Doylestown Rock Gym — Attraction in Buckingham Township

This review is focused solely on kids birthday parties. In summary, I don't recommend having kids parties here (especially if they are young kids).

My daughter was recently invited to a party with about ~20 kids. At first, I was happy to see that there were 5 "helpers" from the gym and that everyone wore safety gear. At a 1 to 4 ratio, it surely will be successful. This was not the case.

Sadly, I think these helpers were quickly getting overwhelmed with the number of kids. One of them lost her temper and started yelling at the 6-7 year old party goers. This resulted in tears and children asking their parents to leave. This also happened when I went here for a previous party so it is a repeat offense.

The party then moved into the next phase where the helpers worked ropes for the climbing walls. This meant that the other 15 kids were pretty much unsupervised (which is a challenge when the children are young).

The most surprising part of the party was the "party room". It seems as though that the helpers job ends once the children go into the party room. This means the parents need to handle all aspects of the catering. I can tell you this is not the norm for a typical kids party.

I have no doubt that this is a good rock climbing gym. Once again, this review pertains only to the kids birthday party events. If you have young children, you might want to look elsewhere (assuming these helpers continue to be uncapable of controlling...

I just began climbing in the very beginning of this year in January. My friend who introduced me to the sport moved shortly after getting me into it, so I was left going to the climbing gym alone...which can be daunting as a newbie. I have found that literally every single time I go, there is always somebody friendly to chat with, to discuss a specific problem in a route I'm working on, to ask for advice. The environment is very friendly toward new climbers (I've also watched several V7+ climbers come and do their thing). I always boulder, so I can't speak toward the lead climbing in this gym. For bouldering, there is a great cave area with lots of different angles and inclines, an area with a long, steady 45 degree overhang, an area with a large barrel overhang, and a long flat wall with several features on it and fun traverse problems. You can check out the pictures on their website. There are plenty of routes to work on, though I do sometimes wish there were more in the V2-V3 range (to me there seem to be lots of V4-V6s). Overall, I have a great time every single time I go to this gym, due to both the problem set available and the environment created by all the other climbers who...

Great place to climb the staff are fun to talk to, very knowledgeable. For $25, first-time admission gets you unlimited climbs and 3 rope climbs in 2 hours. They have rental rates at $5 for climbing shoes, pretty good. Best value, I've been going here intermittently, and this place and its community is outstanding. If this is or is not your first time, this place will challenge you.

I bought what whay I needed to start at this gym. They have a vending machine and protein. They have chalk and equipment, now the chalk isn't the best, but it's better than nothing 🙃. They have climbing finger boards and route wall for the technical practice.

Now, I do feel obligated to say this, I am not being paid to write this review. I really do like this place, the staff and the community built around it. I've been going here and other gyms around for years now, and nothing comes close to this one. If you're in the area and you are trying to find a gym to...