alien bloc Reviews 2024 | Trustindex.io

Ryan Frampton

2024.12.21

Filippo Santarelli

2024.12.14

I love this place, may not be the bigger or the fancier bouldering gym in town, but the vibe, the people working there, and the climbers are absolutely the best. I sincerely recommend over the other bouldering gym in Edinburgh.

Reply from alien bloc 2024.10.15

😃 thanks for the review Filipino, have passed it on to team!

Timo Ewalds

2024.11.17

Christina Bugert

2024.11.09

I have been a huge advocate of Alien Climbing Centres, especially since the opening of competing climbing centres. Competitions are held monthly, and routes (and grading sheets) are available after the competitions, which is super cool. There is a stretching/gym area, a top-out wall, as well as circuit, cave, and traversing routes. Generally, the atmosphere has been absolutely welcoming—though a bit less so in the past six months, weirdly. But it's undeniable (despite telling myself it was in my head) that the staff can be quite unfriendly, even passive-aggressive at times. I really hate to say it, because I like to think the best of people, but I believe that has absolutely been my experience.

Reply from alien bloc 2024.11.09

Sorry to hear this Christina, if you would like to give any further details please contact me in office on partnersATalienrock.co.uk so I can discretely follow it up. Reuben

Callum McLean

2024.11.02

Great bouldering gym. There's routes for beginners and experienced climbers which are reset at a good rate, generally grades V0 to V8. Good coffee at a great price. There is a traverse/cave room which is really fun. The gym space is great.

Patrick Rucska

2024.10.30

Perrine Mothier

2024.10.27

Uwe Schwarz

2024.10.22

Great boulder location, friendly staff, registration for experienced one-timers could be a bit easier.

Ana Stefaniak

2024.10.21

Gurtej Kanwar

2024.10.18

Joe Abelseth

2024.10.07

Very friendly staff and owner. Plenty of variety on routes and difficulties makes for a fun visit

Reply from alien bloc 2024.10.08

It was good to hear about climbing walls on the other side of the pond!

Alastair Rushworth

2024.10.06

Great bouldering place, very good central location and not too busy if you can avoid peak times. Particularly loving the setting recently, some really interesting problems even at the lower grades - keep it up 💪

Reply from alien bloc 2024.10.06

Thank you Alastair, we’ve had quite a few different routesetters in recently. Last setting day (green holds, V2-4) was the first time we’ve had three female setters working and testing the problems together.

Flynn Cribb

2024.09.23

Fantastic place to climb, always has good music on!

Benjamin Nealon (Sky)

2024.09.02

Really nice climbing gym. Great range of climbs and a really cool theme running throughout. We went on a Thursday evening and it didn't feel overcrowded either. The gradings feel fair and within each grade there's a good range of different kinds of holds. This place definitely avoids the trap that I've seen other climbing gyms fall into where climbs of the same grade all basically use the same kinds of holds. There's also some fantastic 'alternative' problems on the traverse wall and intense overhang cavey areas upstairs. Basically, a great climbing gym. Very worth a visit!