i don’t know who is more excited for the opening of the Great Wolf Lodge in Garden Grove, me or the kids!!!! but i can tell you that the boys and i are counting down the days till our stay in early March. we are super excited. i took a hard hat tour of the property last September, and wow! the Great Wolf Lodge is going to be AMAZING. you can read all about the tour and construction on the post i wrote.
first off….besides the AWESOME GIVEAWAY i will be sharing at the end of this post, i wanted to share a few pictures of what has been going on at the Great Wolf Lodge. construction is moving along, and in just a few months, Southern California is going to have its very first indoor water park along with an amazing family resort hotel. check out the latest progress on the water park…
and besides the 105,000-square-foot waterpark that is coming to GWL with all those awesome slides and attractions, the GWL Grand Lobby is continuing to take shape, including the fireplace where daily Story Time takes place with Great Wolf Kids characters; check out the antler chandeliers ready to be hung!
from the guest suites to the hallways, the family-friendly accommodations are looking more and more like Great Wolf Lodge every day…
and don’t forget about the Scooops spa, the Northern Lights Arcade, Ten Paw Alley, the restaurants and more.
i hope you can just imagine how fun the Great Wolf Lodge is going to be for families. it’s all very exciting!
PLUS…. good news!!!! you can already book your stay. the grand opening discount offer has been extended! Families now have until February 7, 2016 to book their stay and receive up to 20% off. click here for this special offer.
now, for what you’ve been waiting for….
WIN A STAY AT THE GREAT WOLF LODGE IN SOCAL!
one lucky winner will win a two-night stay in a family suite at Great Wolf Lodge SoCal! a $500 value which includes water park passes for 3 days for the entire family and a family suite that can sleep up to 6 people. how cool is that! i am very excited for one of you to win.
HOW TO ENTER there are 4 ways to enter…and you can enter them all!!!! The more entries, the more chances to win!!!!!!!
1) enter via Rafflecopter below
2) enter by posting a photo on Instagram holding a sign that says “what you are most excited about doing at GWL” AND hashtag #GWLSoCal. must tag @popsicleblog & @greatwolflodge
3) enter by posting a photo on Twitter holding a sign that says “what you are most excited about doing at GWL” AND hashtag #GWLSoCal, must tag @popsicleblog & @greatwolflodge
4) enter by posting a photo in the comments of this Facebook post holding a sign that says “what you are most excited about doing at GWL” AND hashtag #GWLSoCal.
Giveaway Ended
Rules & Regulations: Winner will receive two one-night stay certificates valid only at Great Wolf Lodge Southern California. Each is valid for a single night stay in a Family Suite. Must mention the gift certificates upon making the reservation. Reservation stay is based on discount availability and not available on holidays. Some additional blackout dates may apply. Certificate expires August 31, 2016 and does not carry cash value. Recipient must be at least 21 years old.
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My kids would be on cloud nine! Love the water park!
My daughter is super excited to bowl at ten paw Alley & play in the arcade! My son will love the pool.
We’re excited for the allergy friendly chefs/restaurants! We’re also looking forward to the water park!
Looks like such an awesome place!! It’s about time we got something like this in SoCal!
I have never heard of this place, looks really fun. My kids would love the water slides.
Can’t wait to go this summer!
Can’t wait to go visit GWL SoCal
So excited that they are in So Cal. Looking forward to the waterslides!!
Can’t wait to have my little one hit those water slides!!
I want to go!
I’m most excited to see the look on boys faces if we get a chance to go 🙂 they’re my two little fishys, so excited for the grand opening! My little ones birthday is in Febraury!!
This looks amazing! So excited they’re opening one in Southern California!
Water slides and kid-friendly hotel rooms for sure!
So fun!
We have been wanting to visit one of the great wolf lodges for years, so excited one will be in the area!
would love to win this! We’d tear the place up!
Me and my kids would have a blast!!
Holy moly the water park would be bomb ! Especially because of it only being open to guests!
