Sincerely:
Deacon Martin & Elizabeth Garcia.
The Loan Oak Ranch & Retreat was a beautiful and peaceful place to stay at. The facilities are well taken care of including the bedrooms, dining hall, and meeting rooms. The food was great and the staff was incredible! Definitely recommend!
This is an amazing place, 17 families from our All Saints Catholic Church were there spending a wonderful time with ours children. I really appreciate your generosity Mr. Bryan my prayers for you, your family and for Romualdo & Yolanda Varela.
It is a pretty place I recormend it a lot me and my family and group of rnm and cordation and manager is so nice and the cabens are so beautiful and very clean and thank you to tracie and the Mrs. Mr Valera .... And of course we will go back
I love the ranch....its a great place to stay a have a great time with you family and friends....the room I stayed was beautiful, clean, comfortable, and the decorations are just perfect.....I wish we could it stay longer...but we will definitely come back again...I will like to thanks to all the staff who gave us a great service, specially to the Manager Tracy, and Yolanda and Romualdo who invite us to this beautiful Ranch....Thanks again for everything...God bless this place and the owner and all the people that work and live there.
A year before my wedding I reserved my date with Lone Oak Ranch and Retreat. Around January (6 months before the wedding) we asked if the chef could get in touch with us, no response, we assumed that they were busy, and told my now husband we shouldn't worry yet. 4 months to the wedding we called and asked why nobody was returning our emails and that we would like to set up the tasting. That's when we were told that the entire staff had left. The coordinator, the camp leaders, and the chef. I was appalled that they never thought it relevant to call and let us know. So now 3 months until the wedding we were able to meet the coordinator. She was nice, but told us she had no experience. She had never worked with weddings before and also had no record of our wedding. She had a date and names along with an invoice. No notes, no details, no nothing, so we had to go over the entire wedding again. We set up a date to go meet and have another tasting for the reception with the new chef. We showed up, the entire venue was dark, nobody was on the property. We attempted to call and email the chef but there was no response. We were furious, and set up a meeting with the owner Brian. He apologized and sweet talked us into staying with them as a venue. Come time for the wedding, we had everything set up. The rehearsal was set for 5 and dinner at 6. After we finished the rehearsal around 5:45 we went to the pool house where nothing was set up. The coordinator told the chef that our dinner was at 7. So they were rushing to get things ready, while we sat and waited. Oh did I mention that we couldn't have the rehearsal in the chapel because nobody turned on the air? And that my aunt was stung by a wasp trying to open a window. So when we went to the ballroom to have it there, we noticed how stained and filthy the tablecloths were. So we had to tell maintenance to make sure those were cleaned. The day of the wedding ( I never saw the coordinator until moments before the ceremony, and that includes the rehearsal ) I was getting ready, and I received an email from the coordinator with a timeline for the day. Everything was off by 15 minutes, and out of order. My florist and family friend had been handling the wedding coordinating for me since the one at lone oak was never present. Come time for dinner, everyone was served, and we were introduced. We had a plate and drink set up on our table for us. We mingled with some guests only to come back with no food. I thought well that's alright because they said they would box up food for us to eat that night after the wedding because the bride and groom rarely get to eat. That never happened. Well when guests went up for seconds, there was no food to be found. They had already taken everything out and what they did with the food we paid for, we may never know. Our best man ( of legal age ) wanted to bring a few beers to toast with, we were never told that alcohol was never allowed. We originally had a bar set up, but when the staff situation occurred we decided to get rid of it. After our best man brought this in, the coordinator ( who I hadn't seen since directly before the ceremony ) came up to ME, just me, and told me that if the alcohol wasn't removed from the property "actions would be taken". Her reasoning was that there was no security guard. Little did she know a state trooper was one of the guests at the wedding, so security of the alcohol was not an issue. I agreed though and told our best man to just remove it, so that we wouldn't be thrown out of our own wedding. The coordinator then disappeared for the rest of the evening. I learned that this was the wedding coordinators last week at lone oak, reasons are still unknown to me.I rate this "venue" 2 out of 5, due only to the beautiful land. I have no bad words to say about Randy the chef, or April the first coordinator, or Ben one of the kind workers there. I hope for people to avoid this place as a wedding venue, I'm sure the camps are fun, but as a wedding venue it is a pure headache
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