LOCATION: Katwijk aan Zee, Netherlands
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📝 ETR DECODER
🔑 GAME: Bella Ciao
📅 DATE PLAYED: May 19, 2023
🎬 GENRE: Heist
🧠 DIFFICULTY (Based on 4 ppl): 6/10
👥 TOTAL # OF PLAYERS: 2-6 ppl (Ages 14+)
🕒 LENGTH OF TIME: 70 Mins (2PPL + 10MIN)
💰 PRICE: €129.95/ 2 ppl
☎️ BOOKING TYPE: Private
🔓 ESCAPED/ COMPLETED?: Yes (41:30)
📖 THE STORY
You have been invited to join the Professor’s team and help pull off the bank heist of the century! You are tasked with stealing only a specific amount of cash from the vault before you make your way to the hideout. Can you figure out what to steal and how to get away in time?
🎯 HIT THE BULLSEYE
We were welcomed into the premises by the owners and took a moment to relax in their comfortable waiting area. In addition to the usual tables, chairs, and lockers, you can expect to find beverages and flyers advertising many of the other top games in the Netherlands. It is great to see how all these companies support one another.
"Bella Ciao" is perhaps the most high-budget and well produced game of this genre, as based on the Netflix TV show - "La casa de papel (Money Heist)". The attention to detail, relating the décor to the characters and theme is the best I have encountered.
The rooms within the game are designed to follow the original story arch and play out the most memorable scenes, such as those in the classroom, banking hall, and vault.
The puzzles are nonlinear meaning teams can decide to complete them together or to separate and solve them simultaneously.
We found the puzzles to be thematic and contain a good level of variety, drawing on observation, deduction, and a little dexterity.
🧩 MISSED THE MARK
We would have appreciated some more complexity to the puzzles.
🏹 TAKE A SHOT?
Fans of the show will no doubt appreciate how well made this game is and will enjoy
reliving key moments from the show. That said, you do not need to have watched the
show to enjoy it and understand what is going on.
ℹ️ ADDITIONAL INFO
Parking: Free Parking is onsite
There is a large waiting area with seating, beverages for sale, and a bathroom.
This game can be played in English & Dutch
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Disclosure: We thank Escape Room Katwijk for comping our tickets for this game. Although discounted admission was generously provided, it does not impact our opinion of the review whatsoever.
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