Forbes: Money-No-Object Summer Camps

http://www.forbes.com/2007/04/26/cam..._0427camp.html

I loved my summer camp some of my best memories are from those years. . . But that article and this thread make me feel like i got just a bit short changed in quality. . .

Isn't Danbee in Hinsdale or Peru? Right off Route 143?

I'm up for adoption and have my bag packed for camp.

If you find a family willing to take 2 im packed and ready as well. . . Although 20 Grand for summer camp might be asking for a bit much. . . It's not like thats the cost of 2 years worth of my college tuition. . .

scratch greystone-i'm leavin' for waldemar!

I LOVE the picture associated with Weissman Teen Tours in that article.

I also wish I had the time and money and opportunity to spend a few weeks at Secret Agent Camp!

My daughter went to an AWESOME camp for 4 summers up in northern WI called Camp Birchknoll for Girls it was around $7,000 for 8 weeks (after extras like field trips,laundry, canteen $$ etc...) and worth every penny!! She loved it! The people who run the camp are the absolute best! She even loved the food!! lol I cried the first year I brought her up there thinking she would be so homesick and not make any friends (she didnt know a soul going up there at 11 years old) and she loved it so much she went back for years and still talks to many of the friends sh made up there! Most of the girls come from IL but they do have girls from many different states, and even a couple from different countries!

My friend’s family has been going to Camp Glen Arden since it opened. They do offer a camp experience for adult women called “Women of the Wilderness.”

My girls went to Skyland in Clyde, N.C. One reason I chose it was it was a little "funky" - the cabins weren't picture perfect, the Big House (where meals and the smaller campers stay) was a converted 19th century hotel, they swam at a swimming hole - but it's getting modernized, and isn't the same. :(
Hey - maybe my now-counselor daughter can get a job here in Texas this summer as a counselor . . . hmmmmmmm....

And I thought my camp was fancy for having brunch in your pajamas on Sunday mornings, with fruit trays, pastries, and hot chocolate...Oh, and when they built the bathrooms that had sinks with full countertops and outlets...I do not see how this can be good for young girls. Won't they then expect that total comfort is their due? Then when they get to college, their dorm rooms will have to be transformed into little palaces? And their first apartments outfitted by their parents? And then they're going to get married and be sorely disappointed in their newlywed lifestyle, unless they marry someone who can provide in the style to which they are accustomed (at the age of 25 or whatever?)...my children will be getting swimming holes...

I know quite a few "alumnae" from this camp -- all were counselors and almost all of them were Greek.

Camp Greystone is where most of the kids from around here go, that and one other one. Now that all of our girls are older, they are staying longer and longer. My daughter is staying at camp two weeks now, and it just about kills me! But she loves it so much, and yes, the counselors are great with them. So we mortgage our house and let her go. Her goal is to become an "LIT" (Leader in Training) when she is old enough. Some girls stay three weeks and even a month, but that's just a little too much for me. Especially w/ the way we do our school year now, we only have two months of summer vacation.

Camp Chi-O
 

I've heard Kanakuk in Missouri referred to as Camp Chi-O since there are always so many Chi Omega counselors. They hire 2,500 college-age counselors each summer!?! Big business.

http://www.kanakuk.com/christian-cam...rts-camps.aspx

My brother goes to another Berkshires camp and visited another camp for a day and said it was "scary fancy," I feel like it's the same one you're talking about but I can't remember the name for the life of me. Now it's going to drive me crazy.

Hinsdale