Code Zone - Petaluma Escape Room — Attraction in Petaluma

We booked for Friday night on a Wednesday afternoon this last week and THAT was super easy and user friendly right from my phone. We chose X-marks the spot! Age appropriate I’d say makes sense for 9 and up. We had our 10 yr old son and newly turned 13 yr old boys. We were all challenged! Room is decorated with pirate ship themed items including two dressed up skeletons and a ship vibe. We did not finish within the hour and we used 4 or more hint’s be-grudgingly! We were SO close though! We were a total of 8 (6 kids and 2 adults). Feels like we could’ve finished before the hour if we were a smaller group size. They say to work in groups/pairs and we should’ve split the group BEFORE walking in! Once we were in there everyone got excited and just started searching for clues so we weren’t organized at first but, we kept trying to figure out clues shouting and yelling over one another on the fly until we eventually unlocked more clues. It was fun though and we didn’t take ourselves too seriously, so laughter and some goofing around with props were highlights. White boards and dry erase markers are provided to write down clues. We wish Code Zone offered 5, or 10 minute increases maybe up to 20 minutes past the hour for those who may need it to actually finish! Especially at $30 per person! They did give us 5 additional minutes but, then the timer was out and the lights came on. Boo hoo! We were bummed as a group and the kids especially were a bit annoyed and frustrated and my husband and I at the price tag with NOT finishing in time. The employee came in to let us know “we were so close!” We had to know how much further we had to go (we knew we had one more lock to crack) before solving the entire puzzle! So we definitely needed more time.

As for location and finding the entrance… I used Google maps which took us to the side door off Petaluma Blvd walking back toward the water and bridge. We went in that side door to an elevator that was broken and confusing us. I called them to as ask where we find the entrance. Even though Google took us to the appropriate address we were at the wrong door on the side of the building next to the coffee shop. There was a sign in the second floor window above the side entrance where we stood reading “CODE ZONE” so we knew we were close! It would be super helpful if THAT SIGN had an arrow pointing toward Petaluma Blvd to the “main entrance” or something like that. I would definitely make that more clear if I were the owner or manager. Once we got to the main door there was a sign board and it was very clear we were in the right spot. Code Zone should consider having another sign board at the back entrance saying to go around to the front of the building past the piano guy (playing piano on Friday night) to find the correct entrance. Anyway that part was a little confusing and that snafu made us late! We’d like to come back and do the sport one next. Highly recommend for double date night with friends, girls night, moms night out, birthdays, or...

All the best escape rooms seem to be up a white set of stairs and terminate at a heavy door. Okay, I detract points for accessibility (a member of our party had a cast on and struggled up the stairs), but that's about it.

First, the lobby: cozy, fun, well-decorated. Even if the two escape rooms have vastly different themes, there was a good blend of both in the lobby, not clashing, but giving people a hint of what's to come. There were some fun games to pass the time until our session started, but we didn't have to wait long.

Henry did an excellent job explaining how the escape room worked to our group of both escape room fans and escape room newbies. We got inside and the clock started ticking!

The pirate experience was FULL of puzzles, quite literally everywhere you turned there was something to explore. We had a full group of 10 people, including several PhDs, and EVERYONE was thoroughly engaged, rapidly working together to piece everything together. At one point, we got stuck but couldn't agree on whether we were doing something wrong or got a clue incorrect; Henry luckily rescued us as a "freebie," so it didn't impact our "did we get hints?" count.

I've been to escape rooms where the solution to "everything" is some tiny detail from the beginning you missed, but that's not the case here; every puzzle plays its part, but you should definitely avail yourself of the tools you're given—you will need them!

Great fun, though with a full group, everything moved so quickly that some puzzles got solved before I even knew they existed. I do wish some puzzles didn't necessarily involve locks (at the end of the day), but that's it. Otherwise, loved it and would definitely do a similar experience at...

We had family come up from L.A. and doing the escape rooms at the Code Zone in Petaluma were perfect for some great family bonding. The wonderful family who run the place were very nice and patient in accommodating our group of 14. We split into 2 groups, 1 group of adults and the other group made up of the kids. Code Zone was able to run both themed rooms concurrently so both of our groups could perform the rooms in the same 1 hour block.

Our plan was for the adults to do "X Marks The Spot" and the kids to do "Get To The Game." Both of our groups were able to beat our rooms and had so much fun doing so, we decided to book the next hour so we could swap rooms! Again, the adults were able to finish our room, while the kids came really close to finishing theirs. Super fun!

Completing the rooms was accomplished by dividing up tasks, with communication being the absolute key! If you see something, say something, because someone in your group may have come across something that may have you stumped. Overall, the rooms were really fun with the degree of difficulty of each being pretty comparable to one another.

I definitely would recommend Code Zone for a family group event or any other group setting for that matter, whether it be for a work team building excercise or just a group of friends getting together looking for some good fun! Thanks Code Zone! We...