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If you hired an arena with jumps, would you expect jumps to already be out?

I hired an arena and was charged more to hire with jumps but when I got there (I hacked) was told I had to get the jumps out and put them away .... Didn't have a head collar etc for my horse. Luckily I was having a lesson with my instructor who showed up shortly after me but just thought it was abit cheeky? Bearing in mind there are 2 arenas, one indoor and a huge outdoor.

Is this normal though?
 
I have done this and although i was on foot it took ages to put jumps out and put them away and my kids didn't get to jump a full course which was the point of the hire.
 
Normal round here, you are paying for the use of the jumps not for someone to put them up and put them away. This would be an extra hours work for someone.
 
I think I'd ask in advance in future OP, round me there are some venues that will have a course out already and I'd only choose one of those tbh. I can put jumps out and put them away at home for free! Shame they didn't mention anything when you booked.

I asked venues doing arena hire for dressage whether the white boards would already be out, and all said yes, so it's not always self-service!
 
It's £30 per hour. There is normally a course set up, which is why I chose that venue. Just annoying when you've booked to have a jumping lesson and you waste 30 mins of it getting and putting jumps away. Lesson learnt though and I will be checking in future!
 
MontysKeeper said:
It's £30 per hour. There is normally a course set up, which is why I chose that venue. Just annoying when you've booked to have a jumping lesson and you waste 30 mins of it getting and putting jumps away. Lesson learnt though and I will be checking in future!
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£30!! I too would have expected the jumps to be up when i got there.....
 
Don't think that's on really, but if it's a smaller place I would just put it down to lack of specification ontheir part and assumption on yours. I work at an EC and our understaning of hire 'with jumps' is a full course is left out, the only thing the rider has to do is put the jumps back to the height if any were changed during the hire. Though I guess it's different everywhere.
 
I would hire the arena there again as its a great venue and nice huge school, so have room to school over bigger heights but I will definitely be confirming if the jumps are out, if not I will look else where. It's also only 20 min walking hack so it's a nice warm up for my horse.
 
Batgirl said:
Normal round here, you are paying for the use of the jumps not for someone to put them up and put them away. This would be an extra hours work for someone.
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Totally agree. Our yard hires out arena. If staff have to put out jump course beforehand and clear away afterwards, school is out of use for liveries for more than the hour's hire paid for.
 
Round here you would pay £30 for the private arena hire regardless of jumps or not - the jumps are your responsibility.

I think it is a communication thing rather than an expectation thing, always check - I actually check that jumps won't be out as I go for flatwork, I have sometimes not gone as jumps are out for lessons.
 
£30 to hire a school!!!!!:O

Where i go you have to pay extra for the jumps and poles and yes you have to put them out and put them away. it costs £5 more on a £13 an hour school hire, thats for a large, well maintain indoor school. Extra horses are £10 on top. At that price I think its ok to expect to get them out and put them away. Usually the owner says if there is no one before you or after you, so you can get your full time jumping or schooling over poles but then they are really nice. They also do full course hire on certain days and also dressage days, when they put out all the dressage markers, so people can hire on them days if they want.
 
I think the issue with the place I went to is you book through the estate office not someone on the yard. It is advertised as arena hire with a course of jumps. They also have an indoor school, which is also huge and mainly used for flat work, unless clinics etc are going on.
 
Sukistokes2 said:
£30 to hire a school!!!!!:O

Where i go you have to pay extra for the jumps and poles and yes you have to put them out and put them away. it costs £5 more on a £13 an hour school hire, thats for a large, well maintain indoor school. Extra horses are £10 on top. At that price I think its ok to expect to get them out and put them away. Usually the owner says if there is no one before you or after you, so you can get your full time jumping or schooling over poles but then they are really nice. They also do full course hire on certain days and also dressage days, when they put out all the dressage markers, so people can hire on them days if they want.
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Our local indoors are at least £30phr to hire, jumps extra.
Merrist is £15 shared for half hour, Langshot indoors £35 per hour for 1st horse (more for each other up to 4) & jumps extra.
Parwood is pretty good, can only book half hour stints tho. But they DO have the jumps out all the time in the large outdoor, whilst the indoor only has them in on occasions.
 
Normally round here you would have to put jumps up yourself, but one venue has recently been putting a course of jumps up for a competition on a Saturday, offering lessons over the course on the Sunday and then leaving them up until about Tuesday for private hire. It's a good use of their time and resources, I suppose. They always advertise it as hiring the course rather than the arena though so there's no confusion.
 
£30 is cheap!

my yard charges £60/hour and so does another local-ish yard (£20 per 20 mins). That said, there is usually a full set of jumps out ready and waiting - all you have to do is alter the height to suit.
 
Biggest school near me is 50 x 35 really nice surface for £5 per horse per hour (including jumps). If jumps/grids are out from a lesson that day they will text you to see if you still want them. When they have a course out from a spider ride, rally or similar they leave them up for the next week and advertise it as a course available.
They are lovely and if you are there by yourself and they see you getting on and off to raise jumps there is often someone on the yard that offers to do them for you. Downside is very little parking and main road hacking to get there but I think it is a very good set up and an absolute steal for £5!
 
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