Great Wolf Lodge - Concord

RenegadeT

RenegadeT

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The website makes it sound fawesome, I spent about 30mins reading most of it...how about some feedback from people who've gone? I've got 3 kids, boy age 7, boy age 5 and girl age 5, all are pretty decent swimmers.
Any hidden costs? It looks like we'd be into a themed suite to get the boys in to a bunk bed room, girl could sofabed it, then $40 extra for the 3rd kid's park pass. I'm having a hard time finding the "extras" on the website, like how much is the MagicQuest, and would my kids enjoy it?
thoguhts on meals? Is it feasable to pack up and leave the grounds for a restaurant. Can you leave a cooler form sammiches in the room or car?
 
My Ex finace works there. It is pretty cool. No real hidden fees. The room price is for 4x passes to the water park. You can request up to 2x additional ones per room if I remember right. you can eat wherever you want. Magicquest I think was $15 for the wand and $20 for the quest. the quest is kinda cool the different interactive stuff throughtout the hotel. The cool thing is the high scoores of the day show up on all the rooms tv screens so when you go to your room on the info channel the names and scores are shown.

It pretty much an ordinary hotel and all the rules of a typical hotel. The cool part is the water park is for people staying at the hotel only. So you do not have hords of people. The very large funnel water slide is super cool. There is a wave pool similar to carowinds, a playground with a 500 gallon bucket that dumps every 5-10 minutes, a wading pool to play water basketball, mini ropes course over another pool, there is an arcade, and a kids/girls spa thing. There is technically 2 resturants and a pizza hut and dunkin donuts.

Hope that helps out
 
It is awesome! We go a couple times a year and take our 6 year old daughter. Never tried Magiquest, we just stay in the water park. There are plenty of restaurants close by, you are just on the other side of I-85 from Concord Mills.
 
We went in June. The MagiQuest is about $30 per kid. With all the restaurants that are local to the area, don't bother with much of a balance on your wrist band. The breakfast for 3 of us was damn near $50 one morning, there is a Denny's about a mile away, we ate there for about 35, and you get 10% (or 20%?) off for telling them we were staying at GWL.

I think we spent about $300 on site in 5 days, gift shops, snacks, and all. 5 days is ENTIRELY too long to be there, after 3 we were ready to go home, 4 and we were bitchy towards each other, and the 5th day we just got up and left.

Our kids were 2 and 4 at the time, and didn't understand the MagiQuest game, but had to have the wands because EVERY other kid there had them.

Try to get a room away from the lobby area, as the game is centered around the lobby on all floors. If you're close, there's tons of foot traffic up and down the halls.

You can take in coolers or whatever, but there is a mini fridge in the room. When we got there we "upgraded" to a room with the bunk beds, our boys didn't like them, so we downgraded and moved to a two queen bed room like we had planned. We liked the downgraded room much better, as it was larger, or seemed so, by not having the room sectioned off for the bunk beds.
 
When we go, we only stay for 1 night, because that gets you 2 full days at the waterpark. Believe me, after 2 days in the waterpark, you will be water logged.
 
My wife went to the one in Williamsburg, Va as a nanny for 2 kids along with the their parents a few years back. She had a great time, the kids loved the magic quest, and she had a blast at the water park.
 
Some friends of mine go with their son every year. I think they paid around $250 for the three of them. The did Magic Quest and said it was fun, even the kids mother enjoyed it and you know how hard it is to keep women entertained haha... Its looks fun as hell! I might have to borrow their kid just to justify myself going!
 
We took our son for his bday overnight. I agree with the "eat of property" comments. Way better food options and prices outside the resort.

And 1 night (2 days in the waterpark) was plenty for us. My son and his friend really enjoyed doing the MagicQuest thing, as well.
 
made reservations today, we'll be there later his week. Oldest boy is 9, twin boy/girl will be 8 next month....this thread is old :eek:. Everyone is pretty excited, looks like we'll have to spring for the magicquest wands as that seems to be all the kids are talking about. The comments above were helpful. I'll have to check for any height restrictions and measure the kids, I bet we'll be fine. My oldest is super tall, twins are average height for their age.
 
RenegadeT said:
made reservations today, we'll be there later his week. Oldest boy is 9, twin boy/girl will be 8 next month....this thread is old :eek:. Everyone is pretty excited, looks like we'll have to spring for the magicquest wands as that seems to be all the kids are talking about. The comments above were helpful. I'll have to check for any height restrictions and measure the kids, I bet we'll be fine. My oldest is super tall, twins are average height for their age.
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My mom is planning something for Friday or Saturday night stay for the family. She won a gift certificate for a night stay and 5 entries. Never been, hopefully there is a bar and a hot tub...
 
braxton357 said:
"OK KIDS!! We're going to the Great wolf waterpark and magicquest!!!
(in two years)"
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LMAO....

Next trip is Disney. Hopefully they'll pull that one off before the kids go away to college.
 
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