TK Escape - Mobile, Alabama

Anna DiMaggio

First of all, not an escape room. As someone who’s done hundreds of escape rooms this was horrible from start to finish. The tech didn't work 75% of the time and the game guide would come in say they didn’t know how to fix it and leave. It ate up so much of our time. Beyond that the staff was incredibly rude and dismissive, not helping at all with hints or explications. Don’t waste your money.

Kenneth Milton

Worst escape room experience of my life. I do not think the game manager was even paying attention to us. Clue questions were ignored or delayed. One time we were even given the wrong code when asked. Unless you’re a professional that does them independently, you won’t make out. Not recommended for casual players.

Dylan Hodges

Firstly, we drove over an hour to get here just to be disappointed from the start!! The first of three rooms that we booked was the School of Magic. We booked for 4:15 and didn’t even get into the room until 4:45 which was already putting us behind for the second room we had booked. When we walked into the School of Magic room, the looks of disappointment on all of our faces could have been heard in New Orleans. We were expecting a whole room not just a room the size of a broom closet with a table in the middle with a PUZZLE BOX on it for us to try and solve. Immediately we wanted to leave but we gave it a chance. This Puzzle Box was just a confusing mess with no real directions given. After we had finished the School of Magic room we went back out into the waiting area so we can start our second room. We were about to be called back. for the second room but we were told that the room hadn’t been reset yet! Meanwhile there had been 3 other employees, besides ANGEL, who weren’t even doing anything besides playing on their phones. So I don’t understand why none of them couldn’t help her reset the rooms or just do it themselves. The second room we booked was the Sorcerers stone, which I was hoping would be different but nope. Another damn Puzzle Box. Again we walked into the room already defeated because this is not what we signed up for. We signed up for An ESCAPE ROOM!! We lastly were signed up for the Jigsaw room, which we had scheduled for 630pm but we didn’t even get to go into the room until almost 8pm. Which at that point we were told that another group was schedule for 8pm and they didnt want to do the room with us so we just asked for a refund and left. IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST EXPERIENCE DOING AN ESCAPE ROOM PLEASE DO NOT GO HERE!!!!! It will not be a true escape room experience and there are so many better ones.

Chelsea Kienbaum

A puzzle box in a room does NOT qualify as an escape room. Disappointed at best doesn’t even cover how this place made us feel. And as someone who travels around the world, doing escape rooms in different countries, I am at 100+ escape rooms completed. TK escape is the first time I encountered anything like this.

There needs to be some kind of notice or something stating on the website that school of magic and philosophers stone are puzzle boxes, not escape rooms. Had we had any notice that was the case, A. We wouldn’t have driven over an hour to do puzzle box rooms. B. We sure as hell wouldn’t have paid +$30 per person to do a puzzle box room. C. We wouldn’t have been so absolutely crushed when expecting to walk into an immersive escape room and instead walking into a tiny room with a box on a table and absolutely nothing else.

On top of the total disappointment of the false advertising the employees were lazy beyond belief. Granted it was about 42 degrees in the building so I understand why they would want to just sit in the employee room wrapped in blankets sleeping and playing on their phones but this is your JOB. We arrived on time only to be asked to wait for 20+ minutes because the game had not been reset from a previous group.

We had booked 3 rooms 4:15, 5:15, 6:30. And by 8 pm we were just getting read the rules for jigsaw which appeared to at least be an actual escape room. To then find out that a couple who was not interested in joining our groups together had been booked for it as well. So we left after the two puzzle rooms asking for a refund for the room we never got to do.

Had it not been for Angel- the only decent thing about this place- we would have absolutely walked out after getting shown into a room with a box on the table instead of the promised escape room.

Please save yourself the disappointment and find a REAL escape room to try because true escape rooms are worth every single penny.

