iClimb風城攀岩館-成功館 — Local services in Zhubei City

This is the worst rock climbing gym possible! Seriously! I have no idea how this has a rating above 1 stars. I have been to over 30 gyms in countries around the US, Europe, and asia and could never imagine a gym this bad. So what makes it so bad? There is like 10-15 routes in the gym, and what there is is completely just horrible. I am a solid climber who has been climbing for over 10 years in some of the worlds best outdoor destinations and I have a pretty good feel for a general range of ratings. But this place just has the worst ratings possible. I seriously could only climb 1 boulder problem (I usually climb V4-V6) and 2 rope routes (usually I climb high 11's). It is just mind blowing how bad this gym is. There is holds everywhere on the wall for no reason, and the holds are all super old and have never been cleaned. The owners of this gym could not possibly care about the quality of product they are selling. No wonder it was completely empty. It was very disappointing. I travel for work and climb on the road all around and thought I had seen gyms that were not very good, but this place is undeniably just horrible. I would rather not train for the 2 months I am here than ever come back here. There are better gyms in Taipei so i guess I will take the train if I want to get a work out in or just climb in Long Dong. Please if you are the owner of this gym you should please just put it up for sale. You have no passion for offering a quality gym to your customers and it is just sad. So sad i went here. I cant imagine why someone would do this to such a beautiful place. When you walk in it looks nice at first glance. the walls have enough space for some good potential, but there is just nothing to climb. My climbing partner has been here a couple times just to do some finger exercises and offered to clean holds and set routes, but they said they would not allow it. I will stop by rant, but I am truly sad that the owners have an opportunity to introduce climbing to the Taiwanese population, but this place would never inspire a new climber to start or an experience climber to work out to become better....

Small place for bouldering. Toprope requires Taiwanese certification (and thus impossible short stay foreigners). Boulder routes change every month or so, which is generally ok. Biggest issue is in the lack of communication; every day there are some kids hours, in which kids run aroind and randomly climb everywhere. After waiting patiently for the kids to pass so you can finally climb something, the staff says you are in the way should let the kids climb. I should have know, because Chinese only information is available at entry. Well, not everyone can read that Of course they dont bother to tell you about it when paying to at enter. They rather let you pay and stand there, wasting your time. Because of this I completely wasted the time to get there, the entry fee and so on. 1/5. Will definitely not come again. Maybe it's senior hour next...

This place is mediocre. I only come here because I live slightly closer to here than I do to a bouldering gym in Taichung--and Taipei is out of the question. It's a place meant mostly for kids with only a couple things for adults. THe bouldering part is pretty much all for kids, there isn't much interesting to it for adults for more than a quick warm-up. The routes have their moments, but they don't keep my interest for too long. I come here so that I can pretend to relive the glory days of being in climbing shape. It's a little pricier than what I would like to pay given what they have to offer, but I don't really have much...