ESCAPE ROOMS CARDIFF
THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE
Choose your team of 2-6 players (per room).
Select your theme from our 7 immersive game rooms.
You’ll be given an objective and you’ll need to find objects, codes and clues in the rooms.
With 60 minutes on the clock, you’ll need to think quick, think smart and work as a team if you want to make it out in time.
Find out more about each of our game rooms, click the posters below.
ARE THERE ANY AGE LIMITS?
All players aged 12 and under must be accompanied by an 18+ player.
Due to their complexity, we recommend our games to players aged 13+, however, younger players always enjoy themselves (even our creepier games in the basement), so it’s up to them if it sounds like fun and up to you if you think the theme is suitable.
WHERE ARE YOU?
We’re on St. Mary Street – Just down from the Cardiff Castle and across from the Cardiff Market. There’s a map at the bottom of this page and a button under it to give you directions to take you straight to our door.
ARE THE GAMES FRIGHTENING?
All the games in their nature are thrilling, but there’s nothing scary to worry about! Some may contain a small jump-scare. Please contact us if you are concerned.
Although our creepier basement games, ‘Z – The Zombie Apocalypse’ and ‘Oculus The Serial Killer’, are horror-themed, they are not horror experiences. We aim for excellent design, immersion and gameplay, not a high scare factor! We do not use live actors in our games.
WHAT IS YOUR CANCELLATION POLICY?
Once a game has been booked, it cannot be moved or cancelled.
All of our games are non-refundable and non-transferable.
CAN WE GET HELP DURING THE GAME?
You can get hints from the Game Masters who supervise your game via the cameras and microphones in the room. They will send you help at the appropriate time if you really are struggling!
WHAT TIME SHOULD WE ARRIVE?
Please be punctual and arrive 5 minutes before the start of your time slot.
This will allow time for your brief, lockers & toilets etc. We will do our best to accommodate you if you are late, but we can’t guarantee that you will still be able to play.
ARE YOUR GAMES ACCESSIBLE?
Our games rooms may involve a little crawling, ducking, and climbing up a few steps.
If you struggle with any of these activities, have any health issues you think we would need to know about, or, if you struggle with stairs, please call before you book and we can offer some best advice based on your needs.
Unfortunately we do not have wheelchair access as all our games are on floors 1, 2 or in the basement.
WHAT IS THE RECOMMENDED NUMBER OF PLAYERS PER TEAM?
Our rooms are designed for 2-6 players. The more of you there are, the easier and cheaper it is per person. The rooms are private and for your party only and not shared with any of the public.
CAN YOU ACCOMMODATE LARGE GROUPS?
Absolutely. Large groups often come and play our games. Our 7 available game rooms hold 2-6 players, so we can accommodate up to 42 players per hour session. For groups larger than that, please give us a call at 029 2167 9700. Also, we have a great food & drink discount with Franco Manca! Every booking with us gives you 15% off the bill, most of our groups make the most of that offer.
I’M CLAUSTROPHOBIC, CAN I PLAY? I'M PREGNANT CAN I PLAY?
Yes, you can! The rooms are all of a reasonable size and you will not find yourself in an enclosed space. You can leave the room at any point if you so wish. We quite often get players with claustrophobia and we are surprised at how little of an issue it is to them.
None of our games is overly physical, and we have had many pregnant people playing our games. See the ‘Are your games accessible?’ FAQ for details on health.
WHO SHOULD PLAY ESCAPE ROOMS?
One of the things that have made Escape Rooms successful around the world is that they can be enjoyed by everyone for every occasion. From babies to grandparents, we’ve seen all ages of friends and families take on the adventure. We also see gamers, couples and school trips coming by the busload, all enthusiastic about their 1-hour game. Some people celebrate, while others book corporate team buildings for all of their colleagues.
Talking about celebration, we have had 4 proposals here!!!
And OH, don’t forget! We are dog friendly, so bring the pup along!
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WITH 3000+ 5 STAR REVEIWS
My first escape room experience and I’m glad it was with escape rooms cardiff! It was for my 21st in The Tomb, which I would absolute recommend for its atmosphere… read more – you could really get lost in the scenario, it’s very immersive!
Went for a birthday treat and it was brilliant. Completed all of the other rooms and told this was the toughest one. Certainly had us scratching our heads at several… read more points, and the setting and mood was brilliant… Very unnerving at times. Grey, who looked after us, was an absolute legend. Excellent service, looking forward to when you have a new room
The escape rooms are laid out really well, and are so fun to complete! Definitely going back to do all of the rooms. PS. Amelia is a legend!! Very kind… read more and funny 🙂
Amazing experience for my brothers 10th birthday! Our host Holly was super helpful and we managed to escape the Press Start room. Completely safe activity during covid and we wore… read more masks at all times. Definitely would recommend and will be going again!
I was dragged her by the wife as she was insisting on some family time before the kids returned to school so was not expecting much and was pretty negative.… read more We were greated by a very enthusiastic young man who showed us the Lockers and...More
The Sherlock 2 escape room was great fun. Easy at the start but a bit tricky near the end. My group solved it relatively quick. Thanks fo Kayleigh for being… read more our GM.
