London’s Very Best Immersive Experiences 2025

Fancy being transported to another time, place or dimension? How about being plummetted right into the middle of your favourite game show? From virtual reality to themed parties and unique theatre, here are London’s very best immersive experiences.

London’s Best Immersive Experiences 2025

The Crystal Maze Live Experience

Inspired by the popular 90s TV show, at The Crystal Maze Live Experience, visitors can expect 90s vibes galore across four zones: Industrial, Futuristic, Medieval and Aztec. Guided by your dedicated Maze Master, across 75 minutes, you’ll experience a whole host of mental and physical challenges, racing against the clock with frantic, frenetic energy to solve mysteries, manoeuvre around obstacles and utilize your wits to decipher cryptic clues. All the while, you’re on a mission to gather as many Crystals as possible, which will earn you more time in the eponymous Crystal Dome. It’s like an escape room, except you get to do 16 of them, and you’re only faced with each puzzle for one to three minutes. Expect high energy competitiveness and motivational bonding, whether you visit with friends, family or colleagues.

Details: For groups of up to 8 people at 22–32 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 7EU. Prices start from £62 each and can be booked at the-crystal-maze.com

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The Traitors: Live Experience

When you watch The Traitors, are you plagued by a sneaky feeling you could outsmart the contestants? If you’re camera shy but willing to put your money where your mouth is, this new immersive experience is the perfect solution. Including everything from a blindfolded selection process to heart-racing missions to roundtables from the BBC’s smash hit TV series, The Traitors: Live Experience is a two-hour taste of what we see (and love) on screen. Find out more here.

Details: The Traitors: Live Experience will open in Covent Garden in July 2025. Tickets start from £29.50pp and can be booked at thetraitorslive.co.uk

Race Across The World: The Experience

Are you one of the UK’s many fans of Race Across The World? If you’re not ready to abandon your day job, up sticks and embark on an adventure of your own, this brand new London immersive experience is the next best thing. Spanning two to three hours, Race Across The World: The Experience puts contestants out on the streets of London on a 4–5km mission, spanning renowned pubs, cultural hotspots and famous landmarks, all deciphered from cryptic puzzles and functioning as the ‘checkpoints’ we know from the TV series. If you’ve been meaning to skip the tube and see more of London, here’s your excuse. There won’t be any strolling and dawdling, though: it’s a race, after all.

Details: Race Across The World: The Experience is expected to launch in spring 2025. Sign up to the waitlist at raceacrosstheworldexperience.com

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The Paddington Bear™ Experience

The large-scale interactive Paddington Bear™ Experience opened its doors on the Southbank last year, with plenty of marmalade goodness unfolding across a 26,000 sqft space. Get ready to be thrown into the thick of the action as you embark on a mission to help Paddington and the Brown family prepare for a very special day – The Marmalade Day Festival, no less – immersed in iconic locations from the films including Paddington Station and culminating in a Windsor Gardens extravaganza. Guests can expect numerous themed rooms, interactive games, character interactions and plenty of surprises.

Details: The Paddington Bear™ Experience is open daily at County Hall (Belvedere Road, London SE1 7GP). Tickets start from £24 and can be booked at paddingtonbearexperience.com

Jeff Wayne’s The War of The Worlds: The Immersive Experience

Travel back in time to HG Wells’ dark Victorian England in a multi-sensory immersive experience, taking place at The Old London Metal Exchange. Using immersive theatre, virtual reality, augmented realit holograms and other cutting-edge technology, visitors will be able to experience the fictional Martian invasion narrated in HG Wells’ War Of The Worlds, and in Jeff Wayne’s musical interpretation of the story. Audiences will be guided along in small groups of 12 by live and virtual actors, as they walk, crawl and slide through different scenes: from drinking tea in a Victoria household while Martians roam outside to witnessing an enormous Martian Fighting Machine rise above them in virtual reality. The experience stimulates all the senses – you’ll smell the grass and feel the chill of the story’s famous Horsell Common, and feel the ground shake as the first cylinder lands. The total run lasts for 110 minutes, including a 20-minute intermission in the Red Weed Bar. Finish by enjoying a bite to eat and a drink at the steampunk themed bar.

