Camp tuition is now refundable for any reason until 10 days before the start of camp. There are 2 options for your refund:
A deposit of $150 per camper is required to hold a space in camp. Registration is not complete until payment is received.
The balance of tuition is due June 1st. You may ask for an extension if your program is more than a month away. You may receive emails in the meantime reminding you to pay. Sometimes we have office workers check on payments and they don't find the email asking for the extension. If so, please kindly reply to those emails to let him know that you received an extension.
There is no fee for switching weeks. There must be space in the new week to accommodate a switch.
In the event of a need to cancel, we will try to work with you to transfer to a different week with availability.
If you need to cancel and can find a replacement, you may request that we substitute the new camper in for the one originally registered. This avoids any loss even of administrative fee, but you are responsible for dealing with the exchange of money to transfer the spot. This transfer only works if we have space for the new camper in the correct age & gender cabin.
Discounts are applied after you register because of the technical limitation that we can only apply a discount to a camper in the system. You may defer payment and email us to apply your referral discount so that you can pay the right amount. If you overpay because of a discount, simply email and we can refund your payment partially to achieve the correct balance.
The referral discount program gives $100 off for the referral of a new camper.
There is no limit to the number of referral discounts you can earn, even if we end up offering you credit for tuition next year.
The number of campers referred is independent of number of sessions each signs up for. Referring one friend who signs up for 6 weeks counts as one referral because it was only one person.
If you already paid too much, we can easily refund you through the original method of payment, check, or paypal.
The discount is applied as a credit to your account after you have registered a camper.
If the camper you referred cancels their registration after you received the discount, you will be asked to return the discount. This usually happens as a new charge or a check since we cannot undo refunds to credit cards.
For technical limitations, we are not able to preemptively apply a discount to your account when you do not have an account with a camper. You do not need to make a payment for the discount to appear, but you may need to email if you want the discount applied sooner. We check about once a week for new registrations with referrals. This is done manually because we often get referrals in the form "the Smith family told me," which is very tough for a computer to link to the account of Jimmy Smith instead of Susie Smith.
Can the referral discount be applied to a sibling? Yes, if the sibling is a first time camper at Slovenski Camps. The referral discount applies to new campers only, regardless of whether it is a sibling, cousin, or neighbor.
Can i refer the person who referred me? No, you cannot refer each other to camp. This is true for siblings and friends. A child cannot refer his sibling and be referred by them. A kid cannot be referred by his friend and refer him. We can only apply one discount for $100 in these situations. If you want to split the referral, you must do so amongst yourselves.
The multi week discount is $100 for a second week of camp and any additional week that a camper attends. This does not apply to a whole family, but individual campers.
The first two sessions of the summer are discounted heavily due to seasonal demand and some schools are still in session, usually the state of New York. These sessions have the same activity options as regularly priced sessions. The lake is usually a degree or two lower than later. The overall enrollment is sometimes slightly lower, but that is hard to predict. These are great weeks for anyone to attend, but they also allow some larger families to send multiple kids affordably and for kids from lower income families to experience a Maine summer camp.
The early season prices cannot be applied to any other weeks.
We do not offer any scholarships. We strive to offer the best camp we can at a reasonable price. We have many old buildings and a large property requiring a lot of maintenance work; we try to attract a high quality staff and compensate them for their hard work; we provide plenty of wholesome food. The first two sessions are heavily discounted in part to allow lower income families attend. The discount cannot be applied to other weeks.
Can the referral discount be applied to a sibling? Yes, if the sibling is a first time camper at Slovenski Camps. The referral discount applies to new campers only, regardless of whether it is a sibling, cousin, or neighbor.
Is there late season pricing for the last week? No. We typically have less demand for the last session, but it is a regularly priced week. All the activity options remain the same as regular weeks. We have fewer programs that week (Athena, Dodgeball, Excalibur, and XC), so it usually ends up with extra spaces. We pack up & store the pole vault pits this week, but everything else remains the same.
