Travel Meet Questions
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Anonymous
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So I need some perspective on travel meets and your club. At what age do swimmers attend travel meets that are not family travel? How long do they travel for and what is the cost? So they let kids have their own room and what is done about food (type? Cost?) Does your club allow you to self travel instead of team travel for these meets? Our clubs travel meets seem outrageously expensive (without the meet fees) and I cannot figure out where the cost is going. There is no breakdown. |
Anonymous
| We are with NCAP and there are only a few team travel meets for 12 and unders, one of which is the summer Eastern Zones meet that is PVS team travel. We travel to other meets but those are self-travel. The kids do not get their own rooms on team travel, and I do not think self travel is an option for those meets. Meals, lodging, transportation, etc. are covered in the fees for travel meets. |
Anonymous
What would the cost be? |
Anonymous
My kid did not go to Zones in the summer, but I believe the cost was estimated to be between $600-800. It was in Richmond so it was bus travel not a flight. There is a travel meet to Arizona where the swimmers stay with the families of the Arizona swimmers whose club hosts the meet and the fees for that are roughly $900. Both trips are 3-4 days. |
Anonymous
| Another NCAP family. There are 3 travel meets coming up and the costs range from 900 to 1800 depending on length, staying with families or hotels, etc. One trip allows 10 and U but the parents have to be OK with them going with the team and the child has to be mature enough. |
Anonymous
Only 1 of the 3 is actually a meet. The other 2 are training trips, although they are amazing training trips that the kids that go will probably get more out of than they would a meet. |
Anonymous
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RMSC team travel to NCSAs, usually around $700.
Kids are in high school. They buddy up in hotel rooms, dinner is organized by coaches (brought in from local restaurants), lunch they are responsible for getting on their own, breakfast depends a bit on hotel, if it’s offered, great, and/or kids shop and do things easy for hotel rooms. We are welcome to family travel if we prefer. I think the only younger team travel offered is zones, like someone else mentioned, that is actually PVS team, not home club team travel. I think RMSC did team travel for senior zones this summer. |
Anonymous
My DS went on a travel meet to Phoenix, Arizona when he was 10U with NCAP. The meet was in January and the pool was outside - which the kids loved: swimming outside in January. The kids stayed with host families. There were only 4 10U boys that went and they all stayed with the same host family. I think all of the 10U kids had at least one family member travel - I went but was on a different flight and stayed at a hotel. I don't know if the older kids had family members travel since I didn't really meet any of them. The only time I saw my DS was during the actual swim sessions and one evening when the host family invited all the families over for the evening. It was a great experience for my DS. |
Anonymous
There are a few additional meets that are sometimes team travel, but only at the high school level. Zones, Open Water and Summer Jr Nationals were also team travel this past year. It looks like most of those that qualified will team travel to the TYR Pro Series meet in January. For all of these meets, including NCSAs, parent travel is also an option. |
Anonymous
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The kids love the travel meets but I am guessing that buses take up the expense. They double them up in hotels and eat cheap food (Panera, Chipotle,Pizza) so I don't understand the cost. Our club does not allow us to family travel with the athlete if it is club travel. Which I find preposterous in the world of Safesport. |
Anonymous
I don't think a club should enforce that if the parent is paying for the travel. A club should never create undue financial hardship. Some of us really have to cut back to afford our kids swimming. |
Anonymous
| Wait people let their kids stay with complete strangers? I'm not normally super paranoid, but no way would I be ok with that. |
Anonymous
| We have a travel meet in 2 weeks. 12 and up are paired in hotel rooms with same gender. Under 12 must stay with a parent. It’s a bus ride meet. |
Anonymous
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Age Group only:
NCSA Age Group March 2023 in Orlando was family travel for RMSC. EZ LC Age Group August 2023 was a PVS Team as previously mentioned. No option for family travel, no matter swimmer’s age. |