Ijams Nature Center Tours

Was a very older hotel, but was suitable.

Nice, clean, fairly new, and convient property. We arrived in the afternoon, so i assume they werent as staffed as they would be peak hours. The lodge staff member helping the family ahead of us was awesome and gave a wealth of knowlege about the area and resort. Thankfully i listened to their group as i waited over 15mins in line that was only us and them until our staff member came and assisted us. She gave us nothing for info and really had short answers for our queations like she was ready to go home or an inconvenience. Property is nice but i dont think the web sites convey enough how big the property is. There must be 100 condos on this small side of a hill with each having 6-12 units in them. Parking is pleantiful but every space fills by evening. I also would have liked to have been able to pick or have an option of where our accommodations were. There are buildings to stay at the base of the hill - and there are places to stay at the top that have great views! Ours was by the road and noisy most of the night. I will warn it is a STEEP drive up and be sure you have good breaks to drive down. 3 pools besides the waterpark all of which are quite small. House was nice and clean and lovley bedding and wonderful big heavy pillows! BIGGEST surprise was the added $30 night resort fee. It is at the bottom of expedia mentioned when i went back but you might miss that. I asked whats it for, staff saidforselfparkingREALLY

We came in an “off season” in April so I understood more since the pool was just opened, but there wasn’t enough staff to accommodate the kiddy pool and slide, and we had one nice day where it didn’t rain and our kids had to wait a couple hours. We also went to a couple events and story time and no one was around, so I’m not sure if they just cancelled events, but that would be my only comment on the facility. Everything else was fine.