AN ESCAPE room adventure business in Bovey Tracey has won a top accolade.

Escape The Game, in Pottery Road, has been recognised as a winner in Tripadvisor’s Travelers’ Choice Awards for 2025.

The prestigious award has come as a boost for owner Leanne Taylor as the winners are among the top 10 per cent of listings around the world on Tripadvisor, based on feedback from people who have visited and left an authentic, firsthand review.

Leanne said: ‘Thanks to everyone who visited and

enjoyed their experience so much that they had left such lovely reviews, resulting in winning the award.’

Kristen Dalton, President, Tripadvisor, said: Congratulations to Escape The Game on its recognition in Tripadvisor’s Travelers’ Choice Awards for 2025.

‘Ranking among the top percentage of businesses globally means you have made such a memorable impact on your visitors that many of them took time to go online and leave a glowing review about their experience.’

After a background in marketing, Leanne set up the escape room in 2018, starting with just one game.

Now she has four different themed rooms and a

Family Fortune style quiz game with its own game show host.

There is a Christmas theme room and a mobile event which Leanne takes to festivals and events.

She explained: ‘I started the business because I wanted to create a place where people could come to have fun and create memories together.

‘In the past seven years I've had thousands of people through the door, people celebrating birthdays, family get togethers, staff parties, corporate team building, celebrities, hen and stag dos.’

One person travelled from Australia and hid inside the room to surprise his family, and one couple who had their first date there, returned a few years later, asking Leanne to write a different ending in the escape room game so that he could propose to his girlfriend.