If cutesy cartoon ghosts and sickly sweet pumpkin-spiced lattes make your toes curl, then perhaps a truly hair-raising Halloween escape room is more your thing. No Escape has launched two new creepy-sounding escape rooms in its Aldgate location – but also raised the stakes on its horror movie-themed rooms across its other sites in Oxford Street, Holloway and Victoria. In Aldgate, you could attempt to release the trapped souls of children in ‘The Orphanage’, or save yourself from the flames in ‘The Witch Hunt’.
From October 24-November 2, there’ll be nine ‘haunted escape rooms’ to choose from – each with live actors in each room (that means jump scares galore). These aren’t for the faint-hearted; No Escape’s rooms are highly regarded amongst escape aficionados for their rich level of detail and mind-bending puzzles, so expect to be fully immersed in themes like ‘The Darkest Hour’ (zombies!) ‘The Demon Barber’ (Sweeney Todd!) and ‘The Haunted Toy Store’ (ghosts!).
Over in Victoria, your terrifying trip to ‘The Gates of Hell’ could be followed by cocktails at the Purgatory Bar. Is there a better way to calm the nerves than with a few sips of a Spicy Blood Orange Margarita? We think not. Tickets are on sale now and expecting to disappear fast.