Escape rooms offer aspiring code breakers the perfect chance to put their skills to the test!
You work together to solve challenging puzzles, find clues, crack codes, and unravel riddles before the time runs out.
If that sounds interesting, you’re in luck – the West Midlands has lots of excellent options!
Let’s look at 8 of the best escape rooms Coventry and its nearby areas have to offer.
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This Article Contains:
8 Mind-Blowing Escape Rooms In And Around Coventry
- Escape Live Coventry
- Escape Reality Coventry
- Clue HQ
- Houdini’s Escape Room Experience
- House of Escapes
- Escape Leamington Spa
- Escape Room Adventures
- Experimental Escapes
8 Best Escape Rooms In And Around Coventry
Whether booking for a challenge among friends or a corporate event, an escape room might be exactly what you’re looking for. Here are 8 of the best escape rooms in and around Coventry:
1. Escape Live Coventry
Escape Live is a leading escape room Coventry offers with venues throughout the United Kingdom. If you and a group of friends or colleagues want to test your mettle in a challenging escape game, you can pick from one of Escape Live’s award-winning adventure escape rooms. Their escape room Coventry venue offers three challenging games.
Best escape room to try: Armageddon
An asteroid is hurtling towards Coventry with a 3000 mile impact radius. Not only are the West Midlands in danger, but most of Europe is. The only hope is to break into an abandoned bunker.
In just one 60 minute window, can you power up the abandoned bunker and launch the rocket to destroy the asteroid before it strikes?
Number of players: 2-8
Minimum age: 8+
Entry fee: From £18 per person
Address: Fargo Studios, Fargo Village, 54 Grafton Street, Coventry, CV1 2HW
Website: https://www.escapelive.co.uk/locations/coventry/
Phone No: +44 2477 674646
Opening times: 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM, seven days a week
Nearest bus/train stations:
Bus: Pool Meadow (17 min walk)
Train: Coventry (23 min walk)
Nearby attractions: Coventry Cathedral, Coventry Transport Museum
2. Escape Reality Coventry
Escape Reality offers budding puzzle masters a captivating escape room experience inspired by movies and history. Players will have a choice of themes, such as Alice in Wonderland, Jack the Ripper, Annabelle, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jumanji, and more. The background music and sound effects create a truly immersive experience.
Best escape room to try: Alcatraz
You have managed to escape from every prison they’ve sent you. Now, you’re in Alcatraz, housing the worst of the worst. With the warden distracted and your prison cell briefly unguarded, can you make it out before you’re caught?
Number of players: 2-6
Minimum age: No age requirement.
Entry fee: £20 – £23 per person (depending on group size)
Address: 2nd Floor, East Entrance, Broadgate House, Broadgate, Coventry CV1 1NG
Website: https://www.escapereality.com/escape-rooms-uk/coventry/
Phone No 024 7655 3929
Opening times:
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday: 1:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Saturday: 10:30 AM to 10:30 PM
Sunday: 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM
Nearest bus/train stations:
Bus: Ironmonger Square Stop TS5 (3 min walk)
Train: Coventry (11 min walk)
Nearby attractions: Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry Watch Museum Project
3. Clue HQ
Clue HQ offers a choice of five game rooms, ranging from relatively easy to potentially head-scratching. But don’t stress – Clue HQ’s friendly games master is always on hand to offer clues and hints, so the riddles will never leave you completely bamboozled. There is also a Clue HQ in Birmingham.
Best escape room to try: CSI: The Panic Room
A wealthy businessman is found dead inside his panic room. As a member of the Criminal Liason Unit, can you figure out who the murderer is from a database of over 500 potential suspects before the murderer escapes?
Number of players: 2-6
Minimum age: 7, though it may be difficult for those under 10.
Entry fee: All games are £70 per group, except Detonation, which is £60
Address: Clue HQ Coventry, Watch Close, Coventry CV1 3LN
Website: https://cluehq.co.uk/coventry/
Phone No: 0330 122 2205
Opening times:
Monday to Friday: 12 PM to 9 PM
Saturday and Sunday: 10 AM to 9 PM
Nearest bus/train stations:
Bus: Ringway (7 min walk)
Train: Coventry (5 min walk)
Nearby attractions: Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, The Wave Waterpark
4. Houdini’s Escape Room Experience
Having received TripAdvisor’s 2018 certificate of excellence, Houdini’s is sure to scratch that escape room itch. At their Coventry venue, you can choose between the Ghost Train or the R.M.S. Titanic, both with a success rate of 40%. Will you be one of the lucky few to crack the escape game in time?
Best escape room to try: R.M.S. Titanic
This nautical-themed escape room challenges you and your team to solve a collection of challenging puzzles, find clues, and collect items. Can you escape the doomed vessel before it disappears beneath the Atlantic Ocean?
