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A Surprise Trip to Great Wolf Lodge

Surprise trip to Great Wolf Lodge
Photo-A-Day #4660

Back in March I made reservations for Great Wolf Lodge… for Halloween. Plans changed and we had to switch up the trip to a later date. Since we didn’t want to take the kids out of school too long we choose MLK Weekend to visit Great Wolf New England. For the past week we have been secretly getting things in place to surprise the kids. I found their wands for MagiQuest (One of their favorite activities) and also their Clubhouse Crew stuffed animals. Andrew has Oliver the Raccoon and Eva has Violet the Wolf. I found Andrew’s and stowed that away easily without him seeing or finding out. Eva was more difficult. I checked her stuffed animal boxes and couldn’t find Violet. I finally had to ask her for it because I had no clue. She got suspicious so I asked her for her Minnie Mouse as well and said I had to take photos for a blog post.

so , this morning I get home and switch all the bags into the car and I cover it with a blanket. I was home an hour early and they asked me about that. I said it was because I was going to go to Church in the same car with them. They weren’t having it at all. They were so onto us. They did not know where we were going but Great Wolf Lodge was bandied about as a destination. We tried to throw them off the scent but they were very perceptive. I don’t think we can surprise these kids that much anymore.

We stopped and had breakfast at Cracker Barrel and then headed up to Fitchburg to go to the Lodge. This was not a sponsored trip or anything like that. The PR department at the lodge didn’t contact me back at all in all my attempts. I had everything booked ahead of time and was able to check us in so we sailed through the check in process. The kids used their money to buy Paw Passes which let them do a number of fun things during our stay including MagiQuest. That was the first thing we did when we arrived because we weren’t sure if we could go into the water park that early.

We played MagiQuest for about and hour and then changed and went to the water parks. We got a text later on that told us the room was ready and so I told Allison the number and then I went and unloaded the car and brought everything up.

We changed and then headed out to pick up Allison’s grandma Eva. We took her to Grandma Jackie’s house and had pizza and salad for dinner. It was a nice visit. Then we took Eva home and went back to the Lodge to get some rest for tomorrow’s adventures.

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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 →