Wildcatter Ranch and Resort

This place has so much to offer, but sadly the two reasons we were there (horses and cattle) were no where to be seen. Beautiful location, lovely pool area, nice rooms. We were excited to see longhorns and go horseback riding on our weekend trip to Texas. During our stay, the longhorns were back in the woods and never made an appearance. That would have been fine, they are animals and I get that they can't always control them. The disappointing part was that the front desk told us to go out there and they might come out at the 9am feeding time. We went there and no one was there, neither cattle or wrangler. So, we went to the barn for our 9:30am horseback ride. There we were told that they haven't seen the longhorns in over a month. So, we waited for them to try to catch their horses for our horseback ride, but they were unsuccessful. The ride was cancelled as they had no horses for us to ride. We checked out early after seeing no horses or cattle. Would have booked another ranch with reliable riding had I known we were going to miss riding completely during our trip to Texas.

We enjoyed a three night stay, in a cabin with a view across the stables & wider landscape. It was beautiful. The weather helped as it was hot, so late nights in the porch rocker looking out across the Wildcatter acres in moonlight…stunning. The staff were all pleasant, especially the guys down at the stable (Clint & John deserve recognition - John was terrific during our ride out; friendly, knowledgable and just the right amount of cowboy). The on-site Steakhouse good (see my separate review on TA). This should really be a five star review, but…there’s a lack of attention to detail - housekeeping is ‘just’ enough not to be classed as dirty; we had threadbare towels, which required a call to reception daily to get changed (even though a card in the cabin suggested the room would be serviced daily); the pool area only had five sun loungers, but multiple patio chairs, no pool towels (we were expected to use our room towels), and dirty cushions, all surrounded by an overgrown and unkept lawn/garden; the staff are scruffy, no uniform; the breakfast buffet (adequate) is served with paper plates and plastic cutlery; the activities are varied but expensive and include mandatory 20% gratuity, which is uncalled for as I think most guests would tip automatically. There’s much to praise at Wildcatter but also much to highlight for improvement. I can’t comment on the hotel rooms, but the cabins are certainly due refurbing & decent housekeeping.

Stayed in the hotel which is clean and staff very friendy beds not so good large sqeaking noise eevry time u move

We arrived after a long journey and the reception staff were friendly and helpful, stayed in the main building rooms overlooking beautiful views of the countryside. We managed to book horse riding shooting and a jeep ride. All of which were great fun, never made to feel anything was too much bother and Mitchell seemed to enjoy our company as much as we did his. Only downside is no food available during the day. Overall loved it

Exceptionally clean, quite and the staff was overly attentive.

I escaped the normal hotel route and booked the wildcatter ranch to enjoy an experience. Upon arrival I was greeted by the friendly and welcoming hotel front desk staff who provided me with directions to the barn for a horseback ride. The wranglers were very knowledgeable as I listened to them explain to a young inquisitive girl how things worked at the ranch. Copper the ranch dog was awesome and my horse Ringo took care of me on the trail ride with Abbey who was the most pleasant person I have encountered during my business travels. I ate dinner at the steakhouse on premise and the food was phenomenal. If you order the parm cheese sticks, make sure you have someone to share them with. In Texas everything is bigger!! The sunset at the infinity pool was breathtaking. Next time I’d definitely opt for a cabin room for the views! However, I will say that the hotel room was beyond expectations and I loved the real good hairdryers provided in the room!! Same brand I use at home and it took no time to dry my hair compared to the dinky ones at most hotels. In the morning, sign up to feed the long horn cattle because it was downright cool! The length of their horns are bigger than I am tall. It was unreal! I highly recommend checking this place out and enjoy all of the experiencing they have to offer! Whoa is the stop signs on the ranch and all I can say is whoa this place is amazing!

Arrived after a long drive and we’re made to feel welcome, Adi on front desk very helpful and accommodating, we had a king cabin suite which was superb, clean and everything you needed, with veranda and a couple of rocking chairs, done horse riding this morning, Jon and Clint brilliant too, also had great meal in the steak house restaurant with staff really helpful and polite . Thanks to chandler and the other staff there. They have a nice pool although rather cold but refreshing with great views. They have gone out of their way to help us have a great stay and well worth coming over from the U.K. for to experience a real life ranch with horse riding plus other activities.

We stayed for two nights and enjoyed the activities, we did the clay pigeon shooting, archery, tomohawk throwing and fed the long horn cattle. The guys running the activities were great. The pool area is nice, but the pool is freezing so just not useable unless you are ok with very cold water. The jacuzzi was really nice though. The sun loungers are in desperate need of replacing, the cushions are all saggy and scruffy and the pool towels are very thin and rough and not always available.. The cabin was nice and big with a comfy bed, but the room is so dark - the lighting just isn’t sufficient…. The toiletries are not very nice either and the towels in the room are the smallest I’ve ever had. I was very disappointed that they don’t give you any bottled water. Even staying in a holiday Inn they provide you with one each per day. This just isn’t very customer friendly. You can buy water, beer and soft drinks in the reception area though, which we did as we had no choice….. Breakfast is set up in the lobby - coffee, orange juice, three warm offerings and bread and a toaster, paper plates and plastic cutlery.. it wasn’t good to be honest. They even ran out of knives one day and I wanted to butter my toast so I asked the lady on reception who said yeah I think we’ve run out … she reluctantly went to check for me and brought sone back… if I hadn’t paused there I’m quite sure she’d have been happy for me to butter my toast with a spoon… The steak house food was really tasty. We had to wait quite a while for our table on the first night and it was pretty busy. There didn’t seem to be enough staff there. The live music was nice. The view from your patio is just lovely, rolling hills as far as you can see and the sunsets are stunning!!! We enjoyed our stay but they really need to spend a bit of money and sort sone basic bits out. No wonder they weren’t that busy other than the restaurant …pity as it has such great potential.