This would be the perfect spot for a family vacation with my 2 boys! Those slides look amazing!
Would love to win!
We’ve been waiting for this place to open! After just having a baby on New Year’s Eve, this would be a welcome getaway but not too far away. ??
Can’t wait to see it decorated for Christmas
The water park for sure!!
we are so excited there is a GWL coming to So CA, we would LOVE a chance to stay there for my daughter’s 10th birthday!! thank you for hosting a give away!
I want to take my son for his birthday. He would love the slides!!
How cool it s this place? Never seen anything like it!
We would love the water slides!!
I’m from Wisconsin, home of the Dells. I always see my cousins posting cool pics of their trips to the Dells. So cool to have something like that come to SoCal! And on a nerd note, as a water treatment operator, I would be curious to see how they manage, treat & conserve all that water.
Thanks Sandy Toes & Popsicles for sharing this great new locale! Look forward to my kiddos experiencing the slides.
The kids would get a kick out of that ice cream sundae tub! The water slides would definitely be a favorite!
What a great opportunity! I hope I win! Good luck everyone!
I would love to take my family to the new great wolf lodge! My boys would love the water slides!
This would make my kiddos sooo happy and that is priceless
Sooooooo excited!!!!!
Awesome giveaway! My kids would love this!!!
Waterslides!
We are planning to go in march for our kids’ birthdays! I can’t wait!!
How exciting! Looking forward to the sensory play fun my boy will have at the water play!
The indoor waterpark looks amazing!
Indoor Waterpark! So excited!
Had a crazy hard year. My kids would love a trip here!!!!!
We are so looking forward to checking this place out!
This is gonna be awesome!
Our family (mom, Dad, a 8 year old & 4 year old) is SO excited about the GWL!! The water park, the bowling, the ice cream & pedi’s OH MY!!
This looks amazing! My family would love this. Thanks for sharing the awesomeness!
Oh I would love to enjoy a waterpark not worrying about getting sunburned!
I love that it has everything you need in one place.
Wow, this looks like such a cool and fun park and I love the room decor! Thanks for sharing the giveaway!
Pick me! Pick me! : )
My kiddos have never been to a water ark yet. Really looking forward to that the most! ??✨?
I’m excited to see the pool and all the fun things included their. Thanks for the chance!
thanks!
The water slides!!
The water slides!!!
My kids would LOVE the water park! I so want to take them!
I am most excited for the amazing waterpark!
So excited for an indoor waterpark!! We live less than. 30 minutes away. But we will totally stay here just for a chance to play!!
I’ve heard great things about the experience if staying and playing at the Great Wolf Lodge from others who have been blessed to go.
The best part would be seeing my 3 kids’ faces taking in all that amazingness!
We want to swim in gwl!!
I have always wanted to take my family to the other locations but now that there will be one in OC….even better!!!
The rooms look incredible! And, my kiddos would love the water slides!! This would truly be a blessing!
Water park!
My boyfriend is like over the moon about this place opening. He loves waterparks, and now that Cameron can swim mostly unassisted? They’re going to go nuts.
Water Park!!
Everything! For sure the indoor slides!
I’m looking forward to relaxing in the luxurious guest suite!
Using the waterpark in the dead of “winter”!
My family could stay here (with us) when they come to visit and my son would be able to go on this magnificent rides! He would SOOOO love this. As would we all.
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This place is so amazing. My little boys would love everything about this place. Cant wait for them to open.
We would love to be able to stay here. I’ve been showing my kids the progress as its being built.
Can’t wait to start making memories and bringing my family here. So many activities for all ages to enjoy, and oh the Waterpark in the middle of winter!
Oh Wow! We have been talking about GWL for a couple of years. Those cute rooms look like so much fun! It’s been a major bucket list item for our family. I am most excited to play in the waterpark!!!
I’m most excited to see the excitement on my kids’ face! I love that we are getting an indoor waterpark in town!! 😀
My family would go cuckoo over that water park! Wow!
