Amazing Escape Room

I might be one sided as I spend alot of time in Freehold, but this location of Amazing escape room is hopping. Besides the great location the rooms are so much fun. This is an activity geared for families as well as Team building. Try it you will like it.

A little pricey and unorganized. They told us to be there at a certain time but made us wait for some time without explanation. It was very chaotic.
This is a house converted into a business. There’s only one bathroom and on a busy day there’s a long wait just to get in. My sis in law was just going to go after we finished the Escape room but the staff member said she had plenty of time before we started our room, so she ended up waiting on line with just one person in front of her to get in the bathroom. Just as she went in, the teenager took us into our room and got us started and started the one hour countdown even though we said we were still waiting for someone to come out of the restroom. My guess is he was trying to process us quickly to get another set of family into our room right after us.
What I liked about this place is that there are multiple rooms involved. What I did not like are thay one or two clues were not very logical at all. For instance there was one where we had to count the Bhuddas we could see in another room, however it was not clear whether they also meant the pictures on the walls and on the sides included or not, so we tried all variations. They also don’t check to see whether their equipment is working or not. A flashlight that we found in a box that we were to use to light up additional clues was dying on us. It wasn’t the most logical of all of the escape rooms I have done — sometimes they just jump on a far fetched outlandish thing that you would not expect to put two and two together. I guess once you’ve done a really well organized escape room, this place becomes very sub par. I do like that at the end, they have statues and props that you can pose with for group pics.

I’m rounding up to four stars, but I’d probably say 3.5 stars is about right for the Hangover room here at the Amazing Escape Room. It was a good time, and I’d consider doing another room here in the future. In my experience, it just wasn’t quite as good as other escape room places I’ve done.
Escape games have become my new favorite hangout activity with friends, and I’ve done a few since my first one at the beginning of the year (all in New York). Some games place more emphasis on actually finding physical clues around the room, others are more straightforward and once you get started and solve your first puzzle, the rest will fall into place. Others still, require a great deal of team work, having different groups working on puzzles simultaneously and then figuring things out together later, in order to escape within the time limit.
The hangover room is a more straightforward game. In fact, it was probably the easiest of the escape rooms I’ve done so far. I’m not saying the game will be a guaranteed win for everyone, but my group of seven people (separate groups of 2, 2, and 3 working together as strangers) was able to solve the room with the record time for the day: 46 minutes or so. I think as long as you have a couple of people who have successfully done these escape games before, you’ll have a very good chance at solving this room.
This escape room venue in Freehold is such a funny location. It’s right on Main street with a sign out front, but there is a small parking lot in the back so you don’t have to worry about finding street parking. From the outside it looks like just a regular Victorian style house, but it has been converted to suit the business, so each bedroom on the three floors now serves as a different escape room.
This means there’s actually a few different rooms/​themes to choose from. I only wish the website had some more information about each room, like the minimum and maximum people per game and some indication about the difficulty level or success rate. I feel like I might have signed up for a beginner level room, when I was looking for a more intermediate or advanced level.
This place has several good things going for it, but of course there is also room for improvement.
The Good:
–The game master we had did an excellent job.
— I really like the way they use their clue system and timer. The room has a tv screen that gives you a countdown timer, so you know exactly when the game starts and how much time you have left. They also use this screen as their system for providing clues. There are cameras and microphones around the room, so they know how well you’re progressing– a standard practice for escape rooms. If you ask for a clue or they determine that you’re stuck and need a little nudge in the right direction, they will write out a clue onto the screen. I think this system is so much better than using walkie talkies or hanging on to a little digital timer as I’ve done in other venues.
–The room was decorated pretty well. I feel like there were enough things around the room and on the wall to make us look over every square inch in search for clues
–There was a groupon available when I went. It’s not a huge discount, but a couple of bucks off is still pretty cool.
The Bad: (nothing major, just something to keep in mind)
–The parking lot in the back is pretty small and fills up fast, so I’m glad I didn’t bring my big pickup truck that night.
–The house doesn’t have central air conditioning, so I can imagine the hangover room (on the top floor) will probably be swelteringly hot in the summer, since there is only one small window AC unit.
–As mentioned above, the website could use some improvement with more information about the room size and difficulty to help decide the right room for your level.
***Mild spoilers***
–The hangover room is a little on the low tech side. Other venues I’ve been to had games with hidden rooms or trap doors that we had to open, electronic keypads, or something fun like that. The hangover room has a few tricks up its sleeve, but of the different games I’ve done, this one had the least technological aspect to it.
–One of the locks in the room was a special «houdini lock» that requires an extra little trick along with the key to open. I suppose this could be considered a fun addition to the game, but the lock was fixed in a weird position, so I couldn’t get a good look at it to figure it out. We had to be told with a clue…
***End spoilers***
Overall, I’d come back to this venue again if my friends and I want to just stay local for the night. But as it stands, considering the different games I’ve done so far, there are better venues out there (if you’re willing to go to the city to do it).

