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 plenty of enjoyable choices for households. Learn on for the great… and the unhealthy. 😉 

Hello associates! Hope you’re having a beautiful morning.  In the present day 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 possibly can 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 principally a child’s dream come true. The ladies misplaced their minds! I’d seen a number of posts about Nice Wolf Lodge over time and was excited lastly to take the crew. After 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 capable of snag a room for the tip of the month, which ended up being their grand opening weekend. The room charges had been fairly honest, and I used to be comfortable 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 different characters, stroll across the property for photograph ops, they usually 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 numerous 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 largest hits with the youngsters. 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 sport, and as you discover completely 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. You need to observe a “quest path,” amassing completely different runes and objects, and battling completely different characters on screens all through the property, and it will possibly flip into a really concerned sport. This half was really magical and youngsters in all places had been operating 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 short 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 they usually 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 once we had been all crashed, and we spent the following couple of days alternating between the waterpark and the indoor actions. It was an awesome household staycation and the proper approach to rejoice the tip of airline coaching.

The Professionals

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, they usually additionally supply a day by day schedule with numerous actions on the hour. These embody character greetings, face portray, story time, a dance celebration with the wolves, Bingo, and many others. A number of the different actions had 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 Move for every child which incorporates the whole lot, 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 feel 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 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 in case you evaluate it to Disney meals, it’s additionally overpriced, however no less than 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 possibly can’t dwell 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 referred to 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 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 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 vibrant mild each 10 seconds. We didn’t get nice sleep the primary evening.

What’s Close by?

The excellent news is that Prep & Pastry, Style 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 upon 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 sights 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 get pleasure from some nature, Pinnacle Peak Park has loads of gorgeous, 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 evaluate to Disney?

They’re utterly completely different animals. (

Nice Wolf Lodge isn’t attempting to be Disney, and what they do is tremendous enjoyable they usually do it effectively. However it simply isn’t the identical kind of expertise. I imply, we nonetheless had a completely 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 women will wish 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 could have a beautiful morning and I’ll see ya quickly.

xoxo

Gina