New Climbing wall- Your thoughts

What makes a climbing wall one which you want to come back to? (only question i can answer not being from brighton) atmosphere and social environnement, definitely, miles ahead other stuff. I have a yearly pass in a bouldering gym that's cool but has some drawbacks (it is quite dirty in any sense...toilets showers lockers room holds...) but a great social scene. Since i like to ropeclimb too and the price was quite cheap, i've got as well an annual subscription to a rope wall run by the french federation. Really proper wall and cool routes, crappy people. Musta been there twice and then i abandoned. so what favours a good social environnement at a gym??? thoughts : -bar and late closing time. People should stop for a beer and a chat after the session. Ideally they should even come to the gym just to say hello. It is important that the bar section has the least possible isolation from the climbing area : same floor level, no visual barrier. People should climb, spot a friend at the bar, come in for a chat and get back to climbing. I've seen a gym where the bar is on a different level, and well it didn't work nearly as well. -cool friendly warm outgoing people working at the entrance/bar. They should provide a conversation when no one else is there, help you find a climbing partner for next weekend, make people know people. -really cheap long-term pass compared to single entrance. -increase the chances for a conversation start and, why not, a little bit of promiscuity. Favour bouldering space, easy and hard boulders on the same walls, maybe a slightly excessive "lines/surface" ratio compared to what you would like from a rigorous perspective, a small sauna (rigorously shared by the two sexes). -if you put a rope wall, some system that makes it easy to find a belay when you are alone. The objective is not make the people climb, it is to make them know each other, so NO self belay machines or stuff like that. -ahem, cough cough...good friendly relationships with police. A consistent fraction of the more "socially oriented" climbers are also potheads to some extent, you don't want them to get busted in your gym's parking slot. -abundancy of lockers and a layout that doesn't encourage thefts. -try to spot the most socially-appreciated climbers of your area and offer them a free pass or entrance in the first years. Be honest in explaining them that they are your "ambassadors" and that their friends will have to pay though.