Het Buitencentrum (The Old Mine)

About this venue

Het Buitencentrum in Oldebroek ('t Loo) is an outdoor activity center with a unique escape room: The Old Mine. With helmet and headlamp, your team descends into a collapsed gold mine, a real 150-meter tunnel system in the dark, where you crawl through narrow passages searching for codes and clues that you then crack in an escape room section and use to escape via the mine shaft. The innovation: part of the team sits in a 'command room' and directs the crawlers via secret instructions, an asymmetric information mechanic. The game lasts 90 minutes for 5-15 players from age 8. Reviewers (escapetalk 7.5/10) praise the physical, different-from-usual experience and find it suitable for families, but mention the decor looks somewhat cheap, the puzzles are thin for experienced players and the split team sometimes has to wait for each other.

Review scores

Rooms

• The Old MineMet helm het donker in door een echt 150 meter lang kruiptunnel-systeem van een ingestorte goudmijn; zoek codes en ontsnap via de mijnschacht (5-15 spelers, vanaf 8 jaar, 90 min)

What visitors say

• Physical, unique experience: crawling through the tunnel system strengthens the atmosphere
• Good difficulty level for families and large groups; pleasant service
• Unique, immersive tunnel experience — 'really great fun for our kids' and different from a standard room
• Physical adventure that stays with you: crawling through the narrow, dark passages is the highlight
• Suitable for large groups and fun as a children's party or team outing

• Decor looks somewhat cheap; puzzles on the thin side for experienced players
• Split team setup sometimes causes waiting time while one half waits for the other
• The group is split, so the tension within the group disappears
• Varying puzzle difficulty and waiting moments when subgroups work at different paces

From the reviews

Wij vonden deze escaperoom echt ontzettend leuk voor onze kids.— Escape Rooms Nederland

Super jammer. Wij waren er zo uit, zelfs zonder sommige codes of sleutels gevonden te hebben, gewoon door goed verstand.— Escape Rooms Nederland

Leuke escaperoom die anders is dan andere — het kruipen door het tunnelsysteem versterkt de beleving.— escapetalk

Wij vonden deze escaperoom echt ontzettend leuk voor onze kids. Helemaal op de leeftijd afgestemd— escaperoomsnederland.nl

Je wordt gesplitst, waardoor de spanning binnen de groep al wordt opgesplitst— escaperoomsnederland.nl

De kids deden een escaperoom de old mine. Deze vonden zij zeer leuk. Ze kwamen er redelijk vlot uit, waardoor ze langer konden lasergame.— Klantenvertellen