The World's eight best escape rooms worth traveling for!

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Are you excited by the title? I mean, you should be! 10 Best Escape Rooms? Every escape room lover's dream! But we've covered you even if you don't know what escape rooms are! Let's go along on this ride, shall we?


Escape Rooms are the rooms where you go to play but in real time! In simple terms, you get locked up or stuck in a room where it's hard to escape. And now you have to find tools or a way out of it. And the way out is laced inside the room with puzzles, clues, and hints in between! So, everything is laid out in front of you to solve it. In short, with the help of these puzzles and tips, you have to find the key or solution & then you have to escape the room!


Now that we know what Escape rooms are let's go towards the World's eight Best Escape Rooms Worth Travelling For!

 
The Laboratory in Bunschoten, the Netherlands

The thrilling escape room with only a 50% chance of getting out! It's based in Bunschoten, Netherlands, and it's quite a treat. It's often rated as the best escape room in the Netherlands! It was founded on a great storyline... The website says...

"The infamous Doctor Steiner has gone completely mad. The mysterious and cold ambiance is still present after 72 years in this first escape room of all escape rooms in The Netherlands.

Will you and your team be capable of discovering what Doctor Steiner experienced 72 years ago?"

You get time, access to the theme, several other pools, and arcade games beforehand! It's said to be very logical & based on simple problem solving that you are bound to fall in love with!

 
The Mr. X Mystery House in Shanghai

It's a famous one from China! It has five rooms full of mystery and puzzles, starting from the entrance! It's based on many themes from various cultures. You will be given one hour inside each room and can go in a group too! It's a sensory experience for both mind and body as these are hard and require your body to wriggle in small places, slide like a ninja, and even go through lasers. You must use your whole mind and body to get out of this one!

 
The Room Berlin

This is also a very challenging one! It consists of 4 rooms filled with different themes, and you're given 60-75 minutes to finish each one! These are amazingly crafted for people and offer some serious graphics and aesthetics! You will be amazed by how wonderfully they are made! Words are not enough to describe how amazing these are! They are award-winning escape rooms, so you know you are in for a real deal! They received the Golden Lock-In award in 2017 and many later on! If one visits Berlin, one should check this out!


Locked In: The Birmingham Escape Game in Birmingham: 

- This is an excellent place to explore... They have three different rooms to go and solve, which are not scary. You get 60 minutes with your team of 2-8 people. Here, you might need to find proof of a conspiracy, a cure to an epidemic, or the answer to a classroom mystery! But don't underestimate them, as they are pretty tricky to get around! You should go to Birmingham for this cause!

 
Paradox Project 2

The Bookstore Escape Room Athens: - This one is a whole house for you to solve! Filled with secret basements and passageways and a unique theme with scary elements, this is sure to get your heart pumping! You have earned yourself 200 minutes in total to solve it! It is inside a bookstore that is so unique and new. It's the best way to experience real escape as it's a whole house to solve. The pictures are something worth checking out as well. Worth visiting Athens for!

 
The Basement in Los Angeles

The city of Hollywood has a fantastic escape room on the board! This is rated as the best #1 Escape Room in the USA! And it's said to be quite scary. Many people are terrified to go there. So only go if you are a brave heart in real life! You are locked in a basement of a cannibalistic killer/psychopath who has had a traumatic childhood and a weird sense of justice revolving around him. You have only 45 minutes to do it before his dinner. With several things distracting you and scaring you on your way. Can you escape?

 
The Office in Philadelphia

What would you do if you were just stuck in an Office forever? This is a nightmare for all of us, and this escape room fulfills this nightmare! There are tables, desks, and computers filled with scary elements and loads of puzzles! You will get stuck in this dull place and feel like there is no escape like you do in real/day-to-day life. But here, you can escape! You must solve puzzles and mysteries and get out of this Office themed escape room soon!

