If you’re in or around Orlando, Florida before or after your cruise or you’re otherwise in the area,
The Escape Effect is a locally-owned escape room attraction that features unique, custom
rooms that are 75-minute to 120-minute-long adventures you won’t find anywhere else.
In this video, we’ll provide an overview of our Summer 2021 visit to The Escape Effect in Orlando,
when we beat the heat by solving the “At Odds with the Gods” room with just a few minutes to spare.
Please note that most of the photos in this video are provided courtesy of The Escape Effect
to preserve the secrets of the room we played, as well as their other rooms.
The Escape Effect is located on International Drive in Orlando,
a couple of miles south of SeaWorld.
We recommend checking out their website -- which we’ve linked in
the description below -- for current hours, pricing, game descriptions,
promotions, and other information about what to expect for your escape room experience.
JellyBean, DaddyBean, and I are big fans of
puzzles and we were looking for an escape room experience
that would be fun, include the entire family in the puzzle solving, and not be too scary.
We also wanted something that wasn’t just a cookie-cutter room we could find elsewhere.
We decided to check out The Escape Effect after reading several positive reviews online.
In addition to offering escape room adventures that were family-friendly -- or
could be made family-friendly -- all of their rooms were private,
which meant we didn’t have to share the experience with strangers.
At the time this video was made, The Escape Effect offered four escape rooms:
“At Odds with the Gods,” was a 90-minute, Greek mythology-themed room for up to 10 players,
“Sherlock Studies” was a 75-minute crime solving-themed room for up to 8 players,
“Fright Before Your Eyes” was a 90-minute ghost hunter-themed room for 2 to 6 players,
and “A Knight to Escape” was a medieval castle-themed room for up to 8 players.
The room was Florida’s only 2-hour escape room and it’s split-start required a minimum of 4 players.
All of the escape rooms were designed, created, and constructed by The Escape Effect.
When we called to book our escape room, the staff member we spoke with recommended “At
Odds with the Gods” because it was brightly lit, family-friendly, and included a lot of puzzles.
They said that young kids often figured out some of the clues before the adults
and that was absolutely true during our experience.
In fact, our JellyBean loves reminding us how she solved some of the puzzles all by herself!
We certainly won’t give away any of the secrets in this video,
but we can say that our experience was truly immersive
and it included several hands-on puzzles that needed to be solved before our 90 minutes was up.
At times, we struggled with some of the puzzles,
including getting things out of order on one occasion.
However, our lovely host gently guided us -- without giving away
any answers -- when we got stuck on some of the puzzles.
She had a real gift for giving us just enough of a push in the right direction so we could continue
piecing together clues without ever feeling like she was intrusive or giving us the solution.
In the end, our family worked together and we all had a key part in solving the escape room
with just over four and a half minutes to spare.
To say The Escape Effect greatly exceeded our expectations would be an understatement.
It was truly one of our favorite experiences
during our trip to Orlando and we look forward to trying a new room during our next trip.
JellyBean really wants to try the “Fright Before Your Eyes” room so
she can be in charge of the technology needed to communicate with the spirits in the dark.
She claims she won’t be scared, but DaddyBean and I told her
we might ask the hosts to turn the lights up a bit so we won’t be scared.