Changelog

Week of 8 June 2026 6 days ago

Rooms you have hidden no longer appear in the route planner suggestions along your trip.
A brand new or upcoming escape room with no ratings of its own now shows an estimated score based on its venue's overall rating, clearly marked as an estimate, instead of appearing completely unrated.
Ratings now reflect strong rooms more fairly. A room with a few excellent ratings shows a genuinely high score instead of being held down, and a venue rating now follows the rooms inside it rather than its Google or TripAdvisor stars.
The rooms list now shows the actual deal on each special offer, such as 20% off, instead of just a special offer label.
The escape room companies list now follows ranking order exactly, so every company sits at its own ranking position with no gaps.
Venues that are opening soon now show their opening date on the company page and appear in the homepage Opening Soon strip.
Special offers map pins now show the actual deal, and hovering links each offer to its pin both ways.
On company pages with several venues, hovering a venue now glows its numbered pin on the map.
On best escape rooms pages, hovering links rooms to the map both ways, and area maps now show only that area's venues.
The rooms list now shows the date you played each done room, and you can sort the list to bring your most recently played rooms to the top.
Room pages now show whether puzzles are linear, non linear or hybrid, and you can filter the list by linearity.
Map pins now vanish as soon as no rooms match your filters, and each pin is coloured by its best matching room.
Map tooltips now show whether a venue is open right now, with when it closes today or next opens.
WhereToEscape is now available in Finnish.
The language picker now opens a clear grid of every language, working the same on mobile and desktop.
Company and room headers now show town and county, adding the country only when the venue is abroad.
Your cookie choice now controls analytics, and you can change your mind anytime from the cookie banner.
Venues with no rated rooms yet now get a fairer score from their Google and TripAdvisor reviews.
Rooms with only a few specialist reviews now show a fairer score, no longer held down near the middle of the scale.

Week of 1 June 2026 1 week ago

Company pages now show each room's price for the time you are visiting.
You can now open the full price breakdown from the price row, including any pricing notes.
When a venue is closed we now show when it next opens, such as Opens tomorrow 10:00am.
Company ratings now reflect an operator's best location instead of a flat average of its venues.
Venue ratings are now fairer when a venue also offers VR or tabletop games alongside escape rooms.
The companies list now shows tidy cards on mobile, each company's logo, and how many rooms it runs.
You can now see when a room's availability was last checked and refresh it yourself.
You can now rename the standard price in your price breakdown, such as Peak or Anytime.
Best escape rooms pages now show a trail back to the country and a list of nearby places.
City and country pages now answer common questions in a short FAQ.
More cities now have their own ranked page and map, including Norwich, Hamburg, Thessaloniki and Valencia.
Room pages now show the price for the time you are visiting, with the active prices highlighted.
With a route planned, room prices now show the exact per person price for your group size.
Prices now read in each currency's usual style, such as 70 lei rather than lei70.
Every award now lifts a room's rating when its own reviews are thin, until real reviews take over.
Awards from earlier years now keep counting, fading gently rather than vanishing.
Room rankings now count only rooms we can genuinely rank, so 5th of 200 means 200 ranked rooms.
You can now mark a venue's prices as excluding tax, showing a + tax note to players.
Award winning rooms that have since closed are now marked as closed on the awards pages.
Route planner pins now use the same teardrop style as suggested rooms, with the company logo above.
Route suggestions now skip venues where you have nothing left to play.
You can now add as many alternate price sets as you need, each applying on the days and times you choose.
Setting prices by group size is quicker, with the per person price worked out from a total you type.
Descriptions in one regional spelling now appear across that language's other regions, with no translation notice.
Company ratings are now steadier, setting aside locations with very few reviews.
Repeatedly nominated TERPECA rooms now carry a rating that reflects it, with recent nominations counting most.
Strong Google and TripAdvisor scores can now lift a venue or company rating, not just lower it.
A room with a top TERPECA placement is now held at 9.9 or 10, flowing through to its venue and company.
The route planner now shows small arrows along the line for your direction of travel.
Escape room companies are now ranked like rooms, by country or globally, with a rank column.
Opening soon rooms now show their opening date directly in the list.
New rooms now start from a more cautious provisional score so one early rating cannot top the leaderboard.
You can now advertise jobs at your venues, appearing on a new jobs page and your company and room pages.
You can now add off peak pricing with a simple weekly schedule on your venue.

