The Wine Vault

I am so glad our group decided to do the Wine Vault because this ended up being my favorite out of the three rooms we completed in this location. The room design itself is not as impressive as some of the other places I’ve been to but I loved the puzzles and the backstory. While mostly Gen 1 puzzles (lock and key), the wine bottle puzzles were the stand out for me. In terms of service, I am not a fan of their lengthy explanations. We did share that we have done 200+ escape rooms and we sat through the first explanation by the staff member which felt lengthy. Then, we would watch the same rules again in the room. Luckily, the staff explanation for the other two rooms were the condensed version but I think we could have done with just one format of the explanation. As for the unlimited drinks service, when folks in the group ask for drinks in the middle of the experience, it takes me out of the immersion. This is just a personal preference but I think I would have preferred for there to be a place where folks can place their drinks if they want a refill with a note of what they would like that drink to be. That way, we don’t need to call out the game master for this. Finally, they don’t let you take group photos in the room. You have to go outside to the lobby and take photos with their unique props. The background of escape rooms have a special place in my heart so when they shared that they don’t let us take photos of the rooms, I was slightly disappointed. The props themselves were not too impressive either. If the props were more impressive, I may have been slightly less disappointed. Overall, Wine Vault is the best room out of the three - it felt spacious inside and it could be done by splitting up in search for clues.

Highly recommend Grapevine Escape! Our group of 5 completed The Wine Vault with 8 minutes to spare. The owner, Amber, was so friendly and clearly takes pride in her business, as she should. The customer service was A+. The room was difficult but extremely fun. We are looking forward to going back and completing the other 2 escape rooms.

A very fun room! We loved the design and the puzzles. We all worked together very well on this one. We enjoyed it much better than Focustec Labs. The attention to detail on this was awesome. Again the employees are great.

My first escape room it was fun.

Great room (as all at Grapevine Escape are). Well-themed, flowed really well, difficult but everything made sense and was logical. Unique theme (well-tailored for the area) and puzzles that kept your interest. A really fun room - highly recommend!

Great game! The room is lovely and well lit. The theme and storyline are fun. The puzzles are fun. Nice flow.

We had a great time at The Wine Vault. The staff was very friendly and we were surprised to learn that we could purchase unlimited alcoholic drinks for 20 dollars at the start of the experience. The puzzles flowed well, and although there weren’t any revolutionary twists or turns, the puzzles were all satisfying to complete. Overall, this is a great mom and pop escape room with well thought out puzzles.

The room was ok, some clever puzzles and decent atmosphere. Though one of the keypads was not working and they interrupted our game play with many unrequested clues. However, the staff, while very friendly, was very overbearing. We arrived 10 minutes early for our room and then sat in the lobby being bombarded with rules and over explanation of the locks, and a meandering rambling explanation of the story. 25 minutes later we were finally led into the room. Once we were in the room we watched another video explaining the room rules and locks followed by a very poorly produced video intro of the room. I felt exhausted by the time we finally started. The staff was very friendly just not very professional. The 25 minutes of meandering exposition could be replaced with a 30 second rules video and a 60 second plot video. That should be more than enough to explain even to a beginner escape room patron. It was not all bad, they did have some nice touches. It was out friends birthday and she received a card from the staff.

Really fun room. Really unique puzzles & great storytelling. Amazing staff. Great mom and pop escape room to support.

Amazing room and amazing staff. Just an overall amazing experience!!