Hotel room suite was very nice and roomy with all the comforts of home. Seemed a little pricey at first but a full sit down breakfast was part of the package for our family of 7. With the pool and water slides available all day it made for a great deal and stay. The indoor water park was a really big hit with the kids.

PROS:
Rooms were clean and updated. Had a flat screen TV (although the picture quality was worse than the "old school" TV we just threw out), microwave, coffee maker, and mini fridge. Rooms felt spacious and were very adequate for a family of four. Bed linens were updated and not that "slimy" bedspread of older hotels.

Staff were pleasant and helpful

Elf Hollow Cafe was very reaonably priced considering it was an in-hotel restaurant. We ate for dinner and everyone liked their food & kids meals were around $5 (compared to $10 at the Great Wolfe Lodge). Breakfast buffet was $10 and came with coffee. Kids prices were cheaper. Lots of variety of food for breakfast.

The hotel has another pool in a seperate area of the hotel. It had a pool of 3 feet deep, a hot tub, and another pool that didn't get over 5 ft. deep. My 5 year old liked this pool better as the main waterpark was teaming with too many people for her liking.

CONS:
The waterpark, arcade, and locker rooms were very compact. There were chairs & tables in the waterpark area, but so smushed together that there was no room to relax without being bumped into or splashed. All of the areas of the waterpark (toddler, big slides, hot tub, etc.) were practically on top of each other. Navigating the park made me feel like I was in downtown Chicago at Christmas

The pool towels were the size of an oversized hand towel. It has the plushness and absorbency of fine grit sandpaper. I'm not exagerrating either. The waterpark did not have adequate supplies of these "towels" all afternoon. Ridiculous.

The pool in the other part of the hotel as circa 1970's. The filtration system was obviously not at full strength as large hair balls were swirling all afternoon in both in the hot tub and the pool. Gross.

My extended family has gone to Great Wolfe Lodge several years in a row. We wanted to try something different this year and the consensus was that we want to go back to the Great Wolfe Lodge next year.

Just returned from a weekend getaway there for my son's 9th birthday. We were extremely impressed with the pleasant staff, the hotel accommodations (including restaurant and water park), and the value of the package. We booked the Splash package, which includes room, water park tickets, full breakfast, and delicious chicken dinner at the infamous Zehnder's. We have 5 children and had no problem booking a spacious suite for our family that was well within our budget. Typically, when booking online, we run into the statement that we have too many guests to accommodate. So, this was a welcome reprieve. The room was clean and provided lots of space. We were able to check in at noon so that we could drop off our luggage and change before entering the water park. We enjoyed the water park for both days of our stay and were made to feel very welcome with our larger-than-normal kids crew throughout our stay. We will definitely be returning in the future!

This hotel was really nice! We stayed in a family suite w/fireplace that was clean and lovely. The waterpark was very nice, clean and warm! There was a lifeguard there, a younger girl that wore a white tee-shirt, she was exceptionally friendly and gave me (the mom) tips on how to get in and out of the inflatable in order to ride the tube slides (great fun)!! Even the other guests were wonderful. This was one of the best trips in a long time! Thanks Zehnder's and the Zehnder's staff for giving us a wonderful holiday vacation!!