Details: Jeff Wayne’s The War of The Worlds: The Immersive Experience is open Wednesday to Sunday at 56 Leadenhall Street, London, EC3A 2BJ. Tickets start from £39pp and can be booked at thewaroftheworldsimmersive.com

Bubble Planet

Having debuted in Milan and since expanded to LA and Brussels, this family-friendly immersive experience is all about unleashing your inner child. Guests are invited to delve into 11 bubble-themed rooms, journeying through fantastical landscapes and interactive scenery. Expect to find colours, lasers, lights, 360-degree projects, virtual reality and, of course, bubbles aplenty.

Details: Guests can find Bubble Planet at 22 Fulton Road, Wembley HA9 0TF. Note that Bubble Planet is usually closed on Tuesdays. Tickets start at £18 for adults; VIP tickets, group bundles and family passes are also available. Book at bubble-planet.com

The Big London Bake

So close to The Great British Bake Off, you can taste it. All you need to bring from your cupboard is yourself and a friend. The Big London Bake provides all the ingredients you’ll need to bake the monthly recipe. With instructions by your side, a professional baker on hand and a trove of customisable decorations in the ‘creation corner’, your team will have the keys to create a winning masterpiece or a right old mess.

Details: The Big London Bake has two venues: Haggerston (Under the Bridge, Lee St, London E8 4ED) and Tooting (The Castle, 38 Tooting High St, London SW17 0RG). Tickets start from £32.40pp and can be booked at thebiglondonbake.com

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One Way Ticket

Ever wanted to step into the crime novels written by the likes of Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle? With the help of British Pullman, now you can. The iconic steam train is inviting passengers to hop aboard and be transported back to 1951, where a group of characters are making their way to London for the Festival of Britain. Disaster falls, however, when someone is found murdered. It’s up to you, along with your fellow passengers, to solve the case and find the culprit before it’s too late. The journey will take you on a circular route through Kent, starting and finishing at London Victoria, and comes with a specially curated five-course menu and a bottle of wine. Read more about the experience here.

Details: Select dates, departing from Victoria Station (Victoria Street, London SW1E 5ND). Book at belmond.com

Nikos Taverna at Mamma Mia! The Party

Mamma Mia! The Party

Mamma Mia! fan? This is the immersive experience of dreams: a big party dedicated to the sun-soaked movie musical, featuring an all-singing, all-dancing cast, plus a delicious Greek feast to tuck into while they party around you. If you’re well-acquainted with Sophie and Donna’s stories, get ready for a different story to be told at this party: we meet Nikos, Kate, Adam and Konstantina who navigate family life in a Greek taverna in Skopelos.

Details: Wednesday to Sunday evenings, with matinee performances on Saturdays and Sundays at The O2 (Unit 6.05, The O2 Peninsula Square, London SE10 0DX). Tickets can be purchased at mammamiatheparty.co.uk

The Making of Harry Potter At Warner Bros. Studio Tour London

Celebrating 11 years since opening, the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London has launched a selection of new features at its immersive ‘The Making of Harry Potter’ tour, called ‘Discovering Hogwarts’, bringing Harry’s early years at Hogwarts to life. Visitors can now see 400 floating candles in the Great Hall, learn the filmmaking secrets behind the floating feather when Harry mastered the Wingardium Leviosa spell with Ron and Hermione in Professor Flitwick’s Charms Class, watch a live demonstration of how Robbie Coltrane’s body double was fitted with stilts and a prosthetic head to achieve Hagrid’s towering height, and create an origami ‘Sorting Ceremony’ chatterbox to take away.

Details: Warner Bros. Studio Tour is open everyday at Studio Tour Drive, Leavesden, Watford WD25 7LR. Tickets can be booked at wbstudiotour.co.uk

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Witness For The Prosecution

Situated in the spectacular Chamber Room in the old London County Hall on the Southbank, Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution is London’s longest-running site-specific theatre production. A story of justice, passion and betrayal, viewers are immersed in court room surroundings as the gripping plot unfolds. Leonard Vole is accused of murdering a widow to inherit her wealth. Will Leonard survive the shocking witness testimony? Will he be able to convince the jury – and you – of his innocence, and escape the hangman’s noose?

