Romper Room Indoor Rock Climbing Centre

Expérience fantastique: Love coming here. the newer automatic belay system is great if you don't have anyone to belay you.

Expérience fantastique: What a fun spot! Took my young kids there and they were really quick to get us up and going, really accomodating, would recommend!

Expérience fantastique: Your staff (Joseph) is very friendly and also this place was very fun to rock climb might come again!

Expérience fantastique: Today I went indoor rock climbing for the first time! I was scared to try but my instructor, River, was very informative, helpful, and encouraging! I had so much fun and I liked how getting started and setting up was so easy! A great place to try out climbing!

Expérience fantastique: Did the Taste of Climbing course. Our instructor (Ella) was incredibly informative. She made our group feel comfortable and she gave us really good advice. We appreciate all the help she gave us! 10/10 would do it again.

Expérience fantastique: Great place for kids to have fun with friends and family

Expérience fantastique: My granddaughter goes great place for rock climbing amazing service

Expérience fantastique: Love the new holds. Great place to burn off energy on a rainy day.

Expérience positive: Holds are outdated and old. Setting is sandbagged usually. Just needs updates, it's been around a long time and you can tell. But it's also the only place in nanaimo to lead when it's raining..

Expérience positive: Nanaimo's best indoor climbing building

Expérience fantastique: I'm new to the climbing experience and love it here! I don't feel intimidated or judged and have a great time every time I come

Expérience positive: We had a fun time here. Great into to climbing!

Expérience fantastique: We did their group booking experience for a mixed age group of jr high and senior high students. They were great! It was a smooth process and easy to work with them. Seriously a great place! All the students loved the evening.

Expérience fantastique: Kids had so much fun! And staff are very friendly, nice and professional. Will definitely come back!

Expérience fantastique: Climbing. Yay

Expérience fantastique: Great staff

Expérience fantastique: I am a bouldering snob. My home gym, "Coyotes" makes bouldering difficult and technical. Strength and endurance help but it won't help that much. So far, this is the only gym that I felt at home away from home. Also great top rope routes. Proper 5.11s. Well done setters, well done.

Expérience fantastique: it was an amazing experience the young girl working with us did an amazing job although one of the other male employees kept walking over and trying his hardest to flirt with the girl working with us

Expérience fantastique: Kids absolutely loved it, and the staff was very happy and patient with all our kids and other kids there.

Expérience fantastique: Very friendly staff, awesome selection of climbing gear

Expérience fantastique: The Romper Room is AH-MAY-ZING!!! Very knowledgeable and friendly staff! Shoutout to Ella, Craig and Alex! I also had the pleasure of meeting the lovely owner, Jonathan, who helped me with climbing shoes and ensured they fit properly, so that I would be a successful climber. Brianna is also amazing, kind and so patient! I asked her to try smaller shoe sizes (after my fitting with Jonathan) for the rentals until they felt right, and she's such a kind and intuitive soul. *For context, I bought a pair of Kira by the brand evolv, which has a lot of vegan climbing shoe options I am wearing them at home before climbing in them, which is why I rented a pair :) Overall experience with the Romper Room is amazing ‍♀️ There is always parking ❤️ One of my favourite aspects about this climbing center is Auto Belay, and Belay training so you can come with a buddy after the training and try out the other walls / routes. I recently fell in love with bouldering as well, and this whole place honestly just brings me so much joy. They also have moon boards which are really cool! I haven't had the pleasure of climbing these yet.

Expérience fantastique: We had a great Birthday party. The staff were awesome. Look forward to going back

Expérience fantastique: Had my child’s birthday party here (kids were all ages 7 to 10) and was amazed at the staff. Each kid, no matter their comfort level, had a great time and did their best. Staff was patient and great teachers and it wasn’t rushed so the kids could take their time challenging themselves. Party area was clean and bright.

Expérience fantastique: This climbing gym has a great vibe, for everyone from beginners to advanced climbers. Friendly staff, frequent resets, and very affordable compared to other area climbing gyms.

