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Apparently this company is in the business of deleting reviews that don't fit their agenda. I have been contacted multiple times by my previous employer to take down this review, which I refused, and then woke up to it being removed by google for "omission/misrepresenting" which I can assure you I have little reason to. I have no doubt that they have attempted to coerce their (Very) young employees before to not speak out, and have deleted negative google reviews in the same fashion. Unlike them, I think it is the ethical and moral responsibility as me, an ex-employee, to tell parents the truth. Here it is, again, and I'm sure it will be taken down, and it will be right here, again. Worked here as a camp counsellor for their new camp in Konstanz -- and let me be clear, the people who run this company do not care about children. Reality versus what was promised: PROMISED: Lunch, full paid for (you should think so, considering the price) meals. REALITY: These children were told to pack a lunch from a meagre breakfast spread. These kids are doing extremely straining exercise from day to night, and most of them either forgot or didn't like the lunches they'd pack themselves, so they wouldn't eat, and end up getting heat stroke or sick.When we told management this, they simply said "We don't want to spend the money"... despite the fact that parents are paying 900 euros for their kid. ---> Eventually we pressured them and they promised us that we could buy these kids 2 pizza lunches per week. We bought them one pizza lunch (which was not nearly enough for 27 children, only 9 medium pizzas) and management refused to buy another one, and also didn't let kids go on an expedition (more on that later) because they had "Spent too much money" (on only one lunch, despite it being something that was guaranteed?) PROMISED: Proper, comfortable accomodation. REALITY: Management wanted to cram 6 children into a 4 person bedroom simply to save money on buying more rooms for already overbooked programs. One child slept on the floor with only a mattress, no bed frame. Hostel we were staying at had terrible bug problems. Children were finding cockroaches and bug infestations in their rooms. Hostel essentially pretended these problems weren't there. Hostel staff was also very cruel to children, shouting at them and some kids would come up to us crying about them. Classrooms were barely stocked properly with little to no equipment. When we told management this, they simply said "we want to keep this hostel because the location is nice" with little care for the under prepared, under stocked hostel. They want to stay despite accomodation being so poor in order to appeal to German parents, not give a good experience to these kids. PROMISED: Fun activities including Minau trip, laser maze, and that it was a BIKE CAMP. REALITY: •⁠ ⁠Management said Mainau was too expensive, despite it being promised. No children went to Mainau. •⁠ ⁠Management, when parents complained, simply said: "Activities change depending on the season" (As if visiting an island is a winter activity) to justify to parents why we weren't letting their kids go. •⁠ ⁠Kids had the bikes for three days, in which these would be short 15 minute rides (and then terrible uphill 45 minute ones) to a lake. Not exactly the expeditions they describe. Overall, all the activites that kids were allowed to do were absolutely free apart from one stand-up paddling session. Everything else is something you could do for your kids: swimming at the beach, going round a city, (these were literally the only activities for them, because, again, management did not want us spending money on them) Konstanz was a new camp, but management was completely stubborn and unwilling to give these kids a nice experience. We were actually told by our manager to not contact the CEO while starting up this new camp because she was on a 'girls' trip' and did not want to be disturbed. I'd recommend not working for this company, nor sending your children to them.