How much do you pay for lessons?

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I've been out the game for a few years and it seems since enquiring with a few instructors, looking at clinics etc that prices have increased massively since I was last having lessons!!

What would you say is the norm for 45 min or so (or however long the horse needs) with a decent instructor (not bothered about quals, more experience/caliber of students etc) for both jump or flat at the instructors premises (so no travel or facility hire)?

I feel like after looking I might be able to afford 1 a month max :O!

I'm wondering if it might be worth joining a RC as a cheaper way to get my girl out and about!

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I pay £25 normally, I have paid £60 for a clinic with a Grand Prix level trainer on a few occasions and recently over £200 for one lesson with a very famous trainer (was worth every penny).
But general going rate for regular lessons seems to be £25 to £40 ish
 
£70/45 mins

Worth every penny but it sure hurts when handing over the cash 😖
Great facilities and thankfully only a 30 min drive away now.

Last RC I joined did give access to some cheaper training but as I prefer individual lessons, it didn't really float my boat as lots was group sessions.
I have had some training organised through BD too, some cheaper, some more expensive.
 
Generally around 40-45 for flat or sj. Xc would be more but that inc course hire. They’re self employed, work in all weathers, travel all around, they need insurance and to keep their qualifications up, so I don’t mind it, in the scheme of things.
 
Depends on the trainer - I have lessons at home so don’t pay arena hire so I pay slightly less than most people.

Dressage is £60 for an hour’s private (£30 for 30 mins etc..).

Jumping is £20 or 25 for 30 min private if the trainer is doing a clinic at mine (40 or 45 for everyone else) or £40 for 30/40 mins if they come to mine just for me.
 
I've recently started with a new instructor. I pay €70 which is about £60 for a private dressage lesson, once every 2 months. That includes arena hire. It's well worth it because the instructor is so good to explain things. I've learned so much in just two lessons.
 
I go to a variety of clinics with different instructors and they are £20-25 per hour. I also have lessons with an instructor FBHS who charges me £24 for around 1/2 hour.
 
I pay one instructor £30. She comes to me, never minds what the weather is, what the facilities are and is often still there 2 hours later as we've got chatting. She's revolutionised my riding and my ponys way of going. I try to have 2 lessons a month.
On my share horse I use the owners instructor. He's £50 for 45 mins and again comes to me. I usually have a lesson once a month, maybe once every 6 weeks.
 
It probably is worth joining your local RC, as they will have cheaper lessons with a variety of instructors.

Then, if you find one you really like, you can go and have private with them. Our RC does groups and individual lessons on both our evening and weekend clinics.
 
£20 an hour, qualified and has got 35 years of experience and just gets me and the horse. Comes out whatever the weather and has really helped my riding. Today I jumped in this wind. 6 months ago I wouldn't have got on happily! Always available if I need help too.
 
Between £15 for a RC shared lesson to £135 for a treat.

I have 2 expensive trainers, that I go to infrequently, but they're worth every penny. The £15 one is every week and includes a posh indoor arena and coffee with Kit Kat - fine value!

When I taught I charged £40 for a lesson, which was usually approx an hour. This would include travel to about 1/2 hour distance, or arena hire at the local arena to me.

I did mainly confidence coaching, but that did mean that I had some affiliated competition riders once things were sorted. I was qualified BHS to II and UKCC level 3, but my main pull was the other stuff, the NLP, the various horsemen and women who I had learned from, plus experience in a very specialist field that meant honing skills at getting results in the smoothest possible way. I say this, as although I gave a good and unhurried service, I was not a 'name' in the equine world. For that I would expect to pay more.
 
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£45 a session (45 mins private at home). Worth every penny, I’d have two a week if I could afford it!! At the moment it works out roughly every other week, once a week if I can manage it.
 
Locally, all at decent arenas of which cost included:
RC shared 3 in group, £15 for an hour to 1hr 15mins.
RC private flat/dressage £30 half hour or £40 for 45 mins, with retired International GP dressage rider (he is popular)

SJ at local BS trainers with huge fab arena, who runs academy:
SJ group £25 shared with up to 2 others for 45 mins.
SJ private with same trainer £40 for 40 mins
XC group of 3, usually £25 to £30 and on course for about 1.5 hrs.
 
£35-40 for 45mins-1 hour at home. Both flatwork and jumping instructors. XC clinics usually around £65 including course hire.

You can pay ridiculous amounts for one-off lessons with 'names' but having done so once or twice, found it a complete waste of a day off, time and money!
 
Between £20/hour and £50/45 mins. The former is a very experienced ex-eventer and the latter is a high-level dressage instructor and they come to me as I don't have transport (yet). I get a huge amount from both, but the dressage instructor in particular is fantastic at sending me videos to illustrate her points and in giving me homework between sessions so I have more of a focus.

I would love to afford more lessons, but I can't make my cash stretch to more than alternating them once a week at the moment.
 
£45 for a list 1 BD judge who travels 30 mins to us. who is in the process of getting all the UKCC stuff done. She doesn't need it as has ooodles of experience. Its £55 at her place which she knocks off 5 but then 10 arena hire as as a large venue. She should be charging us way more but I'm not complaining!
 
We paid £35 for a one hour shared jumping lesson (4 people) of one hour with a BS Accredited coach and that included the hire of a top show centre indoor arena with a complete course of show jumps.
 
£40 for an hours dressage lesson at the instructor's yard. XC clinics I usually go through BE and it's about £48 for a non-member for an arena eventing clinic at Bishop Burton. Just been to a clinic this weekend with my pony and her loaner at Norton Disney with Sophie Brown (she was brilliant!) and that was £55.
 
£35 an hour (ish) with a very talented instructor who is a GP dressage rider. I do keep on toying with having a lesson with a big name at anything between £80 to £150 a session and in the end I decide that I doubt any of these big names would achieve any more than my normal instructor. I'm v lucky - awesome instructor who doesn't charge the earth.
 
I pay £24 for 45 minutes with my old school BHS instructor. I have these weekly and she is great, keeps very informed and continues her own development and education, attends conferences etc. She is worth her weight in gold.

I have tried instructors that are currently competing at advanced level, but I find it more useful to have regular eyes on the ground which I wouldn't be able to do with another coach.
 
£45- £50 for my dressage instructor depending on location and - £50- £70 for driving. Get the odd subsidised bit for almost free. Not cheap but well worth it.
 
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