MagiQuest

Loved it at first, but my wand kept not working. It’s a Saturday with one worker! Seriously? I stood in line two different times for a total of over an hour of wasted time. I had to wait behind long and slow lines just getting registered to simply have my wand reset which takes a whopping 10 seconds!!! So frustrated considering the cost. The fun I was having just disappeared. I’m so ticked off right now. I will never recommend the WI Dells location to anyone!!!

Little confusing at the beginning, specially for the little ones but we had so much fun!

Last year we took the family to MagiQuest in Myrtle Beach. We really enjoyed it, but ran out of time. Literally. There, you buy minutes, which puts a lot of pressure on you to get your adventures in. With our stay at Great Wolf Lodge, our time lasted as long as our stay, which was great! We could come and go as we pleased without feeling pressure of having to do everything at one time.
MagiQuest is connected to Great Wolf Lodge. You can go there on your own (without staying at the resort), or do it as part of your stay. Having already bought the hardware, it was only about $ 13 for each kid to participate. We headed down there right after checking in, knocked out a few quests, then hit the water park. MagiQuest is open until 11pm while the waterpark closes at 9pm. Once we were done with our watery activities, we changed into dry clothing and finished our night with a few more quests.
The next morning, the younger of my two was up early, so I took him out for his last two quests — the two that take you through Great Wolf Lodge. When we got back, everyone was up, and he took the older one out to catch up. We then checked out and hit the waterpark for the several hours. When finished, we went back one last time to MagiQuest to battle the dragon.
My intention wasn’t to give you my timeline of our vacation, but more to show how great it is to feather in MagiQuest with your stay at Great Wolf Lodge. While not as big and detailed as the Myrtle Beach location, it was pretty good — sporting four levels (yes, more stairs!) as well as two quests over at the lodge.
Even my 15-​year-​old was able to let loose and have fun. Heck, as the dad, I enjoy solving the puzzles and finding all the stuff too!
The employees were all excellent — great customer service! They were happy to help when we had any questions or problems. The place was clean and well-​run.
I probably wouldn’t bring kids that are TOO young — I saw a few screaming toddlers that just ran around waving their wand, mad that «it wasn’t working». You’ll want to consider your kids’ patience before committing to the costs here.
One note: They have some fun climby-​ropey things and slides to play on — giving kids other ways to change levels (besides stairs). Guests can play on those without a MagiQuest purchase, I guess (so says the front desk).

Dumb.
My daughter is 9 and thought this was horrible. The wands never work and you have to go back into the office to get it «reset». Would never come back again.

Fun one time experience.
Went here mainly for my 8 year old who is big time into magic and video games. The experience was a fun one getting to choose his own wand and magic topper. Being a first timer it was kind of complicated trying to figure out how things worked, and my sons wand stopped working twice which was frustrating. Not to mention we were told that in order to finish a mission would be 4 hours! WOW! That’s a lot for a little kid. The structure itself was pretty awesome with lots of things to climb on lots of slides and hidden passageways.
All in all we had a great time here :)

Fun place for lots of different ages. Kids will love running around and zapping different things with their wands. Lots of quests will keep them busy for hours. One game lasts for 96 hours (4 days), so it’s a great place for a return visit. A second game, shadow quest, can be played with the same equipment. Some quests are in the great wolf grand lobby, connected internally through hotel hallway. The paw pass at great wolf includes a game and a wand.

We loved Magi Quest! We purchased a Paw Pass with our stay at the Great Wolf, which allowed us a free game and free wand during our stay. We spent so much time at Magi Quest, it really helped keep my kids entertained.
Like Jasmin said, be prepared to get a lot of exercise trying to keep up with your kids and going back and forth between the levels to complete the quests. They also have hotel quests that you can complete in addition to the quests inside Magi Quest. It was well worth the money. I would definitely go there again, and recommend it.

Super fun. My son & husband loved running around the whole hotel waving their magic wands!

Be prepared to lose your children! My oldest wanted to play the game, my youngest went into a fit over the maze of slides. Maybe I watch my children too closely, but I nearly had a coronary trying to keep up with them in this place. I left exhausted, but they haven’t stopped talking about it since we left!
There are 4 floors, and no way to know who went where once they get out of your sight. Be prepared to get a lot of exercise, as you walk up and down stairs trying to follow the clues or track down your kids. My 9 year old needed a little help playing the game, but didn’t really want it. Either it’s better suited for older kids, or he was just too excited to focus… thus wandered around, back and forth, up and down stairs a lot.
The doors aren’t guarded, so it’s not a place I would feel safe just letting them run loose. However, they both enjoyed every minute of it. Of all the things they did in the Dells this is the only one they talk about, and the reason they’re bugging me to go back as soon is school is out for the summer.
They loved MagiQuest more than Chuck E Cheese, Monkey Island, Knucklehead, and Legoland combined. For my boys, MagiQuest is seriously a big deal!

