Einstein Boulderhalle München — Attraction in Munich

Edited 02/2023: for months, the quality of the boulder problems have been degrading, especially smaller people are more and more at a disadvantage. The routes are also less diverse in the skills needed. Some walls stay very long without being renewed, some disastrous routes ended up on the wall for a long time. If it becomes just another mediocre gym in town, I see no obvious reason to stay with this rather small and expensive gym.

I gave 5 stars back in 2020: "Very well-designed routes, good balance between skill and power, in fact IMHO the best boulder problems among the Munich bouldering gyms, the kind that you can have fun with even if you are not 1.90m tall and not doing 100 pull-ups per day (which is what annoys me in the other bouldering gyms here). Recommend to go there if you already have some boulder experience and want to work seriously on a wider...

Negative: No air conditioning in Summer Very crowded on weekdays Some of the holds are too dirty Rather basic holds are availible for routesetting In about 20 visits there I had one encounter of very unfriendly service, but it has been good otherwise Recently the outdoor area was quite dirty, and rats live there The easy / warmup routes are uninteresting

Positive: Affordable and tasty food and drinks avalinle The intermediate routes (fb 6 upwards) are fun and motivating Mostly friendly guests and staff Many new boulders Free Sauna...

Even though the place was quite crowded, most people were just chilling in the middle and you didn't have to wait to get on the walls. Regarding the routes, I prefer DAV which has more variety. There is a bit of a gap of difficulty between the easy ones and the challenging ones. Also they're using a very weird color scale: why is green harder than red? It's so odd. And, more of a subjective opinion, but I was not a fan...