I’m excited to share a full evaluation of the brand new Nice Wolf Lodge in Scottsdale, Salt River, AZ. This kid-friendly resort has numerous enjoyable choices for households. Learn on for the nice… and the unhealthy. 😉
Hello mates! Hope you’re having a beautiful morning. As we speak I’m sharing a full evaluation of the brand new Great Wolf Lodge in Scottsdale! It’s a brilliant enjoyable and kid-friendly resort that the WHOLE household will love! Let’s check out this evaluation to see what we thought so you’ll be able to see if it’d be a vacay your fam would love!.
We spent 3 days and a pair of nights on the brand-new Nice Wolf Lodge, which is mainly a child’s dream come true. The ladies misplaced their minds! I’d seen just a few posts about Nice Wolf Lodge through the years and was excited lastly to take the crew. After I discovered this summer season that we have been getting one, I booked our rooms the primary day that they opened the system for reservations. The positioning crashed a number of instances in the course of the course of. I used to be capable of snag a room for the top of the month, which ended up being their grand opening weekend. The room charges have been fairly truthful, and I used to be joyful to pay them.
Nice Wolf Lodge Scottsdale Evaluate
Nice Wolf Lodge is a family-friendly resort with a lodge “campfire” kinda vibe to it. The 2 wolf mascots, Wiley and Violet, and other characters, stroll across the property for picture ops, and so they have fairly just a few enjoyable facilities.
Actions at Nice Wolf Lodge Scottsdale
I used to be fairly blown away by the quantity of actions they provide on-site. They’ve a mini golf space, gold panning, a mine exploration exercise, an indoor ropes course, a mini bowling alley, a rock-climbing wall, and a full indoor water park. The waterpark is climate-controlled to 86 levels year-round and has numerous slides, a lazy river, a wave pool, an enormous splash pad, and a child/toddler space.
Contained in the resort, additionally they have a Construct-A-Bear workshop, a youngsters’ space (the place they provide childcare), a sweet retailer, and MagiQuest.
MagiQuest ended up being one of many greatest hits with the children. It’s an indoor scavenger hunt utilizing magic wands (that you simply buy for round $20). You pay a further $15 to take part within the MagiQuest recreation, and as you discover totally different spots all through the property – they’re marked with just a little inexperienced leaf – you flick your wand on the object and one thing will occur.
It may be one thing small, like an image on the wall will mild up or do one thing fairly intense, like the enormous animatronic dragon that may come to life. It’s a must to comply with a “quest path,” accumulating totally different runes and objects, and battling totally different characters on screens all through the property, and it might probably flip into a really concerned recreation. This half was really magical and children in all places have been operating round waving their wands at numerous objects, then heading to the portal to see what they wanted to do subsequent. It was very Harry Potter.
Saturday morning, the ladies and I hit the highway pretty early and made the short drive as much as Scottsdale. We checked into the resort, the place the ladies obtained cute wolf ear headbands,
and since our room wasn’t fairly prepared, we spent an hour on the arcade, which is conveniently open 24/7. 🙂 I managed to win stuffed sloths for every of them from one of many claw machines and so they have been fairly pumped.
We checked into our rooms and grabbed dinner on-site earlier than heading to the waterpark. We spent just a few hours leaping within the waves, and enjoying on the splash pad, and the ladies rode the slides till it was bedtime. The Pilot got here into the room after we have been all crashed, and we spent the subsequent couple of days alternating between the waterpark and the indoor actions. It was an important household staycation and the proper solution to have a good time the top of airline coaching.
The Professionals
The actions. I used to be shocked by how most of the actions have been included with the price of staying on property. The waterpark was included, the place we spent hours every day, and so they additionally supply a every day schedule with numerous actions on the hour. These embrace character greetings, face portray, story time, a dance social gathering with the wolves, Bingo, and so forth. A number of the different actions have been a further buy, just like the bowling, ropes course, gold panning, rock wall, and so forth. I didn’t discover the costs to be unreasonable for what they provided. You should purchase a Wolf Go for every child which incorporates every little thing, however I wasn’t certain how a lot we’d truly do, so I opted out of it.
The waterpark. The ladies LOVED the waterpark and we actually spent hours right here every day. There was a lot for every of them to do, and I feel it’s good for infants all the way in which as much as youngsters.
The Cons
The meals. The meals was overpriced and horrible. We normally love resort meals – the ladies have a severe obsession with room service – and we will simply discover one thing all of us love. That wasn’t the case in any respect right here. Even when you examine it to Disney meals, it’s additionally overpriced, however not less than it’s good meals and so they have tons of choices. I discovered the choices to be very restricted, not very wholesome/recent, and overpriced. I’ll say the fries have been nice however you’ll be able to’t stay off fries for 3 days. 😉 (Liv even mentioned the pizza was gross, which I’ve by no means heard her say earlier than.)
Listed here are the saddest tacos you’ll ever see in your life. They have been referred to as “fajita veggie tacos” which have been on very small tortillas, crammed with pico salsa and one or two slices of bell pepper on every taco.
We’re in Arizona. We do tacos nicely and this was simply an abomination.
Nice Wolf Lodge was clearly nonetheless figuring out a few of the kinks because it simply opened. It wasn’t uncommon to strive one thing (like a merchandising machine or a drink machine) to seek out that it was damaged. We additionally discovered the rooms to be so-so. The cover was like half an inch thick. I’ve the worst time sleeping after I really feel just like the blanket is only a sheet. So I take towels from the lavatory and canopy myself in towels lol. Additionally they had a smoke detector within the room that flashed a brilliant brilliant mild each 10 seconds. We didn’t get nice sleep the primary evening.
What’s Close by?
The excellent news is that Prep & Pastry, Style Sq., and extra is barely 12 minutes away. There are such a lot of superior eating choices close by too. There’s no denying that Scottsdale has a ton of fantastic meals. So I feel it’s value it to go off-property for actual meals and simply depend upon the Nice Wolf Lodge for fast bites and snacks. (A few of my recs: Olive & Ivy, True Meals Kitchen, Flower Youngster for lunch, Blanco tacos, and Butters.)
Nice Wolf Lodge Scottsdale could be very conveniently positioned close to quite a lot of points of interest that make it an ideal base for household enjoyable. Only a brief drive away, you’ll be able to discover the Desert Ridge Market for buying and eating, or have a look into the underwater world on the OdySea Aquarium. For these trying to take pleasure in some nature, Pinnacle Peak Park has loads of beautiful, scenic mountain climbing trails with breathtaking desert views.
We checked out the model new Scottsdale Prep & Pastry location and ordered all of our faves. The chickpea scramble is amaaaazing.
(So pleased with Kyle and their new location!)
How does Nice Wolf Lodge examine to Disney?
They’re utterly totally different animals. (<— see what I did there?) Disney is such a well-oiled machine and runs easily and effectively, with numerous magic touches all through. Clearly, it’s been round for a very long time, and any teething points have been nicely and really ironed out.
Nice Wolf Lodge isn’t making an attempt to be Disney, and what they do is tremendous enjoyable and so they do it nicely. However it simply isn’t the identical kind of expertise. I imply, we nonetheless had a completely fantastic time, nevertheless it’s not a kind of locations the place we’re like “Omg I can’t wait to go once more.” All in all although, I feel it was completely value it. I’m certain the ladies will need to return in some unspecified time in the future. I extremely suggest it, even as soon as. It’s nonetheless a really cool expertise.
At the moment, it’s again to the swing of issues over right here! I’ve a few convention calls this am, am going to get in some cardio!
I hope you might have a beautiful morning and I’ll see ya quickly.
xoxo
Gina
