Not only could Napierski let her kids enjoy a fair amount of independence inside the waterpark, but they easily passed the 42-inch minimum height requirement on the most popular slides and rides, which meant her family could get its money’s worth.Īs a brand, Great Wolf Lodge understands how little conveniences can make a huge difference to families. When our correspondent Jennifer Napierski took her family to Great Wolf Lodge Poconos, it was soon obvious that her three boys (10-year-old Reece and 8-year-old twins, Devon and Ryan) were a great age at which to enjoy this place. The atmosphere is kid-centric and relaxed. Like its sister properties, this resort lays on the rustic lodge theme with an abundance of exposed pine, elk antler chandeliers, hand-crafted furniture, and handsome stone fireplaces. Open since 2005, the Poconos lodge is one of the newer locations in the Great Wolf Lodge empire and its 78,000-square-foot waterpark is among the chain’s largest. And this year, Great Wolf Lodge debuted Gr8_Space, a new club for tweens and teens offering web access and video games. Along with enormous indoor waterpark playgrounds, Great Wolf Lodges deliver kids’ clubs, spas (some geared to preteen girls), lobby movies, and MagiQuest, an interactive scavenger hunt game that makes Harry Potter wannabes feel like they’ve stepped into a wizarding wonderland.
The largest chain of indoor waterpark resorts-with 11 locations around the US and Canada and another coming to North Carolina -has been a pioneer in the waterpark niche, always staying ahead of the pack by adding new and improved wet and dry diversions for the whole family. Why Go: Great Wolf Lodge has always strived to be more than just a place to splash and sleep. "It’s because our guests love us and keep coming back, and we want to continue to give them reasons to.Great Wolf Lodgein Poconos (Flickr: Affiliate) "We’re always evolving, always adding on,” Storey said. The addition of nontraditional water park attractions - as well as a $1 million revamp to the lodge’s food outlets - are indications of the park’s desire to capture creativity in the water park-crowded Poconos. The last attraction to debut at Great Wolf Lodge was last year’s outdoor ropes course, Vandenhouten said. Great Wolf Lodge communications manager Jessie Vandenhouten said the current Slideboarding is stationed on a former attraction and that another slide with the game is expected to be opened in mid-August. “What else could you do? How else could you make it a powerful experience?” Weston said. The newfound connection between two seemingly incompatible forms of entertainment has Weston wondering what else could be created. The scores are also accessible from a smartphone app, Storey said, that also has a playable version of the ride’s game. The ride requires riders to create a login with a password, in order to be able to log their scores into a chart that’s accessible from any Slideboarding location in the Great Wolf resorts. It gives you a reason to go back again and again because each time the game is different.” “I think because they like seeing their score, and they like challenging each other. “We kept hearing from parents that their kids wouldn’t come back down because they kept going around and around,” Storey said. Susie Storey, director of communications for Great Wolf Resorts, said the ride is open to anyone 48 inches or taller, and that she’s already heard positive feedback from families. “The smartness of it is that it’s very exact.” “It’s the idea of coming within a target and pressing it at the right time,” Weston explained. The rider is allowed to choose a preferred genre of music to listen to on the ride, and can reach high scores by hitting the corresponding colored button on their raft as the current color of the flume they are in - much like how Guitar Hero demands the player to hit the same colored button on their guitar as on the screen. The slide, using fiberglass flumes with LED lighting and “video game controller” rafts, gives riders a chance to score points under a set username as they ride down one of three slides. “Instead of this being all about a digital world, I took what was digital and made it actual reality,” Weston said. Weston, the director of imagination at WhiteWater West, joined Great Wolf Lodge on Saturday morning to help introduce Slideboarding, a waterslide attraction with arcade video game components. It’s the dots Denise Chatman Weston connected to create Great Wolf Lodge’s newest indoor attraction.
That’s not an 8-year-old’s Christmas list. A waterslide, Guitar Hero and Super Mario.
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