Let's Roam: Scavenger Hunts

We bought the Winchester Wander. Not a good experience. Gives the ‘start’ at the lower end of town, when you click ‘start’ the actual starting point is far away at the top of the city. There is only one question at each place, no riddles or anything fun. You have to pay to get into 3 of the places, and on the day we did it one was closed anyway. It asks us to take photos and will only proceed when we’ve done this, which wasn’t clear when I signed up. Ignores amazing places in Winchester like the Westgate and the King Alfred statue, the City Hall and the Oldest Pub. Really sad we spent a day paying attention to this app instead of going in the tourist information to get a decent guide to the city. Would give it zero stars if I could.

Paid quite a lot of money to do a scavenger hunt. Part of the way through, we paused the hunt so that we could stop for a coffee. When ready to get going again, the ‘unpause’ button didn’t work due to a glitch in the app. Couldn’t finish the hunt that we paid for. Tried contacting the company for help but no response.

If I could have given no stars I would have. Apps doesn’t always work. Directions lacking and one of the stops didn’t exist.

This app is a waste of time and money. My family and I were on a vacation and for a fun way to end it we decided to do a scavenger hunt with this app. It was horribly confusing to share with your family then we went to one location and it was closed and the workers had no clue about any scavenger hunt. Next stop was like a mile away and the map does not move with you it just shows you where the location is and doesn’t move at all. Next stop was ok and was pretty close to the other one but then the next one was like another mile away. Eventually we gave up and had to walk all the way back to our car which we had no idea where it was. So yeah save your money and time and don’t get this game don’t make the same mistake we did! Also it drains your battery completely mine was at like 93 when we started and when we ended it it was at 20%

I had high hopes to have fun chasing around the city of Chicago with a friend but this ‘scavenger hunt’ turned out to be surprisingly simplistic and not fun at all. The locations were easy to find and the history quiz and picture challenge was lame.

Signing up was broken. Couldn’t sign up with the Apple login. My friend’s Apple login seemed to associate her with someone across the country?! Signing up by email worked for me, but not my friend. Had to resort to using text. Had to kill the app to do it as it refused to do anything other than email after trying email. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Adding people to group was just as bad, mostly due to all the login issues. Most of the challenges were fun. There were several fill in the blank style challenges that appeared under the “pill” on the iPhone… so some work needs to be done to make sure things render correctly. Submitting was painful and hung up several times on the scoring step, leaving us to retake pictures since I couldn’t use the one we just just took. The hunt was out of date as a couple of the features have changed. And one of the challenges was a bit odd… it asked for an updated cover picture for Tiber Park, but Tiber Park wasn’t the destination and was not nearby. I like the ideas and think doing this in other cities could be fun, but the app experience really killed much of the fun.

Canceling required two emails and following a link to a survey

We did one of these in DC years ago and I should have learned my lesson then. But we tried it a second time as a way to pass time in Montreal and we were so disappointed we didn’t even bother finishing. This is something that *could* be fun if it included more fun info or more challenging/imaginative hunts. There are much better ways to explore a city and have fun w your friends and family!

I cannot believe how buggy and confusing this app is. There’s really no reason for this here to be so many steps to just start the thing. App goes black or freezes every 5 minutes and there appears to be no actual way to back out of the map without exiting the scavenger hunt and reentering.

This is the worst app and a total waste of money. We’ve tried to use 3 different times, talked to help center and it never worked. I tried to get a refund but couldn’t. I don’t recommend you wasting your money.