8 of 10 places fit
A central Al Quoz warehouse with a MoonBoard and campus board, and weekend ladies-only climbing before the main doors open.
Close to 400 square metres of bouldering inside a mall unit, with overhangs, slabs and comp-style walls reset by a full-time setting team.
The one Dubai gym with lead, top-rope and auto-belay walls as well as bouldering, so it's where you learn to tie in.
The UAE's longest-running bouldering gym, with a tension board and hang boards for when you start training rather than just playing.
The most popular of the RAK crags past the Wadi Bih turn, with sport, trad and top-rope lines on fairly solid limestone close to town.
A circuit of more than 100 logged boulder problems right beside the mountain road, so the walk-in is a few metres.
A proper university climbing gym with routes from beginner to hard, a year-round bouldering area and inclusive sessions run with the Rab3i Association.
A standard climbing wall, game-style Valo Climb walls, a via ferrata and a rappelling wall share one roof, so a first-timer can try four kinds of climbing on a single pass.