Skydive Monroe

Great bunch of people. Very thorough with all the safety measures and an incredible experience. I’ve jumped 2 times now and I’m sure I will jump again. Take a picnic lunch and hang out all day. Lots of fun!

Dive master was self centered and did not pay any attention to my questions during prep, flight or dive. I had horrible earache during the free fall (turned out to have caused ear drum rupture) and severe pain in the groin from ill-​fitted straps during the parachuting. The goggles were plastic junk with scratches and cloudiness and homemade rubber strings. While your experience will depends on your master skydiver, I suggest avoiding Bill Scott if you really have to go to this place.

I’ve gone skydiving 4 times so far in life. Maybe 5. I don’t remember. Each of those times — I’ve gone here. At the time, I was in college and I didn’t really want to drive to ATL and spend an extra 100 dollars for my skydiving experiences. Hahahaha. I sound smart, right? Anyways…
Staff members are really nice and super chill. I don’t remember having any trouble. Oh — they gave me a discount after my first time because I brought new people with me when I came back. Isn’t that sweet?!
We do have to wear a suit. It’s a silly looking suit, but better safe than sorry. Before doing anything, they will give you paperwork to fill out and etc. Simple.
Also, I think each time I went, the weather was beautiful. So everything went great.
Overall, I’m glad I came here for my experience. I think once I tried to get off the plane before take off and the guy was like «woops, I closed the door. gotta go!». I nearly peed my pants, but I didn’t, hahah. Everyone makes the skydiver feel very comfortable especially if they’re a newbie.

I love these guys! You can go to the DZ on any weekend and meet the friendliest staff out there. Not to mention the community involvement Extra Special People. I have even seen a picture where Vince Dooley himself jumped out of a plane!
If you are looking for a great experience and some amazing memories then I would suggest Skydive Monroe.

I visited this place a few years ago. Groupon had a deal and my husband, then boyfriend had mentioned that skydiving was on his bucket list so I decided to purchase the deal for him and myself to celebrate our upcoming anniversary. When we got to the place, we had to watch a video then sign some waivers. After that was all done, we were suited up and then waited for the plane. I was extremely nervous the entire time!
After waiting around for a little bit, the plane was ready for take off. It was definitely the most quiet plane ride I’ve ever been on! After a few minutes, it was my time to jump. I’ll never forget that moment! I remember walking over on my knees to the door and seeing my boyfriend flip out of the plane and thinking to myself, «OMG what did I sign up for?!» Next thing I know, it was my turn to jump out of the plane! I had purchased the photo/​video package and I remember the photographer telling me to smile while I was falling. It was definitely hard to try to smile while the wind was blowing my face all crazy and my heart was beating a million beats/​minute! After what felt like falling forever, the parachute finally opened and it got super quiet and serene. The guy that was strapped on my back started doing turns which made me airsick. I have the worst motion sickness so the whole way down was torture. The guy tried to do as small of turns as possible but it still didn’t help me unfortunately.
So overall, I’m glad I got to experience skydiving but I’ll never do it again! The staff here was great but skydiving is definitely not for me!

Took my girlfriend as a birthday surprise. These guys were great! Slightly immature but what do you expect from a bunch of guys who spend their weekends jumping out of planes? It actually helped immensely to joke around to keep the nerves from getting to you. Go here. Get the video. Have a blast, you’ll probably be back.

I purchased 2 Groupons. They had expired. My husband is in law enforcement and I am in the military. I was call overseas for work and after getting back the Groupons had been forgotten about. I called and asked if we could still jump and pay the difference. The receptionist told me the Groupons were expired and no good. Then she laughed at me and said good luck getting my $ 220 back from Groupon. WOW! what an ugly experience.

