Budapest Express

The second escape room we did in Wichita, Kansas with my two brothers was Escapology. It was much better than The Room. Escapology is one of the largest escape room chains in the country. They develop their rooms at their headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee, and when they perfect a room, they put them all over the country. I've been to a couple of the Escapology locations, and they always have great lobbies, introduction videos, booking and check-in procedures, and friendly staff. Your game master (the person who gives you hints) is not usually the same person that shows you to your room. I don't really like that because information gets repeated, and you don't really get to know your game master. This location in located in The Alley, a giant entertainment center with an arcade, a bar/restaurant, a bowling alley, go carts, etc. The lobby of the escape room is really cool, and the waver signing process was simple. The employees were nice, but they seemed a little overwhelmed. I'm not sure why because there weren't many people there. My biggest tip for these rooms is make sure you pay attention to and remember what is in an area of the room when you move on to a new area and thoroughly search everything. We did four escape rooms at this location: Budapest Express, Mansion Murder, Under Pressure, and Cuban Crisis. This was a good room with great immersion and decor. Like most rooms, it had a mix of generation one (traditional) locks and generation two (electronic) locks, but I prefer to see more generation two locks. There were a couple clever twists in this room, but most of the puzzles/locks will be very familiar to people who have done a lot of rooms. I won't give too much away, but the ending was disappointing. There were only three of us doing the room, and a fourth person would have been helpful in this room because the ending requires people to divide and conquer. We completed it in about 55 minutes with two hints.