Hi everyone
In October of 2024, on our weekend away to the Gold Coast, we checked out a
total of 7 escape rooms. Our third room was The Carnival at Padlockd.
After having just played their School of Magic room, which
was a near duplicate of a room we had played in Sydney, we were hoping for a
better experience with The Carnival. Thankfully, it delivered.
The Carnival was our 314th room to date. Here is
what I thought:
- we
played The Carnival with our 2 daughters and we all had a great time. The
story behind the room is that players find themselves in an abandoned
carnival where they have to make their way through the carnival to hit the
big red button to escape;
- The
Carnival is not a scary room. There are poorly-lit areas, but no jump
scares and nothing scary (our timid girls were fine);
- there
is a nice room flow and scale to The Carnival, which was much bigger than
I had anticipated. There was a really fun mix of puzzles as well;
- the
most memorable aspect of The Carnival was that we all got to do something
we have never done before (or since) in an escape room, which was pretty
cool;
- there
were some fun puzzles that had us all running all over the place; and
- one
cool thing that Padlockd does is that all players walk away with a free,
high quality, coloured pin. We walked away with both a Carnival and School
of Magic pin, which were really nice (not many ER businesses provide
keepsakes, but I wish more did).
The Carnival was a really fun, family-friendly room. The
puzzles were all fun and we all really enjoyed ourselves. The only issue we had
was that one puzzle had not been reset correctly and a spare key had been left
in the room, which we found and then skipped a puzzle. That was a shame, but it
didn’t ruin the experience.
Where:
3177 Surfers Paradise Blvd,
Surfers Paradise
Duration: 60
minutes
Themes:
14 themes
Price:
$54
per person (over 15yo)
Overall Rating: A really fun, family-friendly room
More details: https://padlockd.com.au/
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