Review: Jurassic Lab @ Xcape Melbourne
Company: Xcape Melbourne
Website: http://www.xcapemelbourne.com/
Rooms: Jurassic Lab
Address: 1/306 Albert St, Brunswick VIC 3056
On the weekend of the 25th of May I flew to Melbourne to do a number of escape rooms over 2 days. One of the escape rooms I did was Xcape Melbourne. This is unrelated to Xcape in Sydney. I knew nothing about it, had read no reviews apart from Tripadvisor/Google ( I don't think there are any other ) so had no idea what to expect.
I was traveling with another escape room owner so we had previously contacted Xcape to see if we could get any kind of discount on Retail rates (which are pretty high per person) and they said they didn't do that. We then went onto groupon and got tickets at under 1/2 price.
We (4 of us) got there a little early so we had to wait, they checked the groupon voucher and we went into the room. The room is listed as Difficulty 5/5 with 2-6 people.
We were quite underwhelmed. The escape area (a few connected rooms) most likely a converted office with working kitchen sink. With cheap props and really only a small number of seen before escape room puzzles.
We were on the 2nd to last puzzle and only had 2-3 mins to end and the GM contacted us to ask if we wanted to make it harder. This involved adding 1 more process puzzle which we did in under 5 mins as we recognised what we had to do as soon as we saw it. We would have got the fastest time if they had not introduced another puzzle at the end. Getting out in under 30 mins we didn't enjoy this room at all.
If I would recommend this room to others? No. There are a handful of much better escape rooms 15 mins away and talking to a few others who have done this and other rooms at the same location it is most likely one of the worst (still open) escape rooms in Melbourne.
- Craig
Website: http://www.xcapemelbourne.com/
Rooms: Jurassic Lab
Address: 1/306 Albert St, Brunswick VIC 3056
On the weekend of the 25th of May I flew to Melbourne to do a number of escape rooms over 2 days. One of the escape rooms I did was Xcape Melbourne. This is unrelated to Xcape in Sydney. I knew nothing about it, had read no reviews apart from Tripadvisor/Google ( I don't think there are any other ) so had no idea what to expect.
I was traveling with another escape room owner so we had previously contacted Xcape to see if we could get any kind of discount on Retail rates (which are pretty high per person) and they said they didn't do that. We then went onto groupon and got tickets at under 1/2 price.
We (4 of us) got there a little early so we had to wait, they checked the groupon voucher and we went into the room. The room is listed as Difficulty 5/5 with 2-6 people.
We were quite underwhelmed. The escape area (a few connected rooms) most likely a converted office with working kitchen sink. With cheap props and really only a small number of seen before escape room puzzles.
We were on the 2nd to last puzzle and only had 2-3 mins to end and the GM contacted us to ask if we wanted to make it harder. This involved adding 1 more process puzzle which we did in under 5 mins as we recognised what we had to do as soon as we saw it. We would have got the fastest time if they had not introduced another puzzle at the end. Getting out in under 30 mins we didn't enjoy this room at all.
If I would recommend this room to others? No. There are a handful of much better escape rooms 15 mins away and talking to a few others who have done this and other rooms at the same location it is most likely one of the worst (still open) escape rooms in Melbourne.
- Craig
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