Villa Based Ride
11 September 2022
The Riding
The Accommodation
Do you have any comments about the accommodation and food?
Great food, great service, great wine and, anything else alcoholic or otherwise…and great company. The choice of wine and spirits was very impressive!!’ The quiz and name that tune was great fun and everyone got involved. Andrew was again a great host with that!
Before Your Holiday
Did you have all of the information you needed to:
How could we improve the quality of pre-holiday information that we send?
You couldn’t improve that.
How could we improve the way we handled your booking and payment?
You could not improve anything…it was all first class from the outset. I also loved the bound booklet you received before you travelled. A fabulous touch!!!
Do you have any other feedback for us?
I think I’ve said everything and some.
Angela (this is their first In The Saddle holiday) Absolutely Fabulous Holiday!!! | I had the most fabulous holiday at Los Alamos from the 4-11 September.
From arriving at Gibraltar airport, everything went so smoothly from the outset as Andrew was already there waiting with transport. Spot on throughout!!!
Andrew and Rhiannon are wonderful hosts , as are the rest of the family, Rachel, Jack, Denisa and, the one and only Derek!!! The food was lovely and the open bar (non-alcoholic or otherwise) was great!!! The plentiful Rioja was very good!!!
As for the riding and the horses well, it was everything I expected, hoped for and more!!!
My horse for the week was a stunning PRE called Galeno…I absolutely loved him and as he was classically trained, I had a great time with all the moves in between the canters and gallops.
There’s a lot of walking but, that’s essentially down to the soft ground/sand but, the forest, firebreak and beach gallops were fantastic, absolutely fantastic!!! I didn’t want the holiday to end.
The horses are so incredibly fit and well behaved…they certainly know their job too. They work so very hard…they’re all amazing and a real credit!!!
Thank you so much Galeno and also the ride leaders, Jose and Roberto…they were fabulous and great fun!!!
I’ve got wonderful lifelong memories and will definitely be back next year, maybe even twice, if they’ll have me.
All the other guests were really lovely people and all rode well. I’ve also got some wonderful full action photos of my beach gallops and they are so getting framed and going pride of place in my house!!!
Thank you also to Lois at In The Saddle for her knowledge and experience and a seamless booking throughout, as well as the lovely chats too.
All in all….11 out of 10 and, I’ll see you at Los Alamos next year ….I really hope to ride Galeno again and, on his day off, hopefully either Ruvia or Olivero.
No wonder Los Alamos is so popular…they’ve provide fabulous holidays and horses and roll on my next visit!!! Thank you!!!
A couple of tips:-
1) Take ear plugs as the dogs, cockerels and other animals nearby are often nocturnal and noisy. There’s two very early morning calls for the beach riding.
2) I totally recommend flying into Gibraltar…it’s seamless and fast!!! It’s also smaller and much more personal.
Example:-
EasyJet take off from Manchester bang on time at 06.05. I landed in Gibraltar bang on time at 10.10am.
Plane fully offloaded (including luggage) by 10.25am. By 10.30am, I’d already negotiated passport control, had my luggage and was with Andrew. Absolutely unbelievable and the quickest airport run through ever and, I’ve travelled a lot in my life. Thank you Gibraltar airport.
I just wish my week hadn’t flown by so fast!!! Thank you again Andrew, Rhiannon, Jack, Denisa and Derek and, the INCOMPARABLE GALENO!!!