Sherlock Holmes: Night of the Vampire
Introduction:
"Greetings, It is with great care and fair warning that I send this letter to you. In all my years, I have never witnessed anything as astonishing as what I have uncovered. This strange case not only baffles me but has me questioning my own sanity. I summon you to meet with me as soon as possible, so I may provide you some details of this mystifying case." - S. H.
Location: The 13th Room
Parking: Public parking lot north of escape room - Free for two hours until 8pm. After 8pm, it is $2 for the entire night.
Price Paid: $44 per person ($34 per person with promo code)
Date Completed: February 25, 2018
Number of Escape Artists: 5 (including 1 newbie)
Hint System: 3 hints limit via live actor in escape room experience
Result: ESCAPED! - 58 minutes 50 seconds
Creativity: 5
Difficulty: 3
Immersiveness: 5
Fun Factor: 5
OVERALL: 4.5
Note. For OVERALL means, 1 = WTF?; 2 = Take a gander; 3 = You can book it; 4 = You should book it now; 5 = OMG! You should've booked it yesterday!
Summary
- Recommend 4-5 escape artists
- 75 minute escape room
- Linear flow
- Creepy atmosphere, not scary
- So many rooms!
- Great use of a live actor
- Good story line - Nick explained in-depth after the escape experience
- Puzzles were a good balance been non-tech and hi-tech
- Wish we had paper and pen
Kyle, one of the game masters, did a really great job introducing the escape room and making sure the newbie in our group was comfortable before starting. Nick, did an amazing job being the live actor.
In regards to the escape room itself, it was amazing to see how many rooms were involved in this escape room. We could tell that there was a lot of effort made in designing and detailing the rooms. One of the biggest rules of the escape room was to not touch the beautiful paintings on the wall.
The escape room was NOT scary. It just had a creepy atmosphere due to the music, flickering lights and lack of lighting. We loved the feel of the escape room and the 75 minutes is plenty of time to get out. We felt that the escape room needed paper and a pen/pencil for some puzzles. Having none of these items made it fairly difficult to solve some puzzles.
Overall, it was a great experience. The 13th room escape rooms are very under-rated and their rooms need to be checked out by escape room artists of all experiences.