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Trapped! Escape Room

The Menagerie

Okay, I don't usually leave reviews for things. I rate them and move on with my life.
But the audacity, ridiculousness and insult to what makes escape rooms in general is an affront no one should have to experience again.

We had arrived on-time for a "Halloween" version of this escape room, use the bathroom which is on the total opposite end of another building. Sure, not their fault where the bathrooms are but this clearly had an impact on their timing with bookings.
Why? Well, as soon as we were ready to go, the VERY indifferent host had given us the rundown in a very lackadaisical manner. Maybe she was having a bad day, but how is that our fault?
We get into the room, and almost immediately, they nudge and do too much guiding without us asking for a single hint on this miserable journey through this middlesome room. We go along and despite us not completing certain puzzles, they unlock doors, which is tedious because the whole point is to get through on our own using our brains. I'm no imbecile, and I hate to be assumed as one simply because you might usually have imbeciles playing at your room. I might be a sucker for paying a PREMIUM for this godawful, badly designed room which a lot of the puzzles don't even make sense, and parts fall off. But an idiot, I'm not. So we get to the second portion of this room, and the "Halloween" aspect is some poor actor pretending to be a yapping dog. Wow, how terrifying that must be to a toddler. I am no toddler. As they're nudging our way through EVERY puzzle, suddenly they play the ending.
The ending of this involves using a gas to incapacitate a murderer. One we had not seen once except for this very moment when he's just idling in the first room.

Now, this bothered the HELL out of me for various reasons: I have played this room before. A while ago to forget it, but for some reason, I thought their "Halloween" edition would be any sort of interesting. It sure wasn't, there were no "extra scares" as their website lied about that, and there was nothing added. But the insult on all of this was they came in and said we escaped, to which I was VERY confused about. This awful host explained that the first room is the actual room, the entire rest of it which is about half the experience is "just a bonus". What a load of nonsense. The very core of an escape room is to solve all puzzles and play the story to escape. This took out about 40% of that.
I was clearly angry, upset and felt ripped off. I still do, as they obviously had only 10 minutes until their next game and had to reset the room for the next round of people foolish enough to have booked this.

Don't book this. Don't go here. Don't waste your money.
It isn't fun, it isn't special, it isn't a good time. You're best to go somewhere else where you'll at least have a chance of that.

I know I won't make this same mistake again for all Trapped! Escape Rooms.

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