Some kids are ready for a week away before their parents are. These camps keep them overnight, from lake and forest camps outside the city in summer to ski trips in the mountains in winter, with counselors on hand from breakfast to lights-out. Compare ages, dates, languages and prices side by side before you book that first trip away from home.
An overnight winter camp on the Peetzsee lake in Grünheide, east of Berlin. With snow, kids try for an igloo, build snowmen, have snowball fights and slide on ice runs. Without it, there are treasure hunts, den building, archery and a forest rally. Evenings bring campfires with marshmallows, a torchlit stargazing walk, movie nights and games. Kids sleep in 2- to 6-bed rooms in the main house.
A Berlin sports club's ski and snowboard trip to Zell am See, Austria. Kids travel down by coach, then spend six full days in lessons with the club's DSV-certified ski school, from first turns on the practice slope to gates, moguls and the Kitzsteinhorn snow park. Evenings are at the youth hotel, with a climbing wall, trampolines and sports halls. Lessons are led in German.
Week-long ski and snowboard trips for teens traveling without their parents, timed to the Berlin and Brandenburg winter break. Kids ride a coach from Berlin to the Austrian Alps, ski in groups sorted by level on most mornings, and spend evenings with Hoefer team leaders over foosball and ping pong. Suits teens who already ski: complete beginners usually go to a local ski school instead.
A week of snow in Austria's Lungau region with Wildfang, a Berlin youth travel nonprofit. Beginners get a basic ski course, and the rest of the time goes to sledding, snowball fights and evening rounds of Werewolf. The group stays in a guesthouse outside Mariapfarr with a bouldering room, table tennis and foosball, and kids help choose each day's plan. Suits first-time skiers ready for a week away.
Some kids are ready for a week away before their parents are. These camps keep them overnight, from lake and forest camps outside the city in summer to ski trips in the mountains in winter, with counselors on hand from breakfast to lights-out. Compare ages, dates, languages and prices side by side before you book that first trip away from home.
An overnight winter camp on the Peetzsee lake in Grünheide, east of Berlin. With snow, kids try for an igloo, build snowmen, have snowball fights and slide on ice runs. Without it, there are treasure hunts, den building, archery and a forest rally. Evenings bring campfires with marshmallows, a torchlit stargazing walk, movie nights and games. Kids sleep in 2- to 6-bed rooms in the main house.
A Berlin sports club's ski and snowboard trip to Zell am See, Austria. Kids travel down by coach, then spend six full days in lessons with the club's DSV-certified ski school, from first turns on the practice slope to gates, moguls and the Kitzsteinhorn snow park. Evenings are at the youth hotel, with a climbing wall, trampolines and sports halls. Lessons are led in German.
Week-long ski and snowboard trips for teens traveling without their parents, timed to the Berlin and Brandenburg winter break. Kids ride a coach from Berlin to the Austrian Alps, ski in groups sorted by level on most mornings, and spend evenings with Hoefer team leaders over foosball and ping pong. Suits teens who already ski: complete beginners usually go to a local ski school instead.
A week of snow in Austria's Lungau region with Wildfang, a Berlin youth travel nonprofit. Beginners get a basic ski course, and the rest of the time goes to sledding, snowball fights and evening rounds of Werewolf. The group stays in a guesthouse outside Mariapfarr with a bouldering room, table tennis and foosball, and kids help choose each day's plan. Suits first-time skiers ready for a week away.
