Secret Studio
Secret Studio
5
10:00 AM - 1:00 AM
Monday
10:00 AM - 11:30 PM
Tuesday
10:00 AM - 11:30 PM
Wednesday
10:00 AM - 11:30 PM
Thursday
10:00 AM - 11:30 PM
Friday
10:00 AM - 1:00 AM
Saturday
10:00 AM - 1:00 AM
Sunday
10:00 AM - 11:30 PM
About
Secret Studio is an exciting retro-themed mystery escape game! You and your team are locked inside the headquarters of 'Secret Studio Films', a (fictional) down-at-heel schlock movie production office that hasn't been refurbished since 1979. You have an hour to solve the puzzles inside the room and unlock the mystery to escape. Work together as a team to try and beat the clock...
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Neighborhood: Whitechapel
Whether you're here for its dynamic street life, world class galleries or famed curry houses, you're bound to be wowed by the uniquely cosmopolitan flavor of Whitechapel. Long gone are the days when Jack the Ripper stalked its streets. And despite his mysterious legacy bringing throngs of curiosity driven tour groups to its back alleys and otherwise serene garden squares, these days you're more likely to catch a cutting edge fashionista scurrying through its age old lanes than criminals of any sort.
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  • Aldgate East • 4 min walk
  • Aldgate • 6 min walk
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  • Tiziana B
    1 contribution
    Great Team Building Experience and A Lot of Fun For All
    We booked 5 teams in for the Secret Studios' escape room experience as part of a company get together, and they all raved about it afterwards! The games master was fantastic at setting the scene and interacting throughout the game. We had a range of escape room rookies and a few experienced folk and they all had a blast. I would definitely recommend this as a great group activity!
    Visited December 2022
    Written December 9, 2022
  • Shan
    1 contribution
    Brilliant fun that keeps you on your feet!
    Absolutely loved this! Went with my sister and my boyfriend and we had such a good time! Laurence gave us the best welcome, him and Sarah made the experience 100x better from start to finish. The clues and room really made you think and work together (but equally got helped when we needed it). We had our endorphins rushing, real highs completing some phases and even escaping - we were smiling and talking about it the whole way home. Thank you for such a great time - we will be back for more!!
    Visited December 2022
    Traveled as a couple
    Written December 10, 2022
  • Debbie R
    Crawley, United Kingdom6 contributions
    Fabulous
    This was such a fun, amazing experience. Was My first escape room and will definitely do it again. I was very sceptical before we went, but so glad I’ve done it now! The team leaders were absolutely brilliant. There were a few scary moments which we will laugh about for many years and we live to tell the tale. Thank you so much
    Visited January 2023
    Traveled with friends
    Written January 8, 2023
  • Runa
    Santa Fe, New Mexico5 contributions
    Scary and Fun!
    Great fun, we were a group of 6, mostly 20s, but also a 10 yr old and a 50 yr old, we all enjoyed it, very tricky, we really had to work as a coordinated team, we screamed so much and laughed so hard!!! Delightful. We also recommend their newest adventure (maybe better for those with young kids) Escape from the Golden Hinde. Fabulous!!! we'll be back when in London.
    Visited December 2022
    Written January 8, 2023
  • Anon56454
    1 contribution
    Brilliant fun!
    Brilliant communication from start to finish. We had to rearrange due to covid and they held our booking and let us change the date. The escape room was brilliant fun. Very difficult challenges but with clues given throughout as needed it was achievable. Can’t rate this highly enough.
    Visited January 2023
    Traveled with friends
    Written January 14, 2023
  • Mark P
    215 contributions
    Great Escape
    Our family team, all over 25 , consisted of 5 adults - my wife and I, our 2 sons and one girlfriend. This was my first time in an escape room. It was a great experience. Very well managed, very professional. Absolutely great fun, and sometimes a little bit scary! We managed to escape in 49 mins, so 11 mins inside the hour allotted. Would definitely do another one 👍
    Visited January 2023
    Traveled with family
    Written January 28, 2023
  • Fiona M
    1 contribution
    Fantastic experience from beginning to end
    A really well thought out escape room. Andrew and Phil were fantastic hosts from the start and the whole experience was excellent! The puzzles were challenging and varied and every little detail was considered. Thanks for an excellent afternoon!
    Visited February 2023
    Traveled with family
    Written February 5, 2023
  • Lucy R
    1 contribution
    Perfect for birthday parties
    It was absolutely wonderful, I went here for my birthday with my friends (and my team won - don’t call yourself the winners and jinx yourselves) It is so fun and we there are a few jump scares but it’s not really a horror escape room; it’s more of a mystery one. The people there are so amazing and thank you Phillip for the encouragement and hints along the way. Don’t be fooled by the slightly sketchy start to the escape room it just made it even more exciting Would definitely recommend this
    Visited February 2023
    Written February 5, 2023
  • Becky L
    1 contribution
    SO much fun!
    Such a cool experience! We went as a work social and Tise and the rest of the team made it so fun, well exceeded our expectations - all the puzzles were really cleverly put together and just the right amount of challenging. They even let the first team out have a role in the other team's games (won't say more than that to avoid spoilers!) Highly, HIGHLY recommend - wish we could go again (and very well might, as they have another escape room near London Bridge) Thanks so much to Tise and the team!
    Visited February 2023
    Written February 7, 2023
  • Devices D
    London, United Kingdom1 contribution
    Shout Out to Sandy!
    I've played a lot of escape rooms and this one was definitely up there - a fun mix of types of puzzles to keep us interested! I'd say keep your team to around four people, more than that might mean that sometimes there's too many cooks. HUGE shout out to Sandy, who was our host, and was personable, friendly and fun from the moment we entered - definitely made the experience ten times better!
    Visited February 2023
    Written February 8, 2023
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Mat Smith
Woburn Sands, UK54 contributions
Oct 2021
We had a really good time as a family doing one of the escape room experiences at Secret Studio.

