Captive Escape Rooms Downtown Ocean City
Escape Room in Ocean City, Maryland
Address: 101 S Baltimore Ave, Ocean City, MD 21842
Price Range: $$
About this business
Captive Escape Rooms Downtown Ocean City in Ocean City, Maryland offers a cozy venue with multiple themed rooms ranging from spooky attics to vampire libraries, each designed with immersive puzzles and challenges. The welcoming staff provides unlimited hints to ensure groups of all experience levels can enjoy solving the various locks and riddles within the one-hour time limit. Though the rooms are on the smaller side, they feature creative theming and satisfying puzzles that make for an entertaining family-friendly activity right off the boardwalk.
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What People Are Saying
Themes: The reviews mention several themes, including Dracula, a witch, a murder mystery in an attic, 13 doors, and pirates.
Puzzles: The puzzles are described as a mix of logic, search-oriented, and some requiring "out of the box thinking". Many reviews refer to locks, but several indicate that the puzzles were more varied than simply opening locks.
Scare Factor: Some rooms have darker themes (e.g., murder, Dracula), while others do not. One review mentions a room being advertised as scarier than it was, suggesting the level of scariness may vary between rooms.
Mystery/Detective: Several reviews mention mystery and detective elements, particularly in the context of solving murders or other crimes.
Party: Reviews indicate the escape room is suitable for parties and has accommodated large groups before. One review specifically mentions a bachelorette party.
Large Groups: Reviews show the escape room has accommodated large groups (one review mentioned a party of 20). However, several reviews also comment on the small size of the rooms.
Parking: Reviews mention parking as a challenge, with some suggesting it can be expensive and difficult to find near the boardwalk location.
Not Noted
Difficulty Level: Reviews mention varying levels of difficulty, with some finding it easy and others challenging. Some reviews specifically state that the difficulty varied between rooms and even the same room provided different levels of difficulty based on the participants.
Prison Break: Reviews do not mention a prison break theme.
Heist: Reviews do not mention heist themes.
Zombie: Reviews do not mention a zombie theme.
Tomb: Reviews do not mention an Egyptian theme.
Kid-friendly: Reviews suggest the escape rooms are suitable for families with older children, but there is no mention of dedicated kid-friendly spaces.
Discounts: There's no mention of discounts in the reviews for larger groups or special events.
Price: Reviews express mixed opinions. Some find the price reasonable for the experience, while others consider it expensive given what they received.
