Prison Island London

Prison Island is not one escape room but 31 small ones. Fever’s listing describes a hall of themed cells in Islington, each holding a single challenge for brains, skill or teamwork, and your team roams between them freely while one overall clock runs down. The operator’s cell list gives the flavour: Whack a Mole, Basket, Laser Gun, Mastermind, The Vault, Shark Bay, Submarine. A cell takes a few minutes, a win is worth 25 to 100 points, and you can walk straight back in and try again if you fail.

That format is why it works for groups who do not all like the same thing. Fever bills it as a mix of mental and physical games for ages 7 to 77, and reviewers on Fever pick out exactly that: a teenager can carry the team through the climbing and balancing cells while a parent handles the logic ones. Scores appear live on screens in reception and around the game area, with up to 29 teams playing at once, so there is always another team to overtake. Fever says more than 100,000 people have played.

Reviews are strong: 4.5 (4.46) from 1,964 reviews on Fever on 11 November 2026. The recurring themes are friendly, helpful staff, birthdays that went well, and families who ran out of time before they ran out of cells and say they will go back to finish. Fever notes that people usually spend 90 minutes playing, which matches the middle ticket.

Tickets are sold by game length. On Fever on 11 November 2026 the 1h30 adult ticket was 29.30 pounds with Fever’s fee, which is also Fever’s headline from price; one hour was 25.10 and two hours 34.54, with lower prices for ages 7 to 17 and students. The venue is run with Make It Now, the French leisure group behind Prison Island in London, and its own site sends you to the same Fever listing to buy, so there is no cheaper direct price to hunt for. Sessions are on sale to 31 March 2027.

Getting there is simple. The hall is on Hornsey Street, next to Holloway Road station on the Piccadilly line, and there is a bar with seating in reception for afterwards.

London has plenty of single-story escape rooms; this is the one on Fever built around many short games and a scoreboard, and it has by far the deepest review record of its kind: 4.5 from 1,964 reviews on Fever on 11 November 2026. In the same listing’s suggestions, BuzzAttack showed 4.6 from 102 reviews and Race Across the World: The Experience 4.9 from 141 at 50 pounds a head. Prison Island’s second London venue, at Westfield in Shepherd’s Bush, has different cells but its first sessions on Fever start on 26 November 2026 and it has no rating yet, so Islington is the one with a track record. If your group would rather sit down with a drink, Moonshine Saloon is our cocktail show.