Bloc Shop Hochelaga

Fantastic experience: Great gym with good problems

Negative experience: I was told they don't accept Amex, even though the transaction went through on their Stripe machine, and was asked to reswipe a MasterCard

Fantastic experience: Love it, still at 0&1 wish it was a bit cheaper

Fantastic experience: Bon spot peu dispendieux les vendredis et mardis, la clientèle est respectueuse et l'ambiance easy going. Les challenges sont ardus mais bien distribués, toujours un plaisir de découvrir les nouvelles voies de semaines en semaines.

Fantastic experience: Really nice climbing spot, clean and friendly staff, Its affordable and it has a great selection of difficulty

Fantastic experience: Bloc Shop Hochelaga est à mon avis un des meilleurs centre d'escalade de type bloc au Québec.

Fantastic experience: L'un des meilleur gym auquel je grimpe, les vendredis sont a 10$ donc c'est vraiment pas cher pour ceux qui veulent visiter les grades vont de VB à v13 le setting est très bon et la salle d'entrainement très remplie le spraywall est selon moi de loin la meilleure fonctionalitée de ce gym il est tout juste parfait, de plus bloc shop organise souvent des événements et posséder une passe de membre donne accès au 3 gyms, Chabanel, Hochelaga et Mile-X.

Fantastic experience: Il y a une bonne ambiance. Les murs d'escalade sont changés régulièrement ! Le matériel est de qualité et le personnel sympathique !

Fantastic experience: Nice place,

Fantastic experience: Beaucoup de problèmes disponibles chaque semaine, de beaux casse-têtes à toutes les fois. Salle assez grande et il y a même un gym d'une dimension assez grande sur place. Vaut le détour.

Fantastic experience: I had a great time visiting. super good energy. lots of great v3-v6 climbing options. They also have a cafe portion. I had the chicken popcorn. Yum.

Fantastic experience: Great place to try out! Had a weekly trial pass and I enjoyed it :)

Fantastic experience: I always have a great time at Block Shop Hochelaga, enough bouldering route of all levels that by the time you try all the routes of your level range, you are completely exhausted It's clean and well maintained, and the staff is super social

Fantastic experience: Big gym, good variety of boulders. Nice rest area and there are showers in the change room. Big workout area but I wish the pull up bars had more friction.

Fantastic experience: My friends and I went to Bloc Shop Hochelaga on Friday April 12th, not knowing that a day pass was $11.50 on Friday!! Even if we had to pay full price, it still would have been equally worth it. There’s a cafe area, where you can buy drinks, small finger foods and grab some beers. The training area at the back had a handful of machines and weights to utilize. The route-setting here was fun, yet challenging, coming from Toronto the finish holds were higher than I was used to, however they didn’t ruin any fun! There was a wall that had a top out section which was something unique as well. Overall great gym, would love to come again when I visit Montreal!!

Fantastic experience: Very spacious and clean bouldering gym ! I found the setting was fun and accessible for everyone. Most walls are inclined so it's a good place to build strength. I love the cafe area, their oatmilk latte is great ! The training area is very spacious, but it still gets a little bit crowded there. The locker rooms are amazing, sooo clean. It smells like the spa in there. The showers feel luxurious. Only downside is that the air in the bouldering area is a little bit stagnant... The chalk kind of stays in the air and we breathe all of it. The crowd there is a little bit older and I found that there were quite a lot of families and kids compared to some other bouldering gyms. Everyone was respectful and followed the safety rules. Climbers are on the reserved side. I enjoyed my climbing session and I will definitely come back !

Positive experience: Interesting setting but not a lot of slabs

Fantastic experience: The ambiance is great, the walls are super fun, they have the basics for strength training as well and every staff member is super nice!

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, good food, great variety in setting and an amazing spray wall - seriously one of the best spray walls I have ever used. One of the top places to visit in Montreal.

Fantastic experience: I can say this is one of my favorite climbing gym around. The problems are very nice and flowy. Staffs there are always nice...any Bloc Shop honestly. I like that here the workout area has a mezzanine. I like that there's an actual space for that, compared to Mile Ex. I really enjoy the Stokt Board as it has much more variety of holds than a Kilter. It's just an overall good gym to be training and having fun.

Fantastic experience: Super endroit pour faire du bloc, j’ai adoré ma semaine illimitée

Fantastic experience: Nice place. Nice staff

Fantastic experience: Beaucoup de pistes, multi-niveaux, enfants friendly, staff super sympatique!

