Cabinmate Requests

Up to two. Requests need to be mutual, which means both campers need to request each other.

We can’t guarantee cabinmate requests, but if everyone is within the age guidelines and the request works with our cabin setup, we’ll do our best to make it happen.

Why only two?

Because six best friends walking into a cabin together sounds GREAT if your kid is one of the six.

It feels very different if your kid is one of the other four.

We want campers to come back to their camp friends. We want best friends from home to get to experience camp together. We also want there to be room in every cabin for somebody new to become part of the group.

Your camper can come with a friend. We just don’t want another camper to feel like they came without one.

We look at both age and grade when we build cabins. Generally, campers need to be within about two years and two grades of each other for us to honor a cabinmate request.

But kids don’t line up perfectly by birthday and grade, so neither do our cabins. We look at the actual campers, not just the numbers on their registration.

That gives us enough structure to keep cabins developmentally appropriate without pretending every 11-year-old is exactly the same. If ages are an issue when we’re making cabin assignments, we’ll reach out!

Totally fine. Really.

Lots of kids come to camp without knowing anybody, and our counselors know who those kids are.

From the moment kids walk in, counselors are making introductions, pulling kids into games, mixing up partners, and paying attention to who hasn’t quite found their people yet.

You do not need to recruit your camper a camp friend before you send them to us. But you do get ImmokaSquad perks if you do.

Usually, at check-in.

Cabin assignments move around right up until camp as registrations change, cancellations happen, and we work through cabinmate requests. We’d rather tell you once than tell you early and then have to tell you something different.

Competitive weeks work a little differently. If your camper is being assigned to a team, house, country, or anything else they might want to prepare for ahead of time, we’ll let you know that assignment before camp.

That doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll know their cabin early, though.

We’ll let you know before you get to camp.

Not because we expect you to fix it or change plans, but because we want you to have time to prepare your camper. We’ll also talk through what we’re going to do at camp to help: how their counselors will know, how we’ll help them connect with their cabin, and how we’ll pay a little extra attention as everyone settles in.

Sometimes the ages don’t work. Sometimes the request isn’t mutual. Sometimes honoring a chain of requests would put most of an existing friend group into one cabin.

And sometimes we just can’t make the puzzle work.

We know that can be disappointing. But we’re looking at the whole cabin when we make those decisions, including your camper.