
Safety: When coming into the water park, all children under 48 inches are measured and tagged with special wrist bands to indicate the height group. Be sure to return the towels and have them check it back in so you don’t get charged a $15 per towel charge. You swipe your room key and tell them how many towels you are taking. Towels are available for all those staying at the hotel. If you have a more active group who won’t be by the chairs much, there are lockers for rent. Such a big group, we usually had someone around to watch the stuff. We were a big group so we’d usually have one person go and grab a bunch of chairs for the adults and put down our stuff there. There were plenty of low chairs around, as well as tables and chairs by the food areas. Turns out that was not something I needed to be concerned about. Seating and Amenities: I saw online that Great Wolf Lodge had the option for the rental of cabanas and premium seating, so I was concerned about the availability of seating. As you float around, you can get shot at by a water cannon or dunked with water from the Fort Mackenzie area. But I warn you, this river is not totally relaxing. The Crooked Creek at Great Wolf Lodge has double and single tubes available to float. I love laying in a tube and floating around and relaxing, enjoying the water without the thrills. Lazy River: Yes, I’m a nerd but my favorite attraction as an adult is the Lazy River. The lifeguard warns of waves coming and everyone in the pool howls like wolves! Then the waves come and it’s fun bobbing and diving under the waves Wave Pool: The Slap Tail Pond wave pool is walk in and goes up to five feet deep. Inside the park they have 8 waterslides, a wave pool, a splash pond for the little ones, and so much more! As my “kids” are now more teens and tweens, while they love the idea of a bunk bed, I think I would go with the family suite next time to let them each get their own bigger sleeping area.īut let’s be honest, we didn’t come for the luxury hotel, we came for the waterpark! My kids are total water bugs and love anything that involves swimming, slides, or swimming with slides! Great Wolf Lodge manages to pack quite a lot in a small space. Coming with younger kids, I think it’s worth the upgrade. The big draw for the kids was the private space with the bunk bed alcove. It had the linen quality of amenities of a typical 3-star hotel. The room comes with a bathroom with a sink outside which is a nice touch and the usual hotel amenities. He slept in the top bunk the first night, but when it was his turn to switch the bottom bunk, he admitted he was sleeping a little curled up, so we opened the pull out for him and he was fine. A word of warning for tall or big kids, the bunk bed (I realized after I booked the room) say they are for a max size of 5’5’’. The Wolf Den Suite rooms come with a queen bed, a pull-out sofa, and a little alcove with a bunk bed. The Family Suite comes with 2 queen-sized beds and a pull-out sofa.

All these rooms can house 6, but really 4 is where it’s most comfortable. We were a party of 5 adults and 4 kids and chose to do 2 Wolf Den Suite rooms and 1 Family Suite rooms.
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While you can always buy day passes to Great Wolf Lodge, going and staying allows you to get the full experience. It’s finally happening, we are going to Great Wolf Lodge! I decided to invite my best friend and her family along, and we found a date in November that worked for both families and booked it. But as we feel more comfortable, I thought it was time to finally take the plunge. It’s only in the past 3-6 months that I’ve started to truly feel comfortable being maskless in large indoor spaces. While Great Wolf Lodge eventually did open, since it was a water park and you could not be masked, I did not feel comfortable going until recently. I get a huge discount and book for December of 2020, thinking this is a great way to spend my son’s 11 th birthday. Yes! Finally! My kids are 10 and 7, they are the prefect age for this. Fast forward to February 2020, we just get back from a fantastic trip in Hawaii, and I get the news that Great Wolf Lodge is opening in Manteca, just an hour (without traffic) from my house. The teens had a fantastic time, and I knew right off the bat that when my kids were big enough, I wanted to do something like that. This was on the East Coast and in the dead of winter, so I could see the appeal of staying indoors but having usually warm weather fun without the flight.

When my kids were still younger and my cousins’ children were teens, I saw them post photos on Facebook of a cool hotel called Great Wolf Lodge that was a resort/indoor waterpark all in in one.
