This is strictly for the summer camp. When signing up for something and the website says, "including field trips" and that the price is "$160 per child per week", you don't expect any other costs. They even indicated an extra, "One-time, $10 charge per Camp Shirt" but NOWHERE did they indicate extra costs for anything else.
After I signed my child up, I started getting emails for other weeks and at one point saw one for $20 to the zoo. Immediately I thought, "Wait why are they paying for a field trip when it made no indication there were extra costs?" Fast forward to the week before my son would be attending and we had yet to receive anything about the Sea World(that's the ONLY information we received a head of time - the destination) field trip they would be going on. A friend decided to call and found out that there would in fact be another charge to attend. That charge? $60(and still have to take their lunch even though the site says the week includes meals)!! So as of Thursday no communications have been sent out to parents letting them know that they will be hit up for another $60. I'm curious, what happens if you can't afford that? Surely they could stay behind at the camp since you paid for the WEEK right? Nope! You either pay the extra charge or simply don't show up that day. So, apparently you're not actually paying for the week, or I guess their definition of a week is different from most people. Hope you don't have to suddenly make arrangements for your child!
To me this is false advertising. They simply could have included something saying that there would be an additional charge for a field trip. Or perhaps they could let people know that if they can't, or maybe don't want their kids to, attend a place(like Sea World - pretty controversial these past few years) that their only option would be to stay home. Plus there is that fact that it is advertised as a basketball and volleyball camp. Your kid plays as they put it, "a little bit of basketball, a little bit of volleyball and agility". So factor in that field trip that you may or may not get to attend(and as I hear it more than that this current week which cost an additional 10-20 each), plus swimming on Fridays and it sounds more like a glorified day care instead of somewhere for your kids to learn the sport you were signing them up for.
Now if you decide to question them about all of this, they'll be happy to give you the run around, then indicate that, "well it wasn't NOT posted on the site" and then offer you a refund. Well it wasn't NOT posted...that's a good one. Clearly they have no desire to keep business or build a relationship with people or they wouldn't hide these things, wait till the last minute to dump it on the parents and then come up with excuses and readily offer you your money back.
My son and I were hoping to have him learn some more basketball skills this summer as that is his favorite sport. Now we have to make other arrangements for him that week plus hope there are openings in another basketball camp. read more