Do you bring food when staying at a resort?

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Three nights is a really long time to go to GWL. You can honestly do 2 days and 1 night and it’s plenty. Note for the future.

As for bringing food, no we don’t ever bring food, but everyone has different budgets. If you are going to the one near Williamsburg, Pierce’s Pit BBQ was nearby and was amazing. There’s a family meal that would probably be enough for dinner and lunch the next day.

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Sure. Instant oatmeal packets (usually there's a way to get hot water easily in the hotel or the room) and ramen noodles fill kids up quickly.

A jar of peanut butter, crackers, granola bars, bananas. Eating 3 meals a day of restaurant food (or even 2 meals a day) gets heavy pretty quickly.

Yogurts, cheese, Fruit, sandwich fixings can all go in the fridge if you have one.

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Anonymous wrote:Three nights is a really long time to go to GWL. You can honestly do 2 days and 1 night and it’s plenty. Note for the future.

As for bringing food, no we don’t ever bring food, but everyone has different budgets. If you are going to the one near Williamsburg, Pierce’s Pit BBQ was nearby and was amazing. There’s a family meal that would probably be enough for dinner and lunch the next day.

Agree that one night is plenty for GWL. One night gets you two days in the park/pool. OP, if you’re on a budget and this is a summer trip, I would recommend Water Country USA over GWL. I think GWL is a great offseason trip. In the summer it loses some of its appeal IMHO. Outdoor water parks usually have bigger pools, slides and attractions than GWL.

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Anonymous wrote:Great wolf lodge food is pretty gross so I don't blame OP for wanting to bring stuff.

As an aside, have you gone over with your kids what extras you will be buying? There are SOOO many add ons to GWL and I feel like setting clear expectation as to what you will be spending money on helps.

Yes! Are you prepared for the Magic Quest wands and the arcade?

Op, depending on your neighborhood if you ask for magicquest wants someone might have one to hand down to you. I would totally do it if you lived in my neighborhood—my kids are teens now. Then you just need to pay the smaller amount to activate it. Also it’s totally fine to have your kids share a wand — that’s what we did the first time. Or just tell them not this time if it’s out of your budget — the pools and slides are fun enough! You may want to bring something like a board game or card game for the room if they get tired or swimming. We used to always do that.

What ages enjoyed magic quest?

I would say ages 6-12. It’s basically like a scavenger hunt in the hallway with a magic wand that you wave at something and it gives you the next clue. They definitely will want to do it together which is why I saw one wand is really sufficient, and they can take turns waving it. Lots of people bring them home and never use them again, but I think you need to have it reactivated when you bring it back and of course there’s a charge for reactivating but it’s less than buying one. My memory is that the wand with activation was about 50 or 60. Also if you’re gojng to Williamsburg there are definitely places to go for cheapish food within a short drive. I don’t know about the new Maryland location.

Thanks!