Looking for immersive experiences in London? Well, good, because I’m the UK’s biggest independent immersive experience blogger. Whenever an immersive experience launches in London, I’m there no matter how weird it is. I have visited more than 100 so far!

Below London’s best immersive experiences that I have tried and tested, organised by type. This article gets updated regularly, check the last published date for the latest update time and you’ll find 30+ immersive experiences here at all times.

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THIS MONTH’S HIGHLIGHT

Gingerline The Grand Expedition

The Grand Expedition is an incredible edible journey that transports you to clouds and back, tantalising all your senses without ever needing to leave the table. An ambitious fusion of live animation, acrobatics, culinary invention, and exquisite set design will push the boundaries of what a dining experience can be. Join like-minded adventurers for an adventure as you indulge in worldy courses of exquisite food while immersed in a dreamscape land. Book now.

OVERNIGHT IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES

The Locksmith Dream

The Locksmith’s Dream is a one of a kind and critically acclaimed series of luxury immersive overnight experiences. You will step into a 17th Century manor house seemingly trapped in the 1920, and unravel its narrative mysteries, solve puzzles and enjoy the unique atmosphere of the house and its grounds. You’ll join fellow guests in sifting through the history of the house and its previous inhabitants, supported by the curious staff who seem deeply connected to the house. You’ll dine by candlelight in opulent oak-clad halls and as night falls, you’ll don your unique mask to wander in the strangeness of ‘The House of the Moon’. An experience so good Neil Patrick Harris has personally visited it! There are tickets available for September 26th to 27th and 29th to 30th. If those dates don’t work you can pay a deposit for a later date. Book now.

Key of Dreams

Following the success of The Locksmith Dream, Key of Dreams was born. The Key of Dreams is an immersive Lovecraftian experience like no other. The Key of Dreams is a new luxury, overnight experience combining immersive theatre, narrative puzzles, and fine dining in an interactive macabre world which you help shape. It is an event spread over twenty four hours in a historic manor house where fact and fiction rub shoulders over sumptuous meals in the oak clad banqueting hall. You will take it in your own time – racing to uncover all the answers, luxuriating in one story at depth or anything in between. And for the brave or curious, you can opt in to stay overnight in the house itself to see what dreams may come. This new experience is already available to book in various dates in 2024. Book now.

LONDON’S IMMERSIVE THEATRICAL EXPERIENCES

Acid Bath Murder Experience

The Acid Bath Murderer Experience invites you to re-live the life of the notorious serial killer: John George Haigh. The journey will take you through a number of 360 degree immersive sets full of special effects. You won’t just be a bystander though. The Acid Bath Murderer Experience is fully interactive, featuring Escape Game style challenges and puzzles to deepen the narrative. Hounds who are behind it, are an award winning immersive-experience-meets-escape-game production company. Their previous experiences are amongst the Top 500 escape rooms in the world, and I can see why! Their venue in Crawley is super easy to get to them from London via a quick train, and I can guarantee you that you won’t regret it. Book it here.

Candlelight

Concerts illuminated by candlelight? I’m definitely in! Fever has recently launched Candlelight, affordable and intimate concerts performed by live musicians in some of the most iconic venues in London that transport you to a fairytale. I had the chance to attend a concert in the beautiful conservatory in Syon Park to listen to City String Ensemble play Movie Soundtrack Disney classics, and I might have shed a tear or two. Book it here.

Hi there, old sport, are you up for a night of lovely food, dressing up, dancing and theatre? Then you’ll love Immersive Gatsby!

Immersive Gatsby is a theatrical immersive experience based on Scott’s Fitzgerald novel ‘The Great Gatsby’. If you haven’t seen the movie or read the book, I encourage you to do so before visiting. It will be more fun to be able to relate the characters to what you know. If I have to be honest, I did not know what to expect of this evening but as an immersive experience lover I knew I had to live it.