About:This 70-acre adventure park will soon offer not only horseback riding, but ziplines too. The Great Smokey Mountains offers breathtaking views, especially while horseback riding on its trails or riding ziplines above the canopy of its native trees.
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I will never return to this place. We made reservations for 3 pm. We arrived early and had 4 people in our group. The place was crazy busy. While waiting an hour our group kept noticing that everyone else was going for horseback rides but my group and another 5 people. People arrived after us and were taken before us. We noticed another person ask about the delay and the fact that everyone was going before us. The manager first said that he was not aware of our group then later lied and said he never said that. We were then told that a group early in the day had gotten lost and was now just arriving so they were taking them before everyone else. We were then told we would have to wait another hour. We had reservations. The girls at the counter never informed us that we would have to wait. This place has no customer service skills. They will lie to your face and will not offer apologizes. They were rude to us. Also the horse were horrible looking. And also were handled very roughly by the people working there. They were pulling very hard on the bridles and jerking them around. I have ridden horses my whole life. And you never rough up a horse like they did when you have someone on it who has no experience. You are asking for trouble. The horses were skinny and it was evident that they were not being taken care of . I WILL NEVER RETURN TO THIS PLACE NOR WILL I RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE. Furthermore you can be assured that I will and have contacted agencies to look into this place and investigate them. Several horse should not have been ridden. Please go somewhere else to ride horses. Do not support this business.
Do NOT go to this place. We went as a group on a class trip and they scammed us. We called them before we even went down and got quoted a price, then our teacher called back like a week later and suddenly its 20 bucks more. Then when we get down there its even more yet! And when we complained the manager, Billy, was basically like 'well theres nothing we can do.' We even called Sherrie who had quoted us the price in the first place and she called us a liar and said we made up the price. I'm sorry, but any good buisness will honor a quoted price - 5 Oaks' customer service leaves a lot to be desired. Do NOT got here.
I completely disagree with you Jim. Its now a year later from when you wrote your comment and they are still having problems. Clearly these people have no concept of customer service nor compassion for the horses that are being ridden. I am an extremely patient person and understand that situations arise but every employee on the horse side need to be sent to classes on how to deal with people, time management and simple communication skills.
As a friend of the owner of this place I'm sure there was just a misunderstanding. I am also sure he would like to change your opinion by inviting you to give their location another chance at proving they would never intentionally "scam" anyone.
Call Sherrie again if you ever decide to go zip-lining or horseback riding again in the Smokies. Tell her to call Jim, then I will call the owner and I'm sure you will get an extremely good deal.
Sorry for your disappointing experience, these are good people, I'm positive they can rectify this problem.
Go Vols!
I took my boys to the Five Oaks Riding Stables on our trip to Pigeon Forge Memorial day 2010. The staff was very nice, and it made the ride even better. The staff was very good at finding the right horses for my boys to ride and they had no trouble handling the horses they rode. If you decide to plan a trip up there I highly recommended you going there enjoying the beautiful view and the friendly staff. I know that the next time I am in pigeon forge I will definitely go back.
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