US Highway 19 Motel

Yikes. This is a great example of a room that breaks every golden rule of escape rooms imaginable. Poor construction , an unfocused, confused (and confusing) story, and multiple puzzles that are not only NOT in theme, but just plain don’t work or logically don’t make sense at all. Flow. It’s a word you see used a lot in reviews, but it cannot be stressed enough. Flow, flow, flow is the single most important thing an escape room must have in order to succeed. I can forgive bad set decor and limited budgets if the game is at least well thought out and makes the most of what they have to work with. This did none of that, and just left us scratching our heads for the majority of its duration. I hate giving bad reviews, because I don’t like hurting small businesses, but occasionally it’s unavoidable. With the ever changing and growing expectations of today’s escape room landscape, and the fact this costs $32 PER PERSON for a below sub par experience, it’s actually offensive. It’s not fun. It’s not clever. It’s cheap, worn out, nonsensical, braindead and ugly. And you should absolutely avoid it, at all costs.

My group and I really wanted to give this room the benefit of the doubt but it ended out being very disappointing. We’ve played other haunted hotel themed rooms before, and they were far better than this outing. The gameplay did not flow well at all, the storyline was very confusing and hard to follow. The game master ended up having to come and let us out of the room because the final puzzle was not plugged in and didn’t trigger the game completion notif.

It’s okay. Functional but not exceptional. I really really liked the theme a lot and wish it had been pushed further but I guess it’s a budgetary constraint. Not a bad way to spend an afternoon so there’s that at least.

this room was meh. I enjoyed some of the puzzles but there wasn't really any flow, and I didn't understand the story at all.

Boring, couldn't follow to make sense of story, and puzzles were lame.

Slower than zombies, like local connection, ending a little too open ended for story.

I liked the puzzles and the flow of the room.