The experience started 24 hours before our slot, with an email from our host, Laurence, giving us very, very specific, instructions on how to find the Studio on Wentworth Street. This wasn’t just about turning up at an obvious place advertising itself as an escape room – the problem-solving started with the vague instructions in that email. It was a neat trick, putting us in the right frame of mind for the experience long before it started.

Laurence was a huge amount of fun and did an amazing job of blending humour with instruction in the pre-experience briefing; he was also brilliant at encouraging / helping us when we got stuck. It’s fair to say that we went into this a little apprehensive – only our eldest daughter had done an escape room before – and didn’t know whether we’d epically fail or wind up in a massive argument, or both (apparently, according to Laurence, this happens regularly). In the end, with a bit of support from the messages Laurence sent us while we were floundering and some pretty excellent team work, we escaped our experience after 65 minutes – just five minutes over our allotted time. We were all pretty pleased with that.

The theming of Secret Studio was part of what made this such a fun thing to do. The idea is that you’re entering a low-budget murder mystery film studio to solve a specific case, and the attention to detail was superb – old editing equipment, movie posters, TV equipment, film cases and so on. It felt hugely immersive and like you really had entered an old studio sometime in the 1970s or 1980s, fully leaving the hipster streets of Shoreditch behind. So much so that when we emerged into a bright Autumn afternoon, it took a while to adjust to normal life again – I was still trying to solve clues and looking at doorways and people with a detective’s eye while we walked back along Brick Lane.

Highly recommended and well worth the copious praise this experience has received. Note that we asked for the team to limit the number of jump scares in our specific experience because, well, we’re all a bit timid. “I’ll ask,” said Laurence, never once stepping out of character. “Mrs Stokes can be a bit funny about these things…”
Written November 6, 2021
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VJS
1 contribution
Oct 2021
I took a group of 20 to Secret Studio recently for a corporate fun event and we all had a fabulous afternoon. I can thoroughly recommend the whole experience. The four rooms can all start at the same time allowing teams to race each other. The challenges were well thought out allowing all team participants to be busy all the time - no one was standing around bored. Helpful clues kept us on track ensuring we didn't get stuck and frustrated but also not making it too easy. The team looked after us so well. Thoroughly professional from beginning to end. Emails were responded to quickly and when an issue arose due to my error the team helped me sort it out quickly. On site staff were extremely helpful and energetic - taking on their story personas with gusto but in a non cheesy way. 10/10
Written October 24, 2021
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Jo_Carmo
London, UK6 contributions
Sep 2021
Did this for a team event and thoroughly enjoyed it! The surprises kept on coming, everyone felt involved and managed to solve some of the clues.
The sets were brilliant, the use of the 70s and 80s props was perfect - some of our young players had no idea how to use an old dial telephone!
Much hilarity, great fun and very well put together.
A fantastic escape games, highly recommended!
Written October 12, 2021
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Lara Mcc
Estoril, Portugal2 contributions
Jan 2020 • Friends
Went here with some friends for my birthday. I'd done a couple of escape rooms before but none of the rest of the group had so they weren't sure what to expect. We ended up having the best time. Our host Laurence was fantastic at guiding us through the tricky bits (and let's be honest the easier bits too) whilst joking along with us. We somehow managed to escape with seconds to spare! Would recommend this to anyone, it's well worth it :)
Written January 6, 2020
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Somil
1 contribution
May 2021
A brilliant experience overall - certainly better than the first escape room I went to. As a group of friends (of which only half had experienced an escape room before) we would definitely recommend this for newcomers! The staff are very friendly, helpful and great hosts (especially Tice!). The scenarios are well thought out as well as the theming, and the acting was impeccable. The staff watch and listen throughout the escape room and assist immediately as necessary (even pausing the timer for unexpected difficulties). Do not worry about the difficulty of the scenario; they will provide small clues as you need them, so that you aren't just standing there for an hour making zero progress.
Written May 31, 2021
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Katt R
22 contributions
Feb 2022 • Friends
Secret Studio was fantastic from start to finish!

