It is out if whack, for sure. Do they offer programs year round? Again with my gymnastics place, they'd charge the fee even if you only signed up fir a shirt, cheap summer camp. But then anything else for the calendar year has no extra fee. You are right though, if they wanted the camp to cost x they should just charge that. It's like private school tuitions here; maybe they say it's $10k but once you add in all the activity, snack, etc fees the price jumps to $12k and that is enough to make you possibly think twice and you wush you'd seen the 12 to start!