Loved our time at Pirates! Legends of the Gulf Coast this past Saturday afternoon. I came as part of a group event. We did the haunted house and escape room. The haunted house was fun and made clever use of space. I thought 2 videos with exposition in a row to start it an odd choice, but nbd. The escape room was a lot of fun, a short 25 minute clock with maybe 5-6 quick solve sort of puzzles. My spouse has written and worked on some escape rooms on the east coast in DC, and has done close to 200 around north america. I’ve done like 6 or 7. So, although it’s not my thing™️ I have him in my ear describing positives and negatives to rooms he has done as a participant and how he would do it differently. So, if Evan had done this room I think he would say this: The room uses rfid tech well but puzzles could use some variety, too many locks. Things like (spoiler) using tally marks but having one set of “five” only have 3 lines, but it’s crossed out as though the number is 5 seem more like cheap tricks than satisfying ‘aha moments’ once discovered. Brian, the employee who designed the room was working that day so we got a chance to gab about it. He was great with our group (we can be a lot as we are nearly all autistic and/or adhd). I peppered him with questions about the room, ghost tours and local lore. He was affable and knowledgeable. Oh- one more thing yall need more merch! And better t shirts. I wanted to get one but didn’t like the options. Only about 3 designs and some of them had printing only on the back with a plain front. Usually you have something on the left breast on the front of such tees bc it looks too plain otherwise. I’d have that place stocked to the gills with marked up pirate merch if I were yall! 😂 I ended up buying pirate poetry magnets from the Elissa’s shop later on. Less

This tour is a little tucked away but well worth finding and a pirates steal of a price. I'm not fond of history but the scavenger hunt made it fun and the staff was extremely knowledgeable about Galveston history. We'll definitely be back to try the escape rooms and haunted house. Less