NOT WORTH IT FOR THE PRICE $$$
I tried Doggy Adventures for…read morethe first time through the Sniffspot app, excited to surprise my boyfriend with a magical couple hours, hiking trails, spending time in the stream, picking avocadoes, and drinking fresh squeezed lemonade (as advertised on Sniffspot app). Sniffspot laid out the charges for that as $156 to cover me and my boyfriend and our 3 dogs to include access to the stream, avocado picking & freshly squeezed lemonade. I texted the Doggy Adventures team months in advance to get more info while I was booking it, but didn't hear back until 1 day before our scheduled visit. Once they contacted me, they informed me the ONLY thing covered for the $156 paid, would be doing the basic trails on one side of their property (the trails are only on a small portion of the 35-acres). No stream. No avocadoes. No lemonade. That's $78/hour to hike what in my opinion, is a pretty basic dirt trail that I could do for free just down the road. Really the biggest allure was that it was only going to be us hiking the grounds, no other dogs or people, which for my reactive pup, was a PLUS. We could hear the stream, down the hill, but because I couldn't pay the additional $157, access was denied to us for that part of the experience. On a warm sunny day in the hills of Fallbrook, with 3 panting dogs, that was just torture. The whole thing seems pretty strange. Advertised as magical, only to be denied to the experience unless you pay another $157, which was NOT disclosed on their Sniffspot page, which also is not cool. Add insult to injury, their trails are crawling with California Burclover which releases burs that stuck to my terrier and shitzu's fur to the point that it was causing them distress/pain. It took us 4 hours just to remove them. It left our dogs eyes almost stitched shut from the burrs, in their ears, on their lips. It was horrible. I get that something like this is not directly the owner's fault, but the very LEAST they could've done was give us a warning, or put signs up or something, if they know people are bringing their dogs on to their trails. Overall, it was a disappointing experience, not worth the $$$, especially in this economy.