Coventry
Based on the famous books by Terry Deary, this is the official Horrible Histories Escape Room. Find artefacts from the Vile Victorians, Rotten Romans and Terrible Tudors, before the museum’s grand opening!
Wheelchair Access
Set inside a prison cell; you’ll need to find the secret plan to escape, without alerting the guards. You have 60 minutes, or else it’s life in jail! Expect lots of twists and turns.
Coventry’s biggest escape room, set inside a real-life underground bunker. You have 60 minutes to launch a missile to destroy an asteroid and save the world! You’re our last hope.
Our full address is Escape Live Coventry, Fargo Studios, 54 Grafton Street, Coventry, CV1 2HW. If you are using Google Maps or Apple Maps, just type in Escape Live Coventry and that will pinpoint our location.
We have FREE parking right outside our building after 6pm weekdays and all weekend. For bookings out of these hours there is street parking available on Far Gosford Street and car park at Fargo Village. The car park is priced at £2 for 2 hours.
To purchase, click on the Gift Vouchers tab and you can purchase immediately online. We will send you an email with a PDF of your voucher that will be valid for 6 months from the day of purchase, or if you prefer, you can send it directly to your friend or family member.
Gift Vouchers have no monitory value and can only be exchanged for an escape room booking with Escape Live.
If you’re reading this then you’re in the right place. Please click on the BOOK NOW tab in the top right to view availability and book.
YES! We have various ways in which we deliver experiences for large groups, please call us on 02477 674646 to discuss.
If you escape, you join the elite group of escapees that have managed to beat the game designers at Escape Live and achieved full scale bragging rights! We’ll also ask you if it’s OK to take a celebratory picture at the end of the experience to share with you via our social media pages.
At the end of your experience your Games Master will offer you the opportunity to walk you through the escape. If you prefer to come back another time and beat the room then please let the Games Master know.
As long as your group size does not exceed the limit of the experience you booked then yes. You can pay for the extra person when you arrive.
If You Cancel
If you decide to cancel your confirmed booking you must notify us by email using the registered email for that booking. No refunds will be given for bookings that are cancelled this also includes bookings made with gift vouchers.
Moving / reschedule bookings
You can do this for a £10 fee, as long as you give 7 days prior notice. Please call us on 02477 674646 and we will arrange this for you. Once you have booked we cannot refund you for cancelling or not showing up for your experience.
Please aim to arrive no more than 10 minutes before your booked timeslot. If you arrive to Fargo Village earlier there is a coffee shop, a bar and restaurant onsite. There’s also a chocolatier if you have a sweet tooth! Arriving later than the booked timeslot may mean that we are not able to allow you to play, so please allow plenty of time.
The experience itself is 1 hour long but please allow 1 hour 30 minutes from the time you arrive to when you leave.
Friends, family, corporate team building events, first dates, Stag and Hen events, nights out – anyone who would like to experience something different! Our rooms are fun for all ages but those under 10 may find some elements of the rooms a little difficult. Those under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult (16+). The adult must be a paying member of the group and the group size may not exceed the maximum number as advertised. Under no circumstances are children allowed to be alone in your booked experience.
No! Although some of our theming and advertising may look pretty scary there is nothing to be afraid of inside the game.
All of our games are designed without any need for strength or brute force. You may need to crouch down from time to time, but the tasks are mainly about mental agility rather than physical.
Although we have taken provisions to ensure we are suitable for all abilities, we are limited in certain aspects. The best thing to do is get in touch and we will let you know if it is suitable.
Please let us know if you are running late – whilst we will make effort for you to play your game, it may be the case that we have another booking directly after yours. In such an instance your game length will be shortened by the amount of time you are late.
Escape Live is the Proud winner of the Liverpool Tourism Awards 2022! Taking home the New Tourism Business of the Year Award.
Escape Live is the Proud winner of the West Midlands Tourism Awards 2023! Taking home the Small Visitor Attraction of the Year in our Birmingham Venue.
Escape Live is the Proud winner of the Hospitality Awards 2022! Taking home the Best Experience Experience 2022 Awards for our Birmingham Venue.
Escape Live is the Proud winner of the Midlands Enterprise Awards 2022! Taking home the Best Escape Room Experience West Midlands Award in our Coventry Venue.
Escape Live is the Proud winner of the Midlands Enterprise Awards 2022! Taking home the Customer Service Excellence Award in our Coventry Venue.
Escape Live is the Proud winner of the Midlands Enterprise Awards 2021! Taking home the Best Escape Room Experience West Midlands in our Stratford-Upon-Avon Venue.
Escape Live is the Proud winner of the Midlands Enterprise Awards 2020! Taking home the Best Escape Room Experience West Midlands in our Birmingham Venue.
Escape Live is the Proud winner of the Midlands Enterprise Awards 2020! Taking home the award for Leading Provider of Online Escape Rooms in our Birmingham Venue.
Escape Live is the Proud winner of the Birmingham Post Business Awards 2015! Taking home the Business Start-Up Award in our Birmingham Venue.
Escape Live is the Proud winner of the Asian Chamber of Commerce Awards 2017! Taking home the Outstanding Small Business of the Year Award in our Birmingham Venue.
Escape Live is the Proud winner of the National Adventure Awards 2019! Taking home the Best Indoor Adventure Award.
Escape Live is the Proud winner of the Coventry Telegraph Awards 2017! Taking home the New Business of the Year Award.
As the thrill of escape rooms has swept over the UK, Escape Live has emerged as Coventry’s top choice. And who could have seen that coming?
Located at Fargo Village, Escape Live offers a unique form of entertainment in which 2-20 people venture into a fully immersive world where they must crack codes, solve puzzles and work together in order to unlock the mystery and escape the room!
So if you’re looking for the best escape games Coventry has to offer, look no further than Escape Live & their escape rooms.
Officially Coventry’s most fun ‘Thing to Do’; Escape Live is perfect for families, friends, couples, colleagues and special occasions. Dive head first into the high profile Casino Heist room, where you will have to escape, with the cash! Break into a luxurious casino, steal as much money as you can and evade the guards and security systems in a mission impossible style escape. Easy right? The margins for error are tight but you know our code: the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward.
Don’t get caught with all that money though! You may get locked up and need to break out! In Prison Break, you’re locked up in an actual prison cell, and you’re in for a long stretch. It’s not all doom and gloom – you’re in the cell that used to belong to Terrence Swift…and he’s left you a little gift. You have an hour before the guards are back. Use his plan, hack the system and escape. This is your only chance!
But wait…there’s more! Prison Break and Casino Heist have smashed all our expectations and led to the unveiling of our bunker epic: Armageddon. A world-altering asteroid is heading for Earth. Enter our Cold-War era bunker C82, located in our real-life basement. It’s been abandoned for decades, but you haven’t got long. Quickly re-establish base control and launch the missile to save Earth. Impact is imminent, and you’re our only hope!
We are proud to be the leading escape room Coventry has on offer.
Whether you know your cryptex from your pin pads or this is your first time – you’re in the right place. Escape Live’s award-winning escape game immersive experiences appeal to a diverse mix of people – bringing in visitors to the city as well as offering corporate team-building events to some of the biggest companies around. We can facilitate groups of up to 20 players and offer memorable character-building experiences.  All round the perfect escape experience Coventry has to offer.
So, what are you waiting for? Unlock your imagination and begin your adventure with Escape Live today. Contact the escape game Coventry team today for further information on the number one Escape Game Coventry has to offer you!
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We also have venues in Birmingham, Southend On Sea, Essex, Chelmsford, Stratford-Upon-Avon, and Liverpool.