Our Story
WhereToEscape is built by Tory and Steve, collectively known as Blacksmiths + Quackers. We're not a company or a startup. We're two escape room enthusiasts with over 340 rooms under our belt and counting.
Tory got into escape rooms first and hesitantly dragged Steve along. We did a couple of rooms that were ok, but then we played The Gaol at Cryptx in Cambridgeshire, and that was it. Properly hooked. We haven't stopped since.
Most of our rooms have been in the UK, but we've also played in Switzerland and the Netherlands. If there's a great room somewhere, we'll find a way to get there. We love Christmas themed rooms, and you'll be unlikely to catch us doing a horror or live actor room, but never say never.
WhereToEscape grew out of something we kept running into. There are great sites for finding escape rooms, but when it came to planning a trip, we'd still spend hours trawling through different websites trying to piece together availability, pricing and travel times. We wanted something that brought all of that together. So we built it.
This site is for the escape room community. Whether you've done hundreds of rooms or you're about to book your first one, we want to make it easier for you to find something brilliant and get it booked.
No Commission. No Catch.
This is a passion project, not a business. WhereToEscape is free for players and free for escape room owners. We don't take a commission on bookings, we don't charge listing fees, and we never will. Nobody pays us a penny.
We don't sell tickets or take bookings. When you click a booking link, you go straight through to the escape room's own booking page, so every penny goes to them. We built this for the community, and keeping it free for everyone is the whole point.
What We Offer
Global Directory
Find escape rooms in lots of countries. We include info about themes, difficulty and reviews so you know what to expect.
Route Planning
Plan your escape room trips with our tools. Save rooms you want to visit, create trips and organise your adventures.
Community Ratings
See ratings from multiple sources. Track which rooms you've completed and help others discover great escape rooms.
Meet Alan
Alan — our AI recommendation engine
Named after Alan Turing, the father of computer science, and the person who arguably started all of this.
Alan isn't a chatbot. He doesn't want to talk about the weather. He has one job: figure out which escape rooms you'll love next, and get better at it every time you rate a room.
He looks at your rated and completed rooms, your wishlist, rooms you've hidden, how far you usually travel, the themes you enjoy, and the difficulty levels you prefer. Then he gets to work.
The more you rate, the smarter Alan gets. He's not magic, he just pays attention.
He's also on every page as your go to helper. Spot something wrong? Click Alan and report it.
Get In Touch
Questions? Suggestions? Want to list your escape room? We'd love to hear from you.
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