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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community Sep 13, 2005
Pros: Our daughter did loss twenty-three pounds during her six week stay.
Cons: Unknown medical treatment, unresponsiveness, poor accounting, lack of follow through regarding activities and indifference.
Summary: My wife and I sent our 12 year old daughter to Camp Pennbrook. We are neutral on the weight loss side of the program. However, our major concern with Camp Pennbrook is its unresponsiveness to our calls and the lack of care for our daughter. Here are ... read more
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Not Yet Rated by the Epinions community
Dec 12, 2012
Pros: Great trips around New York, broadway theatre shows, concerts, healthy nice food, weight loss.
Cons: Badly run, pressure on girls to exercise beyond their capacity, school drama type atmosphere.
Summary: I spent a summer at Camp Pennbrook as a camp counsellor and it was an interesting experience but not necessarily for good reasons. I genuinely wanted to help the campers lose weight and tried my best to make the activities fun for the ... read more
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Not Yet Rated by the Epinions community
Jul 26, 2012
Pros: weight loss, great trips, nice people, okay food, zumba!
Cons: not a ton of freedom, hard work,
Summary: I spent 2 weeks the summer of 2012 at Camp Pennbrook. I found that it is is a good place. I lost 6 pounds and about an inch off my stomach and my upper leg. I liked a lot of my counselors and I made some friends. A typical schedule is waking up and ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 12, 2011
Pros: lost weight, campus is nice, sleep with whoever you want, people dont call you fat
Cons: counselors unproffesional, food sucks, tons of injuries, inappropriate conduct, trips disorganized and timed poorly
Summary: Okay I'm a real life Camp Pennbrook survivor. Yes, I just used the word SURVIVOR. I went for 3 weeks and yeah I lost 15 pounds and i had some good times but the bad by FAR is what im going to remember forever. Ever since camp ended ive ... read more
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Not Yet Rated by the Epinions community
Sep 11, 2011
Pros: Nice campus, decent food
Cons: lack of caring, lack of support, lack of respect for a girl's individuality
Summary: I was a camper at Pennbrook in 2003. Please remember that this was a long time ago. The camp was still run by Flip, though most of the other staff has changed. It was a miserable experience. The program is set up nicely, however ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 28, 2010
Pros: Weight loss. Educational. Becoming more fit. Great friendships W/ Camps/counselors. break throughs. Great dorms. Privacy.
Cons: Hard Work. High/Middle school drama (Low).
Summary: Summer of 2010 Camp Pennbrook. my first year there, i signed up for 4 weeks, but it was so amazing that i decided to extend one week more. Within the 5 weeks i lost 23lbs. made Awsome friends from all around the world. i learned how to eat healthly when ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 30, 2010
Pros: Results! Good food and enough of it, trips, privacy, all girls (good for focus)
Cons: Expensive, sometimes obnoxious townies, the occassional annoying debbie downer, all girls (bad b/c no boys)
Summary: I found out about Camp Pennbrook through an ad in Seventeen Magazine. I wasn't so sure about going at first, but I decided to go anyway and hopefully take off the 5-10 pounds I wanted to lose. I went for three weeks in '08 and two weeks in '09 as a ... read more
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Not Yet Rated by the Epinions community
Mar 8, 2010
Pros: safe comforting environment, lots of choices, realistic lifestyle
Cons: too short of a time! people want to stay for longer!
Summary: Camp Pennbrook was one of the best decisions of my life. I am from Texas so my mother was apprehensive about sending her 9 year old daughter to the camp in Pennsylvania (now located in Pennington, New Jersey). But I went and had a wonderful time. That ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 3, 2010
Pros: Make life long friends, learn to better yourself, make loads of memories, weight lose!
Cons: Pricey but worth the money.
Summary: I love Camp Pennbrook. I have gone for two years and plan to go for my third summer. At first my mom was skeptical about sending me but now she is glad to have spent the money. My first year at camp I stayed only 4 weeks but I learned to come ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 14, 2009
Pros: NONE
Cons: unsympathetic,rude,processed food, expects too much, awful classes.