Fantastic experience: Super friendly staff, good routes, climbs aptly reminded me how out of shape I am lol

Fantastic experience: Super bloc, j'y suis allée cet après-midi pour la deuxième fois et quel plaisir ! Des voies pour tous les niveaux, une variété de styles à chaque difficulté et une chouette ambiance générale. À tester sans hésiter !

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff! Fun environment

Fantastic experience: Great place to climb. Big and with alot of choice

Fantastic experience: Very cool gym! Très propre, et des routes différentes et interessante. Je prend souvent leur smoothie et leur café, ils sont délicieux :) J'aime aussi beaucoup leur section magasin, ils ont beaucoup de beau linge et équipements varié.

Fantastic experience: Great atmosphere. Routes are changed up weekly. Locker room and showers. Racks, Olympique bars and bumper plates. You can develop your skills here at a reasonable cost. Highly recommend.

Positive experience: Best place in montreal to do bouldering, some great holds and seems to be the only gym with good overhangs and cave. It also has an amazing training/fitness area, which I find most other gyms lack or only have a super small set up. Only thing missing is a kilter or moon board but there’s a normal spray wall to train.

Positive experience: personnel accueillant, salle très sympa, blocs divers, super pour débutant, intermédiaire et confirmé !

Fantastic experience: Great place for bouldering

Fantastic experience: Awesome spot! Good selection of boulders for a beginner. Kind and fun staff. Surprisingly cool beer selection too.

Fantastic experience: Looking to climb? Bloc shop is the place to go! Hochelaga offers a wide range of bloc routes. Also, you have access to a locker and a gym. There's a restaurant where you can grab food and drinks (pretty decent to be honest). You can park yourself in the street for free beside the building.

Fantastic experience: One of the best bouldering gyms in Montreal ! It'd be awesome if there were three resets weekly instead of two

Positive experience: Expensive, but I like the climbs very much and the atmosphere is welcoming and comfortable.

Fantastic experience: Même si l'espace n'est pas aussi grand que celui de Chabanel, celui-ci se rattrape avec son côté super chaleureux. Le staff est absolument adorable. Mention spéciale pour les petit latté au lait végétal à prix tout doux et pour le latté matcha pour les matinaux.

Fantastic experience: Best place in town for bouldering with amazing and tricky boulders!

Positive experience: Je grimpe au bloc shop depuis 6 ans. Un des meilleurs gyms au niveau ambiance et qualité des problèmes. Les nouvelles modalités de l'invité gratuit c'est vraiment hot! J'ai quelques désagréments : Ramener les bacs de chalk! Le prix de l'abonnement a beaucoup augmenté dans les deux dernières années... Tellement que j'ai pris une année sabatique du BS pour grimper à Horizon Roc par frustration (14 mois pour le prix de 12 mois, 66$/mois). Je suis de retour au Bloc Shop btw... Je n'ai pas besoin du Bloc Shop Fit mais je paye quand même pour; j'ai l'impression de financer une merch inutile qui ne sert qu'à une classe élite d'athlètes. Il y a beaucoup de négatif de mentionner, mais c'est vraiment un bon gym.

Fantastic experience: really affordable gym, weekly unlimited pass is like $30 which is bonkers (esp coming from NYC bouldering). the gym is big but doesn't actually have that many problems due to how spaced each problem is (no overlap between problems), which I think is a small negative since they could be leveraging the big space better. I think the setting is generally interesting but seems to be more weighted towards v6+. I do think some of the setting can be a bit gimmicky/parkour-y and less reliant on strength & technique, but that's not a negative!

Fantastic experience: The venue is big with nice tracks and some up and over stuff which is great. They also have a nice cafe (which lacks tea) but is quick and convenient none the less.

Fantastic experience: It's huge, really good climbs and also has a really good space for working out. As a visitor was pleasantly surprised by their weekly pass, only 35CAD which is a steal. Also has a nice spot for food and drinks. Will be coming back whenever I visit MTL again.

Fantastic experience: Meilleur routesetting à Montréal, ambiance/musique parfaite, staff toujours ultra courtois, solide sélection de produits d'escalade (topos, chaussures, entraînement), bistro ultra agréable, évènements créatifs et originaux... I mean, le bloc shop c'est royal quoi! 10/10 would recommend!

Fantastic experience: Best rock climbing gym for bouldering in the area! Great staff, clean facility, walls, and equipment are well maintained! The members are friendly and nice. I recommend this gym to anyone looking to climb. Thank you, Chanel, for being very welcoming and giving a fantastic tour!

