Made the trip to Mountain Ridge Adventures when my family found out that Howe High Adventures at…read moreHowes Cavern was closed. This turned out to be fortuitous for myself and my daughter. I booked the 3-hour obstacle course and zip line adventure for myself and my 10-year old daughter. We finished the Ground Course - learning how to use the buckles, cables, and connections. From there, we moved on to the multiple obstacle courses. After about 2+ hours of going through the obstacle courses, we moved on to the zip lines. Everything was going smoothly until my daughter got stuck in the middle of the 4th or 5th zip line. One of the instructors raced out, made contact with her, and brought her safely back to the next station. From there, we finished up and made our way to the ground. The staffing was excellent and very helpful. This is a place you can bring the family if they can overcome their fears of height. It was an insane amount of fun and would repeat in a heartbeat.

owner is shady. my son was too nervous to start and the owner refused the refund or give future…read morecredit even though he didn't do a single thing. My son was crying and the owner stated that we shouldn't have came if we were afraid of heights. no apologies. dont give them your money. Owner is worried about 46$ when in reality he lost 5 customers and will receive bad word of mouth to everyone I know :)

We love this camp in upstate, NY and are very proud to support them. They have a wide variety of…read moreprograms and education and we love seeing the art and other materials our child comes home with along with tales from the day spent hiking in the woods.

From the owner: Wheelhouse Creative Education Center offers a unique educational opportunity that centers care,…read morejoy, social justice and connection with the natural world and one another. We believe children grow into their very best selves through imaginative play, supportive community, meaningful time in nature, valuable physical work and following their own natural curiosity.

We couldn't be happier with the attention and quality Sam and her staff give to their customers…read more My three and six year old have been riding at SS Equestrian Services and we couldn't be happier with their challenging lessons/instruction. Not only are they getting a quality lesson but they are being instructed on taking care of the horses before and after the lesson. I know they are gaining more than just the ability to ride when they are with Sam.

We had a wonderful experience and the customer service was excellent! Sam was our guide and she…read morehelped to secure a reservation that worked around my sons baseball schedule in Cooperstown. We took a 1 hour trail ride and the scenery was beautiful. We had a small group of 4 so it was as if it were a private tour. The ride was very well organized, in an accessible location and a fun activity for all riding levels.

This is not a craft supply store, it is a art studio. They teach crafts, like jewelry making,…read morefused glass, paint pottery, and so on. It is a small space, but they have room in the back for birthday parties and classes. If you are looking for something to do with your kids, taking them here are let them loose on a ceramic mug or tile trivet. It is affordable, you buy the piece, then they let you paint it, and you pay a flat fee to have to fired and pick it up later. There supplies are limited, they carry mostly beading and jewelery supplies, but some paint and some scrap booking stuff. The owner, Jackie, is very sweet and helpful, and so is the rest of the staff.

This is a cool place to go.You can paint your own bowls and create other stuff. You can make your…read moreown jewelry too. They sponsored a EMPTY BOWLS fundraiser for feeding the Hungary. People made bowls to donate. It was a cool event to attend. I was very impressed. I got lunch for $5.oo and got to take the bowl home with me. So cool!!!

I came here with my school for a 3 day, 2 night trip. When we got here after a 2-3 hour bus ride…read morethey did not allow us to unpack and make us go to the lunch room, the problem with this is that every time we went to eat a meal someone had to set the table and then we had to wait 10-20 minutes listening to them talk about nonsense, after every meal it was the same thing as well. This outdoor classroom programs problem is that they do not think about what the student would think is more appealing. The rooms were dirty and mice were found in many when we go there, some room were also very much nicer than the others which is odd because we all spend the same amount of money ( 400$ ). The showers were cold and the cleaning supplies they used was expired, plates and silverware were not cleaned properly either. The staff was nice for the most part other than the unnecessary talking about rules but some staff was rude and unfriendly, there is much more as well but if you are considering to send your school here for a trip think twice because the price was not worth it.

My experience working at camp Eisner camp for a few months. I quit because they have horrible…read morecommunication about your pay. Multiple times my pay was not right. And they put my money in direct deposit in the wrong account. Now to positive working there. My head chef was amazing and his girlfriend is amazing. Two awesome people to work under. But they do not handle your pay so for that be very careful. I would not recommend anybody to work there, but I only can give you my experience.

