The Climbing Academy - "The Prop Store"

Fantastic experience: Love this place!!! Bloody cold in the winter though!

Fantastic experience: Such cool climbing places, very welcoming and great hot chocolate and people :)

Fantastic experience: Went to the climbing academy newsroom (also in Glasgow) a few times this month and purchased a membership, so I decided to check out the other location since all 5 climbing academy locations are included in the membership, it's a lot more open and has climbs that the newsroom doesn't like roped climbs and top out climbs. The staff are very friendly and I saw some of the same members of staff there that I already knew from going to the newsroom, it was nice to see familiar faces!

Fantastic experience: Favourite climbing place ever.

Negative experience: Great place, great staff but due go a poor error from a staff member I wasn’t signed off on anything and would of had to do all the sign in process again safety video etc because someone couldn’t tick a box.

Fantastic experience: The climbing gym is an excellent venue for both beginners and experienced climbers. The facility is spacious, well-maintained, and offers a wide range of climbing walls that cater to various skill levels. The staff are friendly, knowledgeable, and always willing to offer tips or guidance. The routes are regularly updated, ensuring there's always something new to challenge you. Additionally, the gym has a welcoming community atmosphere, making it a great place to not only improve your climbing skills but also meet fellow enthusiasts. Overall, it's a top-notch indoor climbing experience.

Fantastic experience: Great experience friendly helpful staff

Fantastic experience: Light and airy, decent selection of climbs, modern textured walls

Fantastic experience: Climbed here a few time, good selection of climbs and the staff are always friendly

Positive experience: Friendly staffs and good vibes here. The only concern for me is that the routes are very unfriendly for petit climbers. Sometimes ppl <160cm do not have any alternative betas. Quite upset. Probably have an “easy point” to make climbing here more inclusive?

Positive experience: Climbs get reset very slowly here, so you normally have plenty of time for a project. Fun climbs too, lovely staff - quite cold in winter!

Fantastic experience: Excellent venue. Great bouldering and super friendly staff.

Fantastic experience: Kids have been going here for climbing lessons. All the team and great with them, a healthy balance of fun and discipline. And the coffee and food from the café is really good. I can highly recommend the orange and ginger cookies!

Fantastic experience: Great bouldering gym. Twinned with the one at kinning park so a membership will get you into both. This one uniquely has harness climbing and rowing machines and exercise bikes . The climbing routes have a different feeling between the two locations in Glasgow. I would call this one more beginner friendly but that's just my opinion

Fantastic experience: Lovely big arena for climbing. Really good selection of different grades, from easy to almost impossible. Staff are very friendly and helpful. There's a wee cafe too if you need a coffee and a panini

Fantastic experience: Good climbing gym, fair and balanced route grading throughout. It would be nice to see a variety of energy drinks ie Redbull as well Tenzing.

Positive experience: Great Climbing Gym in Glasgow. Always love going to this gym. Good problems, cool walls and usually not too busy.

Fantastic experience: Good wee gym upstairs for a warm up. Plenty of different bouldering routes to give a go

Fantastic experience: Fantastic atmosphere and climbing

Positive experience: Don't go here as often as Newsroom as it's a bit harder to get to for my climbing group. It's also not quite as big, but tends to be less busy as a result of the location. Walls are textured, in contrast to Newsroom - routes tend to be a bit harder to compensate for this, from what I've noticed. Routes are changed regularly which is great for keeping things fresh. They use the French scale here as well as Newsroom. Has a roped climbing section with auto-belay. Also has a top-out boulder which is quite fun. Small café and a climbing store for shoes, clothes, harnesses, chalk etc.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic spot for some bouldering and a good coffee. Staff are polite and always happy to help with anything.

Positive experience: I think the difficulties is not consistent ! Even in the same track.

Fantastic experience: My new favourite hobby!

Positive experience: Good range of bouldering and belay climbs. Wee gym on the second floor.

