Nice Wolf Lodge Scottsdale Evaluation

I’m excited to share a full assessment of the brand new Nice Wolf Lodge in Scottsdale, Salt River, AZ. This kid-friendly resort has a lot of enjoyable choices for households. Learn on for the nice… and the dangerous. 😉 

Hello pals! Hope you’re having an exquisite morning.  Right now I’m sharing a full assessment of the brand new Great Wolf Lodge in Scottsdale! It’s an excellent enjoyable and kid-friendly resort that the WHOLE household will love! Let’s check out this assessment to see what we thought so you may 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 women misplaced their minds! I’d seen a number of posts about Nice Wolf Lodge through the years and was excited lastly to take the crew. After I came upon this summer time that we had been getting one, I booked our rooms the primary day that they opened the system for reservations. The location crashed a number of occasions throughout the course of. I used to be in a position to snag a room for the top of the month, which ended up being their grand opening weekend. The room charges had been fairly honest, and I used to be blissful to pay them.

Nice Wolf Lodge Scottsdale Evaluation

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 photograph ops, and so they have fairly a number of 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 varied slides, a lazy river, a wave pool, a large splash pad, and a child/toddler space.

Contained in the resort, additionally they have a Construct-A-Bear workshop, a children’ space (the place they provide childcare), a sweet retailer, and MagiQuest.

MagiQuest ended up being one of many greatest hits with the youngsters. It’s an indoor scavenger hunt utilizing magic wands (that you simply buy for round $20). You pay an extra $15 to take part within the MagiQuest recreation, and as you discover completely different spots all through the property – they’re marked with somewhat 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 large animatronic dragon that may come to life. It’s important to comply with a “quest path,” amassing completely different runes and objects, and battling completely different characters on screens all through the property, and it will probably flip into a really concerned recreation. This half was really magical and children in every single place had been operating round waving their wands at varied objects, then heading to the portal to see what they wanted to do subsequent. It was very Harry Potter.

Saturday morning, the women and I hit the street pretty early and made the fast drive as much as Scottsdale. We checked into the resort, the place the women acquired 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 had been fairly pumped.

We checked into our rooms and grabbed dinner on-site earlier than heading to the waterpark. We spent a number of hours leaping within the waves, and taking part in on the splash pad, and the women rode the slides till it was bedtime. The Pilot got here into the room after we had been all crashed, and we spent the following couple of days alternating between the waterpark and the indoor actions. It was a terrific household staycation and the proper method to rejoice the top of airline coaching.

The Execs

The actions. I used to be shocked by how most of the actions had 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 day by day schedule with varied actions on the hour. These embrace character greetings, face portray, story time, a dance occasion with the wolves, Bingo, and so forth. A few of the different actions had been an extra 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 Cross for every child which incorporates every part, however I wasn’t positive how a lot we’d truly do, so I opted out of it.

The waterpark. The women LOVED the waterpark and we actually spent hours right here every day. There was a lot for every of them to do, and I believe it’s good for infants all the best way as much as youngsters.

The Cons

The meals. The meals was overpriced and horrible. We normally love resort meals – the women 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 should you examine it to Disney meals, it’s additionally overpriced, however no 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 had been nice however you may’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 below are the saddest tacos you’ll ever see in your life. They had been known as “fajita veggie tacos” which had 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 properly and this was simply an abomination.

Nice Wolf Lodge was clearly nonetheless understanding 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 search 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 once I really feel just like the blanket is only a sheet. So I take towels from the toilet and canopy myself in towels lol. In addition they had a smoke detector within the room that flashed an excellent shiny mild each 10 seconds. We didn’t get nice sleep the primary night time.

What’s Close by?

The excellent news is that Prep & Pastry, Style Sq., and extra is just 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 great meals. So I believe it’s value it to go off-property for actual meals and simply rely on 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 may be very conveniently positioned close to a wide range of points of interest that make it an ideal base for household enjoyable. Only a brief drive away, you may discover the Desert Ridge Market for purchasing and eating, or have a look into the underwater world on the OdySea Aquarium. For these seeking 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 fully completely different animals. (<— see what I did there?) Disney is such a well-oiled machine and runs easily and effectively, with a lot of magic touches all through. Clearly, it’s been round for a very long time, and any teething points have been properly and really ironed out.

Nice Wolf Lodge isn’t attempting to be Disney, and what they do is tremendous enjoyable and so they do it properly. However it simply isn’t the identical form of expertise. I imply, we nonetheless had a fully great time, but it surely’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 believe it was completely value it. I’m positive the women will wish to return in some unspecified time in the future. I extremely suggest it, even as soon as. It’s nonetheless a really cool expertise.

Right now, 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’ve got an exquisite morning and I’ll see ya quickly.

xoxo

Gina