Mountainside Stables

Extremely unprofessional. Demanded we could only pay him in cash. Owner Joe is extremely rude, unprofessional, not accommodating. For a business that does children’s birthday parties you think the owner would make himself approachable and know how to interact with kids. Take your business elsewhere.

I’m traumatized! Joe was all sweet over the phone when I made the booking. Sent the deposit on time, all seemed fine. Until… The day of the event! We’re waiting for him to arrive but he’s nowhere to be seen. I give him a call and he was so rude, telling me he’s 1 mile away in bumper to bumper traffic and then he hung up the phone. (I checked Google maps and there was no traffic in the area.) finally 45 minutes later, he arrives. And out comes the most nasty, aggressive man I’ve ever met. Speaking so rudely, he started making demands that had nothing to do with the petting zoo. He altered the contract to less hours than we agreed, he demanded payment before the session began and said he wouldn’t enter until I hand him the check. I didn’t want to give it to him because I was scared he would drive off with the pets and all. He gave me no choice. I gave him the check and he continued barking how we can’t use the tarp that we put down, and he’s going to leave if there’s too much noise… The one star is for the animals, they were great! Kathy his helper was also quite good but a tad grumpy at times. We took him because he gave us a good deal, but never again.