We have done nothing.
We are planning a 2 week summer vacation. The question is do we
1. Fly Wed to Wed. This is cheaper and allows us to have the weekends at our families' houses. However, that leaves 2 days at the beginning and 2 days at the end with no childcare, so we have to work half work days. Which is undesirable around 2 weeks off.
2. Fly weekends. We could fly on Friday night and come back on a Sunday. We get 3 weekends out of it this way. This will be more expensive for 2 reasons. It's more expensive to fly AND we end up with a full week at the end of the month where we would need summer camp for 2.
Anyway, that part TBD. That's June.
My kinder kid's after school program runs during the summer. I will have him in that for July and Aug. No word on the price, but 6 years ago it was equivalent to the cost of the cheapest weekly camp, but includes breakfast and lunch. There's also a free drop-in program at a couple of our schools - but due to budget cuts they recently tightened the eligibility. So, if there's space after the eligible folks get in, I could put him in there. Problem is, I won't know that until too late to get into camp, and by then I have to give up my after care "spot". So, after care it is.
Big kid is almost 12. Not sure what to do with him, he's old enough to be at home alone in many ways. If we do the Wed-Wed vacation, we are left with 7 full weeks of summer. And some half weeks, because the fucking school district HATES working parents and are starting school on a Weds AGAIN!!!
Most likely we'll do 4-5 weeks of camp and 2-3 weeks of "home", having us work at home with him for half days or some such thing. He really enjoyed sailing camp (2 weeks, half days) last summer. Baseball camp if it's available when he needs it. Maybe chess camp again. Who knows. Camps start to dry up after age 12. I'll try to tire him out mostly!