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Reservations

For the best chance of being accommodated send your application as soon as possible!

Lair Family Camp Reservation form: Download here (.pdf)

Club Lair (adults only) Reservations: Download here (.pdf)

Sports and Rec (adults only) Reservations: Download here (.pdf) | USTA members download here (.pdf)

Women's Wellness Weekend (adults only) Reservations: Download here (.pdf)

Camp Calendar: View here

Camp Rates: View here

Ex Staffer Family Weekend Reservations: Download here (.pdf)

Application – Returning Campers

For the purposes of reservations, you're a returning camper if you camped with us last summer and received an Express Reservation Form.
  • If you have no changes to your reservation for 2008 (meaning same tent, same week, same camp), please return your reservation form to us by February 28th, 2008, in order to secure your spot for Summer 2008.
  • If you wish to make ANY changes to your reservation (i.e. a different tent, different week), please return your form to us as quickly as possible. Even as a returning camper, we accommodate changes on a first come, first serve basis.
Please include a deposit with each application, and list only one family per application form; copies are acceptable.

Returning camper families whose applications are received after February 28 will most likely be placed on the waitlist.

Application – New Campers and Past Campers

For the purposes of reservations, you’re a new camper or a past camper, if you did not camp with us Summer ’07 or have your own assigned tent with us last summer.
  • Please use the reservation form, and return it as quickly as possible. We accommodate on a first come, first serve basis.
  • The more options you can provide us on your application as to your preferences for weeks and camps, the better we can help accommodate. Please feel free to write additional information on your application, including the names of other families you wish to camp with.
Please include a deposit with each application, and list only one family per application form; copies are acceptable.

Booking Priorities

For applications that are received before February 28, priority is given to families who attended camp in 2007. Requests for tent changes or week changes will be accommodated as availability permits—the date we receive the request for changes will affect your position on the waitlist for those changes.

Second priority is given to families who were on the waitlist in 2007 and didn't get into a tent. New camper families from the waitlist will fill remaining spaces. The date we receive the reservation form affects your position on the waitlist—the earlier the better!

Waitlist

If we are unable to book you initially, you will receive written notification that you have been placed on the waitlist. This waitlist is used extensively throughout the spring and summer. Our office will contact you by phone as soon as space becomes available. The entire deposit will be refunded to families we are unable to accommodate.

Eligibility

A California Alumni Association membership is required for at least one attending adult in each individual tent. You need not be a Cal grad to join CAA or to camp at the Lair!

If you are not currently a CAA member, please enclose a separate check made payable to the California Alumni Association for $60 to cover annual dues. You can also become a lifetime member: read more. Memberships are for individuals only and are non-refundable and non-transferable.

Payment

We accept personal checks or money orders made payable to the California Alumni Association. Any returned check is subject to a $10 service charge. We also accept Visa, MasterCard, and American Express. For security reasons, do not fax or email reservation forms.

Final payments are due six weeks prior to your arrival. Unpaid reservations are subject to cancellation*.

Confirmations will be sent in mid-April.

Tent Size Restrictions

For Camps Blue and Gold, $430 per empty space will be charged if tents are not booked to at least minimum capacity for the entire week. Large tents (with 6 beds) require 5 paying campers and medium tents (with 4 beds) require 3 paying campers. Small tents accommodate 1 or 2 people and are not subject to tent fees.

For Camp Oski, a minimum of 2 paying campers is required per tent, or a $300 tent fee will be charged.

If campers are cancelled after booking, a tent fee may be invoked, depending on the number of campers remaining in the tent.

Cancellations

Our office must receive written notification (mail, fax, or email) of all reservation cancellations *. A $100 fee will be charged for all cancellations of confirmed reservations if the cancellation occurs earlier than 6 weeks prior to the camping week.

If a cancellation is made within six weeks prior to your arrival date, your entire deposit is forfeited.

Cancellations received within 10 days of arrival date forfeit the entire fee unless we can fill your space (in which case only your deposit is retained).

There is no charge for canceling from the waitlist, and there is no charge for canceling an individual within your party, although a tent fee may be invoked.

Reservations Policies

Reservation policies are subject to change.

Lair Reservations

1 Alumni House, Berkeley, CA 94720-7520.
(510)642-0221 or (888) CAL-ALUM
lair@alumni.berkeley.edu
We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

* The Lair office confirms all cancellations by phone or by e-mail.












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