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An Action Packed-Day at Great Wolf Lodge

An Action PAcked Day at Great Wolf Lodge
Photo-A-Day #3345

My family and I attended the Grand Opening of Great Wolf Lodge New England. We were provided a standard family suite for one night, meals, admission to the park (which is included in hotel stay), a paws card for the arcade, and additional fun items. Opinions of the experience are 100% our own.

We woke up pretty early this morning even though the kids were a bit wiped out from yesterday’s experience. I brought milk and cereal for our breakfast because I knew that our family suite had a fridge. Breakfast was not included and I figured that we don’t eat that much in the morning anyway and one of the things I always loved about vacations as a kid was having special sugar cereal on vacation. So when I saw them in the store I picked them up. While we had breakfast we watched some kids shows and built the Lincoln Logs (a gift I bought for the kids based on the theme of us going to a lodge). Andrew is loving playing with the Lincoln Logs. Eva spent her time writing in a special Great Wolf Lodge notebook that I received in the mail and the wooden pen that looked like a stick. She wrote about the things that she liked about our trip. Meeting the characters was her most favorite thing.

Things don’t really get going in the resort until around 9am. That is when some of the shops open up. The arcade is always open so kids can play those games (as long as you have the paw points). We received a paw points card and the kids loved playing with those games. Before we left Eva picked out a few items for herself and something for her brother from the prizes based on the points that they earned playing games. If I was there specifically to have a vacation and not to cover a media event I would have liked to have been able to get into the water parks a bit earlier than 9 or 10am (I’m not quite sure the opening time). I do know that the Howlin’ Timbers Play Park does not open until 10am. This makes sense because there are guest rooms on the outer perimeter of the play park. So it makes sense for that to open a little later so people can enjoy sleeping. Continue reading An Action Packed-Day at Great Wolf Lodge

Happy Little Wolf Pups

Happy Little Wolf Pups
Photo-A-Day #3344

Our trip to Great Wolf Lodge included an overnight stay, tickets to the water park, a couple of meals and a few uique experiences. Opinions of our trip are 100% our own.

Today we picked Eva up from school and took the family to Fitchburgh where the first Great Wolf Lodge in the Northeast is opening. We were lucky enough to be invited to stay overnight and experience this fun location. We get to stay overnight and experience all that the Great Wolf Lodge has to offer.

At a quick hour and a half from home the ride isn’t bad, unless you have an excited 6 1/2 year old who is going to ask you every few minutes how far we are from arriving at our destination. But we got there quickly enough and got checked in. Eva and Andrew made some new friends.

I grabbed our stuff from the car and we got settled in. I picked up some fun things for the kids to have as surprises for the trip. Some new towels and some goggles plus a set of Lincoln logs to play with. I had heard that some of the bloggers received Lincoln logs in their invites so I didn’t want my kids to feel left out plus it is a pretty easy toy for them to play with in the hotel room. Continue reading Happy Little Wolf Pups