Summary: I attended this camp when I was 16, (now am 20) and it was awful. The staff was unhelpful i was NOT allowed to call home, Flip treated me like a child (told me i HAD to work out and to stop crying or else I would not be allowed to call home) I had to RUN ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 6, 2008
Pros: Can be a terrific tool to jump start a diet/fitness program for your Daughter.
Cons: Pennbrook/Flip has limitations.Needs to get creative in order to offer a sustainable, quality program.
Summary: This program is simply a tool for beginning to address weight management issues, if your daughter is self-motivated then Camp Pennbrook will jump start diet/fitness regime.My daughter was very motivated to lose weight. But let me back up here, you have ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 4, 2008
Pros: please don't send your girls here.
Cons: everything.
Summary: The counselors at this camp have no experience and barely any training at all. They arrive two days before the campers and are given lectures on what to do. When it comes down to it, they do not know how to deal with the complex emotions and troubles of ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 3, 2008
Pros: great weightloss, great atmosphere, friendly environment, great dorms, never hungry, and great organized trips!
Cons: Well from the DEB P.O.V: there is nothing I can complain about. WooooooT!
Summary: I absolutely LOVE this camp, and this isn't a lie. I have been a camper in summer 2003 and 2004 as a DEB for 8 weeks each and had such a great time. I had lost 30 lbs each time i went there, but currently gained some back due to College :P (be careful ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 21, 2008
Pros: Food program, trips, activities offered
Cons: The occasional unmotivated camper
Summary: This review is coming from someone who has been a camper and a staff member at Camp Pennbrook for a number of years. No, I was not told by anyone to write this. What prompted me was some of the crazy reviews I have read and I thought that potential ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 23, 2007
Pros: Trips, food and weight loss
Cons: Staff at times, the other campers.
Summary: I was a camper and a part of the staff for two years. I would give it mixed reviews because there is a lot of good stuff about it but there is also a lot that did not make me happy. When I was a camper I was 18 and there for all eight weeks. The first ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 12, 2007
Pros: There is a Wall Mart Nearby. This is all I can say.
Cons: When sending your child to camp, do all you can to review them!
Summary: My daughter attended this camp in July-Aug of 2007. As far as status on her weight loss, she has kept off, 17 of the 20 lbs lost. I feel like a complete fool for paying someone nearly $6,000 dollars so that my daughter would experience what it feels like ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 31, 2006
Pros: My daughter said the staff often snuck food for campers or themselves!!!
Cons: Please read my review if you would like to hear my story!
Summary: Well I decided to write my little ol' review after speaking with my daughter during a recent mother daughter road trip we took last weekend. I sent her to this camp not wanting to in the first place. I am a mom and I trust my instincts, from my first ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 19, 2006
Pros: none.
Cons: TOO MANY TO LIST.
Summary: The children are not starved, but they are mistreated. What you don't want to know is that the climate of this camp is deplorable. It is an elitist, classist society wherein skinnier campers malign and humiliate the heavier campers on a daily basis. My ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 11, 2005
Pros: FUN, GREAT TRIPS, SUCCESSFUL WEIGHT LOSS & EXERCISE PROGRAM
Cons: FLIP, THE DIRECTOR, IS ALWAYS ON HIS CELL PHONE!
Summary: My 13 year old daughter attended Camp Pennbrook for the entire 8 week session, cost approx. $6400 (in line with other camps) plus trips. The girls were grouped by age and lived in dorms, 2 to a room. The campus of the Perkiomen School (outside of ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 15, 2004
Pros: Great friends who understand, gain healthier lifestyle,
increase self-confidence and self-belief.
Cons: Hard work (but very worth it!)
Only lasts for 2 months
Summary: I have spent the last 4 summers at camp pennbrook as a general counsellor and group leader and honestly they have been the best summers ever. Im not saying they were easy by any means, but they have been life changing. The difference we see in the ... read more
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