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“An honest review about this place”

written by on 28/07/2013

Upon arrival of this establishment I have to say it all looked lovely. The reason we were there was because I had booked my son in for his very first riding lesson and this riding school was the nearest and in addition to that the lessons were very reasonably priced, but low and behold their has never been a truer saying than you get what you pay for! When we first stepped out onto the car park I noticed their was broken glass which I had to tell my 7 year old son to avoid, I guess this should have rang alarm bells to me then, but my son was so excited that we couldn't go back. Their was one riding lesson that had just finished and the young jockeys had dismounted and our medium sized queue was told to let our children go forward to the ponies. I have to say at this point I was quite shocked that the poor same animals were being used again for another lesson. The instructor seemed reasonable within her capabilities, but lacked concentration as she also took calls on her mobile phone. This I have to say alarmed me some what, because as I stated earlier this was my son's very 1st lesson. Their was a young girl that was leading the pony round that my son was on but she had an expression on her face that looked like she really didn't want to be doing so. The arena itself is very dark and gloomy and the viewing area had filthy seating with bits of crisps over one of the chairs. The overall experience we had from this place I have to say was a very poor one and I for one would not return again. in short, their are plenty of reputable riding schools around the area as I have found after my visit to this one and as I have owned my own horse a few years back now, I know that this stables is of exceptionally poor standard!