Adam

Honestly this whole experience was awful. We expected an escape ROOM but instead we got a broom closet with a box in the middle with no decorations. The only employee working and helping was Angel who was amazing but you had two other employees just sitting in the camera room just playing on their phones and not setting up rooms. We had booked a full day of escape rooms but only got to do two of the four rooms. Both of them had just boxes with little to none explanation on how to work them. By the time we got out of the first room we were automatically supposed to be good to do the next room but had to wait an additional 30 minutes for them to prepare the room cause one of the employees were wrapped up in a blanket watching TikTok’s instead of doing their actual JOBS. Angel was telling them all to get up an do something. Then we were supposed to be booked for the saw inspired room where we got told they booked some other couple instead of us instead after we had waited another 45 minutes for them to reset the room for us. So we left unsatisfied.
If you’re looking for escape ROOMS do not come here, it’s the most misleading title. If this was my first escape room experience…I would never want to do them again. Iv done 10 other escape rooms in the last 2 days that blew this place out of the water!!!we had arrived at 4:15 and we only did two rooms and we had left only after doing TWO rooms at 8:45.

EscapeRoom

We chose this company because the area had no other escape room options. We reserved an escape room on Saturday, February 17th for 5pm before reading the reviews and the plus side is that we chose well! The Jigsaw Room seems to have been the only escape room that was set up as an actual escape “room” according to other reviews.

We also booked with the knowledge that the room might be shared with another group. Of course, we were hit with the news that someone else would be joining us (which was not ideal, but completely ok). Fortunately, the game master got their information wrong or maybe the customer booked the wrong day. Either way, we were able to experience this room solo.

For those who don’t want to read a story, the short version is that this room is worth the $30 because it’s cheap. It’s a fun way to pass the time, but don’t come here if you’re on a schedule. Also, don’t expect anything more or you will be disappointed.

PROS: this escape room had plenty of locks to solve. The instructions were clear.

CONS: to start, the game was booked for 5pm. We arrived very early (4:30PM-ish) and were waiting in their lobby for the room to get reset. We had anticipated the start time to be by 5:10pm at the latest, and it was during this time that we were still under the impression that someone would be joining our room.

We had waited until 5:30PM or so, which could have been a great use of the game master’s time to show us the general rules of the establishment.

Anyway, the game didn’t actually start until 5:40pm or so, after the rules were shown and the interior of the escape room explained to us. And then the usual video to give us the room’s story played before we could finally begin our game.

Game play was good; nothing too frustrating. We were aware that the microphones might have been muffled and to speak to a specific camera/in the camera’s direction, and to wave our hands for attention. When we asked for the first two hints we were given them within seconds. We asked for a final hint towards the end of the game (at 15 min) but they did not respond after our attempts of contact, and the last hint never came until we had around two minutes left.

Upon ending the game and solving the last lock, a game master (not sure if it was OUR game master since the person who entered was not who had guided us at the beginning) entered the room and didn’t regard us in a manner typical of of any game master we’ve interacted with in the past. He just kind of walked in wordlessly and confirmed that our last lock was solved.

No offer to take a picture and no goodbye was vocalized as we walked towards the exit. The game master who had ushered us out went up to the next group, so, we just walked out.

We’re not ones to avoid an establishment based on bad reviews since we believe in giving everyone a fair shot. But, the bad reviews for this company will keep us from trying out the other two rooms.

Samantha Spica

I normally dont leave reviews but as someone who has done many escape rooms this place was bittersweet for me. We got a glimpse at the saw room which seems really cool and were told that the battle at Spanish fort room was decently big. For 30 dollars i had really wished we did one of those rooms cause they seemed really cool. However, we did the magic school room which did not feel it was worth the same price tag. I went with a group of four and without spoiling too much of the room it didnt not feel like the same level that other escape rooms have been for me. It was a very small room and you pretty much were solving a puzzle box rather than a whole room. It was cool but should have not been the same price as the other rooms and felt like it should have been advertised as being a box in a room and not an escape room like the others. Overall, the other rooms seem cool but if im rating the magical school one we did I wouldn’t recommend it. I will say though, that our game-master Angel was really nice and was a highlight of the experience.

Ericka Skowronski

I want to start off by saying had this been my first experience with escape rooms I'd probably not do one ever again. My group and I booked 3 of the rooms. We rushed from Mississippi to get there on time only to wait at least 20 minutes because the room hadn't been reset. Although there were several people "working", Angel seemed like she was the only one on top of things. She is by far the best thing y'all got going for you. After experiencing the two puzzle boxes that I personally wouldn't view as an escape room, we thought we were scheduled for the jigsaw one, but were never entered in for it so ended up leaving because at that point we were over it. I would rather go back to NOLA and redo the 5 we did the previous day then to ever come back to this place.