Review: Best Los Angeles Escape Rooms - a Fun Factor Overview!
Let’s talk about the Los Angeles area escape room scene and our favorite rooms. LA is a huge area so this article will focus on escape rooms within the borders of the City of Los Angeles. Future articles will cover other parts of Southern California…but for now we will focus on LA.
Los Angeles has lots of escape rooms to choose from – many ideal for beginners and youngsters and some outstanding rooms for the experienced enthusiast. Check out our recommendations
Let’s start by highlight two excellent choices that made the TERPECA 2023 Top 100 in the World list! TERPECA is the Top Escape Rooms Project Enthusiasts Choice Awards. According to its website, “TERPECA is an attempt to find the very best escape rooms in the world by leveraging the experience of the most experienced escape room enthusiasts in the world. We serve escape room owners and designers by publicly recognizing their achievements, and we serve our fellow enthusiasts by providing an international bucket list of the best rooms to play”. For more about TERPECA please check out a separate article.
TERPECA – Los Angeles escape rooms
Rooms that made the “Top Escape Rooms in-the-world List”
Lab Rat by Hatch Escapes - 85th highest rated room in the World (16th in USA)
Project Minotaur by Questroom – 100th highest rated room in the World (19th in USA)
We played and enjoyed both of these rooms and they are integrated in our recommendation below. Even though we played Lab Rat in 2018, it remains our most fun Los Angeles escape room experience.
Now here are OUR recommendations of the Los Angeles Escape Rooms where we had the most FUN starting with those we Very Highly recommended! We had lots of fun playing these rooms!
Very Highly Recommended
These recommendations are based on a FUN FACTOR rating of 9 or 10 out of 10. This is our obviously subjective opinion based on our personal opinions as to how much fun we had considering the whole experience for escape rooms in Los Angeles that are in operation as of the date of this post.
Lab Rat - Hatch Escapes
Grandma’s Master Plan - 60 Out
Jack the Ripper - Maze Rooms
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - 60 Out
The Heist - The Escape Game
One Way Ticket - Maze Rooms
Special Ops: Mysterious Market –The Escape Game
Turing Test - 60 Out
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Highly Recommended
The rooms below are in the top quarter of all escape rooms we have played for the most fun. These earned a FUN FACTOR rating of 8. They are all worth the time and money and are listed in alphabetical order.
Black Dragon - Escape Room LA
Da Vinci’s Challenge - Quest Room
Da Vinci’s Secret - 60 Out
Project Minotaur - Quest Room
Spy Dogs - Maze Room
The Pyramid - Escape Room LA
Tombstone - Maze Room
Whatever Happened to the Garretts - Maze Room
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