The Observatorium

Especially for an escape room on a cruise ship, I thought it was really good! It’s a public room, but the puzzles are pretty non-linear, so you don’t have to work too closely with strangers if you don’t want to. The scenery was great and it had some novel puzzles. It wasn’t one of the best I’ve ever done or anything, but it was not one of the worst by a long shot! Very fun activity if you ever sail on the Mariner, worth the cost.

It’s not worth it.

We booked the room with friends without realizing we would be paired with two other groups to fill the room. The biggest obstacle is working with other people who either think they are a genius or are not great at communicating with the group. The GM wasn’t super helpful either. It was an experience I’m glad I took part in just to say I did it, but I think I would have rather spent money on making my own sushi rolls.

We booked this on our last cruising day and were paired with two other groups. We were 12 of us in total and had plenty for the entire group to work on. All the puzzles kept us busy and the end was a fun way to see it all come together!

Super cute! It’s not a private room and we were lucky to be paired with 2 other really fun groups for a total of 10 of us. At first we were worried it would be too many people but it ended up being perfect. Most of the puzzles could be worked on at the same time so everyone had things to work on and no one stood around. The puzzles were fun and challenging for a family environment. The room and props were really well done and high end, we went in not expecting much and were very pleasantly surprised!

Fun room, but definitely not for enthusiasts. The GM entered our non-private room about 10 minutes in and pushed the team through all of the puzzles, and we finished with 18mins on the clock due to that. For their average customer, first time players, I can see why they would do this, but it was not a typical escape room experience by any means. If you go into it knowing that, it’s fun!

Fun escape room with amazing look and feel. On the surface looks basically identical to others on other Royal Caribbean ships, but the puzzles and challenge are different. GM were helpful but not intrusive. And were more than happy to let you take pictures and explain puzzles after the game was over.