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Best Escape Rooms in London

Clever puzzles, immersive sets and a ticking clock: London's best escape rooms.

Starting order is based on how often each place appears in London's major guides. Your upvotes move places up.

  1. 1Whitechapel · Goodman's Fields, 8 Canter Way, E1 8PSFiendishly clever rooms that blend tech and theatrical twists with genuine peril, a consistent favourite across London's escape-room guides.
  2. 2King's Cross · 169-171 Caledonian Road, N1 0SLOne of London's longest-running escape rooms, casting teams as spies in slick codebreaking missions with briefcases and gadgets.
  3. 3Piccadilly · 22-32 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 7EUPainstakingly rebuilt sets from the cult '90s TV show let teams race through themed zones collecting crystals.
  4. 4Shepherd's Bush · Multiple locationsStory-driven themed rooms, from a haunted woodland cabin to witchcraft and casino heists, for teams of two to seven.
  5. 5Kentish Town · 141-145 Kentish Town Road, NW1 8PBA WWII-themed game set inside the long-closed South Kentish Town tube station, with staff in 1940s army dress.
  6. 6Soho · Multiple locationsA multi-site operator favouring realism and physical challenges, from a murderous dentist to the gory horror game 'The Killer'.
  7. 7City of London · Multiple locationsImmersive, time-limited missions including a billion-pound heist, a time-travel odyssey and a school of witchcraft and wizardry.
  8. 8Bermondsey · Rear of 134 Tooley Street, SE1 2TUTwo richly themed hour-long games near London Bridge, including a cursed Egyptian chamber, packed with exciting special effects.
  9. 9Whitechapel · Multiple locationsFree-roaming virtual-reality escape games where wireless headsets drop teams into pirate ships, jungle temples and apocalyptic wastelands.
  10. 10Borough · Golden Hinde, St Mary Overie Dock, Cathedral Street, SE1 9DEOnce a month, teams are locked aboard the replica Tudor galleon to solve puzzles among ghosts of Drake's voyage.

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