Meadow Brook Resort

My family and I stayed at Meadow Brook for 2 nights, and we were extremely pleased. The staff was extraordinary and did not hesitate to help us with whatever we had needed. The room was very clean, as well as the common areas. If you’re looking for big water slides this isn’t the place for you but there is a pretty cool little water park for smaller children. I’ve stayed at a several more popular hotels and water parks in the dells and from now on meadow brook is the only place I will ever stay. I wish I could give it another star. :)

My mother and I went for a long weekend, fall, girls only trip to the Dells to eat food and be tourists! No waterparks for us!
We stayed in the Chestnut Cabin and it was perfect! What a great price too! Had queen bed and 2 twins, bathroom with tub and shower, microwave, and mini fridge. There is a picnic bench outside and a grill!
The main lodge looks EXACTLY like the pictures… so cute! They have a movie playing every night at 7, coffee till 11, a really comfy place by a fire to sit and read! The grounds are awesome… reminded me of a campground! Since we were off season, the outdoor pools were closed, but the indoor kiddie play area pool was open and looked neat.
This is definetly not a typical waterpark resort… but perfect for those familys that want to get out and see the dells!
I would stay again in a heartbeat!

I just took a family trip to the Dells for my first time. We booked a «package deal» with Meadow Brook online. The resort was very clean, the staff was polite and helpful. The resort has a normal sized outdoor pool, a kiddie outdoor pool, and a kiddie indoor pool. There are good sized campfire rings set around the grounds for making smores. There is also a good sized play area for small children. There is a main building (where I stayed) a second building, and also separate cabins. It was very relaxing to come back to after spending our days in the hustle of the Dells. The resort is aimed at families with small children, but my teen children enjoyed it as well. We will be booking here for our next trip to the Dells.

The staff is extremely helpful. The hotel has a cute cabin /​nature /​wildlife theme. The hotel is clean and well maintained. There are three fire pits perfect for making s’mores. They conveniently have a s’mores kit ready to go for about $ 8. There are three pools on the property — two outdoor and one indoor. I’d recommend adding this to your trip.
Free parking, free wifi, games in the lobby, plenty of seating for relaxing.

i believe you can do a lot better for your money than this resort. it was ok, but for the price we paid i would have expected a lot more than ok. beds were not comfortable, but the rooms were clean. i bought a package which included passes to some of the attractions. issue #1 was that the salesperson who i spoke to when i booked the resort made it seem like Mt. Olympus was the best place in the Dells but actually, it was the ONLY choice you had with the package– so I feel they were very misleading on that. issue #2 — i misplaced one child ticket (i had 5 adult tickets) and when i asked if they could replace it they were rude, and did not offer to give us another ticket. I had to buy an additional child ticket which seems ridiculous for the amount of money ($ 3K)I spent on the rooms and package. also, they promised a smores bucket and implied they gave this to you each night of your stay. however, they gave you coupon for one bucket (we were staying 4 nights) and we had to buy the forks – at $ 1 each– BE WARY of the ‘deals’ at
. they overpromise and under deliver– i even spoke to manager who was just as rude and condescending as the rest of the staff. Overall, not a good value at all for the money i spent.

This place is definitely over priced! Tho I was pleasantly surprised it wasn’t a complete dump after reading the reviews (after my mom had already booked 4 rooms, and they charge 20% to cancel) it still wasn’t worth the amount of money we paid. They definitely have a good marketing strategy. Little things like they have fire pits and give each family ONE bucket of smores, which has only one package of crackers and 2 chocolate bars (thankfully I brought some bcuz that was not enough for 4 ROOMS WITH KIDS) but they make you buy the smores sticks. To me, that type of stuff annoys me. The pools are for kids, not much sun for adults to lay out bcuz there are large trees blocking it. Whatever. The rooms have small fridge and small two pilot cooktop. However you can only use one at a time. The beds are hard and uncomfortable with old box TV from 1980. All in all the place is outdated, still not the worst place to stay. The issue that bugs me the most is the owner. Every day he’s in the parking lot trying to get people to rent out the cabins instead of the rooms. I get it, he wants to make more money with cabins, but he tried to persuade us by telling us how shitty the rooms are and telling us how surprised he is that we have running water! The best part of the stay… We had my mom baby sit the kids 1 NIGHT Out of the 4 nights we stayed and went out just the adults. Bars close at 1:30 am so we moved the party back to our hotel where we had a night cap on the patio. Lucky for us the owner lives in the cabin across the parking lot from us. So within the 45 min– an hour that we were at the room we had security called on us twice!!! After the first time we went inside and were quiet and he still called on us. Unbelievable! We paid a lot of money for that dumpy hotel FOR OUR VACATION and had to deal with them telling us we had to go to sleep!!! We are grown adults ranging 30 – 42 years old. No complaints from neighbors, just the owner be cuz his window was open! I will never go back. Don’t waste your money, there are definitely nicer resorts that don’t have a grumpy old man telling grown ups when they have to go to bed! Unreal.

My husband and I recently stayed here for our first time. The décor is very «Northwoodsy» and cozy. The room was good, but there was definitely a lack of lighting. The kitchenette is pretty small, but there are things there to cook a small meal which was convenient. You can definitely hear the people above you walking around– I’d suggest the top floor. The staff was friendly and helpful. The only truly bad thing was the room never smelled clean… like stuffy air with a hint of gym bag. Ha. Overall, a cute place to stay with nice amenities.

