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| - Having been to 3 GWLs, this one is better than the one in Wisconsin Dells, but not as good as the one in Virginia.
It's fairly new, so it's not as dirty or unorganized as the one in Wisconsin, and it seems fairly well laid out. We always seem to end up on the first floor with the water park a short walk away. It's got a good assortment of slides and pools. I love the fact that they have wristbands at GWLs with your room key info and credit card info on them, so you never have to bring a key card or purse along with you.
The Williamsburg, VA GWL has a lazy river and hot tubs, this one has neither. The MagiQuest is just in the hallways of the hotel, not in a separate building/room, so you're lacking the immersion for the MagiQuest as well as irritating the non-MQ guests.
The restaurant at the Concord GWL is also a lot poorer in quality than some of the other resorts, as it's mostly focused on a small buffet. If you order from the menu, you will be very disappointed. The menu here is very limited compared to the Williamsburg restaurant, which had a peanut chicken salad I really liked. The Concord restaurant only really offered some burgers and steaks and such, with no real innovation on the menu. I ordered a half rack of ribs, thinking they couldn't possibly mess it up. Well I guess it must have been cut wrong, since half of it was a strip of fat, and the other half was the rib bones interlaced with blackened meat. For breakfast we usually eat pop tarts and oatmeal, since they do have functioning microwaves. For dinner I recommend ordering from Papa John's, which will deliver fairly quickly (they will call you from the front desk when they get there, not take it to your room). However beware that pizza boxes don't fit in your room's mini fridge, so if you have leftovers you should have a plan for wrapping or storing them. There's also a hibachi/sushi place just down the hill called Tsunami that wasn't terrible. The lunch prices are under $10 for hibachi, and they offer kids foods like chicken strips and corn dogs for picky eaters.
I noticed this time around they got rid of the "GR8 space" tween club area and installed some mini-bowling. We didn't try the bowling, since we were so busy with the water park, arcade, and MagiQuest, but maybe next time. We've tried the mini golf before and it's not better than what we can get locally. The Wi-fi is spotty, so if you're planning to do work on your vacation, or watch movies while you run on the treadmill in the exercise room, you should probably bring a book as backup.
It's not a terrible spot by any means, but I think next time we're going to drive the extra hour to Williamsburg for the better Great Wolf Lodge.
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