Review of "Mayday" at KW Escape

KW Escape · Kitchener

Airplane cockpit instruments facing a foggy runway
8.8out of 10

Mayday (Kitchener)

  • Theme Consistency9.5
  • Story & Puzzle Quality7.5
  • Environment & Ambience8
  • Bonus Items10

You and your team took a flight with McCarthy Airlines to Belize. Suddenly, the plane experiences turbulence and "mayday" calls are announced. You survive the crash, but now you must rebuild the GPS device before the 60-minute back up power runs out.

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KW Escapes is really doing some special things. Unique rooms, high attention to detail, considering the full 360 degree experience, really great customer service… Need I go on?

I will.

I don’t want to give away too much about the room but it’s clear from the outside of the room that there is a literal, real airplane cockpit in this room. I will also say that during the “take off” of the flight, the effects were so real that I was starting to feel some motion sickness. These are the details that take a room into a top tier experience. The best built “office” room just isn’t on the same plane as a room that includes an airport, a jungle, and elaborate caves.

Same… plane???

This space is so big. 6-8 people would be very comfortable in this space and have plenty to do. Even a larger corporate team building event would be good here. We’ve escaped 74.5% of the rooms we’ve done as a duo and there is no way a team of two can do this in an hour. A seasoned team of four, maybe. It’s a medium-hard room.

There’s lots to do and most of it can be done asynchronously. There’s a good combination of traditional, physical, and technical puzzles. You will need attention to detail, a good memory, and multi-tasking.

It’s because there’s so much to do in this space that makes it have an exceptional value. There is, what we call, 360 degrees of immersion. That’s walls, floors, ceilings, sounds, and other ambient effects. You will climb, you will crawl, you will move quickly, you will have to slow down and look at details. You will look straight up for clues and look straight down for solutions. You will have a lot of fun.

We can’t say enough about how fun this room is and how amazing the KW staff are. Please hit book now and invite as many friends as you can!

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