Camps, tournaments and the trips around them: real costs and honest reviews from a family with two basketball players.
Key takeaways Two training sessions a day, a pool block between them, and competitions that finish at quarter past eleven at night. That’s the rhythm of this camp, and if your child isn’t genuinely into…
In August 2025 we flew to Riga with both boys, Damian (12) and Marc (9), because Marc’s U11 team was playing the Krauklis Cup, a youth basketball tournament held every August. They came home with…
We paid for our stay. We stayed here in July 2025, during the La Roda International Basketball Tournament. Damian (12) slept with his team in La Roda, and we were 30 minutes away in Albacete.…
From 2 to 6 July 2025, Damian (12) played the La Roda International Basketball Tournament in Castilla-La Mancha. We drove down from Barcelona, 6–7 hours each way. The teams slept at Hotel Flor de la…
Damian has played the Puigcerdà tournament twice. In 2024 he played up with a team one year older and finished 4th. In June 2025 (13–15 June) he played in his own age group, and his…
From June 6th to June 8th, we spent an exciting weekend in Lloret de Mar, Costa Brava. This trip was all about Marc’s basketball tournament, which filled our days with games, adrenaline, and team spirit.…
We did not set out to become a family that plans holidays around basketball. It happened one camp at a time, and by now we have taken our two boys to play in Catalonia, Wisconsin,…
Our two sons live for basketball, and over the last few summers we’ve done the camp circuit the way most parents do: some research, some guesswork, and some money we’d spend differently next time. Damian…
Our two sons, Damian and Marc, play basketball, and for the last few years our family holidays have followed the tournament calendar. Since 2024 they’ve played eight youth tournaments: in La Roda, Puigcerdà (twice), Lloret…
We went to Pesaro for basketball and came home with two trophies and a new favourite stretch of the Adriatic. Around Halloween 2024, both our boys, Damian (11) and Marc (8), played a youth tournament…
Camp Lakers is not in Los Angeles, and the venue moves. The 2026 edition was at the AIM Sportsplex in Seal Beach. When our boys went in July 2024 the venue changed before the camp…
We booked the Best Western Westminster Inn because our boys had places at Camp Lakers — which is not, despite the name, in Los Angeles. In our year it was not even where we were…
Everyone who comes to Barcelona thinks about the football. Almost nobody thinks about the basketball, and for a family with a sports-mad child, that’s backwards. FC Barcelona’s basketball team plays at the Palau Blaugrana, an…