Confinement - Escape Rooms
Confinement - Escape Rooms
Confinement - Escape Rooms
4.5
10:30 AM - 9:00 PM
Monday
10:30 AM - 7:30 PM
Tuesday
10:30 AM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday
10:30 AM - 9:00 PM
Thursday
10:30 AM - 9:00 PM
Friday
10:30 AM - 10:30 PM
Saturday
9:30 AM - 10:30 PM
Sunday
10:30 AM - 9:00 PM
About
Confinement is a Team Building activity located in the heart of Hamilton, where your group is immersed in a room with 60 minutes to escape. This is an intellectually stimulating co-operative game which challenges you to think outside the box. We aim to provide an experience our customers won't forget - allowing them to escape their everyday lives and immerse themselves in an alternative reality. Confinement gives the encounter your inner child craves, delivering a heart-racing activity. We create an exhilarating environment that challenges your group!
Duration: 1-2 hours
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MPlace
1 contribution
Dec 2023 • Business
We had a great time at Confinement today. It was a team building experience for our team of 9. We split into two teams (guys vs girls) and the girls won! It was very well organised and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone wanting to get out of the office and have a bit of competitive fun.
Written 13 December 2023
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Awesome to hear you all had fun, and congrats to the winning team! We look forward to having you back 😉
Written 3 February 2024
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Miss_loran
Wellington, New Zealand5 contributions
Jun 2021 • Couples
We travelled to Hamilton as we are big escape room fans and tried all 4 rooms over 24 hours. Here are the rooms in order of our favourite:
* Murdoch manor
* Cigar Lounge
* Camp Amity
* Lost Villa
We found there was at least one puzzle type we hadn’t seen before in each room which is always great to see. Staff were great and tablets used meant we got hints when needed without spoiling the fun of solving the puzzle ourselves. Highly recommend.
* Murdoch manor
* Cigar Lounge
* Camp Amity
* Lost Villa
We found there was at least one puzzle type we hadn’t seen before in each room which is always great to see. Staff were great and tablets used meant we got hints when needed without spoiling the fun of solving the puzzle ourselves. Highly recommend.
Written 22 July 2021
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Tourist20836516278
1 contribution
Aug 2023 • Family
We successfully escaped The Apartment(with some extra time and staff help) as a group of 3 each with a fair amount of escape room experience. Overall it was detailed and had many different codes,rooms and puzzles. It was a lot harder then we were expecting as we didn't read that it was a difficulty 4, but in the end it is by far one of the best escape rooms we have done, We will definitelybe returning next time we are in hamilton!
Written 7 September 2023
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Thanks for the review! We're super happy to hear you enjoyed The Apartment and escaped, we look forward to having you back ✨
Written 22 September 2023
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Izzy
2 contributions
Jul 2021 • Couples
Unfortunately we never made it to the room itself, we arrived at 6pm and booked with the server Jordan for 8:15 that same night who took our name and told us to come back at the time of the booking. When arriving back we were told by Jordan himself that there was never a booking made. Poor ownership
Written 31 July 2021
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Embee
4 contributions
Jul 2020 • Friends
This was an average escape room. Lots of padlocks. It was good that there is an advanced option and a standard option for the rooms giving people the challenge level they wanted. In the room we did there were two rooms with low doorways and despite the signs I nearly knocked myself out as one of the doorways was at forehead level. My fault but could have been avoided if the rooms were constructed properly. None of the rooms went to the ceiling so you can hear other teams very easily. A good experience.
Written 18 July 2020
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Confinement
Hey there! Thank you for your honest feedback and taking the time to leave us a review. Unfortunately, the ceilings are out of our control due to the buildings sprinkler system but I have made note of your other feedback and will do my best to amend the issues for the future. Thanks again for leaving us a review and I am pleased to hear you did have an enjoyable time with us regardless! Hope to see you back!
