Funside Balaton international camp 2022
Registration began at midday, on Wednesday, March 2nd (GMT+1)
To see what places are still available, please click here.
Funside Balaton turns 12 years old in 2022, and we are bringing you all sorts of new stuff this summer: we have 3 brand new classes and one of our previous favorites is returning. This brings our total to 25 different subjects for you to choose from (you may select two for each week), which is still the widest selection in the region! Many of our beloved afternoon and evening activities will be updated and we are also bringing you as many as 12 brand new activities to try this summer, as well as new weekly themes and our second Campers' Choice Week. 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 3 to August 6, 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! Check out the Top 10 countries represented at the camp here. Check out our Facebook reviews from parents and campers here.
Registration
Registration is available through our online sign-up form while places last. To check which class is already full or still available, please refer to the sign-up form. (The see the list of classes on the form, you must first fill in the date of birth.)
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
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
25 different subjects
Funside Balaton offers the widest selection of classes in the region, available at a single location
Summer camps 2022
You may choose up to two different classes for each week from the ones below. Learn more...
Language Camps
Sports Camps
Water sports
Fine Arts & Performing Arts
IT & Tech Camps
Roblox Studio
Camp Schedule and Activities
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 25 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
Russia
USA
Italy
Turkey
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).

Free time games and activities
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
2019 was Year of the Environment at Funside Balaton, and as in 2020, we are picking up in 2021 where we left off!
Being environmentally friendly remains a priority at camp, as we must try and preserve the world our campers live in. In 2019 we stopped using balloons, disposable plastic cups and straws, and we introduced recycling and began using renewable energy thanks to the solar panels installed at the camp venue. We digitized our placements tests to save hundreds of pages of printing, and in 2020 we digitized some of the camp administration to save even more.
You can get involved too!
We would love to hear your ideas on how to make the camp greener: share them with us via Messenger or Instagram, or in person at the camp. We will collect all ideas that are feasible to be implemented and make a considerable difference in our environmental impact, and will also pick a winner with the most outstanding idea, who will get to pick a prize of their liking from the 2021 Funside Shop!
Venue

What our campers and their parents say
View on FacebookThe best camp ever! Nice people (Antal is the best) and cool activities!
View on FacebookIt was the best camp with the best person. Beautiful memories. Next year again
View on FacebookFive years of the best summer memories
View on FacebookThe Best camp ever!!!, was very nice, had a nice leader, all teachers were the best.I found many nice new friends and nice activities! I happy to be there any time!!
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View on FacebookMy daughter was first time at the camp being 8 years old, she enjoyed it so much that each time we called her, she was super happy and always in a hurry to return to her little friends :-)
We have two professional photographers on site at all times, taking pictures of all activities. At the end of each week, we assemble around 1000 to 1500 of the best photos, which are available to purchase for all campers. Photos for a short camp cost EUR 11, then EUR 8 for any additional week.
Watch our videos from previous years
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