About this venue
Hotel Veloria in Volkel (formerly 'Kamer 237') is one of the highest-rated escape room locations in the Netherlands, where the entire building itself is the fiction: a hotel that never quite lets you check out. Staff stay in character from the car park onwards — beds are 'made', luggage is 'taken to your room' and hints arrive as hotel service. The four rooms play with a blurry line between game and reality: the Shining-like 'Kamer 237' (1970), the surreal 'Lost and Found' in a lost-and-found department (1982), the puzzle-clever 'De Conciërge' for exactly two players (winner of a Room Escape Artist Golden Lock 2025) and the children's room 'Piccolo Pim'. With an escapetalk score of 9.0 across roughly 1,000 reviews, visitors praise the original puzzles, the atmosphere and the feeling of being completely immersed in the story; complaints are rare and at most concern the difficulty for beginners.
Review scores
Rooms
- Kamer 237Shining-achtige horror-mystery uit 1970: schrijver Charles Grady checkte in met zijn gezin en nooit meer uit
- Lost and FoundNajaar 1982: je zoekt in een gevonden-voorwerpenafdeling van koffers een koffer terug voor de herinneringen vervagen
- De ConciërgeSollicitatie naar de conciërgebaan onder een veeleisende manager; puzzelrijke kamer voor precies 2 spelers
- Piccolo PimKinderkamer (8+): piccolo Pim heeft zichzelf opgesloten in Kamer 237
What visitors say
- Staff stay completely in character, from car park to finale
- Original, tactile puzzles where every object is story-relevant
- You become completely immersed in the story — atmosphere and décor are praised
- Challenging for beginners
- Room Escape Artist wished the hints were even more in-fiction and the finale more elaborate
From the reviews
Leukste escaperoom voor 2 personen die wij tot nu toe hebben gedaan. Originele en spannende elementen, leuke hersenkrakers.— EscapeRoomsNederland
Geweldig, tot in detail uitgewerkt. Degene die je ontvangt zit helemaal in het verhaal.— EscapeRoomsNederland
De beste kamer die we ooit gespeeld hebben! Zeer de moeite waard.— EscapeRoomsNederland
One of the best rooms I played! The scenarios are well-constructed, logical, interesting and enjoyable.— Google
Room 237 is daring, challenging, systematically great, and above all lots of fun!— Google