This was our first time at Meadow Brook and it will not be our last. It came recommended by a friend of my daughters and we LOVE it! You can stay in a standard hotel room or get a cabin. We rented Pine Cone Cabin, it sleeps 6 and we had three and it was perfect! Quiet, clean and very friendly service. They have fire pits burning to make smores and it smells great too! They have great packages so don’t buy any of the attractions anywhere else. The cabins get cleaned every day too. Right outside of the main strip. Two great outdoor pools and one pretty small indoor pool for the kids. You have your own grill if you want to grill too! Air conditioned, plenty of towels, blankets and pillows. They have a kids movie night at 700 PM in the main lobby every night. They have free coffee in the morning in the lobby. We will definitely come back again. Kitchen is supplied with plates, pots, pans, toaster, coffee, microwave, stove, refrigerator, silverware and coffee maker. Two large televisions, cable tv and the wifi is free and was working fine!

My husband and I brought our 8 year old daughter here and we fell in love immediately. We stayed in the main building and the lobby was clean and cozy. The staff was helpful and so friendly, they made us feel right at home. The grounds are well maintained and we loved the fires with s’mores at night. The room was adorable and very well maintained. We have decided to make this a yearly retreat because we fell in love with this place.

Came here for a weekend mini-​vacation. Super cute resort! They have a small indoor pool area with slides and all kinds of kid-​friendly water slides and such. The theme of the whole resort is trees … and bears. Bear lamps, bear rugs, bear TV remote holders, fake bear skins, stuffed bears … and chunky log wood décor (which is actually very charming). They serve Caribou coffee in the morning and have a nightly campfire to make s’mores.
We stayed in a Voyageur room on the first floor. In retrospect, it would have been better to stay in one of the cabins or on a higher floor. It was kind of damp and smelled like chlorine because of its proximity to the pool. It took forever to check in, which in a lot of ways wasn’t the resort’s fault as the family in front of us kept wanting to change rooms. It still took almost 20 minutes.
There’s a game room with air hockey and these crazy games I haven’t seen since I was a kid. It was like going back in time 20 years. Oddly relaxing.
PROS: Quiet, family and large group friendly, charming décor
CONS: Strangely damp, smells like chlorine everywhere in the main building, room fans are crazy loud.
Very nice place to stay overall. Wish the rooms in the main lodge felt slightly less like swimming pool locker rooms.

Our family has enjoyed this resort for a long time. Three years ago we chose this resort as our host to our annual family reunion. We choose a weekend during the summer where we can visit and stay for the weekend, I’m talking approximately 60 to 80 people that result in about 14 – 18 rooms. The staff are friendly and the amenities, i.e. movie nights, pools, and fire pits contribute to an amazing family friendly reunion.

This place man… THIS IS THE PLACE you want to stay in the dells. It is AMAZING! Went in the fall with my girlfriend to celebrate an anniversary. This place is surrounded by hundreds of VERY tall, GORGEOUS trees exploding with color. The lobby was decorated to feel so homey. The rooms were decorated like few I’ve ever seen. The theme was woodsy, alaska-​feeling cabin. This place gets very little cellular/​LTE coverage — but that kind of adds to the experience. If we needed service i just had to stand next to the window. They gave us a GREAT deal for a very large room with such a nice jaccouzzi and large tv and electric fireplace. The place is soooo quiet and peaceful. Get this, you can sit outside and enjoy a bonfire that they set up for you and supply wood for (its set up all night so you don’t even need to ask). I can’t wait to go back, this place is CLEAN, COMFORTABLE, COZY, and just plain happy. This is the hidden gem of the dells.

Just got back after a 4 night stay with a group of friends. Rooms need to be updated to give it a more modern feel. We liked that it was off the main drag, but it was very hard for all us (different carriers) to get a cell phone signal inside the rooms… not a big deal if you have phones in the rooms… which they don’t. We found that to be weird. Also, they supply the coffee maker but it’s BYOCoffee… We did like that it was quiet. Looked like a good place for children.
Wi-​fi was available in the lobby… if it was working.

Pros: very family friendly, especially for those with toddlers. North woods feel was nice. Location is away from the busy main drag, but still close enough to get to and from town quickly.
Cons: S’mores nightly only if you buy them … Not free like the website implies. Be advised. Camp fire smell all the time. Lighting in some of the rooms is circa 1980s dorm room. Water pressure in the showers makes up for it. Kitchens are nice, but it would have been better if coffee makers cameos stocked with filters and some coffee. Must bring your own. Ice is not free. $ 2 per 7 lb bag… still. Good value.

We wanted an «old school» Dells weekend, and were lucky to discover this place. It was extremely clean, affordable, uncrowded and friendly. We didn’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on Great Wolf Lodge — with their ridiculous insane asylum of a waterpark. Instead my family spent a great long weekend hitting all the classic Dells attractions — WizardQuest, Ripleys, Exploratorium, Duck tour, Paul Bunyan, etc.
What a find this place turned out to be. It’s located just far enough from the downtown area to be nestled in the woods, but close enough so you can walk downtown if you wanted. The environment is very cozy with a movie and campfire every night. This is a true cedar lodge, and it was very clean. The shallow fountain pool was great for our little kids and we mostly had the place to ourselves. The price was unbelievable — $ 65/​night (of course, this was low season).
The only complaint I have is the the arcade is half broken, and the change machine doesn’t work. Also, there is only one washer/​dryer.
That aside, I would recommend staying at the lodge as opposed to the cabins. It’s nice to be close to the lobby where you walk in your slippers and curl up on a comfy rocker and watch the evening’s movie on the big screen TV. Also, nice to be close to the big fireplace in the lobby.
Very comfortable family-​owned place. Intimate enough to be comfy and cozy but not so small (like a B&B) that you feel like you’re staying in someone’s house.