Houdini’s Escape Room Experience Southampton: Poppa Plock’s Wonky Workshop

Just a heads up to anyone thinking of playing Poppa Plocks's Wonky Workshop at Houdini's Southampton. We left feeling very disappointed with both the hosting and the quality of the room, multiple puzzles were broken and required GM intervention to navigate, when queried about this the response was an unsatisfactory 'hahah yeah that happens a lot'. Begs the question why not fix it? 

The general layout of the room felt very 'stuff in a room', with the leftover wallpaper from the previous room that occupied the space left in, this is very unlike what I know of Houdini's normal standard with the likes of Titanic and Extinction.

I've tried very hard not to make this sound defamatory but more just a word of caution since the reviews documented are very strong and this led us to choose to do the room, however those reviews are almost exclusively leftover from when the room was at its original company in London, it seems the relocation to Houdini's hasn't been kind to it.

A very original room. Great games master. A couple of puzzles I don’t think we’d have got without a clue but good all the same.

Ok - some quirky stuff. Quite dark and grimy.

Quirky room now playable as a private group. I found it a little light on puzzles, but the enthusiasm of the (interactive) game master did make up for it. Music was incredibly off-puttingly loud however which was not enjoyed by either of us - to the extent that you could not hear audio aspects of the game that were required to complete the game.