We used the black and white room. What a great experience. Will definitely go back for more. I might add I was pretty good at the clues ;)

Ridiculously overpriced for what it is. The rooms are old and poorly set up, not to mention the faulty locks! Even if we had the correct combination in the lock, it often times would not open. We would have to have the game master come up to help us force the locks open. I was really expecting more from this place, especially at $ 30 a person.

This was a fun experience in which a group of us had to get out of the room using puzzles and clues. I tried the Samurai Room. We were pretty close but lost. I also did Room escape adventures in NYC with a zombie which was amazing (check out my review for that one). This one was also pretty good!

the first time i was here some of the items we needed were missing from the room so the person monitoring us had to give us the answer. and the clocks were off so he had to give us the answer for that too which was annoying (secret agent room)
the second time i went there we had a party of 6 and they added two strangers with us. it wasnt that much fun with the two strangers because they didnt really want to work as a team and wanted to do everything. we got really stuck and kept asking the monitor person for help but no answer. the time ran out but the monitor person gave us extra time since no one was scheduled after us which was really nice (hemmingway room)
my third time i decided to go again since i found a groupon. I paid 136 $ for 6 people when normal price is 168 $ when i went to book it online apparently there is an extra 12 $ of taxes. i called and asked the escape room and he said yeah its new we have to charge its not included anymore. i was very upset because they made it seem like a deal but they added on an extra charge which i found very shady.

Fun fun fun! This is my 7^th room escape and I will definitely give them a thumbs up with their clues!!!
LOOK FOR SPECIALS ON GROUPON!
First off… place looks like a regular white house and there’s a parking lot in the back… entrance in the front.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
Choose a room and date
.we did SECRET AGENTS
Get there 15 min early to sign a waiver on an IPAD
Listen to the rules
There’s a board with best times for the day
A game master is assigned to your group so if you feel stuck, pay attention to the TV and they may assist you.
Lots of combination locks to open and clever clues. I really enjoyed it. It was the 6 of us and I never felt we were cramped in the room.
If you love puzzles, riddles, competition… give it an try! Tons of fun! Its awesome with a group of friends!
Very friendly service! Cool clues and hidden objects.
Would love to come back to do another room!!!

Was really excited to come here and do the hangover room with my girlfriend. Their website says it’s great for couples, so we went by ourselves.
For the most part, the puzzles weren’t too bad. There was a «game master» guiding us through the room and providing hints. Our biggest problems, though, were the locks. Every cabinet and box had a different lock and even when we got the right combination or had the key in it, we wasted a lot of our time just trying to open old, faulty locks. These could have been easily replaced, and they frustrated us to no end. The clues also failed to accurately guide us very well, and our room was not fully put back together since the last group had escaped.
We escaped the room, but the experience was less than amazing. Especially considering the high price of the rooms ($ 56 for 2 people!) our experience was below what we expected.

Cool spot. A great idea for groups or families. You get an hour to solve clues and break out of the room, using knowledge, clues in the room, and teamwork. Multiple rooms so you can try different experiences. We did Secret Agent (intermediate) and had a great time. Only negative was that our room master was too quick in giving clues. I’d ask for minimal help, but it may differ person to person.
Overall, a highly recommended activity for a creative group/​family event.

