Hell In A Cell Escape Rooms Bristol Reviews Summary

Experience and Atmosphere

Pros:

• "The overall experience was brilliant! And the ending was amazing."
• "Absolutely fantastic! One the best escape room experiences I have ever done."
• "The whole experience was out of this world and fully immersive!"
• "Fantastic experience. Cried initially - but warmed into finding the clues to escape."
• "The dark, the smoke, the noise, the claustrophobia, the gore, and the staff ramping up the pressure as time ticks away were all very effective."
• "The atmosphere created was excellent for the hell in the cellar theme."
• "A fantastic, fully immersive escape room, we all loved it!!"

Cons:

• "To begin with the environment was scary because of the unknown but as soon as that wore off, it became quite boring and slow."
• "The experience itself wasn’t as scary as we expected but instead, just very tense."
• "All in all, I think we were done in about 35 minutes, and £30 for that length isn't the best value for money."
• "The experience was really uncomfortable as the room was unhygienic, mould on the walls, damp, no ventilation which made it hard to breathe down there especially as i have asthma and they dont warn about that."
• "It was very convincing. I have anxiety so I had to sit this one out."
• "The room was very tiny and we expected there to be a second room or more to it which there wasn't."
• "This may not be to everyone’s tastes."

Puzzles and Challenges

Pros:

• "The Escape room is challenging and will keep you on your toes."
• "The puzzles and clues were really great, better than a LOT of escape rooms I've done before."
• "The puzzles were hard but not frustrating which is good for people with no common sense like me!"
• "Nicely balanced tense atmosphere with puzzles, and the ending is amazing!"
• "The puzzles are very clever well thought out."
• "The traps and puzzles are very clever, and you need to use your brain."
• "The puzzles were well thought out and fairly challenging."

Cons:

• "A group of 10 is far too big, many of us were stood around waiting for something to do."
• "Soo disappointing. You would have thought with the profit they make they can afford to replace locks."
• "The main issue for a group of 11 was that once we'd escaped from our individual cells all the following challenges were very linear."
• "Some of the puzzles were poorly thought out, the staff on several occasions were shouting out clues."
• "Most of the puzzle solving only needed 3/4 people which left the rest of us standing around."
• "The escape puzzles themselves were good but not amazing."
• "Their was no story corresponding to what they advertise on the site, just one of us put in a chair and basic puzzles to free him out."

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "The staff were incredible, live actors were amazing as well, truly terrifying experience."
• "Staff were amazing- well done to them!!!!"
• "Cheers to Freddie for a great experience at such short notice."
• "Big shout out to the actors, Layla and Freddie, who were awesome - Freddie was seriously frightening!"
• "Freddie was a wonderful host (slash Murderer?) and provided a perfect balance of being intimidating yet helpful."
• "The guys/actors who worked there were great at playing their parts."
• "Freddie and Mike were fantastic hosts - helpful and menacing in equal measure."

Cons:

• "My only complaint was that there were no 'panic' buttons or way out for people like me."
• "It was a shame there were no tee shirts available as we would have bought 6 for the kids."
• "Unsure if this was to rush us through a bit though, because the group before us were running late."
• "I also think Carl's patronising responses to criticism just show how rude people working here are."
• "The guy on the walkie talkie being extremely rude using swear words in an intimidating way."
• "We started later assuming the previous group's time overrun, which is no biggie. We got no intro about the room, not much immersion and not much time to ask and answer questions."
• "No toilets on site either - use the Asda a few mins away."