Romy Hanna
I and my friend signed our eight year olds up for one of their full day week-long summer camps in June 2025. I kid you not, at 6 pm on the Saturday night before their camp started on Monday, I got a text saying "sorry, but we didn't have enough kids sign up so next week's camp is cancelled". The other mom did not get the text, so we spent the rest of our Saturday night both texting the original number as well as another number we found for the farm online, trying to figure out if it was a joke. Well, it wasn't. So Sunday AM we had to scramble to find another camp for our kids that started the next Monday morning (we are both working moms). If you are parent you know how hard this was. I have 2 kids (the oldest is 14) and in my nearly 10 years of signing kids up for summer camps I have never encountered a business who thought it was ok to cancel within 36 hours of starting a week-long full day camp. I understand that finances are tough, especially for stables in Austin these days and sometimes they can't make their numbers and have to cancel a camp. However this late of a cancel with a flippant text at 6 pm on a Saturday night is unacceptable. Luckily we were able to get our deposits back, but it took a couple of days of asking. If you want a horseback camp or lessons for your kiddo I would take them to one of the other lesson stables in town - Switch Willo or Lonestar Stables (both were full, of course - we ended up sending our kiddos to a climbing gym camp instead for that week). I will definitely avoid this stable for lessons or camps in the future for my kids and try to warn other parents about them now.
