Christmas, my most favourite time of the year, a time for giving, a time for receiving, a time for roasting chestnuts on an open fire while watching love actually for the millionth time whilst drinking a salted caramel bailey’s. Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year………………….But what happens when it goes WRONG, what happens when your looked in room with an evil zombie elf with just one hour to escape and make it out alive. The only thing that can possibly save you is your voice, and Christmas songs! I can still hear the terrified screams that haunt my dreams the panic as 11 of us desperately fought to survive and escape to see another Christmas. It was a Sunday evening like no other, for on this particular Sunday we bravely entered the ESCAPE ROOM!……

Everyone who knows me (I mean really knows me) knows just how much I love an escape room, and if you follow my blog you will know that Luke and I actually did one back in October (blog link here) ???? https://lifestylelisa.com/2017/10/22/what-happened-at-the-cabin/

In fact Luke and I enjoyed our time at room escape in Southend so much that we decided to venture back to try our luck at their Christmas escape game!This time though we wasn’t alone! We had enlisted the help of the Kendal’s! Or in other words Luke’s Mum, dad, and two sisters Mel and Charlotte.

Unlike last time, Luke and I went with the determination of winning and actually escaping, we were fully equipped this time round with two teachers added into the mix, there’s no way we wasn’t escaping right?!…… 

I never like to give too much away, as the suspense and unknown really is half the fun! But I can tell you that we had an hour of absolute fun and good spirited frights, it’s definitely not as intense as the cabin which was the one we did back in October, but it’s still pretty jumpy and I just loved the Christmas theme! I mean a zombie elf at this time of year, who doesn’t love that!! The inside of the room was decked out really well, and once again I actually forgot where I was (a building in Southend) and was immersed in what I was meant to be doing. The Christmas carols playing in the background added just the right amount of eeriness.

As well as my team of 6 we actually had another team of 5 join up with us, obviously we didn’t know them, and initially I thought it might be pretty awkward pairing up with people you had never met. Well I couldn’t have been more wrong and after the formal introductions around the Christmas table (whilst wearing Christmas hat’s I might add) it was like we were old friends, and all completely got stuck in working as a team to try and escape the room!!

With just 10 minutes to spare we opened the final box which released the Key to the door! We had won our freedom, and no infectious bites had been gotten by any of us, phew!!….

I really can’t recommend room escape enough, it’s so much fun, it’s a laugh and it’s great for team bonding, and what’s more is that its only going to take an hour out of your day!

I know Luke and I will definitely return in 2018 to try another brilliant escape game, I can’t wait to see what new  rooms are to come!

Check out Room Escape Southend’s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/sosroomescape/

Or their website https://www.roomescapesouthend.com/

Merry Christmas!!

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It was a stormy night, Luke and I were travelling home from a night out and had ended up taking a wrong turn. The rain was coming down so heavy it was hard to see anything. The petrol light was visible on the dashboard. I knew we were miles away from anywhere and soon we would have no petrol. Of course our mobiles didn’t work, we were on EE and O2 why would they work?! We were just about to give up hope when we saw it, a cabin, just a few yards ahead, we decided we would take shelter for the night and wait for the storm to pass

Little did we know what that cabin held…….

Okay in reality it was Saturday 21st of October when Luke and I took ourselves off to Southend to visit the Room escape lounge. It was actually a birthday present from my sister, as she knows how much I love escape rooms and anything remotely spooky.

I must admit neither Luke or myself had done any research into this, partly because we didn’t want to spoil it for ourselves and partly because I actually kept forgetting that I had this booked, since everything had been slightly manic since getting back from Florida.

We were booked in for 1.30pm but on the email confirmation we were told to be there no later than 1.15pm so we could be briefed, and the rules explained to us.

The game is designed for up to 12 people, and there was meant to another 6 people joining us (who we didn’t know) but actually lucky for us they didn’t turn up which meant it was just Luke and I! To be fair it actually made it made it harder for us, I think the bigger the group the more chance you have of succeeding and escaping The Cabin.

Okay I’m going to try and give as much information as I can without giving anything away, the unknown is what makes it so intense and fun.

Firstly unlike the previous escape game which I did in London 2 years ago this one doesn’t confine you to one room, but you actually have 3 rooms that you can go back and forth too as required. We were told the back story of the cabin on our briefing and about the unidentified creature that stalks the cabin and the woods. It was now up too us to find the clues piece them together and banish the mysterious creature who was behind all the vanishings!

I am a huge horror fan and don’t scare at all easily, I have done ghost hunts and stayed overnight at various haunted locations and there is nothing more I like than a good fright night, which I usually do every year around Halloween. But taking part in this particular escape room was slightly more intense than anything I have done before, and in the beginning I felt a definite sense of uneasiness and seemed to glue myself to Luke!! Not like me at all!! I seemed to relax after a while but I definitely kept my wits about me.

From the outside the escape room is nothing more than what looks like a rundown shop, and I wasn’t sure I would enjoy it or how professional it would be. Don’t let that fool you though! Once I got into the room and got into the game and could hear the thunder and rain going on outside in the woods I have to admit that I had to keep reminding myself that it was only a game! And that I wasn’t really inside a cabin! I found everything very believable as did Luke!

Unfortunately Luke and I didn’t manage to solve the clues and we lost, but we had the most fun intense hour trying to piece it altogether! It definitely would have been easier with more team players as you could have all split up to cover the 3 rooms and then would have found the clues a lot quicker.

I will admit that in the beginning I wasn’t much of a help as I wouldn’t leave Luke’s side…. so we called ourselves Team 1 1/2……

I have to say the two members of staff who we met were great, and also very helpful.

I would recommend this to anyone, it’s so much fun, it’s intense and it only take an hour!!!!

Luke and I have both agreed that this was far better than the escape game we did in London.

We plan to return for the one they are doing at Christmas armed with a few more teammates!!

If you haven’t done so already check them out HERE!!

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