Kangaroo Valley Horse Riding

With my wife and two kids, we arrived to a very warm friendly welcome from Geoff and Gail. We were at the main lodge and were very happy with the accomadation. It was very comfy and exactly how we wanted it. Right in the bushy surrounding of hills and the sound of local birds.

Our kids loved the friendly dogs and Tiny, the pony. They loved seeing the big horses and helping Geoff, where they can.

Thank you Geoff and Gail. We hope to see you again soon.

Great friendly service, amazing scenery and exceptionally well trained horses. Also highly responsible and safety conscious, really appreciated all the valuable instructions given. Thanks again!

We did the 3 hour ride up to the top of Mt. Moollootoo and it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience! Geoff spent a good amount of time teaching us about horse training and how to approach, calm and control horses (as best a human can hope for!). This was great fun and I learned plenty of do's and don'ts which is something I've never got from other trail rides. The terrain on the trail is highly variable, including rainforest, narrow scrub tracks and winding, steep forest tracks which makes for a very interesting ride. It was great to learn some history of the Kangaroo Valley area and history of some of the individual horses - including Geoff's horse - a retired racing horse. The views at the top of the mountain are spectacular and we were blessed with fantastic, sunny autumn weather. For someone who loves to ask questions, Geoff was completely engaging and I could tell he enjoyed his work, loved his horses, and loved teaching people about horse work. My overall impression was that Geoff and Gail run the business more as a "Horse Sanctuary" than money making venture. They look after many retired horses that might not otherwise have somewhere to live out their lives. The price of our ride which included lunch afterwards in the Kangaroo Valley township was excellent value. Great fun and highly recommended. Don't book in to do anything too quickly afterwards. Leaving yourself enough time to not rush, and learn something was just as rewarding as the ride itself. Thank you to Geoff and Gail :) From Ben.

I arrived at this isolated farm with a sense of excitement because I had been looking forward to this long-awaited ride for many months. I am a secondary school teacher from Sydney. Unfortunately, this feeling was rudely squashed by the very rude proprietor who made it clear he did not want to take out our ride after a busy Easter weekend. I would suggest they not take bookings the morning after a public holiday, if it is such a burden.

Therefore, I cannot recommend this equestrian establishment because the obnoxious owner, Geoff does not have the warm personality of a welcoming host or even a compassionate horseman. He refused to take my sister and I out because I told him I didn't want a lesson from him, just a peaceful trail ride. The two of us were looking forward to our pre-booked ride after a very long drive from Sydney and an early rise. He was very bad mannered and rude and we were bitterly disappointed.I will never go there again. As a retired British Horse Society qualified instructor and ex-jockey for Scobie Breasely I am well versed with safety procedures on trail rides as is my sister, but Geoff made the incorrect assumption we were naive tourists and treated us with the utmost disrespect and caused us a great deal of inconvenience. Do not support business people like him. I have read his response and he misquoted me, and we never went near his house.