This looks like a lot of fun
This place looks super awesome. I think my husband will have more fun then the kids.
The waterslide park for sure!
My son will love this place!
Swimming fun year round!
This looks like so much fun! Can’t wait for it to open.
So excited about all the water featues and slides.
This place looks amazing…should have been built here years ago!!!
Those slides look amazing!!! This is exactly what makes our family of 6 happy! My 4 boys love adventures & Lodge has so many!!!
Awesome to have something so fun so close to home!!
Ummm That Lazy River!!! I could stay in that all day… then maybe a drink or two or three at the restaurant there.. 😉
The indoor lazy river
I don’t know much about it but the water slides would be something my kids have never had the chance to try.
I want to see the water slides.
I think the Fitness Center would be my fave amenity.
This place looks so fun! I would love to go here with my family! The water slides and the scenery are amazing!
I am excited by the water slides and the bowling all in one place!
Excited to try the water slides!
We are excited about the waterslides and that it is close to home. 🙂
How to choose…my kiddos would have a blast!!!
Water slides for sure!!
I wanna stay here with the kiddos! Hope I win!!
Oh my goodness; this looks like such a fun place…and close to home, too!
Most excited about the water park…of course
EVERYTHING! It looks like SO much fun!!!
Looks like a great time!
The water slides!
waterslides
What an amazing place….Can’t wait to take my family….I did not know about this place & now can’t wait to check it out!!
Can’t wait to try out the water slides!
It looks so much fun! Looks amazing!
The indoor waterslides!!!! My kiddos would love it!!!
I’m so excited for this place. Looks like so much fun!!
It looks like it is going to be AMAZING!!! Can’t wait for it to open. Thanks for this great giveaway.
EVERYTHING! It looks so amazing!
It looks amazing!!
We already have a stay booked! Hoping to make this an annual family staycation!
The indoor water slides – it’ll be a staycation for our family!
I can’t wait to see all the water slides! I know my kids will love it!
Absolutly everything!!!! WOW!!
Love the cozy hotel and waterslides!
My boys are always up for a water park 🙂
I am so excited to see the indoor water slides!!!
The waterpark looks awesome!
My kids would love the waterpark.
This sounds like a great family adventure! Definitely something our family can enjoy together!!
The waterpark! It looks amazing!
Oh SUPER fun! My 2 kiddos would have a blast!
Ooooh! I want to take Isabella to the cute Spa!
My girls would love the endless water!
I am so excited to share my love of WATERPARKS and ADVENTURE with my son!
Wow! Looks amazing! I am most excited about seeing my kids faces when we walk in! How fun! Thank you!
A suite to house our huge growing family? Yes please!! Those are harder to come by and the big kids would love this! Actually. I think my husband more 😉
Wow this looks like so much fun!! My kids would be in heaven!! And swimming in the winter?! Yes please!! 🙂
My son’s been begging us to take him here! So excited that there’s finally one close to us. He’s most excited about the water park!
What a great giveaway!
waterslides!!
This looks awesome! Thanks for the opportunity!
We can’t wait! I have heard such great things about them from out-of-state friends, my kids would love this place. And I really liked them on undercover boss ?
We love GWL!
A vacation would be awesome! Especially this place!
I hope to take my son . I’ve heard and been watching its build up we are excited!
This place looks amazing! I can’t wait to see all the outdoor activities.
I think I am most excited about the water slides!
Such a cool looking place!! Would love to see our girls faces when they slide down those awesome slides!!!! The rooms look wonderful too!!!
Wow! The construction pictures look amazing! I can’t wait to check out those water slides and whole water park. How great will it be to finish a fun day getting wet and just walking to our own room to shower and get cleaned up!
I’m so excited for this hotel to open! We’ve driven by many times to watch the progress in construction. We are most excited about the 105,000 square foot waterpatk! How awesome does that look?! Really we are excited for all of it! A new family adventure in our own backyard!
Most excited about the waterpark!!
