Funside Balaton international camp 2023
4 new classes and 12 new activities this year!
Funside Balaton turns 13 years old in 2023, and we are bringing you all sorts of new stuff this summer, including 4 new classes, 4 brand new weekly themes and 12 new activities! We are preparing 26 different classes for you to choose from (you may select two for each week), which is still the widest selection in the region. Our overnight summer camp is for kids and teens of ages 8 to 17, welcoming local children, as well as campers from close to 30 different countries. This year's sessions go from July 2 to August 5, at our usual Lake Balaton venue in Hungary.
At Funside, we are proud of having a young and well-prepared team of camp leaders, carefully chosen and trained in order for us to provide the best camp experience to our campers, also underlined by our exceptional 5 to 1 kids to adults ratio at camp. Funside Balaton is a bilingual camp, with English and Hungarian both being official languages, while all our staff, including local camp leaders, speak English as well. Our camp is open to any children meeting our age requirements and language requirements, just choose from our long selection of classes below to get started! You may share the same room with your friends, if you request it on your sign-up form and meet the criteria. Check out the Top 10 countries represented at the camp here. Check out our Facebook reviews from parents and campers here.
Update: registration has begun and places are limited. Follow this page to see which sessions and classes are still available.
Our camp has a minimum age limit of 8* and a maximum age limit of 17 (that is until you have turned 17). Some of our classes have stricter age limits, so please be sure to check the table below for information before signing up.
* Regarding the lower age limit: a child is eligible to attend the overnight camp if he or she is finishing the 1st grade or higher of elementary/lower school in the spring semester before the camp. The overnight camp cannot be attended in a day camp form.
Why Funside Balaton?
International Camp
Funside Balaton is Hungary’s largest international summer camp with over 25 countries represented each year.
26 different subjects
Funside Balaton offers the widest selection of classes in the region, available at a single location!
Unique Activities
We offer a rich selection of afternoon and evening free time activities, including new games designed by us every year
Team Spirit
Our staff is carefully selected from a large pool of candidates to ensure the best camp experience
Over a decade of Funside
We are proud to have had close to 10 000 campers in over 150 camp sessions since 2007
Summer camps 2023
You can choose up to two of the following classes per week!
Language Camps
Sports Camps
Fine Arts & Performing Arts
IT & Tech Camps
Camp Schedule and Activities
In 2023, we’re looking forward to welcoming our campers with 4 brand new weekly themes (and the already announced Campers’ Choice week) and 12 new afternoon and evening activities! Every day from Saturday, March 11, for 5 days we will unveil a new weekly theme and its detailed programme each dqy on our Facebook page! After that, you will also find all the important information about the new themes and programmes on this page!
Sessions start on Sundays and end on Saturdays. When staying for multiple weeks, your stay also includes the Saturday nights between the sessions. Learn more…
Camp Schedule
Classes are held Monday through Fridays, from 8.30 to 10.30 am and from 11 am to 1 pm. This is true for all the Funside Balaton camps. For example: if you pick the Funside Balaton English Camp, then you will have English classes for all of these hours (that is four hours a day, which is 20 classes a week in total). If you choose a camp combination, such as English and Dance, then for instance you will have English from 8.30 to 10.30 am every day (10 classes a week in total) and Dance from 11 am to 1 pm (also 10 classes a week in total). You can choose up to two new classes every week.
If your travel arrangements make it necessary, you may stay an extra night before or after your sessions. The cost of the extra night (with three meals included) is 52 Euros per person.
What are the official languages of the camp?
Our camp is fully bilingual, with English and Hungarian both being the official languages. This has two implications: first, all programs and activities are simultaneously presented in English, as well as the local language. Second, children must have at least a basic level (A2 or lower-intermediate) of spoken English (or Hungarian) to attend our camps, in order to be able to communicate with our staff.
About the classes:
During language classes, teachers speak the target language, so for instance the teachers speak only English during an English lesson and only German during a German lesson. The other classes are bilingual, so for example during a tennis lesson the same coach will give instructions to students in both English and Hungarian. There is one exception: our Media Camp, which is currently only available in Hungarian.
The afternoon and evening activities are the same for all of our campers, regardless of which classes they choose for the mornings. For example, if you are attending the combination of English and Dance Camps, and you have a friend who is attending the Music Camp, you will still see each other at the afternoon and evening programs and may even share the same room if you request it on your sign-up form and meet the criteria to share a room.
Countries
In previous years an average of 25 to 30 countries were represented at the camp.
These were the Top 10 countries by attendance in the past two years:
Hungary
Slovakia
Austria
Germany
Belgium
UK
USA
Italy
Turkey
France
See the full list of countries on a map here.
Rooms
Children are assigned to rooms based on gender and age: only kids of the same gender and age may share the same room, with a maximum age difference of 2 years allowed within the same room (for example, 10 to 12 year-old boys within the same room).
This means that there is a room for 8-9 year-old girls, another room for 8-9 year-old boys, another one for 10-11 year-old girls and so on, all the way up to 16-17 year-olds. If you would like to share a room with your friends or siblings who are also coming to the camp, please put in their names in the corresponding section of the sign-up form. If your request meets the above criteria, then we will do our best to assign you to the same room, as requested (we have 2 to 6 bed bedrooms).
Week 1 schedule (July 2-8, 2023)

Theme of the week :
Gods and Mortals

Activities

Air Park

Wall Street Trade-off

Amazing race

Night Adventure
Week 2 schedule (July 9-15, 2023)

Theme of the week :
Color War (Campers' Choice winner 2023)

Activities

Wibit Water adventure park

Beat that!