It’s a bit pricy and super crammed while you wait… but, this is pretty awesome!
I’ve long been obsessed with the escape room games and for the chance to play in real life sounded awesome! My group managed to escape the Hangover Room but we all found it challenging and fun. The puzzles in the room were mostly numbers based but we needed to find and figure out where the numbers came from and how to use them. I won’t say more than that! :)
Overall it was a great experience and if it wasn’t so costly I’d be back to do the rest of the rooms! I used a Groupon this time around but the savings were minimal, I wish they offered a deeper discount or specials like buy one get one free or half off.
I’m looking forward to going back at some point. I’d love to try the Black and White room since it’s apparently the most challenging.

We had a party of 12 and booked two rooms (Samurai and Black/​White) here yesterday to celebrate my husbands bday. This place was so fun! First off Sam the manager was awesome… its very hard to get a hold of someone on the phone here during the day, but I called after 8 pm on Thursday night and he was so helpful. He helped us book two rooms for Sunday and was very accommodating. He honored the prices that Groupon listed and even modified the times for us so that we could start both rooms at the same time. Immediately I received a confirmation email showing which room and time (so i guess the earlier reviews about horrible booking coordination have now been fixed!) The staff here is very friendly and accommodating (when i had a last min add on followed by a last minute cancellation, they didn’t hesitate to add the person on and then issue me a full refund when someone cancelled!) Again received email confirmations for each transaction which was great. Now onto the rooms… they are a bit old and dusty given this is an old victorian on main street in Freehold. But they are challenging and def doable (especially with the hints the staff gives you along the way.) We are a pretty smart group of people and got stuck along they way in each of our rooms but were both able to successfully escape both Samurai and Black and White (which they say are the hardest rooms!!)
Overall a great time for groups and even kids 10 and up… I took off a star for the actual building. If this was in a cool place with newer and cooler rooms it would have been totally 5 star worthy. But given what it is and the price we paid, totally a great activity to do with friends! I will be back to try a couple of the other rooms!

For my first Escape the Room this was pretty good! There are a variety of rooms for all ages and the staff is super friendly and accommodating. I ended up booking with one other person and we did the Secret Agent and Black and White. Both were a lot of fun!
One thing that was kind of unexpected for me was that the room themes are more about the puzzles than the set design. If you’re expecting the room to be pretty, which I was, it might be a little disappointing. The decorations are very minimal, but the staff did a really good job creating puzzles that fit each theme.
We were all pretty entertained for the hour and each of us could look at different pieces of the puzzle, so we weren’t just standing around while one person figured out what to do next. The puzzles start off very easy, but get more and more complex as we kept playing. The rooms are also meant to be for all ages and it was actually fairly challenging for kids and adults.
I would definitely do this again. It’s something different and refreshing that is really fun for everyone.

Amazing time! Room was well designed and had us guessing the whole time! My friend and i got so caught up in the puzzles that we actually didnt realize we’d solved the room, but kept going to finish the rest of the clues in the room! Wonderful and friendly staff. Definitely will continue to go and solve more puzzles!

Always a fan of the online games, I was excited to find this place on Freehold Main Street back in July. I finally went today with my cousin, brother, and sister through Groupon. They have great deals on the site.
First of all, I’m glad I didn’t have to travel all the way to Manhattan or Philadelphia to do something like this, and it’s a great idea for birthday parties or nights out with a group of friends. The cluemaster was helpful and you can tell they’re working on making the rooms even more creative. We did the Secret Agent Room, not giving anything away, but it was a lot of fun, and all the clues were different. When you go, be sure you’re familiar with how to open combination and number locks. There was room for everyone to stand, and it was only the four of us so we had it all to ourselves.
There was a little bit of a wait in the lobby to get the room going that can get crowded, and also there could be a little more organization of the order of the clues, but besides that it’s a great option for a weekend afternoon and can’t wait to go back and check out another game!