 
The Catacombs Escape Room Paris:

Saved the best for the last! Have you heard about the Catacombs underneath the beautiful city of Paris? These are underground ossuaries (where remains of the dead are kept) in Paris, France, which hold the remains of more than six million people in a small part of a tunnel network built to consolidate Paris' ancient stone quarries. Imagine an escape room theme to this! It's not for the faint of the heart, as it's pretty scary! Do it only if you can handle these tunnels.


That's all for the ten best escape rooms in the World primarily catered to you! Do visit them once, whether you are traveling in the country. Or visit the country only for these escape rooms, if you can! Try these out, and let us know your experience in the comments below!

Author Bio: Charlotte Lin is a content creator at escaperoom.com. She’s a passionate young woman, mother to an amazing nine-year-old, and an avid reader. Over the years, writing has helped her explore and understand the world as well as her own self. She loves to travel, meet new people, and spend quality time with her daughter. You can find her on LinkedIn.  

Metro Manila subway to generate employment, bring comfort, convenience

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While the Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP) is expected to provide comfort and convenience to commuters, the Philippines’ “Crown Jewel” of mass transit system will also generate employment for Filipinos, Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista said Monday, 03 October 2022.

During the groundbreaking ceremony for the Metro Manila Subway Project’s Contract Package 104, Secretary Bautista said the project will provide over 18,000 jobs for Filipinos during its construction phase.

“Construction is estimated to create more than 18,000 jobs,” Secretary Bautista said.

According to Secretary Bautista, the Metro Manila Subway, will provide a comfortable, convenient, safe, and affordable transportation to commuters once completed.

Secretary Bautista stressed that the Department of Transportation (DOTr) is committed to complete the project at full speed as the agency “owes it to the commuting public.”

President Bongbong Marcos said the Metro Manila Subway is expected to stir up economic activity in key areas covered by the project and ensure opportunities for businesses.

“With the improved linkages of key areas and business districts in the Metro as well as the availability of stalls and other stores in the stations, and nearby markets, we can see more business opportunities to entrepeneurs, investors and additional economic activity,” President Marcos, who led the ground breaking ceremony, said.

The President added that the project is likewise expected to increase Filipinos’ efficiency with less travel time expected during their commute with the help of the underground rail line.

“As our people gain more time by cutting long hours of travel, we can now engage in more worth while and productive endeavors, making time for greater self improvement and equally important-- spending quality time with their families,” he said.

The MMSP’s Contract Package 104 (CP104) is part of the seven civil work contracts of the project, and covers the construction of the Ortigas and Shaw Blvd. Stations and tunnels with a total route length of 3.397 kilometers.

With a total of 33-kilometer route length and 17 stations, the Metro Manila Subway will cut across eight local government units that will stretch from Valenzuela City to FTI-Bicutan in Parañaque City with a spur line to NAIA Terminal 3 in Pasay City.

Funded by the Japanese government, the Metro Manila Subway will be the first underground mass transit system in the Philippines – a modern railway system that will be at par with the rest in the world.

The rail line aims to cut travel time between Quezon City and Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) from the present one hour and 10 minutes to just 35 minutes. Once operational, the underground railway system can service up to 519,000 passengers daily.

For its 21st edition, PELÍCULA Spanish Film Festival runs at the Shang for the first time

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Catch Instituto Cervantes’ film festival starting Oct. 5 at the Red Carpet!


From October 5 to 16, 2022, the 21st edition of PELÍCULA-Spanish Film Festival will return to in-person screenings. After two years of having a virtual festival, PELÍCULA will screen more than twenty movies in three venues of Metro-Manila –Edsa Shangri-La Plaza, Cine Adarna at UP Diliman, and Instituto Cervantes Intramuros branch.

Since its creation in 2002 by Instituto Cervantes de Manila, PELíCULA has been an annual attraction in Philippine theatres. After the Covid-19 crisis, which forced cinemas to close worldwide and caused audiences of PELíCULA to migrate online, the festival returns to the big screen, on a first-come, first-served free admission basis. Furthermore, as well as in-person screenings in Metro Manila, the Festival will also host online screenings for the Philippines, Malaysia and Australia.

