About The Great Game

Introducing The Great Game team - Bryn Powell & Nick Cakebread

Both from Bedfordshire we've been friends since meeting each other in year 4 of Bedford Modern School.

After graduating from Leeds and Nottingham Trent University we set up Containers Hostel a yearly summer hostel in Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival and the first in the world to be made from shipping containers!

This led us to a problem of what to do with the rest of the year? So we launched Escape London which sent Londoners on mystery day trips outside of London. Through this we were asked to do a treasure hunt which is where The Great Game was born and slowly what Escape London turned into. Starting with a single route in The City of London we have grown to 15 cities across the UK and 1 in Burma!     

Why Myanmar? After many a rainy summer at the hostel in Edinburgh we were looking to do a hostel in the sun. We fell in love with Burma backpacking around the country in 2016 and returned in 2017 to take over Lover View Hotel in Ngwe Saung Beach. Now renamed Lover View Pool Bar & Bungalows we have put our own stamp on it and have just launched The Great Game Ngwe Saung Beach.      

We will be expanding The Great Game to more exciting locations watch this space!