Week of 25 May 2026 2 weeks ago

Coming Soon rooms now sort by opening date by default, soonest first.
The awards page now shows a rank for every room and opens to your own country.
Room price breakdowns can now include a short pricing note.
The awards page now uses the same filter layout as the main rooms listing.
The global leaderboard now reflects TERPECA Top Room rankings, and weak or dated awards can no longer drag a room down.
Rankings beyond the top 10 are now balanced across countries, with old recognitions fading gracefully.
Room and company pages now show how far each venue is from you, with a cardinal direction such as 12 mi NE.
Offers now show their headline discount up front wherever a room or company appears.
Company pages now list other locations in the same brand so you can jump between sister sites.
Venues with no specialist reviews are now capped at 8 everywhere, with social scores pulled to a realistic anchor.
Page titles and meta descriptions are now translated across every supported language.
Emails, contact replies, validation messages, error pages and the dashboard now respect your language.
A batch of Canadian venues wrongly imported as American now appear under Canada.
Rooms with more than one theme now show a country ranking for each theme, not just the primary one.
New landing pages collect recently opened, coming soon and closing soon rooms in your country.
Route planner stop markers are now clickable, opening a venue tooltip with every bookable room.
Specialist reviews now always anchor a venue rating when any rated rooms exist.
The rating on the map and route planner now matches the rest of the site, with no placeholder number.
Company and venue ratings have been recalibrated so specialist reviews drive the score.
Rooms with low specialist ratings are no longer shown as near zero.
The available right now list now respects venue opening hours and one off closures.
Route planner suggestion popups now match the main map, with done, route, wishlist and hide buttons.
The route planner side panel has been reorganised so the map has more room.
Suggested rooms now stay visible after you add a room to your route.
Fixed errors that stopped the route planner loading for signed in players and Suggest rooms failing on long routes.
Route planner markers are now coloured and sized by rating, with a filter to hide tiers.

Week of 18 May 2026 3 weeks ago

Venue ratings have been retuned so a few five star social reviews no longer outweigh specialist rooms.
Rooms without a rating no longer show a country ranking.
Route suggestions now follow your actual route, and respect your trip date and live availability.
Route suggestions are now grouped by venue and skip closed or completed rooms, so the feature needs a free account.

Week of 18 May 2026 3 weeks ago

Route suggestions have had a polish, with a cleaner button, richer info cards and a clear no rooms message.
Special offers map pins now open a tooltip listing every live deal at that venue.
The awards page now lists awarded rooms on mobile.
Custom route stops can now be edited, with name, duration and fixed time, plus a Remove button.
The awards pages now have a quick text filter at the top.
The route planner can now suggest escape rooms within five miles of your route.
You can now add non room stops to your route, such as a pub or coffee break.
The top of the rating scale is now a smooth gradient, with a perfect 10.0 reserved for the very best rooms.
A room's rating is now the same number everywhere, with a tooltip explaining how it is worked out.
The booking system picker now includes a Custom option with an API spec for bespoke systems.
Room ratings now combine reviews and awards into one 0 to 10 score, with a perfect 10 reserved for the top rooms.
Escape rooms can now have more than one theme, appearing under each, with a tidied theme list.
Owners can now pick more than one theme when editing a room.
The methodology page has been rewritten as How our ratings and rankings work, now covering rankings too.
The awards ranking now tracks the TERPECA Top 100, and awarded rooms always appear regardless of review count.
The awards page is now one ranked table per award and year, with award chips on the rooms listing.
Added a Peek Pro booking integration.
The My Escape Route shortcut in the header is now always visible.
The homepage and near me maps now show only traditional escape rooms.
Map pins are now colour coded by rating tier: gold, teal and grey.
The map popup now shows the venue's overall rating, and the rating filter applies inside it.
The special offers page has been rebuilt around an interactive map, scoped to your country.

