YMCA Camp Williams

If you are putting your kids into Camp William for a whole week it looks brilliant. They get to choose from a wide range of great activities. If you put them in for less than a week they get no choice, and seem to be treated as second class citizens. The site chooses an activity for all of those kids only there for a few days which they do every day they attend each week. Ours got drama which neither would have chosen. And they know they will be stuck doing that for the rest of the days that week. In the afternoon they did swimming which consisted of one length following by a free for all of kids and floats, very little structure and no chance to really swim as pool was so full. In between they did indoor games which seemed ok, but the whole thing is made worse by them being able to see the kids who are there all week rock climbing, bike riding, scootering, skate boarding and all sorts outside while they seem to be killing time or doing stuff they didn't choose. The website and brochure is full of pics of great activities and the kids were really looking forward to it. we mentioned it to the staff onsite who said, "yes we know it isn't great and we've fed this back before to the marketing staff because we think its misleading and it shouldn't be advertised in this way"

If you are putting your kids into Camp William for a whole week it looks brilliant. They get to choose from a wide range of great activities. If you put them in for less than a week they get no choice, and seem to be treated as second class citizens. The site chooses an activity for all of those kids only there for a few days which they do every day they attend each week. Ours got drama which neither would have chosen. And they know they will be stuck doing that for the rest of the days that week. In the afternoon they did swimming which consisted of one length following by a free for all of kids and floats, very little structure and no chance to really swim as pool was so full. In between they did indoor games which seemed ok, but the whole thing is made worse by them being able to see the kids who are there all week rock climbing, bike riding, scootering, skate boarding and all sorts outside while they seem to be killing time or doing stuff they didn't choose. The website and brochure is full of pics of great activities and the kids were really looking forward to it. we mentioned it to the staff onsite who said, "yes we know it isn't great and we've fed this back before to the marketing staff because we think its misleading and it shouldn't be advertised in this way"