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

Hello pals! Hope you’re having an exquisite morning.  In the present day 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 really like!.

We spent 3 days and a couple 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 a number of posts about Nice Wolf Lodge through the years and was excited lastly to take the crew. Once I came upon this summer season that we had been getting one, I booked our rooms the primary day that they opened the system for reservations. The positioning crashed a number of instances 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 completely happy 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 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, 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 largest 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 totally different spots all through the property – they’re marked with a bit 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 can come to life. You must observe a “quest path,” amassing totally different runes and objects, and battling totally different characters on screens all through the property, and it may possibly flip into a really concerned recreation. This half was actually magical and youngsters all over the 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 enjoying 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 subsequent couple of days alternating between the waterpark and the indoor actions. It was an ideal household staycation and the proper approach 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 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 every day schedule with varied actions on the hour. These embrace character greetings, face portray, story time, a dance get together with the wolves, Bingo, and many others. A number of the different actions had been an extra 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 supplied. You should buy a Wolf Go for every child which incorporates all the pieces, however I wasn’t certain how a lot we’d really 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 believe it’s excellent 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 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 in the event you evaluate 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’ll be able to’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 here 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 effectively and this was simply an abomination.

Nice Wolf Lodge was clearly nonetheless figuring out a number of the kinks because it simply opened. It wasn’t uncommon to attempt 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 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. In addition 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 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 great meals. So I believe it’s value it to go off-property for actual meals and simply rely upon the Nice Wolf Lodge for fast bites and snacks. (A few of my recs: Olive & Ivy, True Meals Kitchen, Flower Little one 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 brief drive away, you’ll be able to discover the Desert Ridge Market for procuring 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 happy with Kyle and their new location!)

How does Nice Wolf Lodge evaluate to Disney?

They’re fully totally 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 effectively and actually 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 kind of expertise. I imply, we nonetheless had a completely great 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 believe it was completely value it. I’m certain the women will need to return sooner or later. 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 may have an exquisite morning and I’ll see ya quickly.

xoxo

Gina