I am excited about being able to enjoy my stay rain or shine! 😀
This place looks like so much fun all the activities!! The water slides are what I’m most looking forward to, hope to win!
I have family in Pittsburgh that go once a year and they rave about it. It’ll be nice to have one close that we can drive to. Maybe we’ll become fans.
I can’t wait to see the look on my daughter’s face when she takes it all in
My sons and I can’t wait to see what the biggest water slide is like! Not to mention how awesome the hotel is going to be!!
Love that we will have an indoor water park! It sounds like it is going to be a fun place for all ages!
Excited to see all the fun things for my 3 boys.
The Great Wolf Lodge looks amazing! The slides looks fun to slide on! The scoop spa so awesome for my daughter and I to relax ! Most of all the rooms looks amazing to stay and enjoy the water park for days! Your post review got me excited to go with my family!
Water slides and just getting g away from it all for a bit.
We are actually staying at the one in Washignton State for my birthday! (I am a sucker)
I am most looking forward to mommy and daughter pedicures with ice cream!!
So excited about everything with this hotel. Have always wanted to visit the other locations but are so far. So happy we get one right here in So Cal!!
We can’t wait for the allergy friendly dining!
The waterslides and all the family fun! The whole thing looks amazing!
Would love to see the Game Room, water slides and restaurants!
Let me just say I’ve been wanting to check out one of their hotels/water parks since I first heard about them 6 years ago. I cannot believe there is going to finally be one in my area! I just want the whole experience it seems so fun! I’ve had friends from other states rave about it.
This would be a place when my kids have kids they will tell them about the time we went on an awesome staycation. My boys can’t stop talking about how rad the slides look. Thats what we are all excited about. This entire place will make adults become kids again!!!
The entire place looks so amazing, but I’d have to say the waterslides I think. Or the Game Room. Or the Ice Cream shop. Or the rooms in general!
Looking forward to seeing an indoor waterpark! My severely autistic son would love being able to play in the warm water, no matter how cold or wet it is outside!
Looks great!
Cannot wait to take the kids!!
I can’t wait for this place to open! So excited!
I am excited to see the indoor water park and watching my kids having fun at it.
Everything! Looks amazing!!
Indoor waterpark?! Soo awesome!!
I am excited about everything! I cannot wait!!!
We are excited as it just likes an amazing places for some real great family fun. The kind of fun great memories are made of. I can’t wait!
This would be the most fun family vacation
My kiddos would LOVE THIS place. We love water slides and are most excited about them!
I was just telling me husband about this!!! A must!! I can’t wait to go!
I’m so excited for everything! It looks like such a great place to get away for a bit and have fun!
The water park!
Look like a great place! Would love to win so our family of 6 can try this place out!
The water park looks like so much fun!
My kids would love all the water slides!
So excited to try this place!!! Been dying to go and now we can staycations there!?
Waterslides….getting mani pedi’s………………..
This would be so exciting to bring my family to. They love water slides and my daughter loves staying in hotels.
It looks like so much fun!
I’m excited about the water slides!!
So excited, can’t wait to see this place:-)
the waterslides and a great place for a staycation besides disney!
So excited we are getting one here – staycation time!!
I would love to see my son’s face, the moment he see the indoor water park.. He would be so excited to go done the water slide.??
Definitely looking forward to getting on those water slides this summer! My boys would love it!!
this looks amazing especially the cool bunks!
We are excited because we love the hotel and the water slides that can be used all the time!!!
This place looks amazing!! I love that it’s so close to home!!! So I can still check on pets!! Most excited about the awesome slides!!
Thanks for a great preview! Can’t wait for it to open!!
I cant wait till this place opens it looks amazing. My kids would love the indoor water slides and arcardes
Excited for great Wolf Lodge to open.
I believe great wolf lodge is in garden grove might need to update the city. Could be wrong.
The whole experience! Looks amazing! Family would love it!!
We are excited about the waterslides. We love that one will be so close to us!
Oh My Goodness where to begin….The rooms the water slides the everything!!!!! Beyond excited!!