The Marlowe Hotel

The Marlowe Hotel

Very positive (47 ratings)

The Cipher Room Newtown Location

  • Escape room
  • IRL

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Step into your own black and white, film noir adventure! You are a private investigator in 1950's New York. One day you receive a letter from Betty McGee - a singer at the notorious Marlowe Hotel. She informs you that the gangster kingpin and hotel owner, Eddie Marlowe, is trying to blackmail her with incriminating material. She needs you to break in and retrieve the documents. You know Eddie is bad news, but you agree to take the case. What secrets await you inside the hotel? How will you locate the photos? What do you really know about Eddie Marlowe?

  • 2-8
  • 60 mins
  • Expert
  • Not scary

Awards

Ratings

All ratings (47)

Very positive

Gameplay
Very positive
Atmosphere
Very positive
Customer service
Very positive

Reviews

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melissahernandez

64 escape rooms

Super cool game, with a very clear and logical flow to the puzzles. Really good diversity of different types of things to solve. Make sure to come dressed in only black and white!!

Gameplay
Atmosphere

Very cool and unique set design

Customer service
Particularly interesting or different

Yes

Story
Difficulty

Hard

Game tech

High tech

Ideal number of players

3

Scary

Not scary

Minimum age

12

Was anything broken?

Yes

Not broken so much as finicky. Could have been handled better if our question had been answered clearly.

Live actors

No

Physically active

Somewhat

Some crawling required

Accessibility

I was very impressed that the GM who started us in the game (male) offered me a chair. I walk with a cane, and so really appreciated this.

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Limited

Jul 20, 2023 | Experienced Jul 20, 2023
@fraziercody
fraziercody

106 escape rooms

This room is unique in the way that everything is black and white. It’s a cool effect that I’ve never seen done before and it worked really well for the room. A mix of high tech and mechanical puzzles and a great overall room

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different

Yes

Everything black and white

Story
Difficulty

Medium

Game tech

High tech

Ideal number of players

2

Scary

Not scary

Minimum age

12

Was anything broken?

No

Live actors

No

Physically active

Not at all

Easy to find location

Yes

Parking

Medium

Dec 8, 2022
@icastro
icastro

58 escape rooms

This was one of the best rooms we‘ve ever done. Everything in black and white, beautiful flow of puzzles, different difficulties of puzzles present throughout the room, great theme and everything related to the theme, so good! Also very many puzzles! Probably better done with a few more people, we did it with 2ppl and made it out with like 10 seconds left :D and that was with breezing through the last few puzzles all within the last 2 minutes :D

Gameplay
Atmosphere
Customer service
Story
Scary

Not scary

Oct 20, 2022

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