Great Wolf Lodge Water Park

This place is pretty awesome for both kids and adults. They have a huge arcade inside as well as an indoor water park. It was the best indoor getaway I’ve ever seen. They have a surfing wave to try out. Plus multiple water slides and a giant maze of water wildness jungle gym set up. The food indoors that is part of the water park is ridiculously expensive as well as the drinks, but it’s was still a blast. We only booked one night and hit the park the next day. We will definitely be back. Just an FYI, they have an awesome group of people that are employed there. They put on a dance along activity for the kids and yoga and much more. I just can’t tell you about everything because there’s a lot more to do that we didn’t try. HAVE FUN AND TRY IT FOR SURE!

We all had a blast. We really appreciated seeing how dedicated the lifeguards were to keeping an eye on everyone. The rooms were nice, I appreciate the mini fridge and microwave. The only real thing that I wished was there was more healthy food options, we are plant based so there wasn’t anything for us to eat. We knew this going into it and brought our own food or ate out at the MOA which was not bad. But would’ve loved the convenience of staying in our room or in the lobby to eat.

We got reservations with mixed feelings. We had some friends with good experiences here and other with not so good ones.
Let me tell you, I’m so happy that we decided to go and have the Great Wolf Lodge experience for ourselves!!. Great place, everything about it screamed Family friendly which is exactly what we were looking for. The room was clean, and had bunk beds for my boys, the hotel had restaurants, bowling, arcade, ice cream shop, zipline course, and of course, the waterpark!. It was cool, the kids loved it!
It’s like 4 minutes from Mall of America, so there’s tons to do outside of the hotel.
We had a fabulous family time. We are definitely visiting again.

There’s a lot to like about this spot. Really great for the kids. I’ve been to 3 other Great Wolf Lodges. This one is in the middle of the pack.

Biggest complaints:
Was very, very hard to get our bed sheets changed after our kids got them wet coming back from the pool. At least 4 requests. Staff came in once and changed every bed but the wet one. When we finally got them to come back they acted pretty embarrassed and apologized for leaving it when they had been told to clean it.

The magiquest set up here seems poorly maintained or broken compared to others. Really frustrating, got worse when we asked the staff for help and they basically said “yeah this stuff is broken and doesn’t work very well”. The game is too expensive to work this poorly. Also just sad for your kids when you know it works better elsewhere.

Biggest wins:

Kids activity staff (story time, etc) is really great here.

Lazy river into the wave pool is really fun.

If you plan to take a trip to GWL, I HIGHLY recommend it during the week. We stayed Monday to Saturday. Monday to Thursday was “busy” but not really crowded and had plenty of time to do all activities. Once Friday hit, it was PACKED. You will have to wait to do any activities, including the arcade. The pool also went from being able to find seats no problem to having a hard time finding a place come Friday. Thankfully, on our main day in the pool area, we rented a stocked cabana. It came with plenty of water, pops, and 4 alcoholic beverages! Plus 2 stainless steel tumbler cups!

Our room was perfect for our family of 5. The food can get fairly pricey quickly. The room key is a wrist band that can also be used to make charges to your room, which is paid at check out. It is super handy!

Even with the location being very close to the airport, the noise level of the flights was very minimal. It didn’t disturb sleeping for our family.