Fantastic experience: This is an AMAZING bouldering gym. I love it. They have friendly and helpful staff, the gym area has everything you need, the lounge area is great with charging stations. The boutique has so much, so far I've bought shoes, a book and a top. I also had two training sessions with Rafael and he was a very good coach, I highly recommend him. The ambiance is so cool! It's my happy place.

Fantastic experience: Very welcoming staff. The walls are updated regularly so you get challenged continuously while listening to great playlists. The restaurant area is nice with a good variety of deliciousness.

Positive experience: Great place for bouldering lovers. It's relatively smaller than Chabannel one.

Fantastic experience: Great climbing experience, soft mats to fall on, good vibes, and good people.

Fantastic experience: Great boulders with frequent resets. Music selection never let's you down. Blocshop sets the bar high for Bouldering gyms.

Fantastic experience: Super place pour grimper. Staff toujours très sympathique, grande superficie, nombreuses voies et resets réguliers. Choix variés de snacks et boissons. Prévoir d'avoir sa chalk puisque non-fournise.

Fantastic experience: Always creative boulders, helpful staff, great vibe. One of the best climbing gyms in Canada imo.

Fantastic experience: Best bloc in mtl

Fantastic experience: great setting. kind staff. great training center and store for shoes and clothes. cute baby cafe

Fantastic experience: I been a member a little over a year and I love Bloc Shop. Five stars for involved, helpful and seemingly happy staff, generally very clean spaces and very high quality of holds, walls, equipment etc, as well as getting two gyms for the price of one. I do want to echo a few of the comments here that it would be fun to see some more technical oriented setting in the future. Bloc Shop enjoys setting very modern comp style boulders with focus on power and dynamic movement. This is super fun and I love climbing there, but it's fun to experience a variety of styles as well. I would recommend membership at Bloc Shop simply based on the size of the two combined gyms, then all the other great things about it are a bonus

Fantastic experience: Excellent place for bouldering! Huge place, air to breathe on the wall, problems that will challenge you, excellent food and coffee! Never a loose screw for long, very safe as far as bouldering goes, top of the notch place!!! Only wish they reset a bit more often… Note that being a member there gets you entry into sister location!

Fantastic experience: Fun and accessible.

Fantastic experience: Good stuff

Fantastic experience: Superbly friendly staff, decent size for a climbing gym. The only small ick I have is that the route setting are often focused on pretty straight forward strength problems with less technique involved than other gyms. However, they have been setting more technique focused problems in the last few months.

Positive experience: lots of boulders, kinda differents one from another, only problem is the atmosphere. its really like a classic gym, where you dont wanna talk to anyone. pretty much the only bad thing about blocshop

Fantastic experience: Because I feel a little nervous, but I feel great about rock climbing! It's awesome!

Fantastic experience: Great place to climb!! Awesome facilities and super friendly staff, also has a warm up area with different exercise machines which is nice

Positive experience: Was my first time at Bloc Shop, the place was packed! There was not a lot of staff around so we had to wait a little bit... but I personally don't care. The experience was really fun, plenty of climbing options and if you don't want to climb there's a little gym in the back where you can work out. They sell all sorts of gear there, so if you're looking for chalk and climbing shoes, you can buy them there, how convenient! Would recommend.

Positive experience: Great bouldering gym with a decent training area. Just be prepared to wait for climbs during rush hours. Early birds and night owls sessions are best for those looking to do drills on the wall. They could use some extra benches, especially close to the workout area. Have the munchies during a session? They also carry some vegan food, cold and warm drinks. Nice selection of shoes or chalk bag at their boutique.

Fantastic experience: This place works a good sweat if you know what you're doing. But none the less a great place to be with friends and family.

Fantastic experience: Very nice place, great vibe

Fantastic experience: My favourite place in Montreal

Fantastic experience: One of the best bouldering gym in Montreal. Problems for all abilities up to V12. Nice ambience, chill staff.

Fantastic experience: Best gym in town!

Fantastic experience: Great gym. Lots of space

Fantastic experience: One of the best bouldering gyms I've been to! Staff is super friendly, routes are fun and creative.

Fantastic experience: Great crew and a lot of fun , best bouldering in Montreal , yours always happy when you go there

Positive experience: Nice place. Music not to all tastes. Friendly staff.

Fantastic experience: One of the bigger bouldering gyms in Montreal. The crowd is a bit more on the mainstream side for climbing, but there is a lot of variety in problem setting. They have decent setters and a good service, and the prices are fair. Good value overall!

Negative experience: Bloc shop took the joy away from climbing. Did not feel the inclusive community that is typical amongst climbers, did not feel that the staff cared for me to have a good experience. There are other climbing gyms in Montréal with better vibe.

