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The best escape rooms in Manchester

Whether you're planning a team-building session in Manchester or looking for a unique activity with friends that breaks away from the usual pub visit, escape rooms are a fantastic option. Manchester offers a variety of venues catering to all ages and abilities, ensuring there's something for everyone. Whether you're facing off against monsters or solving puzzles against the clock, you'll find a range of themed escape rooms to suit different interests. Here's our guide to Manchester's most exciting escape rooms.

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  1. The best escape rooms in Manchester
    1. DNA VR – Sticky situations for everyone
    2. Escape Hunt – Adventure around Manchester
    3. Code to Exit – 60 mins to escape
    4. Lucardo – Escape in 60 minutes
    5. Breakout Manchester – Crack the codes
    6. The Crystal Maze Live Experience – An old-school classic
    7. Cryptic Escape Rooms – Something for everyone
    8. MoviEscape – Created by filmmakers
    9. Adrenaline Escape – Trafford Centre fun
    10. Escape The Van – Mobile escape rooms

The best escape rooms in Manchester

Perfect for team-building events, a day out with the kids, or fun with friends.

DNA VR

Sticky situations for everyone

At DNA VR, you have one hour to solve all the puzzles and find your way out of sticky situations. Whether you're dismantling a nuclear warhead, escaping from prison, or saving Christmas with your team, the escape rooms here are varied and promise heaps of fun. You can pick by difficulty, theme, and age to ensure you choose something suitable for your entire group. There are nine escape rooms to choose from, covering various themes, from Chernobyl and Alice in Wonderland to Prison Break and Jungle Quest.

Escape Hunt

Adventure around Manchester

At Escape Hunt, you can choose from unique games that take you on a journey all around the city of Manchester. There are also themed escape room challenges ranging from Vikings to the Wild West. Each room is purpose-built to provide an immersive experience, and there's an on-site bar to enjoy before or after your adventure.

Code to Exit

60 mins to escape

Code to Exit invites you and your team to uncover clues, solve puzzles, and escape from a choice of three unique rooms. Locate the endless-energy-cube, distinguish the world's most valuable painting from clever fakes, or free Excalibur from medieval Camelot. Each room is filled with objects, and finding valuable clues is crucial—race against the 60-minute clock to secure your escape.

Lucardo

Escape in 60 minutes

At Lucardo, you can choose from various escape room challenges suitable for two to six people, with themes ranging from crime scenes and murder mysteries to ghost stories and spaceships. Solve puzzles and find clues to escape within 60 minutes, using your group's brainpower to crack codes, solve puzzles, and search for clues. The real challenge is seeing if you can escape in time. Gift vouchers are also available.

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Crack the codes

Breakout Manchester is a thrilling escape room experience where you solve puzzles and find clues to escape within a set time limit. The rooms are immersive and include scenarios ranging from mystery and adventure to horror and fantasy. Each room also varies in difficulty, making it perfect for friends, families, and team-building events of varied ages and abilities.

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    The Sorting House, 87 Newton St, Manchester City Centre/Northern Quarter
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The Crystal Maze Live Experience

An old-school classic

Take part in a thrilling team challenge inspired by the beloved 90s game show at The Crystal Maze Live Experience. Navigate themed zones, solving puzzles and challenges before reaching the anticipated end – entering the infamous crystal dome. It's the perfect activity for corporate team-building or groups of friends.

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Cryptic Escape Rooms Manchester
Cryptic Escape Rooms Manchester – Escape rooms
Cryptic Escape Rooms Manchester
Cryptic Escape Rooms Manchester – Escape rooms
Cryptic Escape Rooms Manchester
Cryptic Escape Rooms Manchester – Escape rooms
Cryptic Escape Rooms Manchester
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Cryptic Escape Rooms Manchester
Cryptic Escape Rooms Manchester – Escape rooms
Cryptic Escape Rooms Manchester

Cryptic Escape Rooms

Something for everyone

Cryptic Escape Rooms in Manchester offers a range of challenging escape rooms, each with its own theme and storyline. Whether detaining a conspiracy theorist in 'The Conspiracy,' collecting screams in the Monsters Inc.-inspired 'The Scare Room,' or reclaiming a dwarven homeland in 'Bane of the Dwarven Realms,' participants are guaranteed an experience filled with suspense and a sense of accomplishment (if you even manage to escape…) They're suitable for friends, families, and team-building events, and cater to diverse interests, from sci-fi and fantasy to lighthearted fun.

MoviEscape

Created by filmmakers

MoviEscape has been Stockport's leading escape room for over six years. It's been created by filmmakers passionate about puzzles, cinema, and adventure and is located in an atmospheric Victorian cotton mill in Bredbury, adding to its vibe. It's perfect for families, friends, couples, parties, stag and hen dos, groups, and colleagues. The rooms are all themed and range from haunted houses and magic academies to horror, and new rooms are constantly being added.

Adrenaline Escape

Trafford Centre fun

Adrenaline Escape features a couple of immersive escape rooms located within the Trafford Centre. These rooms are crafted to challenge logic, problem-solving, and teamwork skills in an interactive setting. Participants find themselves locked in one of Adrenaline Escape's rooms, where they must discover clues, decipher codes, and solve puzzles under pressure to advance through the game.

Escape The Van

Mobile escape rooms

Escape The Van launched in 2017 to bring high-quality escape rooms directly to events and parties in a mobile format. Their experiences span 10 to 60 minutes, with themes that cater to various interests and abilities. Escape The Van offers three escape rooms suitable for groups of 2 to 32 people.

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