What a great time this place is! Many different rooms with all varies levels of difficulty. We did the hangover room, which was tough but very fun. This place is excellent for team building or something to do with friends before or after lunch/​dinner.
Really nice helpful employees. Will definitely return to try all the other rooms!

Booking system is horrible with its issues of overbooking requiring cancellation calls by management, yet this system continued to email automated reminders of same reservations which were cancelled. My friend booked the Hemingway Room for her son’s birthday. This room was recommended for first-​timers because it was the «easiest». Manager did her best to rectify by giving us a new room — the «Black & White» (the most complicated one, so she refunded the cost of the one child who came with us 5 adults). There were other groups also affected as we learned by overhearing others checking in. If I had traveled a great distance I would have been livid.
Lobby is too small to handle the stream of guests who mostly wait outside until they are called to be escorted to their room. On a nice summer day this is fine, but what are they going to do when the weather gets cold. Plus the house is old, but maybe it adds to the charm… not for me. The top floor was hot so because their AC wasn’t working upstairs, so they had to keep the Emergency Door open so we wouldn’t suffocate during the one hour… detracting from the concept of escaping from a locked room. As for the signs used for the final group picture… could have been written by my child. They shoukd go to Staples and have decent signs printed.
Those were the negatives… thus the 4 instead of the 5 stars it could have earned.
The puzzles and clues to escape the Black & White room did require a team effort to get combinations and keys to the various boxes with new clues. It was initially frustrating for the 2 moms on this outing, but once we started figuring things out, we were encouraged and excited as we got closer to getting THE key to escape. We enjoyed it… including the little girl who was with us.
We walked out of there amazed and willing to do another Escape Room. Maybe they will earn that 5^th star in a couple of months.
TIP: check Groupon.

Went with a group of four so we wouldn’t have to be locked in a room for an hour with people we didn’t know. They stuck two people with us and refused to fix their mistake. They claim on the website it says they can do that but if it does I can’t find it and frankly doing busy like that is shady. People don’t want to have an hour long critical thinking experience with strangers.
Once in the room which was one of their harder rooms we were able to exit within 10 – 15 minutes. Maybe if they checked the rooms before they put paying customers in them they’d find that the last group left the code to get out on a prop next to the exit door.
My group of four traveled 40 minutes each to meet up here. They told us they couldn’t put us in another room and only offered refund or credit. Maybe if they had offered both I would consider going back to give them a chance but honestly all the place consists of is a sequence of combo locks. If they had at least offered a free visit back I would have at least felt like they wanted to earn our business.
The manager who looked like he hadn’t escaped his clothes for the past week put me on the phone with the owner. The owner then called me an asshole and I returned the gesture.
Upon pulling out of the lot I found one of the punk kids that work there pointing his phone at my car taking pictures. Not sure why you’d want to take pictures of an upset customer who caused zero physical damage and made no threat of but I guess they’re more concerned with provoking reviews like this. I on the other hand would let the guy who just wasted his Saturday afternoon who you called an asshole just leave.
This is a poorly run business that is not well thought out. The customer service was below poor and the experience is lacking in every possible way you could imagine.
I’d explain the physical liabilities of this place too but that would be doing them a favor. It’s only a matter of time before someone hurts them self and sues them into closure. The way this busy is being run lacks any level of responsibility.
Do not waste your time or money. Just go buy a bunch of combo locks and reverse sequence the codes and hide the first code in a hole.
Worst Business Ever.

