{"id":9748,"date":"2011-05-13T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9748"},"modified":"2014-02-15T12:23:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T17:23:23","slug":"youll-have-a-howl-at-this-family-first-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/13\/youll-have-a-howl-at-this-family-first-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019ll have a howl at this family-first hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Vancouver Sun:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Call it a cruise ship on land.<\/p>\n<p>The Great Wolf Lodge is unlike any other resort hotel in Canada, and one that despite being just a 10-minute drive from one of the greatest natural wonders of the world often compels guest to stay on-site for their entire vacation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur mission statement is creating family traditions one family at a time,\u201d explains Great Wolf Lodge GM Keith Simmonds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this place is about family traditions. You do stuff with your kids.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That \u201cstuff\u201d includes a 100,000 sq. ft indoor water park featuring 13 water slides, two giant hot tubs, a huge wave pool and a 500,000-litre lazy river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Vancouver Sun: Call it a cruise ship on land. The Great Wolf Lodge is unlike any other resort hotel in Canada, and one that despite being just a 10-minute drive from one of the greatest natural wonders of the world often compels guest to stay on-site for their entire vacation. \u201cOur mission statement&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,2],"tags":[5431,171,4227,692,1317,5433,1953,62,5432,2062,1487],"class_list":["post-9748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-hotels","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-cruise-ship","tag-great-wolf-lodge","tag-guests","tag-indoor-water-park","tag-keith-simmonds","tag-lazy-river","tag-natural-wonder","tag-vacation","tag-vancouver-sun","tag-water-park","tag-wave-pool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}