Number of players: 2-8
Minimum age: 12+
Entry fee: From £25 per person depending on the game
Address: Crosspoint Business Park, Olivier Way, Coventry CV2 2SH
Website: https://www.houdinisescape.co.uk/locations/coventry/
Phone No: 023 8218 2601
Opening times:
Monday to Friday: 12 PM to 9 PM
Saturday and Sunday: 10 AM to 9:30 PM
Nearest bus/train stations
Bus: Parkway Island (7 min walk)
Train: Coventry (10 min walk)
Nearby attractions: Coventry Cathedral, Coombe
5. House of Escapes
Located just outside Coventry in Nuneaton, House of Escapes is the perfect option. Whether it’s a corporate event or if you and some friends feel like a great time putting your minds to work on a puzzle or two, House of Escapes offers two fun-filled game rooms your colleagues or friends can enjoy.
Best escape room to try: Conspiracy: Concealed and Revealed (parts 1 and 2)
A strange caller tips off your police department to a bomb threat. As you start piecing it together, things become a little too convenient, and soon you realise nothing is a coincidence. Note that it’s possible to make a booking for parts 1 and 2 separately.
Number of players: 2-6 (4 recommended)
Minimum age: 14
Entry fee: Ranges from £18 to £30 per person depending on time and number of players
Address: 22 Abbey St, Nuneaton CV11 5BT
Website: https://www.houseofescapes.co.uk/
Phone No: 024 7792 1931
Opening times
Sunday and Monday: Closed
Tuesday to Friday: 4 PM to 10 PM
Saturday: 10 AM to 10 PM
Nearest bus/train stations
Bus: Gala Bingo Hall (2 min walk)
Train: Nuneaton (9 min walk)
Nearby attractions: Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery, Abbey Theatre
6. Escape Leamington Spa
Located 20 minutes from Coventry, Escape Leamington Spa offers a collection of unique escape room games. Whether you’re feeling like some witchcraft, being a pirate, or investigating a grizzly disappearance, you’ll find it at Escape Leamington Spa.
Best escape room to try: Escape the Seven Seas
You’re locked in the brig while piles of treasure lie untouched in the captain’s chamber. Put your skills to the test and see if you and your crew have what it takes to escape your prison cell, break into the captain’s room, and steal the treasure.
Number of players: 2-6
Minimum age: 10
Entry fee: £25.00 for adults, £20.00 for those under 18
Address: 1B Dormer Place, Leamington Spa, CV32 5AE
Website: https://www.escape-leamingtonspa.co.uk/
Phone No: 01926 257 590
Opening times
Monday and Tuesday: Closed
Saturday: 10:30 AM to 8 PM
Sunday: 11 AM to 5 PM
Nearest bus/train stations
Bus: War Memorial (4 min walk)
Train: Leamington Spa (15 min walk)
Nearby attractions: Jephson Gardens, Victoria Park
7. Escape Room Adventures
With three exceptionally detailed escape rooms, work with your team to explore space, ride an express train, or battle it out with steel and magic. Don’t worry, the Escape Room Adventures games master is on hand to ensure you always have a great time.
Best escape room to try: The Steampunk Express
Transport yourself to a steampunk version of 1890s America, where you play outlaws planning to rob the Steampunk Express. But be careful – the sheriff has set a challenge. With just one 60 minute time frame, will you manage to find the sheriff’s secret way out before the train crashes?
Number of players: 2-8
Minimum age: No minimum age, but children under 12 may struggle
Entry fee: £22 for players 17 and over. £18 for children
Address: 56 Bedford St, Leamington Spa CV32 5DT
Website: https://www.escape-leamingtonspa.co.uk/
Phone No: 01926 885957
Opening times
Monday to Saturday: 10:30 AM to 9 PM
Sunday: 10:30 AM to 6 PM
Nearest bus/train stations:
Bus: Regent St (3 min walk)
Train: Leamington Spa (10 min walk)
Nearby attractions: Pump Room Gardens, Foundry Wood
8. Experimental Escapes
Experimental Escapes specialises in creating immersive, challenging, and entertaining games for friends or colleagues. There are three escape room missions, and if you feel like a virtual adventure, there are also six virtual reality games. There’s even a versus escape room if you’d like to challenge another team head-to-head. Note that this requires a large group.
Best escape room to try: Diamond Duel – Team Walter
Brothers Walter and Winston have both inherited a diamond from their late father. With security out of the way for just 60 minutes, you are tasked with stealing the other brother’s diamond.
Number of players: 2-6 or 6-12 for the head-to-head.
Minimum age: No minimum age, but complex themes mean those younger than 10 may struggle.
Entry fee
2 adults: £25 per person
3+ adults: £22 per person
Children (17 and under): £20 per person
Address: 69 Warwick St, Leamington Spa CV32 4RQ, United Kingdom
Website: https://experimental-escape.co.uk/
Phone No: +44 1926 675432
Opening times: 9 AM to 10 PM, seven days a week
Nearest bus/train stations:
Bus: Upper Parade Stand K (1 min walk)
Train: Leamington Spa (15 min walk)
Nearby attractions: Jephson Gardens, Foundry Wood