Camp Shane

Pros: Truly geared to weight loss! Great source of friends sharing common goals and issues.
Cons: If you are out-of-state, transportation costs are a fairly large addition to the fees.

My son & daughter have both attended Camp Shane. My son, whose weight reached 280 pounds at age 15, attended for 4 weeks in 2001 and 3 weeks in 2002. In 2002, he was joined by my daughter (age 13) who was probably 30 pounds too heavy. She was motivated ...

Pros: amazing people, unbelievable results and an overall life changing experience
Cons: going home at the end of the summer

My decision to attend Camp Shane for the summer of 2005 was possibly the best choice I’ve ever made in my life. When I left for camp, my goal was to try to lose thirty pounds in nine weeks, and hopefully survive the summer by making a friend or two ...

Pros: Your Child will have the time of his/hers life.
Cons: They wont want camp to end!!!

I was both a camper and counselor at Shane for many years. Some of my closest friends today I met in camp. I recently got married, and my maid of honor and 3 bridesmaids were friends made at camp over 15 years ago. We are still all a very tight nitch ...

Pros: WEIGHT LOSS,GREAT FRIENDS,FUN ACTIVITIES,AND GREAT STAFF
Cons: EARLY WAKE UP,NEVER WAS A MORNING PERSON

MY NAME IS GENNA AND I HAVE ATTENDED CAMP SHANE FOR 5 YEARS, 4 AS A CAMPER, AND 1 AS A COUNSELOR, AND I EXCITED TO SAY I WILL RETURN TO CAMP FOR SUMMER OF 05'. MY EXPERIENCE AS A CAMPER WAS VERY DIFFERENT FROM MY EXPERIENCE AS A COUNSELOR. EVER SINCE ...

Pros: new friends, great support system, caring counselors, lots of encouragement, tons of fun!
Cons: the food and need more ACCURATE facility pictures.

As a staff member this past summer of 2007, I can honestly say that Camp Shane has inspired me and changed me in a way I cannot describe. It is this fun filled, worry free place, dedicated completely to helping children to young adults lose weight. When ...

Pros: Amazing weight loss, lasting friendships
Cons: Only available for the summer

Anyone considering a summer at Shane has already taken the first step toward a fun and beneficial summer. I have spent a total of three summers at Camp Shane and have had nothing but positive experiences. I was a camper for two consecutive summers, when ...

Pros: amazing!
Cons: absolutely nothing.

Camp Shane was definitely an experience I will never forget, and cannot wait to re-live this summer. At the beginning, it was a bumpy ride. I missed home, and I was afraid I wasn’t going to lose any weight. My self-confidence was extremely low, and I ...

Pros: great friends, life long memories, lots of weight loss, love and care for everyone
Cons: NOTHING!

Going to Camp Shane changed my life. Hi my name is Mackenzie and I am fourteen years old. I can't even explain how much I love Camp Shane. I am going back for my fourth year, and I am so excited it's unbelievable. Camp Shane has been such a great ...

Pros: Friends, weight loss, physical fittness, learning to stick with it even when things weren't perfect.
Cons: Not enough activities for age group, inappropriate entertainment, staff turnovers, not run efficiently, laundry facilities.

This camp is really best for teenagers. The activties are geared to that level and the entertainment is not interesting to kids younger than 13. It was our understanding that the children would be able to take part in all kinds of activities. However, ...

Pros: lasting nutritional skills,friendships ,FUN ,weight loss
Cons: I had NONE.

Recently my son, a third year psychology major at the university came to me concerned with his weight gain during his college years. I saw that he was not as self confident as he used to be, I saw a change in his attitude and the way he carried himself. ...

Pros: Your child will lose weight
Cons: Filthy facilities; non-nutritious meals; mismanaged staff; lake "drive" not lake "front

Camp Shane is like Camp Green Lake in the book "Holes". It's not what it's cracked up to be! The facilities are disgusting and border on unsafe and unhealthy. The beautiful, pristine "lake" they show you in brochures and on the website they neglect to ...

Pros: Guaranteed success, great friendships made, lifestyle changes instilled, caring counselors, reasonable price
Cons: Food could be better, Catholic Mass is only church option for Christian campers

Our daughter went to Camp Shane in the summer of 2005 for 8 weeks and it was a wonderful experience for her. Truly, it was a life-changing summer in a number of ways. Our daughter lost over 20 pounds at camp, a weight loss which she has since ...

Pros: portion controlled diet, large selection of activites, caring staff, nutrition classes
Cons: end of Camp when the fun stops

I attended Camp Shane in the summer of 2005 as a sports specialist and counsellor, and I have to admit I had the best summer of my life. It was hard work but it was all worth it to see the look on the kids faces as they made friends, had fun playing ...

Pros: Your child will loss weight
Cons: Expensive, HORRIBLE COMMUNICATION, not a happy enviorment, lake is 20-30 min away by van.

My child went to Camp "Shame on David Ettenberg' in the summer 2005..we were VERY careful (we thought) about researching the camp..even went to meet David and his staff and tour camp. While the camp is big, it is aged, dated and no very impressive....but ...

Pros: You make some of the greatest friends and you look AMAZING when you leave!
Cons: Only 5 min. phone calls and the line is huge! Mail takes awhile also

I went to Camp Shane this past summer. Coming from a shaner prospective Camp Shane for the most part is a pretty good place. I mean...at first I could belive my parents wanted to send me to a "fat camp." But when it got closer and closer I got more ...