SO?? How much Are YOU paying for Camp/Sleep Away Camp?

Gold Member Joined: Mar 08 2008 Posts: 2209

$880 for 10 weeks for DD all inclusive with transportion (no snacks or lunch). We got a discount for signing up before !Purim!. It runs from 9:45 to 3:15

$275 for half day camp 12:30-3:45 for DS for 3 1/2 weeks
$550 for the second half of summer.
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Day camp here is $50/week. We homeschool the rest of the year, but I send my two oldest to day camp all of July. It's a great change of pace for us! And I get some focused time with the two youngest, thoroughly declutter and organize my house, and do my lesson planning for the coming year. It's great!

I live in Canada
for the backyard camp it's $75.00 per week per kid
so for three kids that's $225.00 per week for the three kids
times 8 weeks is $1,800.00

My son's day camp was 1420 shekel for 12 days. I think that's insane. They went on 2 trips that were, get this, FREE trips. Like a big park and a hike.

Wow, that's A LOT! Ds1's camp was $110 for one week and they went on very nice trips. (This daycamp consists of only trips; they go to a different place each day. Some trips are free, some cost money, but all are a lot of fun.)

I paid 1400 nis per kid for daycamp- 6 days a week from 9-330. Theyve done lots of great things and my kids are having a really fun summer.

I paid 1900 for almost 8 wks-early bird special for daycamp
around 1600 for dd
and around 1500 ds

We paid 1300 dollars (got discount) for 8 weeks including trips , breakfast and lunch for my 6 year old son in Brooklyn
still I think is a lot for camp. the hours are 9 to 4
I know a friend that paid 2000 for 8 weeks!!??##!!

Gold Member Joined: Jan 20 2009 Posts: 1313

In Baltimore paid $900 early registration fee for both DS and DD to go to day camp for 7 weeks. This does not include tips. There were no trip fees.

Long, Long, Long, Long ago when I went to sleepaway camp for 8 weeks it was $7000.

3x 2900 for hs kids overnight camp
2x 875 day camp 2 boys
1 1200 1/2 summer overnight camp
plus all camp shopping and $40 wk for spending

My two oldest each got to go to one month of camp. My preschooler went to 5 weeks of backyard camp in July for $45/week and my elementary school child is going to camp that is $80/week (but it includes a trip per week and swimming at a real pool).

3 weeks of daycamp when we went to my in laws in FL- $180 per week, times two kids. 8:30- 3:30

3 weeks of daycamp once we got back home to israel- 750 NIS for ds4 for a backyard keitana

4 weeks of a real American style daycamp for ds 5.5 - 1100 nis.

I don't know if this was posted already, but most offices provide a flexible spending account for day care. The money comes out of your paycheck pretax, and can be used for day camps for children under 12. I use this to pay for my kids to go to day camp and we save a lot of money on our taxes this way.

I claim $4,000 for my 2 children to go to day camp - that's a lot of tax money we don't pay (legally I might add).

The only catch is, if you don't use it, you lose it, and you have to pay first and then get reimbursed after the summer is over.