Week of 11 May 2026 1 month ago

Best escape rooms pages now rank rooms with eight or more ratings above those with fewer.
On mobile, the map filters and legend now sit in a bar above the map instead of covering it.
The Special Offers, Opening Soon and Closing Soon strip now always stays a three card row.
The Best Escape Rooms intro now tells you how many listed rooms have won awards.
New Best Escape Rooms Near You page, scoped to roughly a hundred miles around you.
New Best Escape Rooms landing pages for every country, region and city we cover.
You can now set a child price and age range at the venue level, inherited by every room.
Owner invite emails have been refreshed with a cleaner design and short links.
On the home Available right now panel, rooms at the same venue are now grouped together.
The home availability panel now includes SimplyBook.me rooms alongside OffTheCouch.
On multi venue companies, each venue's contact form now shows the company default to inherit.
On mobile, the My Escape Route summary has moved into a slim strip below the header.
On the home availability panel you can now change how far ahead to look, from 30 minutes to 8 hours.
The home page now stops widening the search radius once it finds six rooms nearby.
On the home availability panel, the map and rooms buttons are now hidden when nothing can be reached.
Turning on the Live availability filter now loads the next slot for every visible room automatically.
Venue ratings now include the venue's own Google, TripAdvisor and Facebook reviews.
A new Rooms I can get to right now panel finds rooms whose next live slot you can actually reach.
Greek company ratings now include escapeall.gr reviews.
The home page, listing, map and other hubs now use region specific titles and descriptions.
On the map, pins are now hidden only when you have hidden every room, with a filter summary under the title.
The map filter summary now updates live and shows the venues and rooms in view.

Week of 5 May 2026 1 month ago

Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and US state pages now show only their own rooms.
Marking a room as done now removes it from your wishlist automatically.
The rating breakdown popups now have a wider two column layout, listing awards that did not lift the score too.
A company's rating now refreshes the moment its Google, TripAdvisor or Facebook ratings change.
The awards country filter now follows you through the whole awards section.
Standout rooms can now display a perfect 10.0 instead of being capped at 9.9.
The awards hub country filter now sits inside the page heading.
The FAQ page now reads in your language, with each entry auto translated when saved.
Regional language editions now show the homepage in the right language instead of English.
On the homepage featured company cards, the game name chips are now clickable.
The escape rooms list now always opens sorted by rating.

Week of 4 May 2026 1 month ago

Company pages now link out to Facebook reviews when we have the page on file.
There is now a dedicated recently opened escape rooms page with the date each room opened.
The New rooms shortcut on the homepage now shows rooms opened in the last 12 months.
The rooms list, companies, route planner and offers pages now follow the country in the URL.
The map now focuses on rooms you can play right now, hiding coming soon rooms.
Game of the Week and Featured Companies now run on every country's homepage, picking local rooms.

Week of 1 May 2026 1 month ago

The Resova integration now supports per region accounts, with a clearer message if your IP is not allowlisted.

