Windwood Park Summer Camp

★★★★★SHAPTAP1

Best camp ever here right now

★★★★★Francesco Mantovani

Update 2025: much improvements comparing to 2024, so review has been moved from 3 stars to 5 stars! Well done Windwood team to have improved on counselors experience!! 2024: Interesting to see reviews that are five stars and reviews that are 1 star. We sent our son for three weeks in 2023 summer and overall I feel this is a three stars. 1) place is nice, kind of little forest, for sure this is a 5 stars. 2) counselors are kind of inexperienced. Our son lost at least 10 items (three new water bottles, some clothes, etc) and obviously it is his 6-year old fault. No doubts. But it took three weeks for someone to tell me, after speaking with several counselors every single day, walking inside the camp, that lost and founds are in two places (at the pool and at the lunch area in a black garbage bin). Better organization would be super simple and twice per week and email to all attendees with some photos of the lost and found on a table would be an easier improvement. To me this is three stars. 3) how you son will spend the day? First day my son ask me to don’t pick up him at 4 but later.. this genuinely surprise me. Spending some time visiting the place and ask approval for me to be inside, I found out that there is a big tv that kids can watch tv before activities start at 9 am and activities stops at 4 pm. Needless to say that watching tv at 8 am is the worst thing a camp could do. I don’t mind in the afternoon but please, shut this TV in the mornings!!!! I inspected with my eyes about 10 kids watching tv at 8:30 am. ONE star for this director, please make smarter choices for morning 7- 9 am activities. Young kids cannot be left to choose if they wanna watch tv or play in the play area. 4) swimming pool is cold but for me is part of the adventure. This is again a 5 stars. 5) counselors surveillance and skills (let’s don’t push to safety.. I do believe safety is well assured based on my inspections). They are inexperienced and lacks of a senior counselor, a manager that can set the right tone and train them. Kids may be bullied or bulling the other. In my case I found out that my son was not behaving well with one of his friends thanks to the parent reaching out to me (families knew each other prior it) so I did realize that counselors are not very effective. Three stars because safety is assured but education and set behavioral samples is absent IMHO. 6) fun and happiness.. well this is a 5 stars, kids really enjoy outdoor life.. maybe a 4 when it rains but luckily during summer not too much risk. In three weeks there was only one rainy day! Cost is $250 per week if bought in bulk and with early booking, then there are some offers prior June for $280-310 and during the season extending will cost $350. I do plan to sent our son back next year, 2024, as 7y old but only with a $250 per week. This camp does not worth anything above this fee in my opinion until TV is removed, a senior manager counselor is 7am-6pm on site and kids are supported more. Still sending him there because is wild and it is very true, kids have a blast, they are back super dirty and super happy. So .. not 1 star, no 5 stars but a reasonable 3 stars. So easy for the management to make this place a 5 stars? They need only one manager to set the right tone and policies and this would be the best place in Pennsylvania IMHO

★Laura Smith

Was a member here for 2 years. My kids enjoyed the pool and slide. Grounds are ok, pretty flowers. The bathrooms are disgusting. After the day campers leave for the day they are never cleaned and there is toilet paper everywhere, toilets are not flushed. I don’t believe they ever clean it during the day. Pool staff also seems uninterested and they are too lax with the teens.

★★★★★John Ehling

Yes, of course, the decor and atmosphere of this place is top-notch, of course, but the staff is really what sells it. A pool, of course, relies on those who work there. Of course you can't have a good time without lifeguards! And how they are here! They are, of course, professionals, who are incredibly kind and even quite good-looking, of course!

★★★★★Tommy McCaffrey

All I can say is, what a place. A family owned, old-school pool, Windwood is such a great pool. The water slide is great, the grounds are fantastic, and the lifeguards! Oh my they're a fine bunch! I would trust my children with their lifeguards any day of the week! So responsible and mature and, may I say, handsome!