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 plenty of enjoyable choices for households. Learn on for the great… and the unhealthy. 😉
Hello associates! Hope you’re having a beautiful morning. Right this moment I’m sharing a full assessment of the brand new Nice 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 principally a child’s dream come true. The women 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 time 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 occasions throughout 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 had been fairly honest, and I used to be joyful 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 different 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 numerous 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 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 sport, 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 large animatronic dragon that may come to life. It’s a must to observe a “quest path,” accumulating 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 sport. This half was really magical and children all over the place had 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 street pretty early and made the fast drive as much as Scottsdale. We checked into the lodge, 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 they usually had 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 after we had 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 a good time the top of airline coaching.
The Professionals
The actions. I used to be shocked by how lots of the actions had been included with the price of staying on property. The waterpark was included, the place we spent hours every day, they usually 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 forth. A few of the different actions had 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 supplied. You should purchase a Wolf Move 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 good for infants all the way in which as much as youngsters.
The Cons
The meals. The meals was overpriced and horrible. We often love lodge 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 when you examine it to Disney meals, it’s additionally overpriced, however a minimum of it’s good meals they usually 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 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 had been known as “fajita veggie tacos” which had been on very small tortillas, full of 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 number 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 quilt 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. Additionally 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, Vogue 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 believe it’s price 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 Baby for lunch, Blanco tacos, and Butters.)
Nice Wolf Lodge Scottsdale could 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 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 get pleasure from some nature, Pinnacle Peak Park has loads of beautiful, scenic mountaineering 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 fully totally different animals. (<— see what I did there?) Disney is such a well-oiled machine and runs easily and effectively, with plenty of 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 they usually do it nicely. Nevertheless it simply isn’t the identical type of expertise. I imply, we nonetheless had a fully 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 price it. I’m positive the women will wish to return sooner or later. I extremely advocate 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 may have a beautiful morning and I’ll see ya quickly.
xoxo
Gina