Fantastic experience: awesome climbing venue. Has bouldering and rope climbs. Plenty of autobelays as well as toprope and lead climbs. Small rope walls around 8m. Bouldering is really good excellent wall designs and setting. Staff are really helpful and friendly

Fantastic experience: Really nice climbing gym with routes for all abilities. The staff and friendly and can make a great coffee.

Fantastic experience: My favourite climbing gym

Fantastic experience: Excellent route setting for bouldering and ropes. Very friendly staff. The coffees are brilliant and I really enjoy the chaos wall and weight lifting section. My favourite climbing gym to date.

Fantastic experience: Clean bouldering and rope climbing gym. Nice vibes and cover a range of difficulties

Fantastic experience: pretty small, but has everything you'd need

Negative experience: Good facilities with great potential, but the new setting schedule means there are less problems available at each level difficulty.

Fantastic experience: Always a delight climbing here! They've got everything: cafe, mini shop, training gym, conditioning gym and tons of belay and boulder routes. Staff are excellent too!

Fantastic experience: I'd highly recommend The Prop Store. Staff are really friendly, it's purpose-built with a good variety of problems and a small but decent roped wall. Nice cafe with very tasty food, too!

Fantastic experience: Top tier facilities and staff. What more could you ask for. And with the new route setting changes there is always something new to climb (or fall off)

Fantastic experience: Good quality walls, challenging routes.

Fantastic experience: Go for the bouldering, stay for the auto-belays, lead climb, top ropes, gym, café, and training walls. Sometimes pretty busy - they should probably look at doing some sort of peak time membership or similar to help reduce the busyness sometimes.

Fantastic experience: Love coming here. Always busy, with a great atmosphere and very helpful staff.

Fantastic experience: Some fantastic routes and great coffee!

Fantastic experience: Excellent centre

Positive experience: Great wee venue with all tyoes of climbing. Vegan food puts it right up there for me. Lost a star because a) initial video too long b) too pricey for me c) no Earl Grey tea. Very impressed with number of bike racks and the face there is a wee gym there too.

Fantastic experience: Recently got into climbing and can't rate this centre well enough, from friendly staff to a great selection of fun problems and the small gym/training area upstairs. Seems to attract a good, friendly and respectful clientele too which is a great environment for a newbie like me.

Fantastic experience: Great environment for a newbie, welcoming and pleasant staff who know what they’re talking about. Cafe is good too and if you want to bring your own food and drinks that’s no problem either.

Positive experience: Overall good climbing experience but lots of problems: stinky changing rooms and more recently very, very cold. You can see your breath it's that cold. I have to climb with a hat on and my hoodie. Even the staff are standing under heaters with jackets and hats on. It's ridiculous. An old annoying thing is the lack of proper long brushes, instead they use a stick with taped little brushes. Edit: other gyms are not this cold: I travel a lot and have asked friends, none report such cold temperatures - your gym just has no heating outside the cafe area and even there the staff was wearing jackets and hats under the heaters - management needs to improve heating, it's that simple

Fantastic experience: Once again, another awesome experience at the climbing gym, everyone is super friendly ( gym goers and staff) the food is great quality, the coffee is amazing, the changing rooms are very clean, I've never seen or heard any disrespect or bad attitudes from staff or members, always a joy to go there, it is literally the most welcoming place I've ever been, and the music played is usually great too.

Fantastic experience: Good facilities. Friendly, helpful staff.

Fantastic experience: Been climbing at the newsroom for a year. This one is equally good with the bouldering scene. Looking forward to more visits

Fantastic experience: Superb and friendly service just like the newsroom. Great relaxed atmosphere. Loads of varied climbing. Soup was brilliant...again as was the coffee. Well worth the visit...only thing I'd mark down is it's that we don't live near enough

Positive experience: First time at this particular TCA location- great experience all round. Very friendly staff and good tunes. Just a shame I failed my belay test . I will be back soon with a vengeance!

Fantastic experience: Great climbing. Love that theres the auto belays as well as bouldering. The staff are lovely

Fantastic experience: Nice climbing gym with both roped climbing and bouldering. Routes are changed regularly so it keeps things fun! TCA so uses the Griptonite app that lets you log your climbs,which is amazing to track your progress. Friendly staff and good fitness room as well! Given that the membership gives you access to the Newsroom wall as well, it is well worth it.