The staff there were incredibly helpful, kind and funny.

The escape rooms were the perfect level of fun and mind boggling! The hints given were personalised to the team and really made us all laugh when we were stuck.

The perfect level of scary without being over the top.

This whole experience was fantastic and I’m already looking forward to booking again for their new room/story!

10/10 one of the most fun experiences I’ve taken part in in London for year. Pricing was incredibly reasonable and clearly a lot of work has gone into all of it, could not recommend it more.
Written February 13, 2022
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Elise
United Kingdom5 contributions
Aug 2021 • Family
This was our first escape room and it set the standard super high for any future escape rooms. Finding the venue was easy and fun, a lovely little warm up to get the brain thinking. We were greeted by our fantastic game host, Callum, who set the scene perfectly and told us everything we needed to know as first time players.

You have one hour to complete the game and we managed it with minutes to spare. Being first timers, we were well chuffed - especially when Callum informed us we’d beaten Derren Brown’s teams time.

The venue, set up and decor were all perfect mood setters. It really does feel like you’re somewhere different and spookily abandoned. The team have obviously put a lot of time and effort into this and it shows.

The game itself, well, there is so much I’d like to talk about but I can’t without giving any of the secrets (and scares) away. All I’ll say is it got us thinking in all sorts of different ways and was exceptional fun. Callum gave us a run down at the end and we had a lovely chat about the whole experience. It made the game so much better to have a host as enthusiastic and knowledgeable as Callum.

Who is it suitable for? Teens and everyone above. We were there for my 31st birthday and the oldest member of our team was my 70 year old Dad. He absolutely loved it!

Most importantly, we really felt like we were in safe hands with Callum.

Would 100% recommend to everyone, especially first timers as it’ll show you what true escape rooms can be. Cannot wait to see, and play, what the team come up with next.

Thank you for a wonderful birthday experience!

PS. Callum, if you’re reading this, sorry for the late review and thanks again for the sweets!
Written September 26, 2021
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James P
4 contributions
Oct 2021 • Couples
Having heard about Secret Studio through various escape room review sites and trip advisor we were very excited to try the room out for ourselves - a retro, movie themed horror room felt right up our street! With roughly 10-15 rooms under our belt between us, we were not disappointed by what Secret Studio had to offer!

We were welcomed by Callum and introduced to Laurence who was to be our games master, both were incredibly friendly and clearly enthusiastic, instantly making us feel at ease. they clearly and excitedly set the scene for the challenge ahead and explained the rules of the game (the usual, don't break things mainly!) before leading us into the room to begin the hour.

It's hard to say too much without giving any secrets away but throughout our experience the puzzles, clues and props around the room all felt very logical and the all important flow of a room and its puzzles was apparent in abundance. We never felt frustrated and always felt that we had what we needed and were working together to connect the dots. There was a great deal of satisfaction as we progressed and rather than simple relief at solving a puzzle, we really felt like we were unraveling the story and were part of the investigation team! The pacing of the room and the difficulty of the clues felt absolutely spot on - Laurence was on hand to offer encouragement and the odd steer when we really needed it but was not intrusive or too quick to offer help.

We had an absolute blast and were laughing and reliving the escape and some memorable moments on the return to our hotel. An absolute 10/10 experience.

Laurence was very kind and again enthusiastic in his review of our performance, we had a great debrief and a couple of photos to record our visit to the studio which were emailed to us shortly following our successful escape alongside a personalised email which felt like a nice touch rather than anything generic or automated.

If only it was possible for a video montage of our escape attempt and my pitiful cowering as fear took the better of me on occasion 😂
Written October 9, 2021
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Tom
1 contribution
Aug 2021 • Friends
The four of us had a great time at Secret Studio. Our host Oscar was really friendly and helpful, giving us hints when needed but not too obvious so that we weren’t just being told the answers. We have done quite a few escape rooms now as a team and this has to be one of the best that we have done- enthusiastic host, intelligent puzzles not just relying on padlock combinations, and a detailed set. Also several surprises along the way to get the heart racing! We managed to escape the ‘impossibly difficult’ level with less than a minute to go. Highly recommend this escape room!
Written August 28, 2021
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Peter J
The Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, UK64 contributions
Jan 2020 • Family
We have visited escape rooms in many cities but this is by far the best, most professionally run, and entertaining escape experience ever!

Our games master, Joakim was great and took good care of us and, without giving away too much, helped us to solve the challenge.

The game itself is well designed and challenging. It is exciting and will keep your adrenaline surging as you try to beat the clock; we had less than two minutes to spare!

A great event for families or friends alike.
Written January 20, 2020
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