Ship CampsReviews of shipcamps.com

Had to send the luggage way too early in order for it to be delivered to the camp on time at an affordable rate. When a child is going to overnight camp for several weeks, they have to pack most of their clothing. In order to make it to camp on time, the luggage had to be shipped 9 days before arrival date. That's not acceptable. If given a choice, I would not use this company.

The site was unwieldy to use but the thing that bothered me the most was that it was mandated that the bags be picked up so early. We are not over consumers so the need to send most of her clothing ahead of time was infuriating, inconvenient and led to us not realizing she didn’t have an extra dress or her dress up shoes for her middle school graduation or graduation party this week as they were sent with the camp bag. The service was exorbitantly expensive- the bag was picked up on Tuesday and delivered on Wednesday when she’s not even arriving to camp until Sunday. Since the delivery was admittedly fast, the bags obviously could have been picked up later in the week.

It was already a disappointment to be forced to use the service and spend extra money for the service as well as needing to buy extra things to cover the 13 days between pickup and camp. We were then given a date, planned our lives, work, travel around the date, and only a few days before learned that the date was moved up three days. The trip couldn't be changed back, there were sleepless nights because the date was earlier and didn't coincide with when I'd taken off work to prepare for bags to be packed, and some of the things being delivered to the house were scheduled to arrive the day bags were picked up. The pickup itself went fine, but overall it was a super frustrating, stressful, and expensive experience.

I had 2 trunks shipped. One came back with a big tear in it

My bag was picked up 2 days late. But the bigger problem was during the whole delay I had to be on top of it. No one was updating me and I had to spend hours figuring out what was going on. Shop camps did not take any initiative until I asked what was going on. And then they falsly blamed the camp forth delay instead up taking responsibility.

They got the bag there and back again. But I wouldn't say in one piece. It was a perfect bag before I shipped. Used it last year. It's trash and needs replaced now. The shippers were none too gentle with the bag, and it ripped at both handles where they were man-handling it. Long, couple inch by couple inch holes are now in the bag. Part of the issue might have been weight, but it shipped on Delta as a Checked Bag under 50lbs last year. Granted, a 150 liter bag is awkward to carry and I had to take a few breaks on the way out of the airport, but it held up to all the strain made during our previous experience at camp. Not pleased.

Ship camps was wonderful, but ultimately FedEx ended up not picking our bags up. We put them on the porch the night before and kept watching for them to leave out of summer camp excitement. When they did not show, we ended up having to blow off dinner plans and bring the two 65lb bags to the store.

The printer ink on the shipping labels you sent me was running out so FedEx couldn't read or scan any of the information. Thankfully, I had printed them out so we had to tape them to the shipping tags you sent us. Next time, I would make sure that the printer ink is not running out and that the labels are printed clearly.