Details: Tuesday–Sunday behind the London County Hall (Belvedere Road, London Eye Street SE1 7PB). Tickets can be booked at witnesscountyhall.com

Deadwood Valley Experience at Sandbox VR London

Do you have the skills to survive a zombie apocalypse? Test your metal against the ravenous hordes of Deadwood Valley, the latest gaming experience at Holborn’s Sandbox VR. Can you save civilians and protect the professor – thereby safeguarding humanity’s last chance of a cure from a terrifying plague? Expect genuine immersion through haptic vests (you’ll feel the buzz of any stray bullets and bites), full-body tracking, and even wind simulation to transport you into this incredible (and sometimes terrifying) world. And if zombies are less your thing, the immersive-studio-cum-experiential designers offer a range of games, from the futuristic Amber Sky to the swashbuckling and family-friendly Curse Of Davy Jones. Make sure – no matter which game you choose to save the world in – to finish your experience with a cocktail whipped up by Sandbox’s own robot bartender.

Details: Everyday at The Post Building (High Holborn, London WC1A 1PB). Tickets can be booked at sandboxvr.com

The Murdér Express

Climb aboard The Murdér Express, an immersive experience set on a glamorous 19th century-style train in East London. Sip drinks from Pedley Street Station’s ‘Seven Sins’ Bar and enjoy food from MasterChef finalist Louisa Ellis as the mysterious story unfolds around you. As you journey to the (fictional) town of Murdér, expect to be joined by characters such as East End Costermonger Frank, a music hall star Tilley and local antique dealer Cliff.

Details: Thursday to Sunday at Pedley Street Station (Arch 63 Pedley Street, London E1 5BW). Tickets start from £74.60pp and can be booked at themurderexpress.com

Hijingo Bingo

This is bingo – but not as you know it. Held in an 8,000 sq ft space in Shoreditch, Hijingo Bingo combines live entertainment with video, music and audio effects to create an immersive experience where players will be kept on the edge of their seats. There’s an array of prizes to win, and those who strike gold will be showered with glory on a podium-like stage. As they play, visitors can also enjoy cocktails and Asian-inspired dishes, from bao buns to dirty rice and classic burgers.

Details: Hijingo is open everyday at 90 Worship St, London EC2A 2AP. hijingo.com

SENSAS

SENSAS is all about playing with and exploring your senses, encouraging visitors to face their fears and lose control like never before. Groups experience a series of challenges over two hours, some in complete darkness. Best of all, you collect tokens throughout the experience which are then converted into a real donation to SENSAS’ charity partner, Disability Snowsport UK, supporting people with disabilities.

Details: Open everyday at SENSAS London (Arch 17 Miles St, London SW8 1RZ). london.sensas.top

Immersive Gamebox

Whether it’s a fun and unique date night, a friends gathering or a team building outing with colleagues, Immersive Gamebox is the ideal choice for healthy competition. Players can choose from the likes of Squid Game and Angry Birds, playing in a private Gamebox which comes alive with projection mapping, motion tracking and surround sound.

Details: Venues in Shoreditch (2a, & 2b, Principal Pl, Worship St, London EC2A 2BA), Southbank (Arch 3, 83 Scoresby Street, London SE1 0XN) & Wandsworth (GRAVITY Wandsworth Southside, Wandsworth High Street, London SW18 4TF). immersivegamebox.com

Supperclub Tube

A tube carriage might not be your first thought when it comes to fine dining, but Supperclub Tube has been pleasing diners for six years now. Set on a decommissioned 1967 Victoria line carriage in Walthamstow, Nick Atkins and head chef Bea serve up a delicious, Latin inspired six course feast, drawing on ancestral and modern techniques and British seasonal produce. It doesn’t get more London than this.

Details: Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings at Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum (10 S Access Rd, London E17 8AX). Find out more at supperclub.tube