I enjoyed the actual skydiving part but the rest of the experience was just awful. I would consider the other skydiving places around Atlanta first. My story…
I checked in at 1:45 for a 2 reservation and they told us to take a seat and our name would be called. Not knowing how things worked there, I went up to ask again after sitting for 40 minutes without being called. They apologized that they forgot about us and would get us on the next jump. Whatever. We were still on the last plane out for the day. They could not give us any good estimates on when we were going to jump or be finished. We finally left at 8:15! 6 ½ hours for a 5 minute jump is just ridiculous. They have no capacity planning or front office girls can manage or operate. Bad weather gave them a 30 minute delay, but bad management was the rest.
My tandem partner was Ken. Why Ken thought he could fart on the plane and get away with it is beyond me. Do you want to be strapped to an instructor who intentionally farts on the plane? Unbelievable. Unprofessional. And yes, it is a tandem jump and have a guy strapped behind you. Why so many gay jokes about it? And it goes way beyond when there are penetration jokes. Really? How much business have you lost for the company?
They could tell I was unhappy with my experience, but never did much to make it better. It just kept getting worse. Skydiving is fun, but try one of the other places in Atlanta.

My daughter, age 24 and I, age 57 completed our first tandem jump at Skydive Monroe. It was one of the most thrilling experiences ever. We found all the staff to be very cordial, reassuring and enthusiastic about the entire process. Yes, you will have to wait. This is Monroe, Georgia and people take their time there. Our jump masters, Steve and Bruce had the right combination of humor and professionalism. Since this was the maiden jump, I paid for videos and stills and the final bill was worth it. I will recommend this family owned business to everyone.

My son and his girlfriend made an appointment to go skydiving. Their scheduled time was at noon. Parents went along to watch. The appt was at 12:00 on a Sunday. We arrived at 11:30, signed paperwork, paid, watched a short video and were given instruction. At 1:15, their names had still not been called, so I asked the woman in charge if we had time to run and eat. She suggested I bring food back so they wouldn’t miss their time to go up. At 3:00, we were still waiting around and their names had not been called. At that point, we got involved and had a bit of a heated discussion with Bill, the man in charge of the skydivers. He offered our money back, but after a 1 hour drive and 3 ½ hours of waiting around, we were not leaving. Finally at 4:00, they got to get on the plane. We watched the plane take off and waited under the hangar out of the hot sun for the woman to let us know that divers were in the sky as she had done for each of the other 7 flights that day. The announcement never came and after 20 minutes I walked out there to see the first diver (not our kids) landing and then she announced «divers in the sky». At that point our kids were more than halfway down. I can’t begin to tell you how upset we were. When I confronted her about it she made some excuse about the radio. All they had to do was communicate with us about the wait time, but instead they chose not to do that and made us sit around for 4 ½ hours. Our kids were so excited about doing this and my son had been here before and had a great experience, but I can tell you this put a bad taste in our mouth and we will never be back!

Twelve Atlanta couch surfing compadres and I jumped out of a plane with the fine gentlemen at Monroe Skydiving on Saturday. We found a groupon for $ 110 (the price is usually $ 190) so we couldn’t resist
When you arrive you find out the video is an additional $ 85, $ 100 if you want stills. Some people didn’t get the video but I figured this would be a once in a lifetime experience, I was going to have it documented.
For all 12 of us, it was an 8 hour experience. Two — three people can go at a time, especially if everyone’s getting video because you need to account for that person in the plane. Then there was a windy patch we had to wait out — which to me is better safe than sorry!
When it actually came time for my jump (second to last) — I was fully equipped with tips from the gallery — keep your head up and don’t look down, if the leg straps are too tight tell them so you don’t get sick.
Bruce, my jump master, was amazing and made the experience one I’ll never forget. These guys may joke with you that they’re amateurs but they’ve done thousands of jumps.
Only complaint — the weight limit for women here is 170lbs and for men it’s 225lbs. I was told at Skydive Atlanta there is one standard so check out the competition for yourself.
Monroe Skydive gives you a view of Stone Mountain, the Atlanta skyline (if it’s not too hazy) and lots of open green space. Pretty beautiful.