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Guides for families choosing a camp, and dated analysis of what operators claim.
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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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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.