Craggy 2 i .....Best setting in London I reckon
Good stuff, glad it's not just me who likes the setting - something you only really appreciate when you go somewhere where it's duff. *cough*SSP*cough*
Re: Craggy grades. I started climbing there, and rarely climb (indoors) anywhere else - so the stiff grades are actually quite useful as it means you can go to other walls, in particular Westway, and get a good ego-boost when you climb 2 grades harder.
Probably because I don't get out enough, but I still find indoor grades way below outdoor grades - I can climb 6a+ boulders regularly at Craggy G/Craggy 2 - and still get shut down on 5's outdoors. So in that respect, I think it's quite useful that Craggy are stuff, as if you were regularly climbing 6c at your wall it would be a bit of a shock to get stuck on 4's and 5's.
Apparently the grading assumes perfect technique and "average" height,
I dont know how they expect for their shorter patrons to deal with this (especially at the same grade range), but hey ho...I guess they have to lump it or leave it.
There's a door which you can open. On the rare occasions I've seen the place with more than a few people there, it's been open. Also low temperatures mean less sweatiness/mugginess/humidity/slipping about on holds.....