Some kids are ready to sleep away from home before their parents are. Every camp on this list keeps them overnight, with counselors on hand from breakfast to lights-out, so it's a real step toward independence. We gathered them in one place so you can compare ages, dates and prices side by side before booking that first trip away from home.
Field hockey camps run by HLC Rot-Weiß München at its own club grounds beside the Westpark. The youngest get short day camps of games and first stick skills, while older groups stay over for a few days of training on the club's floodlit artificial pitch.
Club players train alongside kids trying hockey for the first time, so no experience is needed.
A week-long tent camp on a meadow by Lake Starnberg, south of Munich. Kids paddle inflatable boats and kayaks with the Alpine foothills in view, build and test their own raft, follow compass trails and end the day with night hikes and campfires. Small groups cook their own meals and plan activities together. It suits outdoorsy kids happy to sleep in a tent; the program runs rain or shine.
A residential study camp at the youth hostel in Possenhofen, right on Lake Starnberg. Mornings are lessons: younger kids work on German, math and how to learn, older ones on study skills, public speaking or a school subject. Afternoons go to the lake, with swimming, canoeing, beach games and campfires, plus optional sailing or surfing courses. Taught for the German school system, so it suits kids who follow it.
An English immersion camp where kids sleep over for the week at Burg Schwaneck, a 19th-century castle turned youth hostel in Pullach, just south of Munich. Mornings are English lessons with native-speaker teachers, with a placement test on the first day so each kid joins a class at their level. Afternoons are outings and activities. It suits kids who are ready for a full week away from home.
Overnight holiday trips run by the city's youth office, from riding farms and sports action days to nature programs in the Alpine foothills and water trips to Italy or Slovenia. Each trip is fully supervised by trained volunteer leaders, with travel and meals included. Groups of 16 to 40 kids sleep in shared rooms or tents. Only kids registered as living in Munich can take part.
A sleepaway week on an organic goat farm in Maitenbeth, east of Munich. Kids help in the stables, feed the animals, ride, ride along on the tractor, and try a circus workshop and crafts with natural materials. Evenings bring a campfire with stick bread, a night hike and a night sleeping in the hay. Kids share a mattress dorm, with staff on hand around the clock.
A week of pony and horse riding at Pferdehof Steinreb, a riding school in Au near Bad Feilnbach. Kids get up with the ponies, groom them, muck out and ride. Groups are formed by ability: beginners get lunge and dressage lessons, while more confident riders jump and train on the farm's own cross-country course, with hacks out when the weather allows. Kids stay overnight, or come as day campers.
Munich's city youth office runs these overnight trips during the Fasching break. Each trip has its own theme and destination, set out in the city's program. Trained volunteers, mostly young people with teaching or social work training, look after the kids day and night, and transport and meals are included.
Places go by lottery to children registered as living in the city of Munich. Suits kids ready for nights away.
Some kids are ready to sleep away from home before their parents are. Every camp on this list keeps them overnight, with counselors on hand from breakfast to lights-out, so it's a real step toward independence. We gathered them in one place so you can compare ages, dates and prices side by side before booking that first trip away from home.
Field hockey camps run by HLC Rot-Weiß München at its own club grounds beside the Westpark. The youngest get short day camps of games and first stick skills, while older groups stay over for a few days of training on the club's floodlit artificial pitch.
Club players train alongside kids trying hockey for the first time, so no experience is needed.
A week-long tent camp on a meadow by Lake Starnberg, south of Munich. Kids paddle inflatable boats and kayaks with the Alpine foothills in view, build and test their own raft, follow compass trails and end the day with night hikes and campfires. Small groups cook their own meals and plan activities together. It suits outdoorsy kids happy to sleep in a tent; the program runs rain or shine.
A residential study camp at the youth hostel in Possenhofen, right on Lake Starnberg. Mornings are lessons: younger kids work on German, math and how to learn, older ones on study skills, public speaking or a school subject. Afternoons go to the lake, with swimming, canoeing, beach games and campfires, plus optional sailing or surfing courses. Taught for the German school system, so it suits kids who follow it.
An English immersion camp where kids sleep over for the week at Burg Schwaneck, a 19th-century castle turned youth hostel in Pullach, just south of Munich. Mornings are English lessons with native-speaker teachers, with a placement test on the first day so each kid joins a class at their level. Afternoons are outings and activities. It suits kids who are ready for a full week away from home.
Overnight holiday trips run by the city's youth office, from riding farms and sports action days to nature programs in the Alpine foothills and water trips to Italy or Slovenia. Each trip is fully supervised by trained volunteer leaders, with travel and meals included. Groups of 16 to 40 kids sleep in shared rooms or tents. Only kids registered as living in Munich can take part.
A sleepaway week on an organic goat farm in Maitenbeth, east of Munich. Kids help in the stables, feed the animals, ride, ride along on the tractor, and try a circus workshop and crafts with natural materials. Evenings bring a campfire with stick bread, a night hike and a night sleeping in the hay. Kids share a mattress dorm, with staff on hand around the clock.
A week of pony and horse riding at Pferdehof Steinreb, a riding school in Au near Bad Feilnbach. Kids get up with the ponies, groom them, muck out and ride. Groups are formed by ability: beginners get lunge and dressage lessons, while more confident riders jump and train on the farm's own cross-country course, with hacks out when the weather allows. Kids stay overnight, or come as day campers.
Munich's city youth office runs these overnight trips during the Fasching break. Each trip has its own theme and destination, set out in the city's program. Trained volunteers, mostly young people with teaching or social work training, look after the kids day and night, and transport and meals are included.
Places go by lottery to children registered as living in the city of Munich. Suits kids ready for nights away.
