The Escapement: Pirates of Polaris

By | March 20, 2019
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by The Escapement Margate (website)

65 Northdown Rd, Cliftonville, Margate CT9 2RJ

Margate

2-6 players

90 mins
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Trapped onboard the ship Polaris, you and your crew of have been thrown in the brig, however, there’s been a mutiny onboard and all remaining crew members have abandoned ship!
Navigate the stars and the seas and figure out how to sail the ship through thunder bolts and lighting back to land!
This room contains flashing lights – please let us know if you require this feature to be removed from the game.
Pirates Of Polaris features genuine artefacts and items from a 130-year-old ship – Polaris. Our rooms are highly immersive and theatric, we want you to feel as though you are on a movie set!
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Rated between 4 and 4.5 out of 5

based on ratings from 44 users
combined with 7 pro reviews

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escapeartist1212 expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
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🌵Juliette B expert rated this:Rated between 45 and 45 out of 5
Played: 04/01/2020 Team size: 2 Time taken: 59:47 Outcome: Successful escape!

Excellent room. Amazing set design, great puzzles with some nice physical elements. We had a new GM under supervision who did a great job giving us the occasional nudge when we had made some search fails. Very immersive with how the puzzles truly fit the experience. Found it a little hard to see some areas although I understand the GM can control the brightness if needed and it is not a dark room in a frustrating sense at all. Absolutely worth a visit. 

Ronnie Meade experienced rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulcleverimmersive

This is definitely the best pirate themed room I've experienced, the themeing and set design are brilliant, immersive and creative. Puzzle wise there is everything for every type of player and all fit with the story and theme. The last puzzle was a great ending for achievement and wrapped everything up nicely.

Nichola Morrison experienced rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulcleverintense

Great set loved this room! 

Kempshott_fox rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 14 Aug 2021 Team size: 4 Time taken: 48 mins Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulcleverimmersive
Shane Craig Gausden experienced rated this:Rated between 50 and 50 out of 5
Team size: 4 Outcome: Successful escape!
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Tim Cooper expert rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Team size: 2 Outcome: Successful escape!
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Spanishfleas experienced rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
furiouslycurious experienced rated this:
Played: 2017

Had fun. More signposting needed for certain sections but a good fun family game.

😺Lianne experienced rated this:Rated between 40 and 40 out of 5
Played: 09/02/2020 Team size: 4 Time taken: 45 Outcome: Successful escape!
beautifulcleverimmersive

Really enjoyable and well-themed room. I'm a sucker for pirate themed rooms, but it does feel like the team at Escapement have gone the extra mile with the decor and real and replica items in the room to make it feel incredibly authentic. In terms of difficulty, we were a team of one experienced three newbie players, and got out in around 45 minutes.

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First of the three games I played at The Escapement, Pirates of Polaris places you in the brig of a pirate galleon, abandoned by the crew and left to go down with the ship, unless you can find a way to escape. The venue has achieved quite a reputation amongst enthusiasts, and it was instantly clear why: Pirates is a beautiful game that starts well and never misses a beat.

As the website description states, some of the decor is taken from an actual antique ship, from which the game takes its nam...

A review of Pirates of Polaris, an excellent escape room which managed to deliver both an atmospheric set and great puzzles.
This room is beautiful, it really is, and when a room uses genuine artifacts there is no doubt you are in for a treat
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We know this is a super common theme among Escape Rooms, but wow! We were so impressed with what the team had managed to put together. The floorboards, the walls, the ceiling, everything was creaky in the right places, and really made you feel like you were on a real life ship…OH WAIT – are those genuine artefacts from a real life 130 year old pirate ship called Polaris?! Yes, yes they are. 

The Escapement make very little noise about the fact that much of Pirates of Polaris is constructed from an actual 130-year-old ship, the Polaris. It’s something we didn’t find out about until after our game, but it does go some way to explaining how good the theming in this room is.

Can you steer the ship in the right direction?

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