Expérience fantastique: My kids and I enjoy our time here each time we go:)

Expérience fantastique: those rocks sure are climbable

Expérience fantastique: Great events, even greater people

Expérience fantastique: Great staff, good climbs, all around chill vibes. Manager is always friendly and professional, staff is great and informed. Highley recommend to new and experienced climbers

Expérience négative: Not a good experience. Came with another family and the place was absolutely jammed. Two Birthday parties with kids crawling all over, even a baby crawling around under climbers. Between our two families we had four kids, and they were cheering each other on (as you would expect), and to our surprise we were told by staff we weren’t setting a good example by being “too loud”. This is while birthday party kids were screaming and crawling around unsupervised. This place has lost out on a family renewing their membership, and us ever going there again or recommending it. Give me a break. Can’t cheer each other on? What is the fun in doing this activity if you can’t support each other? Maybe put a cap on the number of climbers as it was out of control.

Expérience fantastique: Awesome place to learn to climb indoors.

Expérience positive: I feel like it's always busy. Usually has a birthday party or a school field trip. I could just be unlucky though. Bouldering area is all pretty steep so the difficulty of climbs is a little higher than average. The top roping here is great though, 6 auto belayers makes it chill to climb alone. Good stuff.

Expérience fantastique: Love this place. The auto-belay system is amazing and the staff are friendly too. Bought my shoes and harness here as well.

Expérience fantastique: Great gym, and super friendly staff!

Expérience fantastique: Helpful staff and good variety of climbing walls available

Expérience fantastique: My son really enjoyed his lessons here. The staff were very good and it was a fun but safe environment.

Expérience fantastique: Love the new mats. Lots of Self Belay stations. Friendly Staff, and affordable climbing. Older Gym, but newer holds. Always get a good workout here.

Expérience fantastique: This is a fantastic gym to climb. More top rope focused but a good spot to work on bouldering. We all had a blast. Great staff. Some stuff to buy and just overall nice facility

Expérience fantastique: A great place for climbers of all skill levels, great programs for beginners to advanced climbers. Highly recommend.

Expérience fantastique: Great for my kids. I'm taking my belay test to volunteer here

Expérience positive: Great rock climbing

Expérience fantastique: God I love this place!

Expérience fantastique: A friend invited me and my partner and we had an amazing time! We will be back! The space is clean and well designed, and routes are always being updated. There are different routes for all skill levels. I was nervous at first but eventually eased up and ended up having a super fun time. The vibe was very open, supportive and friendly. Prices seem fair for what you get, and the staff were polite and nearby if we had any questions or concerns. You need to sign a waiver and do a very quick walk through of the gym before climbing for the first time. There's a bouldering area, plus an upstairs loft where you can stretch and change shoes, etc. There are a few courses with auto belays as well. Two private bathrooms on the first floor.

Expérience fantastique: I love this place. Great and supportive environment, rad staff, affordable. A great place to spend time, climb your heart out, and meet some cool folks.

Expérience fantastique: Amazing staff and lots of fun climbing.New floor covering pads are awesome. No more dust!

Expérience fantastique: Fun place

Expérience fantastique: What a fun birthday party option! These guys were great! The kids had an absolute blast at the party and they were so tired and happy after it was wonderful - parents were thanking us for such a great experience. The facilities were very clean and the atmosphere was fun! We will be back for sure! Thanks Romper Room. Quick reminder to folks - bring your own water bottle lol

Expérience fantastique: I partook in a bouldering technique course led by Jonathan recently. Immediately I became much more confident climbing with the proper foundational skills and safety precautions freshly in mind. It was a lovely evening!

Expérience fantastique: Amazing staff and hard climbs .

Expérience fantastique: Keep climbing

Expérience positive: My really son enjoyed his birthday party at Romper Room. Thanks for making his Day special!

Expérience positive: I did a lead climbing course and it was good and covered everything that was needed but it felt very rushed and not as thorough as it could have been. Definitely would have preferred a opportunity to do a few more practice climbs rather than finishing up early. As a gym the gravel takes some getting used to and it’s very overhang focused seeing how it gives off a cave like feel. I went on a super hot day and you could very much feel it get notably hotter at the top of a climb. Overall fun gym

Expérience fantastique: Fun routes and helpful staff

Expérience fantastique: im obsessed. rock climbing is crack. google offered me more points to update my review so in summary: im still obsessed. My fav gym by far, best owners and best staff and the new floors are slick!!!!

Expérience fantastique: Well equipped, great set up, family friendly and affordable.

