Avatar — Local services in Krakow

Worst bouldering I have encountered so far.

The biggest offence is the terrible setting and uninspiring problems. Far too many holds are used to the extent that it's just very messy and difficult to work out what problem you are climbing. You are often obstructed by holds on other routes.

No starting holds are marked so you have no idea if you have a standing or a sit start to each problem. The holds are filthy and are either black or caked with chalk.

It's also erring on dangerous, a scissor lift was being driven around inches away from customers, and having dismounted from a bouldering problem I hear from above "heads!". The bouldering area shares a landing zone with the lead walls! There's also many a pole brush left lying around to roll an ankle over, and you have poor footholds above volumes and other obstacles to hit on the way down.

The grades aren't consistent, which shouldn't have been all that hard as all the grades are lumped into 'easy', 'medium' and 'hard' with several colours in each category.

The other amenities are fine, good toliets and changing rooms. Also, the lead walls looked like they had newer holds at least. However, the bouldering was truly awful, I was very disappointed, particularly with the...

Unfortunately I cannot give more than 2 stars due to couple of reasons. First of all the music - on the rope climbing part of the gym it makes almost impossible to communicate without killing your throat plus it makes harder to focus on climbing (if it would be some nice and easy music it wouldn't be that terrible but the music taste of whoever is playing it, is very specific and sometimes hard to handle). No warm food available at all, not even cakes or cold sandwiches. Very old ropes for top rope climbing make people uncomfortable and hard to belay from standard belay devices (generally old equipment). When it comes to cleanliness the gym is basically not being cleaned at all which makes it very dirty. When it comes to temperature - prepare yourself for winter when going to climb in Avatar - wear a down jacket and a hat otherwise will get cold immediately. Fortunately route setting part has...

I’m new to bouldering (3 months) and am used to a UK club. I was in Krakow for a week and wanted to get some exercise so looked online for good bouldering centers and was disappointed with the reviews of a lot of the other centers so decided on AVATAR. It was further away for me from my apartment but was well worth the trip. They just opened new bouldering walls (see pics) and have even more opening in the next few days/weeks. The routes are very good but labeling not good so I wasn’t sure what level of climb I was on or where the starting holds were, but I coped/figured it out. Holds were fixed well, and were clean. The changing areas were clean and lockers were provided. Price was 1/2 of UK entry fee. I went in the morning during the week so it was empty, but I imagine it gets very busy in...