Awful riding school, untidy horses, stables, people. Instructors have no qualifications, including the owner, who is also rude and obnoxious. If you want to learn to ride.... Don't go here!!

Worst riding school!! Had a lesson the other day! Horses are unkept and filthy dirty! Have mud all over them and unbrushed manes and tails! The people that run it are barely out of school and clearly have no qualifications!! The 3 teenagers we had during our lesson were miserable, grumpy, sour faced and spent more time talking to each other than us! As well as frequently swearing! All in all it was a terrible experience apart from the horse was well behaved and friendly!

Worst riding school in the county!!!!! Horses were unkept, messy, mane and tails unbrushed, mud everywhere. Scruffy horses that look uncared for. The 3 "professionals" that took our lesson were no older than teenagers, clearly had no qualifications, were rude and sour faced and spent more time talking to each other than to us. When the lessons had finished we took the horses back to stables full of shit.....no clean bedding and after asking why i got told "we dont have time to do the beds". Only plus point is that the horse was friendly and looked after me well. Wouldnt go back...unless it was to rescue those horses from the horrible teenagers!!!!!!!!

as other reviews have said the owner of this riding school is horrible. The horses were really sweet and my daughter loved going there whilst other members of staff taught her. Then we had the owner of the stables teach her who shouted at my daughter constantly with no constructive criticism, her lesson was boring and my daughter was taught nothing at all, she made her cry twice and then expected us to book again...i think not!! If u go to this riding school make sure if a small large built woman is going to teach u, u run!!!!! Such a rude woman who hasnt got a clue about people skills! A massive shame as this school is nice and close to us and would have been perfect but i WILL NOT have my young daughter treated that way by someone.

Wouldn't go near this place again. Horses are poorly treated, staff are rude and owner is horrible. No one there is qualified to teach, and they have no real idea what they are doing. All horses have ill fitting saddles causing back pain and soreness, many are ill and lame and this is due to pure laziness. If you want to learn to ride properly don't go near Monach Farm.

I have done work experience and ridden at Monach. During work experience the staff were rude and would rather get mad at me than help me with what to do. The horses and goats were not mucked out / deep littered properly - I was told to leave the poo in the stable and just chuck hay on top. Equipment was not cleaned either. The owner is not someone I would ever like to meet again. My lesson was boring. We all walked round together, then trotted round, then walked round and then the lesson was over. The person who took my lesson was not a qualified instructor or someone working towards a qualification. Good points? The horses were nice!

My daughter had a lovely first lesson at Monach farm and the instructors were engaging, patient and cheerful. Her second lesson today was run by a grumpy middle aged woman (owner?) and the other staff were generally downbeat, uncommunicative and impatient. My daughter finished the session in tears. May go back but if we turn up and the same staff are running the session we will run a mile

I strongly agree with the last review. The quality of the lessons are very poor and are taught by unqualified instructors. The lessons are some times even dangerous as it is so unorganized and their teaching techniques are quite no very unusual. the staff are very rude and unfriendly and the lessons are over priced. i would not recommend it to anyone!

Had an awful experience. For me, certain staff were unbelievably rude, unfriendly and unhelpful. The lessons for my children seemed to be run by teenagers and the quality of training poor and expensive. Deeply regretted trying them. Would not recommend.