After Jay's awesome Christmas escape room we planned to meet Jack and Jay in Richmond the following weekend to cash in on his gift card. Derrick and I have been to a lot of escape rooms at this point and Escape Room RVA takes the cake for the most immersive experience from start to finish. The atmosphere of the whole place is just awesome! They invite you in and have you hang out in the lounge until you start. You can help yourselves to free water, soda, beer, and popsicles while you wait. The staff is super friendly! We were impressed from the start!
The first room we did was just the four of us. It was pitch black and we had to escape using all of our senses besides sight. And it was the first room where we started in handcuffs. We got out with several minutes to spare in that room.
We did a second room that day and the room itself was great but the experience was not so great. We did the Hannibal Lecter room. The problem was we were put in the room with 6 random people. So it was 10 people total. This to me is the only downside of escape rooms. They want to fill all their slots so they allow people to sign up for rooms with random people in order to get the most money for the room. From a business perspective...fine...I get it I guess. From an experience perspective it is a huge let down. Jay said it best afterwards...one of the coolest rooms we had been in, one of the worst experiences we had ever had in a room. We ended up getting out with 3 minutes to spare (one of our worst times) and we all feel like we would have gotten out much faster without the other six.
Derrick and I have already decided we're ditching that business model if we ever open our own escape room.
This is the only picture I managed to get for the weekend. Thanks to Jay for the rest!
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