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The Cipher Room - Newtown, Sydney, Australia.

Company: The Cipher Room Website: https://www.cipherroom.com.au Rooms: Espionage, The Cabin and The Marlowe Hotel Address: 640 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia Preface: On the weekend of the 10th/11th of Feb, I did a number of various escape rooms in Sydney. I woke up at 3am in Auckland New Zealand, flew to Sydney and spend all weekend doing rooms and flew back to Auckland on Sunday Evening. I did these rooms with some strangers and some other people who I have done rooms with before. Disclaimer: One of the owners Marise knew I was coming and offered my group and I a free game at one of the rooms but the other two rooms I paid full retail for. I have been to so many rooms in the past and I thought I knew what to expect. I had heard from others that I should throw out any pre-conceptions as the rooms where nothing like I had seen before. (Cough.. Cough.. ok. I overdid that bit a little) Yes, it was a normal entrance (Apart from the road facing window which was upside d

Xcape Sydney Review

Company: Xcape PTY Ltd. Website: http://xcapes.com.au Rooms: Akame and Prison Break Address: 18 Queen Street, Chippendale, Sydney, Australia On the weekend of the 10th/11th of Feb, I did a number of various escape rooms in Sydney. I woke up at 3am in Auckland New Zealand, flew to Sydney and spend all weekend doing rooms and flew back to Auckland on Sunday Evening. I did these rooms with some strangers and some other people who I have done rooms with before. Xcape is a new Chinese run/based Sydney based company in Chippendale, Sydney, Australia. They opened a few months ago and have done a lot of advertising on the back on buses and adverts in papers around Sydney. I went with two others who have done a fair number of other rooms in the past and I have played with them before. We expected a lot but the nightmare of this place started before we even got into the first room. I say nightmare as everything which could go wrong.. did go wrong... The place is licenced for 60 p