Expérience fantastique: Great place. Tons of fake rocks. They're all over the walls, and boy do they have walls. Boulder cave, lead cave, top ropes, you climb it in a gym, they got it.

Expérience fantastique: Nice atmosphere. Great selection of climbs!

Expérience fantastique: Love this place!

Expérience fantastique: Great place for meaningful exercise! Amazing guides and instructors! An atmosphere of camaraderie.

Expérience fantastique: Amazing and relaxed rock climbing gym for all skill levels. Friendly staff and a welcome environment for any level of challenge.

Expérience fantastique: Really good pricing and exercise for beginners and more experienced climbers

Expérience fantastique: Love!

Expérience fantastique: Very good Excited!!!

Expérience négative: 1) If you have asthma or are irritated by indoor air quality DO NOT GO HERE without a dust mask. There is a noticable haze lingering from the gravel floor. I immediately felt wheezy after one climb and was kept awake all night with a cough (no sickness prior). Mats need no ne installed ASAP. 2) Most ropes available for the top rope routes had been well used to the point of varying diameters by nearly 5mm. This make it hard to fit into some belay devices and hard to take slack when belaying. 3) The holds on the walls are old and worn down. Some of them had a black shine to them from the amount of use and slips. I love climbing and was only in Nanaimo for 2 nights so we decided to check it out. After experiencing the condition/ quality of the gym I would never return and would tell the north island climbing community to avoid if they can.

Expérience fantastique: Awesome climbing

Expérience fantastique: so much fun. very friendly and patient with people who've never tried rock climbing before .

Expérience positive: Pretty expensive but pleasant staff. For the love of God clean the urinal!

Expérience fantastique: We booked a family session for 2 hrs with a belayer. All of us loved it! The belayer ( Mia ) Was fantastic, very patient and encouraging towards the kids. We will be back.

Expérience fantastique: A great place to celebrate a birthday

Expérience fantastique: So much fun, great way to work out, staff is nice.

Expérience positive: 환기가 안되었던게 조금 단점이지만 하다보면 생각도 안나고 재밌어요

Expérience fantastique: The staff are really encouraging and very friendly. Some walls are more challenging than others but that's a good thing.

Expérience fantastique: We had my 11 year old sons birthday here today with 9 kids and they had so much fun. The staff was friendly and very helpful!

Expérience fantastique: Great environment for kids

Expérience négative: Visited the Romper Room today while on vacation from Alberta. Only had room for shoes & a chalk bag, so climbing at Horne Lake wasn’t an option. Definitely felt the old-school vibe of the gym, which was cool, but it could definitely use some adjustments in order to operate at the standard of today’s gyms. A few notes from my experience: A gym orientation was not given or offered. The employee asked our group of four if we had used auto belays before. Two hadn’t, so she offered to do an orientation or if myself or my partner (who have both used auto belays before) would show the other two in our group. We opted to show them ourselves. This wasn’t an issue, but I was surprised to see that an employee would pass on their role & responsibility to a visitor. Poor safety in the bouldering area. 4 crash pads for the entire bouldering section. Two pads were occupied by people sitting on them. I can’t blame them as there is no seating. The other two were in use by people actually climbing. This area can certainly accommodate many climbers, so I would suggest adding more mats. The Moonboards have adequate padding, so I would expect the same in the bouldering area of the gym downstairs. Why is gravel a choice for the flooring? It creates a dusty environment (on top of chalk in the air), makes holds slick, and doesn’t offer much protection in the case of a fall. If 2 $5,000+ Moonboards can be purchased, adequate flooring and mats should be a priority. - Does hold-washing take place in this facility? I could nearly see my reflection in some of the holds. - Route-setting did not seem all that creative. Routes / problems lacked flow and nice moves. I still did enjoy my time here, as I would have seriously missed climbing for a few weeks while away from the Bow Valley. There are improvements that could be made to this gym.

Expérience fantastique: Great customer service. They were very willing to donate to my bursary foundation, and provided knowledgeable information regarding youth climbing

Expérience fantastique: Love this place. Been sending people years. Great facility. Friendly and professional staff. Always been a great experience. Glad to have them near by.

