Anonymous
Post 01/02/2025 06:05     Subject: Can you tell me about Great Wolf Lodge please?

OP, you could try showing your dd some Youtube videos of it. My 10 yo dd, who is autistic, watched some and said, No. LOL at least she could get an idea of the noise and crowds.
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2025 01:13     Subject: Can you tell me about Great Wolf Lodge please?

Anonymous wrote:Bedbugs always


Bedbugs never in 6 visits for us.

In our “rookie” visit, affected by DCUM people like you, I even asked for a bedbug inspection of our room before we entered, as we watched, and they happily complied.

No bedbugs for us.
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2025 00:35     Subject: Can you tell me about Great Wolf Lodge please?

Bedbugs always
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2025 00:31     Subject: Can you tell me about Great Wolf Lodge please?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is it just you and your daughter? You will have to be with her the entire time. Climbing stairs for slides, being wet, in the crowds.


Just us. Do I have to climb the stairs for all of the slides, or can I wait at the bottom? She's 8.


No, my 7 year old can do all the slides by himself without me.


The larger slides have height limits.
Anonymous
Post 01/02/2025 00:30     Subject: Can you tell me about Great Wolf Lodge please?

Anonymous wrote:We went to Cub Run recently and my daughter loved it, so I’m considering GWL, but I’m not sure whether it’s our scene. She’s autistic and has trouble with large crowds. I have a medical condition that’s exacerbated when I get too hot, and I suspect the air in there is hot and humid. I also have trouble climbing a lot of stairs. Can we do GWL or would it be a disaster? I did the slides at Cub Run a few times and then sat and watched her, which worked great. Can you do that at GWL?


I would not do this unless you're going on a Wednesday of a week that has five full days of school. Even then, it might still be crowded. Also, there are SO MANY STAIRS for the large slides (the ones that require tubes, and some of them you have to carry your own heavy tube). My kids had a great time, but it's a lot. Definitely sensory overload if you go on a weekend.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2025 14:58     Subject: Can you tell me about Great Wolf Lodge please?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is it just you and your daughter? You will have to be with her the entire time. Climbing stairs for slides, being wet, in the crowds.


Just us. Do I have to climb the stairs for all of the slides, or can I wait at the bottom? She's 8.


Every kid is different. For my kids, at the Williamsburg site, I was comfortable standing in line with him till he got to the top of the stairs, and then going over to wait at the bottom of the slides, by the time they were about 6 or 7.

I wasn't comfortable with them being out of my sight in the water, unless it was the super shallow water by the climbing structure, so I'd move from place to place and watch from the side, and I wanted to be in the water with them in the wave pool and the lazy river.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2025 14:52     Subject: Can you tell me about Great Wolf Lodge please?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You will get sick there no ones leaves there well.


We went for years and years. Never came out sick. Hand to God, not even once.


Same, no illness of any sort.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2025 14:52     Subject: Can you tell me about Great Wolf Lodge please?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is it just you and your daughter? You will have to be with her the entire time. Climbing stairs for slides, being wet, in the crowds.


Just us. Do I have to climb the stairs for all of the slides, or can I wait at the bottom? She's 8.


No, my 7 year old can do all the slides by himself without me.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2025 14:48     Subject: Can you tell me about Great Wolf Lodge please?

Anonymous wrote:You will get sick there no ones leaves there well.


We went for years and years. Never came out sick. Hand to God, not even once.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2025 14:47     Subject: Can you tell me about Great Wolf Lodge please?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Go midweek.


+1. Midweek, and go to the waterpark early when it opens or late before it closes. We did that it wasn't noisy or crowded.


My two boys and I would go Sunday night into Monday - 24 hours was enough of everything and they were ready to go by Monday noon. Cheaper, fewer people and cleaner.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2025 14:44     Subject: Can you tell me about Great Wolf Lodge please?

Anonymous wrote:You will get sick there no ones leaves there well.


We've never gotten sick there. We don't go during peak times, though. Go midweek off-season at opening and it will be extremely clean, no lines for slides, no crowds.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2025 14:42     Subject: Can you tell me about Great Wolf Lodge please?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is it just you and your daughter? You will have to be with her the entire time. Climbing stairs for slides, being wet, in the crowds.


Just us. Do I have to climb the stairs for all of the slides, or can I wait at the bottom? She's 8.


No, you can wait at the bottom for her as long as she is not scared to go herself.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2025 14:39     Subject: Can you tell me about Great Wolf Lodge please?

You will get sick there no ones leaves there well.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2025 14:20     Subject: Can you tell me about Great Wolf Lodge please?

Anonymous wrote:Is it just you and your daughter? You will have to be with her the entire time. Climbing stairs for slides, being wet, in the crowds.


Just us. Do I have to climb the stairs for all of the slides, or can I wait at the bottom? She's 8.
Anonymous
Post 01/01/2025 11:08     Subject: Can you tell me about Great Wolf Lodge please?

Is it just you and your daughter? You will have to be with her the entire time. Climbing stairs for slides, being wet, in the crowds.