About
Escape Rooms Cheltenham provides fun escape room challenges for teams of up to six players, who have to work together to solve all the puzzles in order to escape the room in under 60 minutes. We also sell play-at-home escape room games to enjoy at home.
The unique escape room games are all created in-house by designers and reflect their Cheltenham base, so you will never play them anywhere else. Past themes have included GCHQ, Cheltenham Races and Paternoster (Cheltenham-based thriller). The "pop-up" rooms are changed every six months, so there is always a new challenge to enjoy. New in 2021 will be a permanent room, with the same quality of puzzles as normal, but with the greater finesse that comes with a longer life span.
All games have a standard and a challenging level, so they can be enjoyed by beginners and children (over 12 approximately), but also give the hard core players something to think about. The Escape Rooms team are dedicated to making their games as accessible as possible to all players, whatever ability.
The rooms are great for team building, Belbin Team Roles theory is used as a guide when designing rooms and a Belbin Accredited Practitioner provides advice on how to optimised puzzles to suit different types of people. Team building workshops are also offered.
Since starting as a project to help in the regeneration of a local shopping centre, in 2018, Escape Rooms Cheltenham has grown to become a popular Cheltenham attraction, gaining a TripAdvisor Travellers Choice award in 2020 and delighting many Cheltenham residents and tourists, including for children's birthday parties, hen/stag parties, students and family groups of all ages.
Severely impacted by the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, and in danger of having to make the Games Masters redundant. Instead the management diversified to "livestream" versions of games, where people can play from their own home, via Zoom. In the spring of 2021 the attraction moved to a larger venue in the centre of Cheltenham at 52 Winchcombe Street, in order to continue to expand.