It could also be a great way to keep older kids or teens occupied while you enjoy a little nap in the hotel. But, for certain kids or their parents, this could very well be the highlight of their stay. With a 2-year-old and 5-year-old at a water park, I had already gotten plenty of walking in. For this reason, we didn’t actually accomplish very many quests. The objects and gold are hidden all over the hotel. Each quest is a mission to go find an object in Great Wolf Lodge and collect a certain amount of gold. Once you have it activated, you take it to one of two trees with computer screens built into them and you add quests to your wand. You can keep the wand and bring it back for future trips. To participate in MagiQuest, you buy a wand and then pay an activation fee to play during your stay. This feels very confusing and odd at first, but a trip to the MagiQuest store clears it all up…kind of. When at Great Wolf Lodge, one thing you’ll quickly notice is that lots of kids are running around the halls and stair wells waving a wand in front of random objects. You can go through it a different way each time, stay on the same level or go up, you can jump down or just take the stairs back down, spend 10 minutes or all day up there. Also, it’s not a course you go straight through. The cool thing is that when you pay for the unlimited pass ($19.99), they give you a wrist band so it gets you in for your whole stay. But with some helpful ropes coursers, he made it. He was just a little too light to get the zip line to go across with enough speed. Even though my five-year-old loved it, there are a few parts, especially going across the zip line that he almost got stuck on. If I had to choose one family activity for kids 6 and up to suggest splurging on, it would be this one. Not that I did that or anything… The next day, my husband went up with him too and I hung out with our daughter on the little practice course below. She LOVED it and was soon begging to go up high with her brother. Mothers let your son (or daughter) take you on this adventure….and have someone video you shrieking like a crazy person as you propel yourself off the three-story ledge. As my nerves started to show, he was suddenly telling me, “You can do it. My son was a little nervous at first, so I gave him pep talks, “You’re safe, the harness has you, you won’t fall.” I think I was almost too reassuring because before long he was leading me and going higher and higher, and on more and more challenging levels. He’s a little too small to go on his own, which left me to put on my big girl harness go up with him. My husband couldn’t make it the first part of our trip and my five-year old son decided he simply couldn’t wait for his Daddy to do the Howler’s Peak Ropes Course. But if you’ve got a little room in your budget for a splurge, they have some really cool extras that added a lot of fun and adventure to our weekend. If you are on a tight budget, the water park and included activities are more than enough to keep your kids busy and happy for two to three days. There is always something to do! Story Time is where my almost two-year old daughter learned their wolf cry, “Clap-Clap, Stomp-Stomp, Awwhoooo.” Three-weeks later and she is still doing this and I’m not going to lie, it’s pretty adorable. Then there is story time in the evenings and activities scheduled throughout the day, like the morning Wolf Walk indoor “hike,” family yoga, dance parties, face painting, bingo, photo opps with the characters. We lucked out and they surprised us by opening the outside pool Saturday and Sunday, even though it was early May. Giant water slides, a wave pool, a lazy river, a huge kiddie pool area with smaller slides, a pool for bigger kids and teens with ropes course-type challenges and basketball hoops, and an indoor/outdoor hot tub. It’s huge and has something for every age. With your stay at Great Wolf Lodge, each guest gets a pass to the indoor and outdoor waterpark (open during the summer months…and occasionally on warm spring weekends). Just The “Basics” (Included in your Stay)
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