Best First Time! – It was both of our first time going to an Escape Room ever! And now we’re addicted to the experience. We accidentally selected the hardest of their rooms from the… read more get go and the Game Master Toni was an encouraging delight.
Great family activity – Did the ‘Cardiff castle’ escape today, 2 adults and 8 and 12 year old children. Really good fun. Great set and nice mix of puzzle difficulty meaning everyone got involved.… read more Game host Sam was excellent! Thoroughly recommend this escape room!
We had a great time in the Sherlock room, Reilly was a great help, and we were chuffed we got out! Would recommend this to anyone.
Having been to this place since August 2019 our party of 6 has thought this place comtains game rooms with a range of difficulties. From the simplest of rooms to… read more the most difficult one, we had thoroughly enjoyed our time. Things we liked about each room include:
We had a fantastic time escaping the Z room! Huey was a fantastic games master, and we will definitely be returning!
What a wonderful way to spend an hour. I went with my grown up family and 11 year old grandson and to a man we all thoroughly enjoyed it. We… read more can’t wait to go again and try a different room.
This is the sixth Escape Room I’ve done this year and unfortunately the first real disappointment I’ve had (which is a shame because this was my first visit to this… read more particular place). My partner and I did the Sherlock Holmes themed room for my birthday which I was excited about because I’m a fan of the Great Detective. Literally one of the first puzzles to solve malfunctioned, that is, the lock wouldn’t open despite the fact we had the correct solution (and before you ask, yes, we had clicked it twice). I’ve had Escape Rooms malfunction before, I get it, it happens, it’s hard to make it work perfectly every time, but usually the staff have the grace to acknowledge it. Instead we were told there was ‘no issue’ which was weird because, ya know, we had, in fact, just HAD an issue. If we can’t open something despite having the correct solution then there demonstrably IS an issue, made us think that we hadn’t got the correct solution meaning that we wasted a lot of time and rather spoiled the game for us right at the beginning (had another lock malfunction later in the game too but not quite as badly, I don’t know, maybe it was the cold weather). Many of the ‘hints’ came long after we had already solved the puzzles, despite being told that we could be seen and heard at all times (this was a problem on the very first puzzle where we found the solution quickly but couldn’t progress because of the malfunction). A shame really because I liked the room broadly, it had some clever and unexpected puzzles though the anachronisms somewhat spoiled the immersion for me, but I am a stickler for theme so that is just personal taste I guess. Out of the three Escape Rooms I’ve been to in Cardiff it is the only one I’ve had a bad experience at. All in all, I left in a bad mood and it makes me reluctant to go back.
Took my 14 year old and his friends here. They had a great time, and I had a great tile seeing them work together to solve the puzzles. Will be… read more going again in the future!
Scary in a good way – Absolutely loved the oculus room really lived up to the name. Had a great host called kenz made the experience much more fun and easy. Would highly recommend.
Had a lovely time escaping The Tomb, it was just the right difficulty and Laura was a helpful gamemaster.
Really had amazing time Saturday for my partners birthday book the tomb which was a fun hands on room. Then we decided to do z after which was a amazing… read more room. Emz was our host and she was amazing help when we really needed it
Egyptian tomb – Good fun , Egyptian tomb room gave crystal maze like experience. Rory was enthusiastic and helpful. Fun times.
Been many times and enjoyed each one. This time we took a group of teens as a birthday treat and the staff, especially Meg, were friendly, helpful and made sure… read more they had a good time. They also kindly rang to confirm they did have a battery left behind!
Amelia was wonderful, we booked through a hotel package in December for my partner’s birthday, and she was super informative and even scared us before getting into the room, putting… read more us right on edge before Oculus. The room was the perfect amount of creepy, difficult and clever, and we escaped! Yay! Thanks for everything, we’ll definitely be back!
Thank you to Bebe who was our host!
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She helped us understand the rules, the process, things we would need to know for the game and was energetic, encouraging and amazing from start to finish.
The escape room that we did was a series of rooms with incredibly immersive detail in them, each puzzle to be solved was intuitive and well thought out with a huge amount of variety.
I enjoyed every step of the way and despite our first time we managed to conquer our first room! Toni made sure to give us hints only when it was clear we were struggling which I greatly appreciated. Giving us critical pushes for us to be able to work out the puzzles with the information we already had available.
I would recommend this Escape Room to anyone looking to give themselves a fun challenging experience!
I absolutely will be returning in the future.
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– Tomb: nice and simple room to get you started
– Sherlock: chess board and bank notes
– Heist: the 2 team split twist
– Z: the logic puzzle with the green and red lights.
– Press start: crawling into the room
– Oculus: finding the codes in the second room
Would love it if this place does a 6 month rotation of game rooms so there’ll be more challenges in the future. Clues do genuinely arrive at the right time and whenever we get stuck if you ask them. They’ll give you (if it’s at the right time of course).
Highly recommend!!
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