Before June 1st we can refund you in two ways: 100% as tuition credit for the next year OR all but $25 returned to you by your original method of payment.
Up until 10 days before the start of your session, we can refund you in two ways: all but $25 as tuition credit OR all but $50 returned to your original method of payment.
For precision in case it is needed, 10 days before your session will be defined as the start date on the calendar minus 10. Since check in starts at 3pm, your request must be submitted to our email by 3pm. All our sessions start on Saturday, so two Wednesdays before by 3pm is the deadline. For example, if your session is June 19, then the deadline to request your refund is Wednesday, June 9 at 3:00pm.
We can give you all but $50 as tuition credit if you need to cancel in the last 10 days before the session starts. At this point, we are unlikely to fill the space we held for you, even off the waiting lis, so we cannot offer cash back. We make cabin assignments and order food based on registrations 10 days out.
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.
Come for 4 weeks and get a discount of $400. Additional weeks are discounted $100 each.
An 8 week stay at camp is a full summer, even though we do have 10 weeks of camp. Get $1000 off for coming 8 weeks. If you desire, you could stay longer and get another $125 off each week, BUT that is a long time for campers to be away from home. We recommend stopping at 8 weeks even for independent children or experienced campers.
The first two sessions of the summer are discounted heavily due to seasonal demand. Some schools are still in session and many families choose vacation right after the spring semester. These sessions have the same activity options as regularly priced sessions. The lake is usually a degree or two lower than later, and the air temperature may be lower too, but still pleasant. The overall enrollment is sometimes slightly lower, but that is hard to predict and it is sometimes full. We have a full staff who are full of energy in the early season.
The early season prices cannot be applied to any other weeks. If you sign up for the early weeks but need to switch later, we cannot apply the discount to the later weeks. If we need to cancel the early week as we did in 2020 for covid, we would allow campers to switch sessions without paying the regular tuition.
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, and that is the best we can do for scholarships or discounts. The discount cannot be applied to other weeks.
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), so it usually ends up with extra spaces, and we are fine with that. We begin packing up a few items that do not interfere with the camp activities, such as the pole vault mats because there is no pole vault camp. It gets a little colder at night and a little darker sooner in the evening.
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:
Before June 1st we can refund you in two ways: 100% as tuition credit for the next year OR all but $25 returned to you by your original method of payment.
Up until 10 days before the start of your session, we can refund you in two ways: all but $25 as tuition credit OR all but $50 returned to your original method of payment.
For precision in case it is needed, 10 days before your session will be defined as the start date on the calendar minus 10. Since check in starts at 3pm, your request must be submitted to our email by 3pm. All our sessions start on Saturday, so two Wednesdays before by 3pm is the deadline. For example, if your session is June 19, then the deadline to request your refund is Wednesday, June 9 at 3:00pm.
We can give you all but $50 as tuition credit if you need to cancel in the last 10 days before the session starts. At this point, we are unlikely to fill the space we held for you, even off the waiting lis, so we cannot offer cash back. We make cabin assignments and order food based on registrations 10 days out.
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.