This is a climbing gym for children. If you have a typical 9-5 job, good luck trying to climb here. Team practices run from 4PM until the gym closes every weekday, and weekend days are often booked with birthday parties or events. The gym staff, while friendly, are inattentive, and allow kids to run around underneath roped and unroped climbers, monopolize topropes and autobelays, and don't ensure parents are paying attention to their children during events. Entire sections of the gym are routinely cordoned off for team practices, but the teams are free to climb outside the barricades, so finding available routes can be extremely difficult. I have serious reservations about the lack of safety consciousness between this gym's community and staff. I've seen more injury near-misses in the one year I've been a member of this gym than in the 20+ years of climbing before. Every climbing session, I wonder to myself "is this the day I see someone fall on a kid, or tie in wrong?" Memberships at Gecko cost up to 2x more than competing gyms in the Phoenix area. (One year membership for an adult couple at Gecko is $1400. At PRG a one year membership for two adults is $645) The straw that broke the camel's back for me was trying to climb before a recent competition (for kids only). After leaving work early, and arriving at about 4:30, almost the entire gym was stripped. One of the staff informed us the remaing areas were going to be reserved for team practice starting at 5. While we weren't explicitly asked to leave, the implication was clear. I'm extremely disappointed in my overall experience at this gym, and have set my membership to expire. We won't be heading back to Gecko :( Edited to add: Thanks for the reply, and the clarifications, but a major motivator for posting this review and our decision to leave this gym is that our multiple complaints and suggestions in person with gym staff over the past year have gone without attention. If anything, the safety concerns I, and every other negative review to date have raised here, have either remained or even gotten worse. You may consider your prices fair, and they may very well be appropriate with consideration for your business costs, but I don't see the value in new spaces, advanced equipment, or upgrades if I can't find effectively use the facility, safely, on my schedule. I truly hope you find the power to grow into the future, but we haven't seen it.

Just visiting from Dallas. Very nice new gym! I can't wait for them to expand and maybe get some taller top ropes in the future. The grading is great, facility's clean and safe. Staff is friendly! Less than one star for some of the coaches allowing children to run around and run through under someone belaying. Other than that, A+ !

My kids and I enjoy this place so much, ages 5-12. Great for indoor summer activity in Phoenix. Competitive rates. Bought a 10 session package for a discount. Staff is always patient with the kids, getting shoes and harnesses, etc.

Things I like - this is a new gym, super clean, friendly staff and close to my house. What I dislike - the routes and areas being closed off for classes for kids or just generally kids running around. I can handle a sandbagged route, but if it’s sandbagged and not even creative, it makes for a frustrating experience. I can send anything up to an 11 at any other gym in the Phoenix area (AZ on the rocks, PRG, Alta etc) but have never managed that with any of their routes other than a green (which I also hate a broad color rating system). It’s disappointing because driving to any other gym is 50+ min away from where I live and Gecko is only 28 min away. I tracked the construction of this gym and was soooo excited to have it so close to me! They’re more expensive than any other gym, but I’m definitely willing to pay if the routes were better. Sometimes I still go just to get in a workout, but find the experience more frustrating than anything. The one time I enjoyed the routes was when they were leftover from a competition. Not sure if they brought in different route setters, but they were actually fun! As for the kids, I understand it’s a family environment, but I have shown up on a couple occasions and an entire area was closed for class. I have also had kids run underneath me while lead climbing and had kids run smack into me while I was belaying because they just weren’t paying attention. I really really want to like this place so much more and will continue to visit on occasion to see if the routes have improved. In the meantime, just mostly disappointed :(

My husband and I were so happy to have a gym up here in north Phoenix that we signed up before it open. Compared to other gyms in the valley, this one holds its own. It is most similar to Focus in that it is one large long room with bouldering on one side and ropes on the opposite. It excels in that it has auto belay, top rope, and lead climbing. There is even an adorable section for children with a slide and an interesting moon board in the back. They offer yoga, day camps, and classes as well. There are cubbies for storage, but no lockers. They seem to change the routes at a good pace and it never seems to hot inside even in this Arizona heat. Highly recommend!

We love this gym! The staff are awesome, cool atmosphere, and there’s a great sense of community. Super family and beginner friendly but also great sets for experienced climbers. Go check it out!

Definitely a great place with wonderful staff but if you have thick thighs you may or may not fit in the harness. They did offer a full body option I personally refused but it might work. Don’t let that deter you just try it out!

The staff is very friendly and always remember my sons’ names when they walk in the door. Great management and chill environment. My boys love it here!

It’s a decent gym in the area to take beginners. The grading isn’t the most consistent, but they do have extremely creative sets

I'm sure if you don't have kids this is easily a 5 star location. However coming from someone who typically goes to Alta climbing the kids area here is just small and sad. I probably won't come back until my kids are adults even though it's close by.