Ambleside Climbing Wall — Local services in Lakes

Booked in to do the bouldering. On first inspection it was a little underwhelming; I more used to an open space so this looked a little cramped and the height of the wall isn't as high as I'm familiar with. However, the space is Tardis like, there are over 40 different routes from very easy to 'How the hell do you do that?!'. In fact they move from routes to problems in a well graded way. In the end I'd stopped noticing the smallness of the area and was focussed on simply trying to work my way through the routes. The setters clearly enjoy creating all the different problems and in doing so have made an intriguing, technical bouldering area that welcomes newbies like myself and I'm sure would challenge even experienced climbers. On the negative side, it could do with a clean. I understand that during lockdown there haven't been the staff available. But now it's open it's due a good clean and reset. Overall I wholly recommend it and I'm sure we'll be back. Leaving with blisters is an endorsement that climbers...

One instructor to a large group of at least 13-15 and my ten year old son ended up in tears due to not feeling safe with the equipment and unsure that he had it correct and did not feel able to ask the instructor who was mainly preoccupied with the younger ones. My son was not alone as two other children ended up in tears. We ended up leaving half way through as my son felt very uncomfortable. I was very disappointed in this experience and particularly their attitude and response afterwards when I raised our dissatisfaction but would recommend the Climbing Wall at Brockhole Centre where the safety standards and checks and reassurance was exceptional. My son loved it there and had no problem so can only conclude the service at Ambleside could massively...

I tried this mid-last month for the first time in my life. Normally, I am not someone who is into exercise. And I mean exercise that involves any kind of physical movement. Although I have been paying for a gym membership for the past several years, I only have done so to support local businesses, and only visit the gym once a year to make sure my pin works (in case I end up going regularly - never happened/never will). Despite all this contextual information, the trainer Jordan was very patient, informative and encouraging in helping me climb to the top of the first wall, on my first session. I was very happy with the session. Would...