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I’m not much of a waterpark person, but my kids love them! We were recently guests at Great Wolf Lodge in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. There’s a lot to love about this place!

Great Wolf Lodge is a chain of hotels that feature an indoor waterpark. It is open all year. In addition to the indoor waterpark, there is also an outdoor pool for use during the summer months.

Unlike an amusement park with long lines, the Great Wolf waterpark is only open to hotel guests. This makes it virtually impossible to have the overcrowding and long lines that are typical of regular amusement park. I also wasn’t afraid to let my kids wander around the waterpark themselves while I relaxed in the hot tub or the pool.

There are a few standard water slides, 2 pools, 2 hot tubs, a family tube ride and a water roller coaster. The Double Barrel Drop is the most adventurous and daring waterslide. Up to 4 people can ride in a quad tube, and then you get dropped into darkness with flashing colored lights and music. The tube rocks sideways down the track for most of the ride. An extreme adventure! The water slides were enjoyable for everyone - not too scary for the younger ones. The lazy river ride is also a relaxing tube ride with no drops in it, and you can just keep going around the track. For smaller ...

Among the other amenities the hotel provides are a salon for children and a track where kids can build an race their own remote control cars. On the down side, these activities are rather pricey. There are a few pizza restaurants, including a Pizza Hut. We opted for the sit-down restaurant and weren’t disappointed. The macaroni and cheese wasn’t from a box, the salad bar was fresh, and the fries were fabulous! I would go there to eat even if I wasn’t a guest at the hotel.

The kids really enjoyed the unique ‘Kids Cabin’ suite. Even

As far as cleanliness, the rooms were upstanding. I was a little disappointed at the cleanliness of the waterpark itself. People are allowed to bring food into the waterpark area, which is great if the people who bring the food also clean up after themselves. My kids found a band-aid floating in the wave pool, which was a little disgusting. These things do happen, and I think it’s people’s responsibility to not be slobs about it! Great Wolf has several locations throughout the US. I was able to talk to other families who had stayed in some of these other locations. The consensus seems to be that everyone loves them.

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