Negative experience: This place won't let you climb if you have a valid vaccine passport and identification. I had an official CDC passport which have worked for everything else so far and they wouldn't let me in. Won't ever be returning

Fantastic experience: I love this location especially during summer evenings when all gates are open for letting the natural air flow inside. Super awesome music, vibe, impressive amount of plants (!!). Warming up and stretching area with variety of weights are smartly separated from the walls (in the other location of BlocShop cardio machines are on everyone's way due to more limited space). Spacious, lots of tricky problems for all levels above V1. Kids' grades are located safely on the edges so there's minimum risk to fall on a kid. Average age is 27+- with occasional legends in their 40s and 50s and just a couple kids during the busiest time. Even during the rush hours (~5-8) it feels more like a friendly party rather than a crowded gym. Great management and all! Keep it up!

Fantastic experience: Incredible gyms, it's hard to find a better gym than this one in Montreal!

Fantastic experience: Quite new to bloc, and I felt my fingers are dead after 2 hrs

Positive experience: My first time trying climbing and it was a great experience. It’s definitely a great workout. It was fairly easy to get into as a beginner but has enough difficulties that I can see it being a good practice for intermediates as well.

Fantastic experience: No rock climbing place compares to this, its amazing on both locations

Fantastic experience: Out of all the climbing gyms I've been to in Montreal, Bloc Shop is the best one. They do frequent resets, the music is great, and they have a good variety of low-difficulty problems for newcomers (even those who have never climbed before) and they have lots of challenging problems for experienced climbers. The routes are fairly rated, they provide buckets of chalk for free to everyone (before the pandemic), the staff is super nice and friendly and there's a good weight training section with stationary bikes for those who want to add in a regular workout. All in all, I absolutely love this place and 100% recommend it to anyone!

Fantastic experience: Nice bouldering gym for all levels. Compared to other bouldering gyms in Montreal I find blocshop to be the most well rounded gym that can accommodate all levels. You have really easy and really tough problem, so in general it’s a good place to start if you’re looking to get into this sport.

Fantastic experience: It is a really good gym ! Good challenges and training area.

Positive experience: Kinda covid-y, kinda expensive. Pretty cool!

Fantastic experience: Great wall setup

Fantastic experience: By far, my favourite climbing gym. This place is huge and has the best setting. Seriously, every single route is fun! Walls have many features, big variety of holds, and the climbs are spaced out nicely. They have a stretching corner, workout space, food, coffee, changing room, wide selection of apparel, and shoes. On top of that, pre-covid, they had free chalk and even shoe spray to help prevent the stank! The atmosphere is very friendly and you can definitely expect to hear people cheering you on :)

Fantastic experience: Great spot to climb with a lot of diversity in the problems.

Fantastic experience: Staff was very friendly and the boulders were creative and diversified. Many required proper technique.

Fantastic experience: It’s always a blast to climb at this gym! The route setters are creative and all the problems are always fun to try. The staff here are friendly as well, and they sell a lot of lovely merchandise.

Negative experience: The routesetters are talented and there are some nice staff, but there's little to no community aspect. So many people come to climb for clout. In five years of climbing, I've never felt so alienated at a climbing gym. I kept coming back because it's big and clean and I like the boulders, but a big part of climbing is the community and it's just not here. Training here with friends would be nice, but for people new to the city this is not a welcoming environment.

Fantastic experience: Staff is amazing, the route setters does a crazy good job. Niche ambiance. It is my favorite place.

Fantastic experience: Climbing in Montreal is a sacred thing. I don’t know who decided that this city would sport the best climbing gyms in North America, but I thank the lord they did. In terms of bouldering, having been a patron of as many gyms as possible, in as many countries as possible, none are on par with the Bloc shop. Sure it can get crowded at peak hours, but the space is about as nice as you could possible get for bouldering. The routes are constantly changing and interesting for everyone from the best climber to your first timer mom and dad. The staff are Montrealers, so a good mix of hip, nice, smart and arrogant. The prices are competitive, the location is fine and to top it all off, the chalk is free. Seriously, if you are looking for a gym in montreal, membership or one time thing, go here.

Fantastic experience: Crowded place on week nights but very worth it!

Fantastic experience: Loved it

Fantastic experience: Noice

Fantastic experience: Great challenge! Tons of fun. Need to go back

Fantastic experience: Great place to Boulder. Love the problems.

Fantastic experience: Many different possibilities in levels and routes, friendly people, clean but a bit far from the metro (not their fault eh!)

Fantastic experience: Great gym, but the original is better

Fantastic experience: Great bouldering gym.