Escape rooms where the ultimate task is to steal something are becoming more and more popular. Bank heists are the most common crimes, sometimes you'll also have to rob art galleries or museums. Skillful players can try to challenge the most notorious thieves of the century. Be ready for lasers, alarm systems, secret vaults and tons of cash.
Having done many escape rooms in both London, across the UK and in different countries, we tried the Capital Caper Escape Room and it has to be the WORST escape room we have ever done.
Despite the ominous location (thought we were going to someone's flat), when we first entered the room we had high hopes as it initially looked like a well dressed room and the staff member was very pleasant. However, things then went downhill once we started. Ultimately there are very few puzzles to solve which in essence makes this escape room bad value for money.
Please do not go here if this is your first escape room experience as you will be put off which is a shame as there are many many many wonderful escape rooms out there - this is just not it!
It would appear that things are faulty and broken within the room. Probably from previous people getting frustrated with what is a fundamentally a very basic and flawed escape experience.
We encountered a series of problems which even resulted early on in the game master having to come inside the room. This did not bode well for the rest of the game (looking back now, at that point the experience was already ruined). The radio response was also very slow and we had to repeat our calls several times.
Multiple times, we had solved a clue but things were not triggered correctly - we had to state exactly what we had done on the radio rather than things happen automatically. At that point the next thing would be triggered - this was extremely frustrating, not immersive and tainted the whole experience.
In the laser room, there was a laser that was not working and this puzzle seemed to be visually triggered by the game master. After a while the game master realised that the first laser was not working so stopped penalizing us for it as we had been working on solving it correctly.
Escape Room: Limited puzzles, really not worth wasting money on solving approx. 5 clues. One of the puzzles is also wrong as it doesn't correctly follow the rules of chess. If you don't have a King on your board you have already lost the game! Puzzle can still be solved but this was "not the correct answer", therefore the 'king' is actually a queen. When talking this through with the game master they just said "I don't play chess".
Other things to note: The whole place has low ceilings - bumped our heads multiple times. It is also pretty hot in the room.
Once we escaped there was nothing - we have so many photos of our experiences after joyous escape rooms and this was the first time there was no photo and we just left.
David
This was the best escape room I’ve been to. By far the best experience we’ve had. The rooms were extremely imaginative and detailed. We tried Capital Caper which was a jewellery heist escape room, and it didn’t disappoint. Would recommend to anyone.
Peter
Had great fun playing the Capital Caper yesterday. Although we were a little lost at the beginning, the game fought up quickly with a couple of tips from the game master. Managed to escape in time thanks to the master and have generally really enjoyed the puzzles. The location is a little quirky adding up the charm of the experience.
Georgii
We did The Million Pound Heist room with two adults and two children, 8 and 10. I think it's the best escape room I've done - we all loved it and escaped successfully (stealth boast) - but it was the right level of challenge for everyone.
Susie
We did bank heist and had a great time, would recommend
Ekin
We played the Bank Heist and absolutely loved it. We've done many escape rooms before and this one really stood out. It's super worth the price which is really reasonable and you get a nice reward at the end which is is a great unique addition.
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