Great clean and well maintained facility. The staff is helpful and our instructor has been great and easy to work with.

I purchased a thee pack of 2 hr. lessons on Livingsocial. When I tried to make an appt. their voicemail was full, but they give you the option of emailing to schedule, which I did and the owner contacted me promptly. When we arrived, our lessons were delayed by 1 hour because they were running behind. We have friends in the area, so we did not mind coming back. Initially, we were impressed with the size of the the facility and the many horse stalls, but as our visit progressed, things got a little confusing. Mainly because the individuals helping us get ready for our lessons were so young and not very good at communicating with us about properly reigning our horses, adjusting the brindles, procedure, etc. My instructor, who was 15 assumed I had riden before and didn't bother telling me anything about what I could expect from my experience at Windemere, or what was expected of me.This was disapointing. Furthermore, the horse I was to ride, was very old and dirty. It looked as if he had not been brushed in days and his face was filthy. Seriously, I even asked for a warm rag, to clean him off, but was ignored. I must've spent at least 20 minutes brushing and getting to know him, b/c he was a little agitated and honestly, I couldn't blame him. His stall was small and dirty too. The wind was really whipping up and since the training arena is so barren, there were hardly any trees to break the wind, dirt was blowing in our eyes and hair. We just kept going round and round the training area and my horse Zippy was very slow and cranky. At about 45 minutes, I asked to stop the lesson. Luckily for my daughter, she got a younger horse and was having a nice time. Not so lucky for my husband, he suffered an injury while there and he never made it on the horse, since the stepping block slipped from under his feet and he came barreling down on it, (we later found out) fracturing two ribs. The staff was genuinely concerned and offered to call an ambulance, but he toughed it out and after writhing on the ground for about 10 minutes, sat out and did not want to cut our lessons short b/c he never gets to spend time with us and wanted us to have a nice time despite what happened. The owner offered to allow our daughter to take a free lesson in the future since her dad could not take a lesson. I thought this was nice, but after much thought have decided to decline. Seriously, you get what you pay for, but it would've been nice to spend some time with an experienced instructor to truly give you an Equestrian lesson prior to having mounted the horse and starting the actual lesson. Sometimes less is more. More time educating, less exprienced riders and less time going endlessly around the arena would have been better. An experience not so soon to be forgot, and not necessarily for the right reasons. read more