Mayto Kingdom – Tu Tambien Sonaras (You’ll Dream Too) Review (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain)

Hi all

After Madrid, we flew to Bilbao and then took a hire car to a little town named Vitoria-Gasteiz. We had heard amazing things about Mayto Kingdom’s rooms and we included Bilbao and Vitoria-Gasteiz mainly to play their rooms.

The story of Tu Tambien Sonaras is as follows:

As retired paranormal investigators, you're fed up with so many cases involving haunted houses that turn out to be hoaxes. Now, a strange case has caught your attention. The clues have led you to the vicinity of a spooky house. A place that should never be entered under any circumstances.

We had high expectations of Tu Tambien Sonaras, given it debuted at TERPECA Number 1 back in 2021.

Tu Tambien Sonaras was our 351^st room to date and here is what I thought:

• The theming in this room is seriously amazing. They have constructed a multi-level house in the middle of a warehouse. The attention to detail is awesome.

• As for the scare factor, this was a genuinely scary room. I had hoped that by the time we got to Spain, I would have been desensitised to scary rooms having played so many in Athens. I can confirm I was not desensitised (at all). Again, playing as a team of 2 made this room that much scarier, particularly when at several times we were split up. Horror escape room designers love themselves a ‘courage’ test or two, don’t they…

• As for jump scares, there were many of these (but not so many as to be annoying). There were some really nice elements too where lighting (and a complete lack of lighting) were used to move things about and to again, scare us. There were also some nice cinematic moments – sounds/music were used really well (and were not quite as loud as many of the other Greek/Spanish rooms we played).

• This room contained a large number of puzzles (and a large number of spaces). The room used the spaces really well. A common element we found in other well-designed scary rooms is that they use ‘light and shade’ – ie, moments where players can be more confident that they won’t be jump scared, which allows players to concentrate on puzzles properly.

• As for actor interactions, there were many interactions throughout the experience. The actors were all well-behaved – they didn’t grab us and at no point were they rough with us. We felt safe (although petrified) throughout the whole experience.

I thought Tu Tambien Sonaras was a fantastic room. Although it was incredibly scary, particularly as a team of just 2, I appreciated the quality of the theming, the sounds, lighting, use of jump scares, etc. It was all really well-considered.

One thing to note is that we had a little difficulty in finding this room. It is located in an industrial estate with several rows of identical-looking warehouses. Our GPS put us in the wrong row – so if you find yourself unable to find it, keep driving around until you see a wide painted garage roller door and then you will know you have found them.

Where:                 Barratxi Kalea, 37A, Pabellón 20, 01013 Vitoria-Gasteiz

Duration:              120 minutes

TERPECA:           1 in 2021

Themes:               3 themes

Overall Rating:     An incredibly well-designed, shit your pants, escape room

More details:        https://maytokingdom.es/