Absolutely the best place for kids and even adults to learn how to ride a horse. They also have…read moresummer camp, and do horse boarding and many other things.. We moved to the area from NYC and my daughter had always wanted to learn how to ride a horse, she hopes that one of these days she can be in a horse show. I mentioned this because she started training mid May 2022 and we are in August 2022 and she has built so much confidence and her love for horses have grown! Helaina, the owner, is the best trainer in NY PERIOD! She is kind and has lots of patience to work with kids. My daughter always feels welcome and is always looking forward for her next class. I am so glad we found this place! If you are looking for an equestrian center, this is your place!

My daughter Olivia went to meadow creek farms with her Girl Scouts troop yesterday. They learned…read moreabout saddles and saddle pads and groomed a pony name fudge. It was an incredible experience for her and the other girls! She got to ride a pony name Max and loved it ! Now she is asking for lessons there.

I started as a camper here in 1995, became a counselor/specialist when I was in college and have…read moresince returned as adult staff. My daughter attends camp here as well, and I was thrilled she loves it here as much as I did when I was her age. The owners know everyone by name, all the staff are incredibly friendly and the overall environment is caring and adaptive. They consider each individual campers needs and work to accommodate everyone. They have many campers with gluten sensitivity and a separate food station for gluten-free food so as not to cross contaminate foods. The infirmary is staffed by experienced nurses and they always have a doctor on campus (in addition to the owners being doctors themselves). Color War is a time honored tradition that brings a camp together at the end of the summer. Win or lose, Apache relay is a fun tradition in which every single camper partakes in an important role. There is an ice cream parlor, a movie theater, a playhouse, an outdoor adventure zip line course in addition to an inflatable water park on the lake. The kids stay in touch year round and I still talk to people I met as a camper to this day.

I was a camp counselor for Camp Pontiac for the summer of 2021 and when I say this was one of the…read moreworst run businesses I have ever seen and the worst job I have ever had, I am in no way exaggerating. To begin with, the hours they have their general staff work is outrageous. There is no break, you never really get off time here. The staff lounge is a glorified hut with moldy couches and a TV that is can barely fit 1/5 of the staff at a time. The other places on the campus were not open to staff even though the management made it seem that way in the interviewing process. Which is only the first thing that they lied to their staff about. I was lied to about the parameters of my job, I was lied to about my hours, I was lied to about what I would be able to do with my off time. I felt like a prisoner in this camp, I wasn't allowed to leave once I got there, or else I would have been fired. The management DOES NOT care about their general staff, if you get sick, they will not give you adequate rest time to recover. Over 2/3's of the staff was sick throughout the summer. And then there was the covid outbreak. The covid outbreak that the management tried to blame on their general staff as if they weren't allowed families to come in to tour when it was a "bubble" as they marketed to their current parents. Of course, they would never point the finger at the management who frequently went out to eat for every meal at the local restaurants like the Pond or allowed their campers to leave to go boating on another lake. It was a poorly run business that had no care for its general staff. There were promises of things getting better throughout the summer in which they never did and the bonuses that were promised because the staff was doing double the work, were never delivered. The 'Wannabe Director' Micahel Etra has horrible anger issues that made him go off on counselors causing many to quit. His carelessness and ego lead me and many others to be stranded at the airport due to missed flights because he would not allow us to leave earlier to catch our flights even though we brought it to his attention. The group leaders did not care about their counselors, my went as far as to tell me to quit when I talked to her about being unhappy with the exhausting workload, even after I explained to her that paying $800 for a plane ticket home was not an option for me in my financial situation. And then of course there is the favoritism. If you were a camper here and you chose to come back to work, this is a dream job. You are given special treatment and access to the entire camp. You get away with taking 10 or 20 minutes here to there. You get away with taking time off to go and work on things for school. I was refused the wifi passwords to the buildings I worked at, the only places I had access to service to call my parents, but a former camper had them. Ultimately if you're a new counselor, the directors and owners do not care about you. This camp preys on young college students looking for interesting jobs and then locks them on the campgrounds and exploits them for seven weeks, throwing them away once they got their use out of them. I felt like the help most days, slaving over a bunch of spoiled rich kids. Counselors got fired for just disciplining the kids. Counselors got fired for trying to ask for adequate pay. Genuinely, this was an awful experience. For anyone looking to work here, if you have no sense of self-respect, you'll be fine. But understand the long hours and poor treatment that you are going to have to deal with. If you are looking to send your child here, the directors and upper-level staff do not care about your child. Your child is money to them and nothing else. They use the "interesting" specialties such as sports and arts & crafts to babysit your kid, very few of the kids enjoyed the everyday activities. The evening activities were more contrived ways of babysitting the kids so they couldn't be left alone to realize that camp life is nothing but a lie to get money out of the parents. Save your money and send them somewhere else, trust me, this camp is going to go under soon.