Has anyone heard anything about refunds from Calleva?

[Anonymous]

I continue to hold out hope that they will do the right thing and offer full refunds. If that does not happen AND camp does not happen I will dispute through my credit card company.

[Anonymous]

Calleva's model (small group of kids together all day in a group) seems like it may be better able to meet the CDC recommendations than some other camps where kids go from activity to activity based on their interests instead of staying with the same group. I wonder if they will be able to run camp but not have buses and make a few other adjustments. That is what I am hoping for anyway.

[Anonymous]

When do they have to decide?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Calleva's model (small group of kids together all day in a group) seems like it may be better able to meet the CDC recommendations than some other camps where kids go from activity to activity based on their interests instead of staying with the same group. I wonder if they will be able to run camp but not have buses and make a few other adjustments. That is what I am hoping for anyway.

If they take away the bus, it will make it impossible for many families to do it.

I understand if they feel they need to do that, but I would expect to be given a refund, or at the very least a credit.

Logistics are a major consider when we choose camps and I would not have signed up for Calleva if they didn’t have the bus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calleva's model (small group of kids together all day in a group) seems like it may be better able to meet the CDC recommendations than some other camps where kids go from activity to activity based on their interests instead of staying with the same group. I wonder if they will be able to run camp but not have buses and make a few other adjustments. That is what I am hoping for anyway.

If they take away the bus, it will make it impossible for many families to do it.

I understand if they feel they need to do that, but I would expect to be given a refund, or at the very least a credit.

Logistics are a major consider when we choose camps and I would not have signed up for Calleva if they didn’t have the bus.

I would have said that originally but now, with less traffic and many people working from home and desperate to have their kids entertained in the summer, I bet many people would be ok with this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is everyone else doing re: Calleva? Are you waiting to see if full refunds will be given? Or is that off the table completely?

We are staying enrolled, as we will send out kid if they are open (and we sincerely hope they are).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calleva's model (small group of kids together all day in a group) seems like it may be better able to meet the CDC recommendations than some other camps where kids go from activity to activity based on their interests instead of staying with the same group. I wonder if they will be able to run camp but not have buses and make a few other adjustments. That is what I am hoping for anyway.

If they take away the bus, it will make it impossible for many families to do it.

I understand if they feel they need to do that, but I would expect to be given a refund, or at the very least a credit.

Logistics are a major consider when we choose camps and I would not have signed up for Calleva if they didn’t have the bus.

I would have said that originally but now, with less traffic and many people working from home and desperate to have their kids entertained in the summer, I bet many people would be ok with this.

No way. With no traffic they would be asking parents to do 2 hrs of commuting a day (1/2 hour there and back each time). We would be out for sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calleva's model (small group of kids together all day in a group) seems like it may be better able to meet the CDC recommendations than some other camps where kids go from activity to activity based on their interests instead of staying with the same group. I wonder if they will be able to run camp but not have buses and make a few other adjustments. That is what I am hoping for anyway.

If they take away the bus, it will make it impossible for many families to do it.

I understand if they feel they need to do that, but I would expect to be given a refund, or at the very least a credit.

Logistics are a major consider when we choose camps and I would not have signed up for Calleva if they didn’t have the bus.

I would have said that originally but now, with less traffic and many people working from home and desperate to have their kids entertained in the summer, I bet many people would be ok with this.

Some may, and I understand if they do that as long as they give the parents who can’t an option out.

If they say camp is running and you are SOL if you don’t attend, I would have a major issue because that is a very material change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is everyone else doing re: Calleva? Are you waiting to see if full refunds will be given? Or is that off the table completely?

We are staying enrolled, as we will send out kid if they are open (and we sincerely hope they are).

Same here. My kids love it and look forward to it every summer. Fingers crossed.

[Anonymous]

New Calleva parent here for a rising second grader-- I thought that they used the buses for trips during the day as well, not just transportation? Does that also make re-opening this camp challenging? Or is the actual camp property big enough that they can do camp on premise?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New Calleva parent here for a rising second grader-- I thought that they used the buses for trips during the day as well, not just transportation? Does that also make re-opening this camp challenging? Or is the actual camp property big enough that they can do camp on premise?

They do use the buses for trips during the day as well. This would be less of an issue though, since each group would be traveling on its own bus. This would allow each group to essentially operate as its own unit without having to be exposed to other groups.

To the people above complaining about how lack of transportation to camp would be a deal breaker, they might provide transportation from their stops, but each group would meet directly at the stop (as opposed to all the buses with kids from every group meeting at camp and splitting up there). So each group would have a stop assigned to it where that group would meet at the beginning of the day and return to at the end of the day. So you might have to drive to Chevy Chase if you live in DC, for example, but you wouldn’t have to drive all the way to their location.

I don’t have any reason to believe this is what they’re doing, just a thought about ideas they might be considering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New Calleva parent here for a rising second grader-- I thought that they used the buses for trips during the day as well, not just transportation? Does that also make re-opening this camp challenging? Or is the actual camp property big enough that they can do camp on premise?

They do use the buses for trips during the day as well. This would be less of an issue though, since each group would be traveling on its own bus. This would allow each group to essentially operate as its own unit without having to be exposed to other groups.

To the people above complaining about how lack of transportation to camp would be a deal breaker, they might provide transportation from their stops, but each group would meet directly at the stop (as opposed to all the buses with kids from every group meeting at camp and splitting up there). So each group would have a stop assigned to it where that group would meet at the beginning of the day and return to at the end of the day. So you might have to drive to Chevy Chase if you live in DC, for example, but you wouldn’t have to drive all the way to their location.

I don’t have any reason to believe this is what they’re doing, just a thought about ideas they might be considering.

I wasn’t complaining about them stopping the bus. I specifically said that I would understand if they did that. But I also said that change would make camp completely unusable for me. And I’d be ok with that as long as I wasn’t forced to pay for it.

As for what you suggest, it just depends where the new stop is. Requiring people to go a little out of the way isn’t crazy under the circumstances, but if the stops are far - even if not as far as camp itself - that isn’t going to work for a lot of people.

[Anonymous]

They just emailed and cancelled week 1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They just emailed and cancelled week 1

If they are going to cancel, they need to just do it, instead of a week at a time. If it's not safe to do week 1, then weeks 2, 3, and 4 aren't safe either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They just emailed and cancelled week 1

If they are going to cancel, they need to just do it, instead of a week at a time. If it's not safe to do week 1, then weeks 2, 3, and 4 aren't safe either.

Disagree, and that’s not the approach they are taking—their email said they would make week-by-week decisions. Week 1 is before the end of MCPS, and one of their lighter weeks - so it makes perfect sense to me that that would be more likely to be cancelled than the following weeks.