PELÍCULA Spanish Film Festival is showcasing 13 movies at Red Carpet at the Shang kicking off with El buen patron. It’s a 2021 comedy directed by award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker Fernando León de Aranoa and starring Oscar winner Javier Bardem. It’s about an owner of an industrial scales manufacturing business who tries to get his company an award in excellence while resolving problems with his workers at the same time.

Other comedy movies in the lineup include El test, a 2022 Dani de la Orden flick about a broke couple who have to decide whether to get €100,000 now or €1,000,000 10 years later, and Con quién viajas, a dialogue-heavy road film full of comical situations and thrills and tension. It’s directed by Martín Cuervo and released in 2021.

More feel-good films are screening at the festival. La boda de Rosa is a 2020 romcom film by Icíar Bollaín that portrays a burnt-out woman in her mid-40s who sets out to start anew by marrying herself. Sentimental is a 2020 Cesc Gay film about two couples who explore the secrets of keeping the fire alive in long-term relationships. Rendir los machos, a 2021 David Pantaleón film, tells the story of two brothers who are forced to move their cattle across the wild and hand over them to their greatest rival to receive the inheritance from their father.

The festival also screens documentaries like the 2022 Laura Hojman film A las mujeres de España; María Lejárraga that tells the story María Lejárraga, writer and pioneer of feminism in Spain during the 1920s; and thrillers like La hija, Manuel Martín Cuenca’s 2021 movie about a pregnant teenager from a juvenile detention who agreed to give her baby to a couple desperate to have a child.

It also features dramas such as Maixabel, a 2021 Icíar Bollaín production based on a true story of a widow who met one of her husband’s assassins in prison after breaking ties with the Spanish separatist group ETA, and El olvido que seremos, a 2020 Colombian film by Fernando Trueba about an author recounting his life with his father who fought against oppression and social inequality and killed by Colombian paramilitaries.

PELÍCULA is also promoting Latin American films such as the Panamenian romcom Algo azul (Mariel García Spooner, 2021) on a hotel employee who steals an expensive wedding dress; and Competencia oficial, a 2021 Spanish-Argentinean comedy directed by Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn, and led by Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, and Oscar Martínez. It’s about a wealthy businessman who wants to produce a brilliant art film.

To celebrate its 21st edition, PELÍCULA is going to screen a celebrated classic Spanish film, the Cannes winner Muerte de un ciclista (Juan Antonio Bardem, 1953), which is a social realist Spanish drama about an adulterous pair of lovers whose lives are about to turn around after hitting a cyclist.

As part of its longtime tradition, the festival is encouraging moviegoers to vote for their favorite entry. The film with most votes will receive the Audience Choice Award and will be screened again on PELÍCULA’s closing night. All the movies are in Spanish or their original language with English subtitles. Catch one of the most beloved cultural events in the country, don’t miss the PELÍCULA Spanish Film Festival for the first time at the Red Carpet in Shangri-La Plaza starting October 5!

PELíCULA 2022 is a project of Instituto Cervantes in Manila and Sydney, the Embassies of Spain in the Philippines and Australia, and the AECID, in collaboration with the Film Development Council of the Philippines, Shangri-La Plaza, Instituto Etxepare, Filmoteca Vasca, the Embassy of Colombia in the Philippines, the Embassy of Panama in the Philippines, the UP Film Institute, the University of the Philippines, Intramuros Administration, Vibal Foundation, Philippine Transmarine Carriers, Acciona, Rustan’s, Arthaland, La Pícara, and Emperador.

All the screenings are FREE entrance. All the movies are in Spanish (or their original language) with English subtitles. For updates on the Festival, please visit the website of the Festival (https://pelikula.org), or the Facebook pages of Instituto Cervantes de Manila (www.facebook.com/InstitutoCervantesManila)

and Shangri-La Plaza www.facebook.com/shangrilaplazaofficial.