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Guides for families choosing a camp, and dated analysis of what operators claim.
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Analysis
Nine residential camps. Three say who is awake at night.
Of the thirty camps in this directory, nine let a child sleep on site. Three publish anything at all about who supervises them overnight — and only one of those three describes what the supervision actually is.
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Analysis
From €75 to €4,195 a week. That is not a price range.
Fifty-three published prices across thirty camps, normalised to what a week actually costs. The spread is not a market — it is three different products being sold with the same word.
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Analysis
What a summer camp actually does for a child, and what the evidence does not show
Every camp promises the same six things. Three of them have been measured, one failed to replicate, and two are measured almost entirely by the camp industry itself.
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Guides
Kit list: what to pack for a summer camp in Spain
Practical, boring and the thing families ask about most.
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Guides
Goalkeeper camps: what makes one worth the money
A goalkeeper who spends a week in an outfield session has had an expensive holiday.
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Guides
Child protection: what a well-run camp publishes
The four things that separate an operator with a real safeguarding policy from one with a paragraph of reassuring text.
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Guides
What a fair weekly price looks like
Why the headline price is rarely the price, and how to work out the real one.
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Guides
Residential or day camp: which one fits
The choice changes the price, the supervision question and the amount of football your child actually gets.
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Guides
Sending a child to Spain alone: what to check before you book the flight
Airline rules, airport handover and the paperwork Spanish camps usually ask for.
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Guides
Twelve questions to ask before booking a football camp in Spain
If the website does not answer these, ask by email and keep the reply. A camp that will not put an answer in writing is telling you something.
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Guides
How the transparency index works
We do not rank camps by how good they are. We measure how much verifiable information each operator publishes, and we show our workings.