YMCA Camp Moody

ATX Reviewer

Summer camp review here as well. As we all know it was a miserably hot summer, but they still seemed unprepared near the end of it. Pool has been “broken” and unusable for camp since early July. My kiddo reports they play in the warm hose/sprinklers instead as well as blow up slides with warmish water. He also reports that by midday that the water available for campers is not cold and is even warm at times. It’s scary to hear these things from your kid in this extreme heat and think that possibly the Y wasn’t doing absolutely everything to ensure everyone stayed cool during the long days outside. I know the environment is out of our control, but it sounds like maybe they weren’t fully managing things within their control to mitigate risk and heat related injuries.

E M

This review is for the kids' summer camp, summer of 2022 during a week where the high temps were over 100. This was an unfortunate situation. My 9yo son got heat exhaustion on the first day, and when he twice asked his counselor for help (using that term, which he understands: "I think I'm getting heat exhaustion") in both cases he was told to wait until the next activity where he might cool off a little. By the time he was picked up he was drowsy and half asleep, and for the next 24 hours he was ill. That night, per his pediatric nurse, his pulse rate and temperature were high enough that he was borderline for requiring a visit to the ER. The camp director was prompt in offering a refund, and she was apologetic and polite. To be fair, it's an easy mistake to make when dealing with lots of kids in the heat, and plenty of other kids didn't have this problem that day. Also, the camp looked like a lot of fun, and the facility is beautiful. However, my conversation with the director didn't instill confidence in the training of counselors or the response that would be made to this instance. There was nothing that sounded like, "oh, that's not consistent with the training everyone received, I will revisit that at the next counselor meeting." It sounded more like "I'm so sorry that happened" and "to be fair, he didn't ask for help again after the second time." So I'm not going back and I can't recommend it. But if your child doesn't run hot, or if you can figure out a way to book in better weather, it's a beautiful facility and a good-looking program.

Tim McCurry

Nothing but rude people in my experience here

Juan H

Great location as it is being built up. Boyscouts troop 3377 have swam and camped out at this location. 👍 up.