Quinipet Camp & Retreat Center

★★★★★Lauren

What a great camp! I highly recommend their day camp program (only because my child is not of overnight age yet). All interactions with staff were amazing and made me and my camper feel very comfortable. My child is a very picky eater and came home everyday talking about how good the food was! (Thank you Quinipet for that!) Can't say enough good about this camp, and my daughter looks forward to attending next summer :)

★Sarah Khan

Unfortunately, my daughter did not have a good experience at Quinipet Sleepaway camp. From her feedback, I think the biggest problem lies with the counselors. They were cold, not engaging, short tempered, lacked empathy and overall did not seem interested in caring and hanging out with children. We did not even get to meet any of them when we dropped her off for the week which I found very strange. She was feeling homesick and instead of helping her or distracting her with an activity, they rolled their eyes at her and walked away. They even threatened her to stop crying. She was asking to call me and they wouldn’t let her. I was also overall unimpressed with the quality of activities offered. She said most of the time they were just given beads or lanyards to do bracelet making. She did not participate in the sailing lessons so I can’t comment on that. She said the food was not great overall. And she felt very stressed the way they run showers in the evening. Each child only gets 3 minutes to take a shower and brush their teeth and they stuck to this even if you weren’t finished. This was her first Sleepaway experience. Not the experience that we had hoped for. There was absolutely no contact over the week. No phone calls. No updates. No pictures. I was able to express my concerns with the director, Brooke and the associate director Shauna. They seemed to listen to my feedback and assured me that they would make changes to their program based on my feedback. I hope this is the case for children in the future.

★Alex Anwander

Very bad camp. We were timed in shower and if we took longer than 4 minutes in the bathroom (brush teeth, do hair, shower, go to bathroom, change) they would bang on door repeatedly screaming we come out. I was unable to ever wash my hair because I needed time to brush my hair and teeth and use the bathroom. We couldn’t use bathroom during the night because the counselors needed it. Also, we had chores to do such as taking out the trash and they wanted us to wash the toilet. My friend, with asthma, was denied using her inhaler when she needed it. They said that she was able to wait 10 minutes for breakfast to use it. The food was good but we were forced to eat everything on our plate and we only had a small amount of time. Counselors were also awake on their phones at midnight while we were trying to sleep. Counselors were also very careless and did not notice the 4 kids crying. Also, denied communication between kids and their parents. My friend was crying and they did not let her call her mom. This camp prides itself on the fact that it is near the shore but we were only given an hour on the beach each day. Me and my friends went home early, and the counselors gave us dirty looks of disapproval. Going back to the inhaler incident with my friends, the counselors with us barely spoke English and did not the urgency of asthma and the use of an inhaler.

★★★★★Megan Curren Schmidt

Our daughter attended Quinipet for many years, both in Day and Overnight Camp. The location, staff and activities were top-notch. Talk about solid core memories! Thank you Quinipet!

★Pamela Frohboese McDill

My daughters went to Camp Quinipet for years with both prior management and the new management. We LOVED the old Camp Quinipet, the old staff, the old programming, and the old prices. The price of attending has now jumped to $800 while the quality of programs has diminished. Sadly, new management fired most of the old counselors and replaced them with indentured servants from Europe; their unhappiness shows. The quality of the food has suffered under new management and my older daughter who previously did all three levels of Sailing Camp was looking forward to SHA (Senior High Assembly). There was a lot of just sitting around in the grass and making bracelets. Beware- with the new elective system, your child will not have the cohesive experience of going through the day with their bunk mates in the cabin. Past years, children were grouped in cabins according to not only age but interest. So, the water sports kids bunked together, had meals together, played together. Now, with the electives, kids will scatter according to whatever electives they signed up for and not develop the deep friendships that happen in traditional camp experiences where you eat, sleep, and hang out together continuously for a week straight. And, with new management there will be more of an integration of the day campers into the overnight camper programming, not cool. New management also did away with staff getting older campers to the ferry, a pain and an added expense for out of state campers like my family from Ct. I gave it one star because it is a beautiful location. Look elsewhere as it is not the camp that it used to be.