The Reel

This room was a fun experience that was close to being incredible. The single GM on staff was extremely kind and welcoming, and the theming of the room was unique as I’ve never seen a movie theater theme before. The set was well designed but many of the puzzles were very worn. The puzzles themselves had hints of being super special, but the wear and tear on them broke the immersion a bit. Some of the puzzles were a fun mixup on ways to input codes. Fun experience and great for newer players as it isn’t very difficult and extremely linear.

my family and i stopped in slo on our drive up to monterey, and decided to do an escape room while here. the reel is such a cute room, and has some unique and clever puzzles! our GM patrick was amazing and was super welcoming! we escaped with over 20 minutes remaining, and plan on coming back to do some of there other rooms. i would highly recommend stopping by if you're in the area!

Cute theme. I have played over 80 escape rooms and I don’t think I have ever played a movie theater theme. The game was fairly linear and mostly gen1 puzzles. Fairly lock/combo heavy, but a couple fun and unique ways of getting a code. I took a group of 5 teens and they did an amazing job. Perfect family theme and a great beginner level room. Overall, we enjoyed it.

This one was my favorite at this puzzle effect location. I love the movies so the atmosphere was awesome! Not a fan of how many lock puzzles there were. But overall it was great!

Good simple room: good set design and good puzzles. The story was meh though.

I rate this room a 3/5 (ck out my bio for rating system). All categories (theme/set, puzzles, and my experience) garnered 1 pt each. So, pretty average but enjoyable nonetheless. It was a linear-type room with relatively easy puzzles for two people with escape room experience.

It was a fun, well-done room but pretty easy. We completed it in only 35 minutes with just my son and I. It's a good room for beginners. Pretty linear.

This was a good room. It’s the one I’d most recommend here but all of them are good. There were some puzzles that were challenging to the point where I was getting frustrated. But once I knew the solution, I’d realize that the puzzle was just smarter than me. Other parts of The Reel were really fun to solve without being too easy. I remember one element involving math that was tough once our brains were fried.

It was an okay room. It was weird they marketed it as an '80s room online but it was really just a movie theater room. Maybe bc they were trying to compete with the other '80s room in the area? If it wasn't that it was marketed as one thing to me and I got there and it was completely different I probably would have given it a thumbs up. It was fun enough but I think I like their Harry Potter room better. Mostly they're just kind of the corporate escape rooms you get with a chain but they were still entertaining.

The game flowed very nicely!