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Escapade - Old School Review

Company: Escapade Website: http://www.escapadenz.co.nz Rooms: Old School Address: 23 Victoria St East, Auckland, New Zealand I have done a number of rooms at Escapade in the past and they were very enjoyable with very nice theming and puzzles.  Escapade opened recently their Old School room and I hoped it would be just as enjoyable as their previous rooms. Their staff are always nice in they present themselves and the company. Old School is based on a school room with 2 identical rooms so if you have a large number of people you can play at the same time head to head. The rooms are advertised with up to 6 people per room but I would suggest a maximum of 4 people . 2 people are very doable if you have played escape rooms before. The 2 identical rooms are situated on the 4th floor of the building, unlike their existing rooms and at the time I played the building elevator was out of service so we had to walk up the stairs to the location. There seemed to be of building working do

Room Eight - Indisposed - Escape the Aussie Dunny Review

Company: Room Eight Website: https://www.escaperoomeight.com.au Rooms: Indisposed - Escape the Aussie Dunny Address: 2B The Corso, Manly, Sydney NSW 2095 Australia It's not common that you come across an escape room which has the theme of a dunny.  A Kiwi (Steve Stills), a Brazilan (Rafael de Oliveria) and a Frenchman (Stephane Fontes) have all gotten together to give Australia an experience to do exactly that. The latest (only) escape room in Manly recently opened and a group of us went to see what all the hype was about. We decided to do this room (the only room open at the time) and as well we were offered to beta test their other room Entombed as well. Both Rooms are now open. After a short video introduction, we got straight into the room. The starting room is small but you'd expect that being a stylized dunny, but after that, there was plenty of room to do our stuff. Some interesting puzzles including physical locks but they didn't detract from what the r