Week of 27 April 2026 1 month ago

WhereToEscape now ships dedicated UK, US and Canadian English versions, plus French for France and Canada.
Your wishlist now lets you record a booked date and add a room to a saved route in one click.
Homepage exclusives, Game of the Week and offer dates now read in your language.
The Opening and Closing date sort pills now show a sort icon and wrap cleanly on small phones.
Featured offer cards no longer show the same urgency chip twice.
Coming Soon and Closing Soon searches can now sort by opening or closing date.
Game of the Week and featured company cards now flag live offers, with exclusives in gold.
The Closed filter now also surfaces rooms whose venue or company has permanently closed.
Awards on company and room pages can now be viewed as a timeline, grid or compact list, and your choice is remembered.
Map tooltip ratings now match the rest of the site, and closed or fully done venues drop off the map.
Venue level awards such as TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice now appear on the awards pages.
Special offers now have a home at /escape-room-special-offers, with exclusives pinned to the top.
WhereToEscape exclusive offers are now promoted across the site with a homepage strip and gold badges.
Owners can now create offers exclusive to WhereToEscape from the dashboard.
Location pages such as Escape Rooms in Cornwall now sort by rating by default.
Loading more rooms no longer shifts the listing columns out of alignment.
Companies with more than four venues now have a redesigned page with a full width location map.
Companies with an owner but no description now get one written and translated automatically.
SimplyBook.me is now a supported booking system.
FareHarbor is now a supported booking system.
The homepage search now also matches companies by city, county and state.

Week of 20 April 2026 1 month ago

The listing search now also matches city, county and state names, even with small typos.
The escape rooms listing now offers your location automatically on first visit.
Greek rooms on escapeall.gr are now a recognised review source.
The awards pages are now clearer, with a most awarded rooms leaderboard for each year.
Ratings are now confidence adjusted, so a single vote no longer shows as a perfect score.
The confidence adjustment is now gentler, keeping well reviewed rooms close to their true average.
Confidence adjusted ratings now carry an asterisk when based on only a few reviews.
A new room now inherits its venue's reputation while it gathers its own reviews.
The How Ratings Work page has been refreshed with worked examples and a live awards table.
Room descriptions are now shown in your language, translated automatically when saved.
Company descriptions are now shown in your language too, with a dedicated Description tab.
More of the site is now translated, including room breadcrumbs and several footer links.
Rooms with a localised second name now show it underneath, and search matches it.
The listing now shows an award count badge next to each recognised room.
Award lists now flag ranked rooms that share a design with a higher placed entry.
Award lists now surface linked versions of a ranked room with a gold asterisk.
Multi stage awards such as TERPECA now collapse cleanly, without repeating rooms that progressed further.
Award placements now lift company ratings too, not just room ratings.
Award contributions now decay by age, keeping rooms anchored to recent accolades.

Week of 14 April 2026 2 months ago

Awards are now listed newest year first.
Award placements now help shape room ratings, so celebrated rooms with few reviews start closer to where they belong.
Room and company pages now show an Award boosted chip with a breakdown of contributing awards.
There is now a dedicated sign up page for escape room owners.
The registration page now shows the benefits of a free account alongside the form.
On rooms at closed venues, the Route, Wishlist and Hide buttons are now shown as disabled.
Search on the listing is now more precise, so unrelated rooms no longer sneak in.
The search summary above the listing now updates correctly when you change the search term.
Permanently closed venues now show a clear closed notice and hide the Book Now button.
The listing now shows a loading indicator while filters are applied.
The listing sort controls have been simplified to just Rating and Distance.
Long descriptions now collapse with a Read more button.
Room names across the homepage now use the same gold heading style as the rest of the site.
The owner dashboard now prompts you to connect your booking provider.
Room pages for multi venue companies now show a More Venues from section.
The homepage now has a short intro linking to the rooms list, map, award winners and route planner.
The listing has a new In current route filter.
The route planner layout has been tidied, with totals in their own panel.
The listing now remembers your last sort and location between visits.
The owner dashboard now has a Feature Requests section to vote on and suggest ideas.
Featured company cards now show quick stats for the highlighted room.
The owner dashboard now has a Link back to us section with a badge and copy ready snippets.
Managers now see the same dashboard as owners, scoped to what they manage.

