Time Travel Escapes, Jupiter, Florida

While on our Christmas vacation, we played two escape rooms at the same location. Time Travel Escapes has six themed rooms and one virtual reality room. The regular rooms are the standard sixty-minute adventures; the virtual reality room hosts three different shorter adventures, with more to come in the future. All of the regular rooms are created at the location so they are unique to Time Travel Escapes. The location looks like a typical store front.

An unassuming entrance

Going in

The front room had some fun puzzles to work on as we waited for our room to be ready. We enjoyed the puzzles and the decor which was appropriately time-themed.

Clock like in Doctor Who

Steam-punk clock

Our first room was a regular escape room called "Cosmic Collision." In 2089, a meteor is on a collision course with the Earth. Some scientists didn't believe in it but Doctor Fix had it all worked out. We started in his research lab, solving puzzles to get us into the main room where we could fire the laser at the menacing meteor. We had a slow start. Then clues started coming together. Some of the puzzles we didn't quite get. Happily, at this location hints are available and didn't cause any time penalties. We managed to finish with just two minutes to spare, so you have us to thank that the Earth was saved from another dinosaurish extinction.

Earth saviors!

The place offers a twenty percent discount if patrons book their next experience before they leave. We decided we really wanted to try out the virtual reality games so we signed up for "Depths of Osiris" a few days later.

"Depths of Osiris" is an underwater adventure. Archaeologists have discovered the lost temple of Osiris but have been unable to retrieve the legendary crown that they suspect is inside. Our team suited up in the VR equipment, which made us into undersea adventurers.

Suited up for underwater adventures

Once we had the gear on, we could only see the game space. At the beginning, all we saw was a grid on the floor with the helmets and gloves of the other players floating in the air. We could see our own gloves but not our own helmets (naturally). After everyone was ready, we started the game with a quick tutorial. Then we were plunged into the depths.

The game started us in a pressurized room from we we needed to escape so as to enter the lost temple. After working together through the puzzles, we opened the door and moved on to the temple challenges. We cycled through three VR rooms that had fun puzzles. The game included two hints which we had to use in one room where it wasn't entirely clear what we needed to do. We found the crown and escaped with three minutes to spare.

That dang shark!

The experience was amazing and immersive. We quickly adapted to the VR environment and were able to manipulate objects with ease, though not always with coordination. Several puzzles had us in different parts of the room working with different virtual objects to solve the problems. It was a lot of fun and we would definitely go back.

This escape room is highly recommended by us. Next time we are in Florida, we are sure to visit.