We believe that a complete break from phones is healthy for children while at camp.
If a camper needs to communicate with parents, we will make a phone available to them. Parents can communicate essential information to their campers by emailing the directors. Please do not call us asking to talk to them.
If a camper is caught using a cell phone, the phone will be confiscated until the end of the week.
While there are many excellent uses of smartphones, we cannot monitor how campers use them. Phones may not be used for audiobooks, ebooks, flashcards, or any other purpose while at camp. The no-phone policy applies universally to phones. A week at Slovenski Camps is a week free from glowing rectangles.
If your child has an important need to use a phone during the week, please let us know ahead and we can make a specific allowance.
Although we cannot perform routine checkups on your camper, we will reach out to you immediately if contact is needed.
If you need to pass on important information to your camper, please email us at slovenskicamps@gmail.com. Please do not call us and ask to speak to your camper.
A few devices are permitted such as e-readers that do not have other capabilities. A kindle fire is not allowed, while a regular kindle reader is allowed. Handheld gaming devices are prohibited and will be confiscated.
Please ask us about specific devices if you are wondering
Any camper who is sick before camp should stay home, and will get 100% credit for a later camp week. The credit can be used in the summer of 2020, or 2021.
Please see our normal refund policy, which generally allows for cancelations for any reason more than 10 days before camp:
Camp tuition is now refundable for any reason until 10 days before the start of camp. There are 2 options for your refund:
A deposit of $150 per camper is required to hold a space in camp. Registration is not complete until payment is received.
The balance of tuition is due June 1st. You may ask for an extension if your program is more than a month away. You may receive emails in the meantime reminding you to pay. Sometimes we have office workers check on payments and they don't find the email asking for the extension. If so, please kindly reply to those emails to let him know that you received an extension.
There is no fee for switching weeks. There must be space in the new week to accommodate a switch.
In the event of a need to cancel, we will try to work with you to transfer to a different week with availability.
If you need to cancel and can find a replacement, you may request that we substitute the new camper in for the one originally registered. This avoids any loss even of administrative fee, but you are responsible for dealing with the exchange of money to transfer the spot. This transfer only works if we have space for the new camper in the correct age & gender cabin.
Discounts are applied after you register because of the technical limitation that we can only apply a discount to a camper in the system. You may defer payment and email us to apply your referral discount so that you can pay the right amount. If you overpay because of a discount, simply email and we can refund your payment partially to achieve the correct balance.
Campers rarely get ill at camp. But when they do get sick, we isolate them in one of the infirmary isolation bed rooms until they can be picked up to go home. Campers who have to leave camp early because of sickness receive pro-rated camp tuition credit for a later week. The credit can be used in 2020 or 2021.
We calculate the credit due by the fraction of meals eaten out of meals served. We serve 20 meals to a camper with a normal 1 week stay: dinner Saturday; breakfast, lunch, and dinner from Sunday through Friday; breakfast Saturday. If your camper leaves camp Tuesday after breakfast, he would have eaten 8 meals, so the credit you would receive is 12/20 ths of what you paid. If you paid $875 for your week, then you would have $525 of credit to use another week or next year.
*this does not apply to home sickness
Tuition credit is granted based on the amount paid. If you paid $595 for a week of camp, then you have $595 of tuition credit for later in the summer or next year. The referral discount carries over across transfers. Multi-week discounts can be carried over within the same year, but do not apply to moving a week to the next year, unless your week was the last week of the season. If you signed up for two sessions in 2020, you would pay $875 for the first and $775 for the second after the $100 multi-week discount. When you cancel one of them, the multi-week discount is removed also.
In the event of a need to cancel, we will try to work with you to transfer to a different week with availability.
You may find a replacement camper from your friends and relatives if you need to, and transfer 100% of your tuition to them. We do not want to be involved in these payments, so we suggest you deal directly with them for payment.