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Pretty disappointed. This was our 10th escape room and have been to some excellent ones. Sydney our host put on a cheesy hat a read a script for our room Head Trip and was boring. Not at all getting us excited for the room. In other escapes rooms, the people are energetic, and not reading of scripts. They have it memorized. There was a room where we spent about 8-10 minutes trying to figure out to eventually be told it has nothing to do with our escape! The second room was pretty easy and the last puzzle was very easy. We completed the room ahead of time. Sydney took our group picture and we left. There was no comments like all the other escape rooms where they go “Great job! What’d you think?!” And have some feedback of things that we liked or didn’t like etc. She brought NO excitement, didn’t look professional or talk professional, nor encouragement to having fun at the beginning or end. No lockers to put any valuables like purse or a jacket, room decoration was 3/10. It just looked run down low quality and not good props at all compared to other rooms we’ve been to. Seriously, you would expect great game design for a 5 star room with cool interactive puzzles. Difficulty 5/10 but seriously, the previous room that had potential clues had nothing to do with how to solve which was a waste of time!! It was probably for a different puzzle not used anymore. Almost all puzzles were combination locks maybe 7 or 8. Charging $55/person was a rip off! How they get 5 star reviews is baffling to us. We’ve been to others rooms for $35-40 that looked so much better, had cool puzzles like mixing potions or shooting bats, moving things around etc and the quality of the design of the rooms are so much better than this place. Ultimately our group of 4 wouldn’t recommend this place at all. Maybe for $20 so you don’t expect much. No way this place...

DON’T TRUST THEIR GOOGLE RATING!

Clue Avenue has decent escape room, but don’t be fooled into thinking they’re as phenomenal as their reviews say.

This company has so many good reviews solely based on the fact that they push people constantly to write good ones. It has 4.9 stars on google, and it is not at all worthy of 4.9 stars! In fact, I’ve been to just about every escape room company in San Diego, and Clue Avenue has been the least impressive. Any other escape room will offer better rooms.

After you do an escape room there, you get bombarded with emails asking for good reviews. I wouldn’t be writing this review if it weren’t for how many times they emailed me begging for good reviews. Just when I thought the emails would stop, they sent me another saying that they are for good reviews!

If you write a bad review the company gets really angry and sends you paragraphs asking you to change your mind, saying things you should have come to us first before writing a bad review. This is how they keep their rating extremely high, but it just skews the review. It gives the company a higher rating than it should have. Truth is, Clue Avenue is just average. They are by no means bad. But they’re not good either.

Now watch as Clue Avenue responds and says they’re sorry I had such a negative experience, but I should’ve consulted them first before giving...

We so WANTED to love this! However, we were very let down and DISAPPOINTED.

Now, I want to start off by saying that we are well-seasoned when it comes to escape rooms. This was not our first time. We did the Dreamscape room- we found out it had a 60% success rate upon arrival which seemed relatively high for a medium to difficult room.

I will say our host was really cute and enthusiastic which we greatly appreciated. She put her heart and soul into the introduction! You go, girl!

We had our intro, then we were transported into the room which we escaped in 29 minutes. There was only one room that we were in the entire time (*Note: most escape rooms are about 3 rooms). The puzzles/games were tricky in the beginning and we used maybe 1-2 hints total. The 'concept' of this room and the story line is an 3.5/5 and has a lot of potential, the actual execution was about a 1.5/5.

Overall, for the cost of $35 USD per player for our group of 6 people it seems rather expensive, and we do not think that it was worth it compared to other escape rooms we have been to in the past. We wanted more rooms, variety, and challenges. It sadly feels like...