Nope.....
Daughter went here to camp for the first time, we just took her home today. Here are our thoughts-
1) The payment system makes zero sense. Long boring story short, after you make your deposit it just automatically takes the rest of it out one a set later date but the website is not intuitive AT ALL.
2) I call 3 days before camp because I had heard nothing - ZERO - about checking my daughter in to camp, required paperwork, etc. I call in and get told they sent out an email and it was probably in my junk folder (I checked every email account I have, in all folders including junk, they didn't send it to me and/or left me off the email list). She offers to send it. Thankfully all I really needed was to hunt down her shot record... but seriously?
2.) This was my daughter's first camp experience so I called about mid-week just to check in, not to be crazy or anything, but because I know she is very timid and quiet and wouldn't say to anyone if she really needed or felt a certain way, she would just hold it in. I was really just making sure she was "good" as far as being away from home, and making sure she was taking her allergy medicine. I called twice, no answer. I called Thursday and left a voicemail just explaining this was (daughter)'s mom and I would like a chance just to speak with her a minute or two or just make sure she is ok and isn't climbing the walls to go home. I never got a call back.
3.) Drop off at camp was pretty straight forward, easy instructions, no big deal. Pick up, however, was not. Up until this point I questioned if it was just my overthinking things or if I was just a dummy but by all the other puzzled parents shrugging their shoulders and picking up their kids stuff left out on the lawn unattended by the cleaning crew (with no campers in sight) I realized no, it wasn't just me - their communication sucks. After some driving around we found the dining hall (no maps or really anything to help other than a few road signs) and get my daughter. Which leads to...
4.) They never gave my daughter her medicine or provided her the option to take it. She has horrible allergies so we had dropped off allergy tabs and filled out the form, like we are supposed to, explaining to take it as needed. My husband handed it to the lady, she confirmed how often she would need it, my husband said pretty much the same as on the box - as needed, but first thing in the morning for sure because her allergies are terrible. My daughter didn't get a single dose of allergy medicine all week.
5.) Picking up my daughter she seems happy and is incredibly excited to see us, and she says she had fun, but when I ask if she wants to come back next year she says "DEFINITELY not"... Red flag. That's never something you want to hear out of your kids mouth. I ask why and she says basically the activities were kind of disorganized and they ran out of time for a lot of them (shocker), she missed home (understandable) and that they forced grown kids (my daughter is 9) to essentially have nap in the middle of the day? She said they called it a "siesta" after lunch. But when you force older kids to lay in bed and they are not allowed to talk for an hour or so so the teenage camp counselors can gossip and play on their phones ... let's be real, they were giving the kids "nap-time". Are you effing kidding me? ALSO... She said for the most part the camp counselors were great, but that they also screamed and yelled at the kids a lot. One of hers was fond of slamming doors.
I will research better next time and stick with a well known and respected camp, like Camp Classen or something similar. This one missed the mark. 2 stars because my kid had a little fun and wasn't crying, but I would not ever send her back to this one. read more