How reviews work
The short version: anyone aged 13 or over who went to a camp can review it, we read every review before it's published, and every review shows what we checked about the person who wrote it.
What the labels mean
We personally know the reviewer went to that camp.
The reviewer sent us their booking confirmation.
The reviewer showed us photos from that camp and summer.
We couldn't check. The review is still published, with this label on it.
A reviewer chooses how they'd like to be verified. We only apply a "verified" label after we've done the check ourselves.
Who can write a review
- Anyone aged 13 or over who attended the camp, in any year.
- If you're 16 or older, you can post on your own.
- If you're 13 to 15, we email your parent or guardian first. Your review is published only if they agree.
- Parents can review a camp their child attended. They should say so in the review.
- One review per person, per camp, per summer.
- Camp staff and owners can't review their own camp.
What we publish
We publish positive and negative reviews alike. We don't change scores, and we fix nothing in the text except removing a surname or contact detail.
What we don't publish
- Reviews that name or identify an individual, whether staff or camper. "The sailing instructors were impatient" is fine; a name is not.
- Insults, hate speech, or anything about another person's private life.
- Reviews we believe are fake, paid for, or written by the camp or a competitor.
- Reviews with no real content.
If a review describes someone being harmed
A review that describes abuse, a crime, or someone being in danger is not published as a review. We write back to the reviewer, and to their parent if they're under 18, with information on where to report it. If someone appears to be at risk now, we may pass the information to the relevant authorities.
Replies from camps
A camp that has claimed its page can reply to any review. The reply appears under the review and is labelled as coming from the camp. Camps can't edit or delete reviews, and can't pay to change what is shown.
Scores
A camp's score is the plain average of its published reviews, from 1 (bad) to 5 (loved it). A camp with no reviews has no score.
Changing or removing your review
Email luca@summercampadvisor.com from the address you used and we'll edit or delete it. A parent can ask us to delete their child's review at any time.
Reporting a review
If you think a review breaks these rules, email us the camp name and the reviewer's first name, and say what's wrong. We look at every report.
Last updated October 2026.