real Escape
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 823 reviews
Lockin is a reality escape game designed to provide players a real-life exciting escape game experience. It is a unique and interactive live puzzle event where teams solve mysteries and clues within a time limit. Players will be locked in one of our theme rooms. The theme room will be locked and the players have 60 minutes to crack the puzzles and gather clues using their intelligence, logical thinking and observation skills to make their way out!
3. Lucardo
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 2,273 reviews
Reviewed By TomWalk24
Booked for a group of 6 people, staff were attentive throughout Kyle especially as he greeted us and made sure we had an excellent time there, we did the Virginia house room, I would highly recommend as it was tons of fun and luckily we managed to escape! Definitely will be back to try the other rooms.
4. Escape The Van
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 88 reviews
Escape The Van is the mobile Escape Room that comes to you! Based in South/Central Manchester we offer a new and unique escape experience of up to 60 minutes for 2-5 people for each individual booking. Bookings can be made consecutively for more people. As long as we can park in a suitable, free and safe location (we can advise) we can operate, allowing tourists and visitors to also benefit!
Reviewed By CarlG1164
This was a fantastic escape experience. We chose the largest of the options, for a 1 hour max experience. Booking this for a birthday, where we couldn't currently go to an escape room location, this was a fantastic surprise to have turn up on the drive, and well worth the money for the ease and accessibility of the experience. The guy who brought the van to us was really helpful and informative. The van was surprisingly spacious for four of us to explore and solve puzzles in with no issue and there was an amazing range of puzzles to test us throughout the van. It was definitely taxing, although we managed to escape, and for the size and space available, it can definitely be rated highly as an escape room experience. They were also very good with the clues - helpful and still cryptic, without being too on the nose, or too complicated when we has a few struggles with some of the more difficult puzzles. Particularly during the current covid circumstances, where we felt it might not be possible to go to an escape room site, it was fantastic that the escape room could be brought to our door, in a safe and clean way. They were very clear in explaining how the room was set up and health and safety and ensured that we could access cleaning products before we went in and throughout, and were very clear on mask wearing, and being able to step out if we had any worries, which we didn't need to. I can highly recommend them as an experience.
5. Escape Hunt Manchester
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 880 reviews
Experience the most exciting escape rooms in Manchester. Escape Hunt Manchester features 5-star rated escape rooms, a luxury lounge and VIP amenities. Get locked in and let the adrenaline flow as you race against time to crack the clues and escape the room. Great fun for groups, team building, corporate events, families or a night out with friends. Our expert staff can help you create an exciting and memorable birthday party, group event, company away day and more. Escape Hunt is the global leader in escape room games with locations worldwide. Book online and step up to the challenge at Escape Hunt Manchester.
Reviewed By laurenbaldam - Greater London, United Kingdom
This was my second time at Escape Hunt - I’ve probably tried around 10 escape rooms now and Escape Hunt is one of my favourites. Both times have been with family and have been great - Ben was our host this time and was in character until the very end. It was my dads first escape room & he had a great time - we were in the Samurai room. Although fantastic again with lots of surprises, my favourite is still the Alice in Wonderland room which we loved (thanks to Stef who was a fantastic host then too as the Cheshire Cat!)
6. Alternate Escapes
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 3 reviews
We're a provider of great times. Life is really quite serious, and so were dedicated to injecting fun and humour into your lives, through the medium of escape room type experiences. You'll solve puzzles and take on unique challenges in a team, to achieve some kind of in no way over dramatic objective.
Reviewed By StockportMimi24 - Bugibba, Malta
We had a fantastic time at Alternate Escapes! Our group are all very interested in politics, but you didn’t have to be. The room was fun and quirky and the games and puzzles were much more interesting than your usual number puzzle type of escape room. I hope more rooms are added soon as we would definitely come back!
7. Escape Room
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 1,085 reviews
Escape Room is a truly unique live escape game designed for groups of 2-6 people in Manchester. Solve challenges and puzzles within 60 minutes in order to escape the room!
Reviewed By Johnnyboy20 - Manchester, United Kingdom
Visited for a pre-Birthday visit for my little one and booked the Alice in Wonderland room. Ben was an absolutely fantastic host and took us through the whole process extremely well with lots of detail and enthusiasm. A very lovely lad who is an asset to your company. The room was absolutely great and we had endless amounts of fun in there and even managed to get out with 6 seconds to spare!!! Definitely recommend for any families as it really does get families together and it's a very exciting activity to do.
8. Zombie Uprising
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 44 reviews
Reviewed By ohmarmalade - Liverpool, United Kingdom
Initially the place is tricky to find but just head to Viaduct Street and it's the big car park at the end. You're sent an email prior to your arrival telling you how to get there and other things like how to upgrade your weapons etc. On arrival (we were a little late), you're given a detailed introduction more geared towards the health and safety elements of the day. Once you're all set up and have your weapons, you're in the mission. Like others have mentioned, you can explore other floors but we ended up walking around the ground floor for almost the entire first mission. I think overall there were 3-4 missions, mostly collecting items and trying to avoid the zombies. The part which made it for me/us was Chainsaw who would just appear out of nowhere and scare the life out of you. One suggestion would be it's quite easy to avoid Chainsaw if you keep listening to where the noises are and if you had two 'super' zombies, I think this would add to the fear element. Top tips: bring shoes that have grip, bring a small torch (if you have one), wear something comfortable that you can run in, dress in dark clothing to help with hiding. Overall, a brilliant experience, everyone from our group loved it and something we would do again. And probably with a plan to find the doll this time. Thanks for a great day, ZU!
9. Exit the Room
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 113 reviews
Exit The Room is a new, fun live room escape game, designed for groups of 2-6 people. Your team has 60 minutes to solve a plethora of puzzles and mysteries in an intricate room we've built just for you. The goal is simple, yet challenging: get out in time! During this uniquely enjoyable game, your team will bring their individual skills to the table to complete our puzzles. Our games are perfect if you love to test yourself and keep your friends on their toes. These immersive team games provide an exciting and challenging experience. You'll rediscover dormant talents and skills you forgot you ever had. With brain teasers and puzzles, our escape rooms will test your mind like never before. Give our exciting enigmas a try and awaken your hidden skills! There's a curious explorer in all of us, looking for the mysteries and adventures of everyday life. Grab your coat, ring our doorbell, and show us how to crack the code! The solutions are hidden in plain sight.
Reviewed By alexanderhS4896UE
Great fun, excellent puzzles even better because we escaped highly recommend for groups of friends to go!
10. Escape Reality
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 360 reviews
Escape Reality is a fully immersive escape room experience where teams of 2-6 players must solve a series of challenging puzzles to escape in 60 minutes! Escape Reality can accommodate large groups of up to 30 people comfortably inside the rooms every hour. Escape Reality has an exclusive bar and social area making the experience perfect for any kind of event.
Reviewed By woodheys - Stockport, United Kingdom
We've done Tortuga, Bank Job, Alcatraz and Auron with 2 or 3 or 4 people - great fun, interesting, varied, well-organised, and always the option of using the ipad to get a clue if you're really stuck. Really enjoyable, whether you escape or not.
