Gatwick Escape Rooms
Gatwick Escape Rooms became the second franchise in the Know Escape network.
This page is about the venue; if you want to book and play the games, go straight to the Gatwick Escape Rooms website.
In Early 2020 the team from Gatwick visited the Know Escape Bishop’s Stortford venue and explored the options for an Escape Room in Surrey.
A unit was located on the High Street in Horley, within a mile of Gatwick Airport; the premises was a former bookshop which had not been modernised since the 1980s.
The unit has a nearby Post Office, is next to a Nationwide Building Society and is opposite a Lidl supermarket.
Due to the airport’s proximity, it was decided to call the venue ‘Gatwick Escape Rooms’ to serve the local area and provide something fun for people nearby the night before a flight out from Gatwick.
Games
The venue was wholly refitted, stripped back to brick and entirely refurbished to an excellent standard.
Gatwick opened after the first Covid lockdown in 2020 with five rooms ready on launch The Crazy Cat Lady, An Hour to Kill Hollywood, Patient Zero, Rob the Bank and The Governor
After closing Patient Zero, they went on to run All of the Other Reindeer, Deep Trouble, Exposed and Elf Isolation.
Exposed is run from a mobile vehicle stored in the rear carpark; the unit also visits homes and events.
All of the Other Reindeer and Exposed were written by Becky from the Gatwick team. Exposed has since been installed at Witham Escape Rooms as a physical room.
Open Games
Seasonal Games
Closed Games
Construction
The original games were built offsite by Know Escape in our construction unit in the form of Pods, then delivered to the location.
The pod system allowed games to begin construction while the building’s communal areas, electrics and toilets were refitted.
Some images of the Gatwick venue:
Reputation
In our industry, we believe in supporting our competitors and encouraging our players to play in neighbouring venues; it is not uncommon for Escape Room owners to allow other Escape Room owners to play games at little or no cost.
Gatwick has primarily excellent reviews on Tripadvisor, Google and Facebook. There is one review which is marked as ‘Terrible’ on TripAdvisor; the ‘customer’ had not played the venue, and after tracking back through other reviews they had left for other businesses, we managed to identify the person as being related to a newly opening competitor, sadly TripAdvisor mostly automated systems won’t remove the review.
Here is a YouTube video showing Gatwick Escape Rooms is number 1 on TripAdvisor and Google:
Competition
Gatwick Escape Rooms is the only venue in Horley; there is no nearby competition except for an independent called Tullys, which is excellent and was once ranked number 2 worldwide.
Media
27 October 2020, Gatwick team appear on BBC News as part of a feature on Escape Rooms:
Becky and Dan were interviewed in October 2022 about their business by Stuart Cave Estate Agent in Horley:
Future
The venue is expanding, with three other proposed games going into an extension currently being built in a former nightclub.
What does one year of Escape Room customers look like? The video shows all the customers who allowed their photos to be shared on social media! As a Know Escape Franchise, you can expect to be busy!
The video should answer the question: how many customers an escape room can expect in a year? Don’t forget this particular escape room is a franchise, well-marketed and well-advertised.
Franchise
Francises are legal entity companies that trade as Escape Rooms offering the Know Escape games and services.
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Corporate
Know Escape wholly owns corporate venues. We build, test and pilot new games before release for the franchise.
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