Positive experience: You have dropped one star because of the shouting man - he should be banned. However, tca staff are all brilliant!

Fantastic experience: Pleasantly surprised visiting this gym coming from Canada! Lots of variety in the routes; the setting is very thoughtful and forces the use of technique over pure strength. Great atmosphere, staff and food bar!

Fantastic experience: Nice place and bike friendly. Got few poles for bike locking and safe too.

Fantastic experience: Friendly, helpful staff. Lovely coffee.

Positive experience: Nice modern centre, let down a bit by a lot of dirty, slimy holds, and routesetting definitely favouring shorties

Fantastic experience: Great day out. Thanks to Rob and the team!

Fantastic experience: I love climin

Fantastic experience: Favourite climbing gym in Glasgow. Centre is clean and modern with secluded training room (spray wall, circuit wall, dynamic wall, campus boards, hang boards) and gym (rowing machine, spin bikes, cable machine, bench, weights, bars etc.). Routes are reset on a good schedule and there's roped climbing as well as bouldering. You can also get food and coffee etc. from the cafe. Monthly membership is a good price too because access to The Newsroom (another gym in southside) is included.

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff and it has a nice range of hard and easy walls. The free rope wasn't open this time but I'm excited to try it when I go back

Fantastic experience: Great facilities, amazing staff and friendly clientele.

Positive experience: Mostly bouldering, some roped walls toi

Fantastic experience: Boulder, autobelay, sport climbing, spray wall, comp wall aswell as weights area

Positive experience: Good: focused on bouldering but with some climbing, great friendly staff. Less great: more variation in each climbing grade style would be better. The music (repetitive drum and bass) is tedious.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic bouldering facility. Discovered this place just after lockdown eased and it is a treasure. The route difficulties are an accurate reflection of their challenge rating and unlike a lot of bouldering spaces nothing feels too tight/crushed or compact. The staff are friendly and the facility has a very professional atmosphere. The price is great, I bouldered every day, literally every day for four months and it only cost me £35 a month. Top job! Get yourselves a centre in Aberdeen!

Fantastic experience: Very good very nice

Fantastic experience: Chilling out

Fantastic experience: Amazing place, very friendly and hlepful staff, great walls

Fantastic experience: Cracking gym with great climbs and friendly staff. Coffee and hot chocolate is a must! Can’t wait to return!

Positive experience: The Prop Store of the TCA is a converted warehouse where the theatre stored their props. Today, nothing reminds you of that past. Today, there are plenty of climbers of all ages ascending the boulders and walls. Wall climbing is near the end of the cavernous hall where experts (only) can use ropes. The climbing hold patterns are regularly varied to make the climbs more interesting. There is a wee shop for climbing essentials and some snacks and drinks and food. Parking is super easy due to the large parking area in the front. Finding the place at the end of the car park can be confusing if you are not familiar with the location. The place looks like an industial facility with its empty gate house. The Prop Store is on your left almost at the very end of several converted warehouses. Climbers seem to be friendly folk.

Fantastic experience: Well set problems which are changed regularly to keep it fresh! Very friendly and social attitude. The coffee is also good and the food fresh so you can climb through lunch! Best times to come are during the day between 9 -5 if you like it quieter, but it's still friendly when busier. Both the lead and bouldering climbs are fantastic, I would highly recommend

Fantastic experience: Cool routes, all new, nice staff. Thumb up

Fantastic experience: I really enjoyed climbing here, plenty of lower grade routes for myself and intermediate ones for my wife. Didn't do any roped today just bouldering so next year when we visit our friends we may bring our harnesses. Really friendly staff & other climbers

Fantastic experience: Great place. Friendly staff :)

Fantastic experience: Very quite and peaceful. some of the QRcodes where missing for griptonite but could be found on the app. if using the lockers you are best to bring a padlock to close them