Expérience fantastique: This is my favourite gym in the world. Others are right in that the routes are extra technical to make up for the shorter walls. I actually like this better because I feel that the practice I get is more valuable :) the gym really has a hometown/family feel and a more authentic vibe than some of the newer, fancier gyms. Really fits in with the spirit of the sport. The rock-like walls are also a nice touch. Disagree with some of the negative reviews below...if shiny, luxurious facilities are your top priorities, maybe you should try a different hobby? This gym is amazing and such a special feature of Nanaimo! Great routes, great atmosphere, and always so welcoming.

Expérience fantastique: We had a great afternoon here. We will be back again

Expérience fantastique: Dah bessssttt

Expérience fantastique: Kids had lots of fun

Expérience fantastique: Great place. Daughter always has so much fun. Super staff who are dedicated. Be back soon

Expérience fantastique: My son enjoyed it so much he cannot wait to go back what a cool experience!!!

Expérience fantastique: I had my birthday party here and it was the best. The staff were really friendly. I will totally be back.

Expérience fantastique: Lots of fun! Only $15 for the day!

Expérience négative: I came to this gym while visiting from the mainland to lead climb as they have a large roof section. Online there is no mention of having to call in to book a belay test so we just dropped in. Unfortunately the person working said she can only give top rope tests. Their top rope section is fairly easy, only two 5.12's and one 5.13 which my partner easily finished. All the other difficult climbs were lead only. At one point there was three staff members behind the desk, all of whom were untrained to give lead tests. My experience at this gym was extremely disappointing and unprofessional, it was my partners first time in the gym and he did not even receive an orientation. A gym that offers lead climbing should have staff that can give belay tests.

Expérience fantastique: Thank you Romper room! We had a terrific time today! Your staff are incredibly helpful, our kids had a great time and so did we. The routes are fun and challenging - we’ll certainly be back!

Expérience fantastique: Took the guide coarse and the belaying certification course really friendly staff. If you like a bit less of a hoard of climbers call for best slow times they are more then happy to tell you!

Expérience fantastique: Siiiiickkkk, send some dynnooosss

Expérience fantastique: Bouldering, top-rope and auto-belay. This gym has something for everyone. Great staff too!

Expérience fantastique: Such an amazing place to go to socialize and workout. The staff are always there to help out where needed.

Expérience négative: Gym with lots of potential put kind of misses the mark walls are cluttered and routes arent well graded and set almost seems like holds are on the wall and they just randomly throw tape on holds. Some 5.9s were harder then the 11s. Grading was all over the place

Expérience fantastique: Love this place! Great community and good variety of roots for all levels - highly reccomend checking it out!

Expérience fantastique: Was great first time

Expérience négative: We brought our summer camp to this facility in August 2018. Not only were the 'leaders' extremely un-engaging with the children, they weren't able to explain proper safety concerns to the children in a way that they could comprehend but had no issue getting mad at children for not following the rules. There seemed to be zero management around, and was being run by no one older than 16 this specific morning. We paid for a full hour and our appointment ended 15 minutes early (only got 45 minutes of climbing time for an hour pay). We were also kicked out of the building when we asked to eat lunch upstairs in the corner to avoid the summer fire smoke (which was at an extreme health warning). Extremely unprofessional and lacking any type of management. Would not recommend going here, especially for their prices.

Expérience fantastique: Had a great boulder. They just set some new problems. Good fun

Expérience fantastique: Very friendly staff and helpful highly recommend

Expérience fantastique: Great spot, great routes and great staff

Expérience fantastique: Awesome climbing gym. Short walls, but excellent route setting. Very technical. Great bouldering area. A top notch locals gym for a town of less than 100,000 people. Great staff. Great great for sale. Good beverages on offer. Fun music played.

Expérience positive: Friendly staff. Lots of routes and places to boulder. There's an upstairs that's great for hanging out and watch others climb. Really family friendly.

Expérience positive: Really great rock climbing gym! The only reason I give it a 4 is because when my fiance and I were doing our belay course, we didn't have the greatest experience. We were in a decently sized class and I get that he had to spend time with everyone. However, the instructor didn't seem to care for the fact that we already knew what we were doing. He actually ignored us for a while and didn't look at all thrilled when we had completed the knots without his step by step instructions. The rest of the staff there is great and we still continue to go