Written 2 August 2020
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MattVR
1 contribution
Jul 2021 • Friends
We did the cigar lounge room and it was possibly the worst experience we have ever had doing an escape room. The staff started us off ok and were good at getting us into the room and explaining the rules. We then got half way through the game up to the part where you had to choose either standard or advanced level and with approximately 30 minutes left on our time we chose to go with the advanced level. We started work on the first puzzle instantly and knew how to solve it but just couldn’t quite seem to get the code correct. After 5 minutes of rereading the puzzle trying to see where we had made a mistake we decided to scan the puzzle for a clue. The clue told us what we already knew so instead we decided to call for staff help to check if our code was correct and see what we were missing. We waited nearly 10 minutes for a staff member to come in, so in that time we decided it was not practical to complete the advanced level and started to solve the standard level puzzle. When she did finally come in to help we were told she didn’t know anything about the advanced level puzzles so couldn’t help us anyway and instead gave us a clue for the standard level puzzle.
We worked through the first standard level puzzle then came to the next one which was an electrical puzzle. We again knew what to do so did the puzzle which did not unlock anything so we kept trying and still did not unlock anything. We called for staff help again with 15 minutes of game time to go. We waited out the last 15 minutes in the room with no staff member coming in at all to help. We walked out with our time being up and went to the desk. When we told them we had been waiting for their help the girl behind the counter just laughed which is extremely unprofessional. The guy however did offer to come down and see how far off we were. Once back in the room he told us that we had the electrical puzzle right and he was unsure as to why it had not opened. He then opened it for us and told us to carry on with the last couple puzzles, despite time being up.
I have done other escape rooms at Confinement prior to the reset which were ok at best but this one comes off as the worst one I have ever done! 1/10 I would definitely not recommend these rooms to anyone, it was a horrible experience and we will definitely not be coming back here.
We worked through the first standard level puzzle then came to the next one which was an electrical puzzle. We again knew what to do so did the puzzle which did not unlock anything so we kept trying and still did not unlock anything. We called for staff help again with 15 minutes of game time to go. We waited out the last 15 minutes in the room with no staff member coming in at all to help. We walked out with our time being up and went to the desk. When we told them we had been waiting for their help the girl behind the counter just laughed which is extremely unprofessional. The guy however did offer to come down and see how far off we were. Once back in the room he told us that we had the electrical puzzle right and he was unsure as to why it had not opened. He then opened it for us and told us to carry on with the last couple puzzles, despite time being up.
I have done other escape rooms at Confinement prior to the reset which were ok at best but this one comes off as the worst one I have ever done! 1/10 I would definitely not recommend these rooms to anyone, it was a horrible experience and we will definitely not be coming back here.
Written 19 July 2021
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Cindy-Jo Z
Mackay, Australia9 contributions
Jan 2025 • Friends
The Confinement Escape Rooms were heaps of fun. It was the first time for our group doing an escape room and while it was challenging, we had fun working through the clues. Staff at the Escape Rooms were very helpful and did what they could to make our experience enjoyable.
Written 9 January 2025
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Kim
4 contributions
Jun 2021
We enjoyed the room we did and we did manage to solve it but we failed to escape due to the way the last clue had to be entered. We had to enter a phone number into the black phone, the note on it said "enter at a steady pace" which I thought I did but it kept timing out or something like that. We spent the last 10 or so minutes trying to get the phone clue to work, so it was a disappointing way to end. Perhaps clearer instructions are needed for that particular clue.
Written 20 June 2021
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Sherpa06486811899
1 contribution
Nov 2023 • Family
Have completed 3 of their rooms so far, will definitely be back to do the rest. The rooms are fabulous, well set up, great themes. The staff are very friendly and helpful. The carpark spaces at the new venue is better.
Written 19 November 2023
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Thanks for the glowing review, great to hear you're enjoying the rooms at our new location. We look forward to having you back to ace the last two rooms!
Written 21 November 2023
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PauletteNZ
Whakatāne, New Zealand34 contributions
Nov 2016
We did an escape room as a team building event - lots of fun. In hindsight we shouldn't have started with the 'hard' room - but thoroughly enjoyed it and have since taken the kids back!
Written 13 February 2017
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Confinement
Hi Paulette,
Thank you for taking the time to write us a review.
We love feedback, and we are so glad you had a great time here at Confinement even though the hard bag was a challenge.
We hope to see you come through another room some time.
Kind Regards,
The Confinement Team.
Written 17 March 2017
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How big are the rooms?
I am wanting to go with friends but a few of them are quite claustrophobic..
Written 15 January 2021
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