Hi all
The second room that we played at Mayto Kingdom in Vitoria-Gasteiz was Una Ventura de Leyenda. This room is VERY hard to get into – they seem to be booked out around one whole year ahead. I contacted the owners and managed to get a morning booking and so we booked the flights and hotels accordingly.
The story of Una Ventura de Leyenda is as follows:
A renowned team of archaeologists has discovered the location of the greatest treasure ever told. Everything indicates it's in Southeast Asia. Unfortunately, it seems they're not the only ones searching for it. You must prevent it from falling into the wrong hands and get ahead of it, or the greatest catastrophe of all will unfold. This time we're going to need the best team. The adventure is going to be exciting!
Before our trip, I reached out to Heiner to ask about any ‘must do’ rooms. He said we needed to play this room, so we made it happen. And it ended up being our favourite game of the trip.
Una Ventura de Leyendas was our 352nd room to date and here is what I thought:
- This was such an amazing room. It started with pretty a high octane level of adventure, which was sustained for the entire duration of the experience.
- The theming in this room is about the best I have seen in the world. The amount of work (and money!) that must have gone into this room is truly amazing. The sets are straight out of a movie backlot tour. There were some really spectacular (and enormous) spaces that were phenomenal. I was glad that we had time afterwards to walk back through and look at some of the amazing spaces slowly, to properly take them all in.
- Whilst this room borrows a little from the Tombraider world, it doesn’t rely on any knowledge of that franchise. At its heart, this is a room based purely on fun and adventure. As much as I would love to go into the details of the very many elements that we encountered during this experience, I can’t do so without giving spoilers. But trust me when I say that this room brought out the Goonies, Indiana Jones and 90s PC adventure game lover in me!
- The puzzles throughout the experience were great. They used some old-school puzzle elements, some pretty high-tech elements, some hunt and seek fun and some puzzles requiring fun character interactions. And on that front, we enjoyed interacting with the various actors throughout our experience. One cool element that was included in this room were true cut scenes, where we watched actors interacting with each other. I felt like I was at Universal Studios, watching actors from a distance. It was really cool (and certainly unique for an escape room).
Overall thoughts
This room was phenomenal. The scale was ridiculous. The theming and props were amazing. The actor interactions and cut scenes were fun and really unique. The puzzles were plentiful, varied, challenging and really satisfying to solve. This was our favourite room of the entire trip across Athens and all over Spain. It did not surprise me when I learned, after having played this room, that it was later nominated and hit the number 2 TERPECA spot. It is very much deserved.
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: 2 in 2024
Themes: 3 themes
Overall Rating: Our favourite room of 68 on this trip. Unbelievable.
More details: https://maytokingdom.es/
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