After exhausting all available Escape The Room options in the Philly area, my girlfriend and I decided to drive out to NJ to try our hand at this one. This was our 4^th escape the room challenge (we solved 2 of the previous 3). I feel like most of the people trying this place out would be first timers, so if it is your first time you will have an amazing time. We’ve been hooked on these ever since trying the first one about 2 months ago. That being said, out of the 4 we’ve done this one was a bit rough around the edges.
We signed up to do the Hangover Room, when looking there were 5 available slots open so we took 2 of them. I should mention that every escape the room website uses the same software to book time slots (bookeo) so this wasn’t some weird new scheduling thing. When we go there, we were told we «blocked out the room». Meaning it was just us two by ourselves. If we blocked out the room, we would of paid for all 5 slots, there should have been 3 slots available. But whatever, would be cool to try to get out of the room completely on our own.
We arrived about 15m early and the group before us was just finishing up. We didn’t start until about 20 minutes after our scheduled time (we did have dinner reservations afterwards, but we were able to push them another 15m so no big deal).
The place is more or less just someone’s house on a street, each «bedroom» is an escape the room theme. We were told that they couldn’t notify us if we had a clue, we’d just have to stare at the screen from time to time (I don’t want to go to far into detail about clues and what not because I don’t want to ruin the experience for anyone).
So the puzzles themselves were actually pretty good, but there were a good amount things about the place that needed some polishing. The clues the person was giving in the first 30 minutes were clues to things we’d already found. Like the person wasn’t paying attention to what we were doing and was just going down a list of pre-​defined clues. As time dwindled down we got some better clues.
There was also a lock that we tried opening for a long time, eventually by sheer luck we got it opened. After we got out (we did solve the puzzle and escape), the person working there was amazed that we unlocked the lock as they didn’t know the combo. Apparently the person who set the code left and we managed to guess it right. The aggravating thing about that is that we spent a lot of time trying to get the combo on the lock (since there are about 10 other combo locks you need).
All in all you’ll have a great time, but to any experienced escapers, you’ll find the place needs a bit more polishing. That being said I’m looking forward to the other rooms!

We made reservations online & drove from Philly to (nearly) the shore to give this place a try. They had great reviews on fb! Of the 4 rooms, we chose the hangover room.
We’ve done 3 other rooms here in Philly and all 3 times we signed up online and then were put in a room with people we didn’t know. This time, we were told that we «blocked out» the room. We didn’t block out anything except our 2 slots. This meant it was just the 2 of us trying to escape (there’s usually more like 8 – 10 people). We like a challenge and had driven over an hour so we went for it anyway.
Since there are 4 rooms inside of a house it’s a bit wild checking in. There are people coming, going and waiting. Lots of kids. We weren’t able to start on time, which meant we had to move our dinner reservations back, but it wasn’t a big deal. It was a little less organized than other Escapes we’ve done.
If this had been my first experience I would have been really confused. We did mention that we had done 3 of them before, so maybe that’s why they didn’t go into much detail, but she pretty much just put us in the room & left, so if you hate questions, speak up!
I know I’m going to sound like a prude here, but the hangover room is what you’d expect. Some boobs, some stripper related things, some drug related things, some booze related things. I didn’t have a problem with it for us, we were cracking up, but a lot of the groups were just kids where the adult dropped them off & came back. If I had kids I’d be mad that no one mentioned that this particular room is a bit racy. Maybe a disclaimer when booking is a good idea.
Our clue master was really nice. She offered one clue in the first 30 minutes, which was fine. The problem was that we had solved that part within the first 10 minutes in the room so it wasn’t helpful at all. We said that to the screen and didn’t get a response. You’re told they’re watching you but it didn’t seem that way. A bit later when we got our 2^nd clue, it was again something we had already solved. We would have been out of the room easily 20 minutes earlier if we were given clues we actually needed. That was super frustrating but I guess it’s not supposed to be easy, right? Later in the hour, though, she came through with some clutch clues that were super helpful that we may not have figured out on our own.
I was able to open a lock that we spent the better part of the hour on, with about 15 minutes left. At the end, I asked her to walk us through the puzzle (sometimes you miss a clue along the way) and she was astounded that I had gotten the lock open. They didn’t know the code to their own lock, so we had to tell them how I figured out how to get it open.
The next day we noticed that they had uploaded all the photos from the day before and were starting to post pics from the current day. Ours wasn’t up. My bf wrote them and asked. They said they’d post it now, but didn’t. I wrote them later that night and after a few messages back & forth they found the pic and posted it for us. The person was super nice!
This is getting long so I’ll wrap it up. We’ll definitely go again. We wanna try those other 3 rooms; we had a blast! The people who worked there were very friendly. Hopefully the other rooms go a little more smoothly.