Fantastic experience: Amazing, the staff are very welcoming, super friendly as if you are friends, very easy to get started from scratch with no prior experience and very free. The prices are totally worth it, you can buy anything you need there and even the shoes are so good to ones you borrow. 100% recommend this place for people from totally new to elite climbers, I believe the levels go up to 8b+ or 8c+ not sure which but one of the two. Equipment are 100% safe and reliable, chalk and all the bags and such are very good, a chalk bag would be £22, chalk is £3 small size the big ones I dont know. The walls are very good, I improve every time I go there. Gym is very good too lots of equipment, dumbells, barbells, weights for barbells, single hand weights, all sorts of pull up bars and ropes and such to practise on, mats, rowing machines and such. Theres even a training room with training walls next to the gym which have the rock climbing grip boards, loads of stuff where you have to use full upper body for, I can't explain but theres everything you need, the walls there are amazing too, improved a lot from using that room. The best

Fantastic experience: One of my favourite place too be. Great climbing gym and routes changed regularly. Cafes good too.

Fantastic experience: Nice wall

Fantastic experience: Great wee place, friendly staff and good variation on the walls. Went with my son and he lived it. Will definitely be back.

Fantastic experience: Come here on the odd weekend (Edinburgh based). Staff are extreamly sound. Make great coffee and there is always fun setting, never had a bad day here. Oh and the training facilities are next level, better than most fitness and weightlifting gyms. This a must visit if your in the area and fancy a climb or some training!

Fantastic experience: Great place to climb has on rope and off and an amazing gym I personally like this 1 more than the news room but that's just me definitely recommend!

Positive experience: Has decent facilities and variety of challenges. However would say its pretty decent rather than very good or above

Fantastic experience: It felt busy today, but not overwhelmingly so as masks and social distancing still observed properly, thanks for a good climb!

Positive experience: Lockdown fun

Fantastic experience: Awesome beyond measure

Fantastic experience: Friendly staff, clean facilities, good routes.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic! The best place to chill out and climb. Lovely staff and great vibe

Fantastic experience: The staff were very welcoming, friendly and thorough in regards to harness and rope knowledge testing. There is a small cafe area at the entrance with a nice choice of drinks and soup/sandwiches/cakes. You can sit there and watch the bouldering if you fancy a break. There's a separate ropes area and training gym, ample lockers (you need a padlock) and very clean and modern toilets. This place is not as big as some of the other climbing centres but has a good range of climbs. You can also pay an extra £10 up front and get a £2 discount every time you go. If you need to hire equipment it's not expensive - £3 for shoes

Fantastic experience: Had an auto-belay induction and the instructor was thorough and friendly and very encouraging! Excited for my next time on the wall

Fantastic experience: Top place! Love it here, so chill and yet so intense at the same time - love bouldering and the gym is quality too

Positive experience: Good climbing gym

Fantastic experience: Awsome gym, food and vibes

Positive experience: Plenty of space and good vibes

Fantastic experience: They've added an awesome upstairs weight training/cardio/stretching area/ steep board. Roped climbing, auto belays, bouldering - this gym has everything! Now they just need a sauna...

Fantastic experience: Nice boulder wall with plenty of routes to choose. There are also some tope rope, lead and autobelay options. TCA PropStore has small gym so you can exercise a bit more then just by bouldering. Including practice wall, finger boards ect...

Fantastic experience: Great place. Good climbing

Fantastic experience: Cold and COOL!

Fantastic experience: Great bouldering to be had!

Fantastic experience: A great place for different climbing

Positive experience: Really enjoyable day out. Spent a good couple of hours here and there was loads of climbs still to do. A good range of difficulty but definitely a harder set of climbs than the sister store in kinning park. There seemed to be more wall space but less dense holds. So overall a similar amount of climbs. There is also a belayed area that I didn't go into but it looks pretty good too. Will definitely go back again!

Fantastic experience: Super range of problems and for a lone climber like me, a nice social atmosphere. As well as reviving hot drinks and tasty snacks, there is advice and guidance from the TCA team if you need it. Also. A super gym and practice wall upstairs.