Nice Wolf Lodge Scottsdale Evaluate

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 number of enjoyable choices for households. Learn on for the nice… and the unhealthy. 😉 

Hello buddies! Hope you’re having a beautiful morning.  At this time I’m sharing a full assessment 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 assessment 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 women misplaced their minds! I’d seen just a few posts about Nice Wolf Lodge over time and was excited lastly to take the crew. After I came upon 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 completely happy 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 photograph ops, they usually 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 varied 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 children’ 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 sport, and as you discover completely different spots all through the property – they’re marked with slightly 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 gentle up or do one thing fairly intense, like the large animatronic dragon that can come to life. You need to observe a “quest path,” gathering 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 sport. This half was actually magical and children in every single place have been working 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 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 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 they usually 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 following couple of days alternating between the waterpark and the indoor actions. It was an ideal household staycation and the proper solution to have fun the top of airline coaching.

The Professionals

The actions. I used to be shocked by how lots of the actions have been included with the price of staying on property. The waterpark was included, the place we spent hours every day, they usually additionally provide a every day schedule with varied actions on the hour. These embody character greetings, face portray, story time, a dance social gathering with the wolves, Bingo, and many others. A few of the different actions have been a further buy, just like the bowling, ropes course, gold panning, rock wall, and many others. I didn’t discover the costs to be unreasonable for what they provided. You should buy a Wolf Go for every child which incorporates every part, however I wasn’t certain how a lot we’d really 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 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 are able to simply discover one thing all of us love. That wasn’t the case in any respect right here. Even if you happen to examine it to Disney meals, it’s additionally overpriced, however at the very least it’s good meals they usually have tons of choices. I discovered the choices to be very restricted, not very wholesome/contemporary, and overpriced. I’ll say the fries have been nice however you’ll be able to’t dwell off fries for 3 days. 😉 (Liv even stated 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 have been known as “fajita veggie tacos” which have been on very small tortillas, stuffed 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 figuring out among the kinks because it simply opened. It wasn’t uncommon to attempt 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 toilet and canopy myself in towels lol. Additionally they had a smoke detector within the room that flashed a brilliant vibrant gentle each 10 seconds. We didn’t get nice sleep the primary night time.

What’s Close by?

The excellent news is that Prep & Pastry, Trend Sq., and extra is simply 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 feel 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 situated close to quite a lot of points of interest that make it an ideal base for household enjoyable. Only a quick drive away, you’ll be able to 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 gorgeous, 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 number of magic touches all through. Clearly, it’s been round for a very long time, and any teething points have been properly and actually ironed out.

Nice Wolf Lodge isn’t attempting to be Disney, and what they do is tremendous enjoyable they usually do it properly. But it surely simply isn’t the identical kind of expertise. I imply, we nonetheless had a fully great time, but it surely’s not a type 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 wish to return in some unspecified time in the future. I extremely advocate it, even as soon as. It’s nonetheless a really cool expertise.

Presently, 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 have got a beautiful morning and I’ll see ya quickly.

xoxo

Gina