Stop staring at me. I’m a nerd okay? A big nerd girl who plays video games and likes fantasy novels. I read comic books and play RPG’s. I’m telling you to stop staring! IT WAS AWESOME OKAY?! Magiquest that is. I loved it.
I mean at first it pissed me off. I couldn’t figure out wth I was supposed to do, and the wands are very touchy. You need to be mostly accurate in your ‘casting.‘
We had never been there and it was something new to do in the Dells. We’re big Wizard Quest fans so we decided to check this out. It was in the local newspaper and all of that but none of the ticket sellers knew much more than that. So it was a mystery… I was even more determined to go there. Apparently there are multiple locations (somewhere dispersed in the world, or at least the U.S. I don’t know Asia or Europe’s views on real world RPG’s you know.)
The wand they give you (which you buy for approximately 15 bucks, twenty something if you want a ‘prettier’ wand, does the same thing. I got the traditional wood colored one. My sister grabbed a silver. She’s totally like that you know.) gets activated and then you use it to swish in front of censors all over the place in order to complete quests. That’s your wand forever. You can pick up where you left off at ANY Magiquest location.
When you finish quests you get awards and are alloud to do more quests and get these charm awards that you can use toward other quests (and gold, lots of gold). There’s probably enough to do that you could spend at least a year every day in there doing quests. (If not longer, and that’s just saying they don’t expand the quest range or the facility.) Which would throw you into bankruptcy of course and then you’d have to hide in Magiquest after they closed for the night for your lack of housing. (Unless you’re in Texas. I believe they let you keep your house there when you’re bankrupt.)
Magiquest is a lot like a giant RPG that you play without having to be dressed up. In a big building. With a giant tree in the middle and a Wizard that guides you to your quests and gives you your rewards. Remember playing in the balls at Chuck E Cheese? Crawling over obstacles at Discovery Zone? Think that kind of place, but on a much bigger scale.
You can FIT in the tubes and on the nets and when you’re running around you’re getting the work out you’ve been missing out on while you’ve been on vacation. I was sweating, and totally BEAT an hour and a half in. (No, I’m not a giant fatty thank you. But even a giant fatty can play here comfortably I believe.) You can pay for a 2 hour game, or for an entire day. They have different rates for different play times. There is no pause though so don’t spend the money for the day if you won’t be playing all day.
When I started playing I almost wanted a refund. The wand didn’t work right, I didn’t know what I was doing and I was losing time on my account (which you can check by checking in with one of the elemental peeps on different floors). As I started to figure it out even my dad got into it with me. If you’re not a climber or a tumbler there ARE stairs. My sister is younger than I am and she preferred the stairs as to save time and accomplish more. I continued to tell her that using the jungle of shoots and ladders was much more fun. Pfft, kids.
Honestly, it really doesn’t look like you can spend even 2 hours there without running out of things to do. But dear me, you’d be mistaken. Another thing you should take into account is the SLIDES! Dude, they have slides that are ⁴⁄₅ stories high and you go down (no shoes please! and if you’re wearing long pants it’ll be an easier ride down) and you FLY like a rocket. I was scared for my life the first time I went down one. And then I couldn’t stop it was just too exhilarating.
Oh come on don’t roll your eyes. You have to try it.
On the whole boring technical side of things… the staff is a bunch of dressed up geek ass teenagers and a couple of them don’t know what the hell they’re talking about when they try to explain it to you. They have a very pretty gift shop that I wanted to get all manic in and buy up. And they also have a snack/​food area. There are also big areas for dungeon type things to do: D. That should probably go somewhere else in this review, but you know, it spices up this part.
Overall, little kids may have a hard time trying to crawl around the play areas, its honestly more for bigger kids and adults. However they can enjoy this family friendly game. So can adults, so can anybody really. If you like a little fantasy break from real life, check out Magiquest. Noooobody in there is judging you. It’s a community effort to kick ass!
Check for your game name on the high score board above the tree! Live long and prosper! And umm… all that.