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[quote=Anonymous]Our kids (6-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter) spent a week at Steve and Kate's at GDS, and they loved it.

We have a fantastic nanny, but her week of vacation meant that we needed to find a camp for the week, so we opted for Steve and Kate's. (Honestly, it would have been cheaper to go with Steve and Kate's for the whole summer, especially given the amount of food that we don't have to buy for lunches and snacks.)

Our kids didn't seem have any trouble with the lack of structure - there are adults everywhere, so if they needed ideas, someone was always available to direct them to the water slide, bread-baking room, dance studio, sewing room, movie making booths, etc. In fact, they seemed to enjoy the self-directed learning (but they've gone through Montessori schools, so perhaps that helps).

A couple of other things I really appreciated about the camp as a parent:
-Our son is dairy- and gluten-free. While this is often very difficult at kids' events - pizza, ice cream, and almost everything fun is out - Steve and Kate's has gluten- and dairy-free options at every meal. He simply got a sticker on his wrist band and ate away.
-The hours are great. My husband and I could drop them off at 7:30 and pick them up at 6:00 after a full day of work - there was no need to truncate our work hours to make sure we would be on time.
-Registration couldn't have been easier. They even made sure we knew that the other local location (in Virginia) required some specific proof of immunization certificates so we didn't opt for that location if we didn't have those at the ready.
-We didn't need reservations, so once we had registered we could simply show up. I can't overstate how valuable that is on days when something goes wrong and we need last-minute childcare support.
-The teachers knew our kids' names (right off the bat) and kept in constant contact with us. When our son left his pet turtle, they happily put it aside for us, and they frequently emailed us to make sure the kids were having a good time and see if there was anything they could do better.
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