The count has invited you to one of his famous cocktail parties in Copenhagen. You show up at the specified address. At arrival, you are told that due to current renovations, you must enter through the side entrance of the house and pass through the butler’s kitchen before you can get to the count’s famous ballroom. But you start to notice that something is wrong, very wrong! Before you know it, the door to the escape room is locked behind you. This night has become a struggle for your life. Will you drink cocktails, or become cocktails yourself?
90 Minutes
2-15 Players (really!?!)
40% Escape Rate
£26 per player (kr220)
Copenhagen, Denmark
No on site parking, central location
Pete, Nate
January 2020
Escaped in 49.10
Immersion
Pete
Nate
If you were asked to think of Dracula’s kitchen, this room is pretty much the total opposite of what you would expect. It’s a kitchen alright, but other than the occasional rubber hand it would be better suited in a school cookery classroom than in Dracula’s home. I wanted to see that dark and gloomy, ominous room that really gave a sense of fear that you were about to be Dracula’s meal. What we encountered instead was a clean, white, bright room with a very modern aesthetic. It was Dracula’s nice white hotpoint oven that really surprised me the most. There’s a lot that could be done with these theme, and unfortunately this room falls majorly short, it’s super frustrating as it wouldn’t take too much to transform it into a believable scenario. What I really didnt like about this room’s design was the plastic sheets that protect some of the clues. Whilst this is probably to decrease the reset time between games, for me, it just killed off any last chance of immersion.
Puzzles & Challenges
Pete
Nate
There is no doubt that this particular room relies very heavily on traditional padlock and key puzzles. There are some breaks from this but for the most part, there are no surprises. It reminded me of some of the first rooms we completed in the UK a few years back. We loved those rooms then, and these challenges are still enjoyable, but you can’t help but think this room is a little bit behind the times. I found the theming of the puzzles a little hit and miss. There were some clear links to Dracula in some of the puzzles which made a lot of sense in the scenario, but others (despite being quite good puzzles) just didn’t fit.
Games Master
Pete
Nate
Our games master on the day gave us a clear brief on the scenario of the room and outlined the do’s and dont’s as expected. He didn’t give anything away in his introduction and we found him to be pretty responsive when we needed him once locked inside. We only used one clue but he pointed us in the right direction without spelling it out for us too easily. On debrief we were asked to scribble our time on the wall and given a hasty debrief.
Value for Money
Pete
Nate
It’s Copenhagen, and if you haven’t been then you probably wont appreciate that it is EXPENSIVE everywhere. Once converted into GBP this room is actually pretty good value for money at £26 per person. You can’t get a couple of pastries and a drink for less than £20 so an hours worth of entertainment for that price is pretty reasonable. If this room was in the UK it probably wouldn’t have scored as highly.
Enjoyment
Pete
Nate
It may not be the most immersive, and it may not have the most up to date challenges, but ClockedIn’s room is far from the bottom of the pack of rooms we have completed. It has that nostalgic feel to it. Although outdated now, it has qualities of the rooms which first made us enjoy escape rooms. If this is your first room, or among your first rooms then I expect you’d find this a lot more enjoyable than we did. If however, you have seen some amazing rooms as we have, you might feel a little bit disappointed.