Week of 7 April 2026 2 months ago

Company and room pages now show whether a venue is open right now, with the full weekly schedule.
Starting a new route now confirms your current route has been saved.
The homepage has a new search bar with autocomplete and quick shortcuts like Near me and Top rated.
The homepage now has an Offers section showcasing rooms with active discounts.
The Mark as Done modal now lets you record your time in minutes and seconds.
Rating a room is now optional when marking it as done.
You can now like recommended routes to help others find the best trips.
You can now publish your trip as a Recommended Route for others to clone.
Clicking the rating card on a company page now shows a breakdown by source.
Award pages now display year specific logos when available.
The footer has been streamlined with shorter labels and an updated mission.
Mobile room cards have been redesigned with larger ratings and a fully tappable card.
The route map now shows company logos as markers and a home icon for your start and finish.
The route planner now shows venue opening hours.
Route location summaries now use recognisable regional names.
Multi venue company pages now show venue breadcrumbs.
Hiding a room now also hides its linked rooms.
The About This Room heading now includes the room name.
Owners and admins now see quick edit links on company and room pages.

Week of 31 March 2026 2 months ago

You can now bulk import your escape room history from a spreadsheet.
New venues now default their country and currency to match your existing venues.
The price per game and max price fields now sit side by side on the room edit page.
Your booking system API key is now encrypted in transit and at rest.
You can now browse escape rooms by theme, such as horror or adventure rooms.
You can now clear the country filter to browse rooms across all countries.
Filter labels and the filter button layout have been improved.
The map now lets you hide rooms you have already completed.

Week of 28 March 2026 2 months ago

You can now add escape rooms to your wishlist with the heart icon.
You can now add personal notes to your routes.
You can now browse recommended routes and clone any to your own collection.

Week of 26 March 2026 2 months ago

New My Rooms hub brings your rated rooms, hidden rooms and recommendations together.
You can now hide rooms directly from the map.
The route planner now shows a full trip timeline with arrival, start and end times.
You can now set the number of players, with estimated total cost and group size warnings.
Room pages now show Also available at links and related rooms.
Review the Room and The Escape Roomer scores are now weighted equally with other specialist sources.

Week of 23 March 2026 2 months ago

You can now hide escape rooms you are not interested in.
Escape rooms can now have durations up to 300 minutes.
The about page now shows ReviewTheRoom and The Escape Roomer as rating sources.
Multi venue company pages now group rooms by venue, sorted by rating.

Week of 16 March 2026 2 months ago

You can now sign in and register with your Google account.
A new How Ratings Work page explains how scores are calculated.
Promoted companies and rooms are now highlighted on listing pages.
Live offers and discounts are now shown on room and company pages.
Rating a room with linked rooms now prompts you to rate those too.
You can now filter rooms by live availability and player count.
You can now filter by New rooms only.
Infinite scroll has been replaced with a Load More button.
The homepage now has a Browse by Location section.
Breadcrumbs have been added across the site.
Company ratings are now shown on single venue company pages.
DigiTickets is now a supported booking system.
Bookeo is now live as a supported booking integration.
Invited users can now set up their account with Google or email verification.

Week of 9 March 2026 3 months ago

You can now show unavailable booking slots as booked rather than unavailable.
You can now filter the map by country and county, with the map centring automatically.
You can now choose driving, transit, cycling or walking on the route planner.
The route planner now shows a duration and distance summary, with a cleaner empty state.
Route planner validation messages now appear in a styled modal instead of a browser alert.
Rooms with active offers now show a badge on listings and map tooltips.
Opening and closing dates are now shown on room listings and the map.
Coming soon rooms are now ordered by their opening date.
Room type is now shown as a badge and you can filter by it.
Company pages now show a starting price range across their rooms.
Awards earned by a venue are now shown on the company and room pages.
Trip plans made before signing in are now saved to your account when you log in.
Alan, our AI recommendation engine, is now live on your dashboard.
You can now report issues with Alan's suggestions.
Acuity Scheduling is now a supported booking integration.

Week of 2 March 2026 3 months ago

Escape room detail pages have a cleaner, redesigned layout.
Location details are now displayed more clearly on room pages.
Multi venue companies can now set contact details at company level and share them across venues.

Week of 24 February 2026 3 months ago

Similar companies are now suggested when no rooms are available.
The map now uses more accurate venue location data.