Nice Wolf Lodge Scottsdale Assessment

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 unhealthy. 😉 

Hello pals! Hope you’re having a beautiful morning.  Immediately 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 possibly can see if it’d be a vacay your fam would really like!.

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. Once 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 location crashed a number of occasions in the course of 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 have been fairly honest, and I used to be glad to pay them.

Nice Wolf Lodge Scottsdale Assessment

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 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, a large splash pad, and a child/toddler space.

Contained in the resort, in addition 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 largest hits with the children. It’s an indoor scavenger hunt utilizing magic wands (that you just 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 a bit of 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 can come to life. You need to observe a “quest path,” amassing totally different runes and objects, and battling totally different characters on screens all through the property, and it will possibly flip into a really concerned recreation. This half was really magical and children all over the place have been working 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 women and I hit the highway 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 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 taking part in on the splash pad, and the women rode the slides till it was bedtime. The Pilot got here into the room once we have been all crashed, and we spent the following couple of days alternating between the waterpark and the indoor actions. It was an excellent household staycation and the proper solution to have a good time the top of airline coaching.

The Professionals

The actions. I used to be stunned 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 embody character greetings, face portray, story time, a dance social gathering with the wolves, Bingo, and so on. A few of the different actions have been a further buy, just like the bowling, ropes course, gold panning, rock wall, and so on. I didn’t discover the costs to be unreasonable for what they supplied. You should purchase a Wolf Go for every child which incorporates every thing, however I wasn’t positive 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 believe it’s excellent for infants all the way in which as much as youngsters.

The Cons

The meals. The meals was overpriced and horrible. We often love resort meals – the women have a critical 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 if you happen to examine it to Disney meals, it’s additionally overpriced, however at the very least it’s good meals and so they 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 possibly can’t reside 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 have been known 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 effectively 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 lavatory and canopy myself in towels lol. In addition they had a smoke detector within the room that flashed a brilliant vivid 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 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 believe it’s price 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 Baby for lunch, Blanco tacos, and Butters.)

Nice Wolf Lodge Scottsdale may be very conveniently situated close to a wide range of points of interest that make it an ideal base for household enjoyable. Only a brief drive away, you possibly can discover the Desert Ridge Market for purchasing 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 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 happy 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 a lot of magic touches all through. Clearly, it’s been round for a very long time, and any teething points have been effectively 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 effectively. But it surely simply isn’t the identical type of expertise. I imply, we nonetheless had a fully fantastic time, however it’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 believe it was completely price 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 a beautiful morning and I’ll see ya quickly.

xoxo

Gina