I love the program for kids so i would definitely recommend it to other parents.

I love that everyone is respectful and helpful. They are very motivating and uplifting my children love it. They feel safe there and they have honestly been asking to come here rather than go to the outside basketball courts so thank you guys for being who you are and being available to so many people adults and children that need you. Stay amazing and smile because you all deserve to.

Traditional camp offers no planned activities for children throughout the day besides swimming. Child complains they spend the entire day outside doing nothing. When inside, they are sitting in the room also not doing much. Pickup takes at least 15 minutes. Will not return next summer.

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It was a vet camp and there was nothing really done in regards to hands on learning and vet related things like the description mentioned

Lots of outdoor active time, daily swim and the counselors are so nice without overdoing it

My daughter Jannel was very happy interacting with other children and sharing in a group. My daughter told me that the counselors are super friendly.

I think you do a fairly good job with programming for younger campers but have really declined when it comes to older campers. When my older daughter was CIT age, there were set tasks for them to do each day - coming up with new games for kids to play with a set of random props, helping lead activities, leadership activities, etc. There was also a teen travel camp. This summer my younger daughter is a CIT and does a lot of sitting around all day. She's been able to finish multiple large chapter books in the 2 weeks she's been there because she has so much free time. I'm not really looking to pay a camp for my daughter to sit around and read books and sketch when she could sit at home and do those things for free. There really seems to be little attention paid to quality CIT programming. How is this in any way actually training her to be a counselor? I would really love for Somerville to bring back some kind of teen travel camp - several other area YMCAs have them and I frankly may be switching my daughter to them next summer after this year's experience - which would be the first time in 11 years one of my kids wasn't enrolled in the Somerville summer camp. We are long time patrons of this camp and I feel as the kids get older the quality really declines (which didn't use to be the case). It was also really disappointing to find out well after all other camp registrations had closed that the Somerville facilty would not be available and two large camps would be sharing the Bridgewater facility. While I appreciate you offering full discounts if we didn't want to make the move, with nearly all other camps already closed it didn't leave parents with many options if they wanted to make a change. Surely you knew well before the summer was going to start that the Somerville facility wouldn't be available. It's also really disappointing to learn that multiple other camps were coming to use the pool at Bridgewater that already had twice as many campers in it as usual. It felt like to accomodate other camps who couldn't use ther pool, we were expected to have our kids sacrifice the quality of ther camp time. Then to top it off we learn the pool isn't even going to be available at all the last week of camp. Why were other camps able to come use our pool when theirs was closed but our campers can't do the same? Swim time is one of my daughter's favortie activities and to learn last minute this was not going to be an option was disappointing. Camp is literally over in one week. Could we not have planned better and had pool maintance occur one week later? How did you we not know until just recently this was going to happen and not forewarn parents who might not have signed kids up otherwise?

They were very active and attentive to the children and the trips weekly are a hit!

My child attended both Bridgewater and Somerville camps this summer. I was much happier with the Somerville side. First the enrichment camps were a great add on. More importantly I had a greater appreciation for the Director, Assistant Director, and counselors at Sunburst. They were professional and had situations more appropriately. I felt better about leaving my child at Camp Sunburst.

This program use to cater to somerville families, this year I was expecting and told that somerville camp would be held at Somerville Y which questioned before signing up my child. I then came to find out that not only were they canceling the before and aftercare program but that that camp was going to be held at Bridgewater. This was a big inconvenience for my work schedule. Bridgewater does not have the indoor space that Somerville would have been able to provide. I feel communication is key to this community and providing care that somerville residence depend on and has been offered in the past has change completely. It's sad that this was handled the way it was and it makes me not want to continue sending my child or signing her up for programs in the future.

It's incredibly disorganized.

I love all the counselors. This is my daughter's second year and we love it. The daily swim lessons have taught my daughter how to swim.

My daughter lives t this program

My kid likes it and enjoys the fun activities. He especially likes the gymnastics camp and asks me to sign him up next year. There are daily swimming lessons and extra time for free swim.

My daughters are so busy with fun and creativity. The counselors and staff are amazing!

last minute told parents that somerville summer camp was being moved to bridgewater ymca for safety reasons because construction still going on. they had to know that the construction was still going to go on during the summer camp. so having the courtesy to tell parents sooner would have been better. not having college student coaches teaching gymnastics camp the first week. the college student coaches look overwhelmed. i work inside a big company as a contractor and use to tell people how the somerville ymca was a great place to send your child for summer camp and gymnastics from my child's experience. but have been disappointed at many occasions in the past years from what my child has told me from their day.

I love the camp counselors. They do a great job keeping the kids busy and communicating with the parents.

My kids liked the specialty camps, and the pricing of camp is very reasonable, but they found the regular day camp chaotic and boring.

Better weekly camps and better communication

The actual field trips always take place during gymnastics camp, forcing my child to choose between activities. The field trips on the off weeks is always ice cream and water play. $12 is a lot to pay for ice cream! Plus, the scream truck is terrible. If not for friends, I think camp is pretty boring for her. Gymnastics camp is good. It would be nice if there were more availability for your specialty camps, like art. Thanks.

to include more physical activities/games

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Compared to other camps in the area the facilities are very limited. There was no communication with the parents throughout the week my children attended, and when I asked basic questions of the staff at drop off (i.e. do we send lunch for a field trip) they did not know the answers. Overall the staff are kind and the kids were safe, but communication and organization could be improved.

Friendly staff, activities and experience.