Dodgeball Championship

The Chase
Week 3 schedule (July 16-22, 2023)

Theme of the week :
Funside World Tour

Activities

Live Cluedo

20 second showdown

Amazing race

Bobo Fun Park
Week 4 schedule (July 23-29, 2023)

Theme of the week :
THE JUNGLE!

Activities

Night Adventure

The Chase

Ninja Warrior

Jumanji
Week 5 schedule (July 30 - August 5, 2023)

Theme of the week :
Christmas in July

Activities

Christmas Day

Air Park

20 second showdown

Race to save Christmas
Free time games and activities

Bobo Fun Park
Trampoline parks, climbing walls, adventure park! Bobo Fun Park has it all in one place in a 3000 m2 facility.

Air Park
Inflated obstacles and sports games on 600 square meters on the Week 1 and 5!

Wibit Water adventure park
Let loose on the gigantic inflatable obstacle course on the lake!

Amazing race
Push your limits, take the adventure and find out what team power can do!

Bingo Lingo
Fun challenges, surprises and lots of BINGOOO await you!

Jumanji
The world of Jumanji has many surprises. Remember, you can only get out if you work together!

Wall Street Trade-off
Play and trade with your friends on the Wall Street of Balatongyörök!

Beach Party
Music, sunshine, waves, good vibes and games. An unforgettable afternoon at Lake Balaton!

Night Adventure
Get ready for an unforgettable evening adventure where you’ll have to work as a team to face different challenges!

The Chase
Logic, creativity, strength, speed and fun – you’ll need them all at the Chase!

Live Cluedo
Who, what and where? The answer is in your hands!

Trivia night
Who knows the answers faster?

Dodgeball Championship
For the first time at Funside, a real big dodgeball championship. Fight to the last minute!

20 second showdown
Unforgettable mindlessness for an evening!

Race to save Christmas
Let the Christmas bells ring, put your Santa hats on, it’s the Race to Save Christmas!

Beat that!
Jump, roll, balance and catapult to victory!

Neon night
Light-up games, neon lights and lots of fun await you this evening!

Christmas Day
For the first time in Funside’s history, we’re getting in the mood for the holidays together!

Camp Opening Ceremony
Our traditional camp opening kicks off every session!

Teen Disco
Our open-air teen disco is a camp classic

Lake Balaton
Central Europe’s largest lake is just around the corner

And many more…
There are different weekly themes and activities in each session!
Every weekly session features different free time activities: see the tables above for the detailed schedules. Funside reserves the rights to change any programs or schedules when necessary.
The environmentally conscious camp program
Environmental awareness is an important mission again this year, as we need to ensure that our campers can continue to enjoy the natural world unchanged in the future. Years ago, we got rid of single-use plastic items (like balloons, straws and disposable cups), introduced selective waste collection, ran partly on renewable energy thanks to the site’s solar panels and digitised our language assessment, saving us hundreds of pages of printing! After that, it was the turn of the camp administration: we digitised more processes, saving even more printing – but that’s not all!
We’re counting on you!
This year, we welcome ideas from our campers either on our Messenger or Instagram, channels, or in person during the camp! We’ll choose the best ideas that we can actually implement at camp and that make a tangible contribution to the sustainability of the camp, and we’ll award a prize!
Location
How to get there
The Funside Balaton international camps are held in Balatongyörök, 10 km from Keszthely. The camp is only 100 metres from the beach, so both Lake Balaton and the sports fields are easily and conveniently accessible.
Address
Funside Balaton,
8313 Balatöngyörök ,
Szépkilátó hrsz. 707/1.
By car
After the Balatongyörök Szépkilátó (signposted), turn right at the first opportunity. Continue for about 50 meters and you will see our team members helping you to drive to the camp.
By bus from Budapest, with Funside group
Campers have the option to travel in a group, supervised by our teachers, from Budapest to the camp venue and back, by bus.
By train
If you are travelling by train individually, we can arrange to pick you up at the 'Becehegy' station between 11 am and 2 pm on the first day of your stay. Please notify us of your arrangements at least two weeks in advance.
By plane
If you are travelling to the camp by plane, please let us know about your flight details as soon as possible, so that we can help by arranging airport transfers to the camp.
Watch our videos from previous years
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