The Loose Moose Cottage

Went here for the breakfast buffet. DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE WE DID.
It’s probably the worst, most over priced buffet I have ever been to.
Dann near raw, soggy hash browns.
Hard, brittle, unedible mini waffles.
We were told they had french toast, which turned out to be those crappy elementary school style french toast sticks.
Sub par offering of room temperature fruits.
Luke warm at best mini pancakes, that were hard around the edges.
Sausage was undercooked and bland.
The bacon was cheap, paper thin and over cooked to a brittle flake that crumbled upon touching it.
The toaster doesn’t toast… needs about 3 cycles before your bread is actually toasted.
I can go on and on, but I’m sure my point has been made.
At $ 15 for adults and $ 8 per child, plus drinks are extra… the town about 9 minutes south of the lodge has a much better offering of places to eat.
Avoid throwing away your money on this place. You will be disappointed and hungry again in an hour.

We loved the breakfast buffet. The kids and adults ate and ate pancakes, hashbrowns, fruit, donuts, french toast sticks, cereal, and ice cream (why not!). Our booth was clean and the server was really nice. Will do again

Ok, well I don’t have kids so obviously the experience will be different if you have kiddos in their pjs wanting waffles with paw prints on them. For an adult price is 14.99 plus pay for drinks. Ok not terrible considering you pay 12 for a mediocre breakfast at IHOP but here at least you can do all you can eat, which wasn’t too exciting. Here is the entire list, scrambled eggs (or a cook will do them however you want) pancakes, hash browns, veggie grill mix, gravy, biscuits, chicken fried steak, waffles, sausage, bacon, fruit, yogurt, oatmeal, cream of wheat, doughnuts, cinnamon rolls. Corn dogs, tater tots, toast, English muffin, cold cereal, and of course, butter, syrup, jam, honey, and I think there was ice cream somewhere.
I didn’t eat everything, but I’m a damper for sure, so here’s my play by play. Hash browns-​Standard buffet fair, soft, soggy, and generally unexciting, but not gross mashed potato. Waffles, hard, wouldn’t melt my butter, standard fare. Biscuits, hard and room temp. Scrambled eggs, soft, not wet (which I appreciate) but flavorless. Great catalyst to eat gravy or ketchup. Chicken fried steak. Ok. Kinda crispy. No weird pieces of question. Also not exciting. Corn dogs, straight from freezer to fryer. Meh. Fruit, flavorless and too much close to the rind on the melon =rock hard and no taste. Oatmeal, fine standard buffet mush. I. don’t expect much texture in oats that sit. Cinnamon rolls, yuck. Hard and dry. Doughnuts dry. Butter is cold and doesn’t melt. syrup isn’t heated so you don’t even get too melt your butter that way. Pet peeve of mine. I love butter but I love it melted on my waffle instead of a layer of syrup proofig material.
Staff was super duper friendly

If you’re a family on a budget, don’t eat here. The kids are so distracted by everything at GWL they won’t want to eat anything more than a doughnut. In addition to that the food isn’t even that good (imagine school cafeteria or a hospital). The employees were very courteous and friendly and the only reason I gave my rating an extra star.

The Loose Moose Cottage provides the breakfast buffet at Great Wolf Lodge. I’ve been here once before and I didn’t remember it being so unsatisfactory…
First impression: walk up to grab a plate and there’s one plate that literally had some bread-​y looking thing crusted to it, and handprints all over the plate. It was off to the side but on top of other plates, but I’m still not sure if it was placed there by a child or an employee. Either way… Seriously?
Their breakfast buffet gives a pretty good variety of foods, but they don’t match in quality whatsoever.
Eggs: watery, some parts were cold and you could actually tell they were frozen. or maybe just disgusting.
Sausage links: bland. which is sad. how is that even possible!
Tater tots: not enough salt.
Hashbrowns: limp and soft, with too MUCH salt.
Mini corndogs: good, but definitely some Foster Farms type shit.
Donuts: avoid. stale and made even worse because they’re cold.
Biscuits and gravy: quite possibly the best thing I had, and even still was mediocre.
For $ 15 a person, and in such a popular hotel, I really did expect better. The place itself is just kind of grody, the food is prettyyyyy bad, and I honestly can’t think of one thing in there that I’d choose to eat again.
Do you and your kids a favor and find a McDonald’s in the area. Or a Shari’s. It’ll be cheaper AND better quality.

Fresh and a good variety. Breakfast offers a bunch of fresh fruits as well as standard breakfast fare. They also offer odd things like mini corn dogs and ice cream, but hey, to each his own. Breakfast was cheap and healthy, service friendly, and coffee. .well. .it kinda sucks. Overall a good choice for hotel guest

I was just here for breakfast, for the price you would expect it to be good… Nope, very bad! Food was not up to par, French toast sticks rock hard, doughnuts stale, bacon cheap, hash browns soggy and so on… At the end the cashier asked us how the food was we said not good and she says, oh okay. Not at all interested in why. Oh well, we will not be back. Save your money and drive to mcdonalds from here in the am… I don’t eat mcdonalds but even that is better.

Easy breakfast buffet. Nice servers, great buffet food. Will be back. They even sent me off with coffee to go :)

I was so impressed with the quality of our rooms and the water park at the Great Wolf Lodge. We had a pizza for lunch and it was reasonable and tasted great. We wanted to stay in for dinner so we took our family of six to the Loose Moose for dinner buffet. PLEASE DONT WASTE YOUR $$$$$$. The owners need to revamp the menu and the quality. I was expecting at least Sizzler or Old Country buffet but it was by far worse than hospital food.

The Loose Moose Cottage is located at Great Wolf Lodge. My family and I had the breakfast buffet. For three of us, the cost was under $ 40 for all you can eat.
My kiddo enjoyed as much bacon as he could pile on his plate. Hot offerings include items like bacon, sausage, eggs, biscuits, etc. A omelette bar is also available. Fresh fruit, yogurt and smoothies are also on hand. Beverages cost extra so we went across the way to grab Starbucks.
Even though I’m not much of a cereal eater anymore, I loved looking at the cereal station. I was jealous watching children pour 3 – 4 different kinds of sugary cereal into a bowl and topping it off with milk. If that’s not your thing, hot oatmeal was also available for the eating.
The hostess offered us good customer service but one came to refill our water the entire time we were there.
The food was okay. I think the price point is right because it’s all you can eat. The quality of the food is a bit institutional and somewhat better than cafeteria food. I’m sorry I didn’t get to eat a regular meal there but it was only open for breakfast during my visit.

What we had: I had the big half pound burger (can’t remember what it’s called) that came with onions and pulled pork on it. I also had a Perfect Patron Margarita. My wife had dumplings and the Mongolian beef. Three of my kids ate off the kids menu and the oldest had the chicken Caesar salad off the adult menu. We were there pretty early (about 6pm) and there were maybe 4 or 5 other families in the restaurant with us.
The good: The food came out really quickly. I don’t know if it’s because it’s mass produced or if they’re just that quick, but I was impressed with the speed. It was probably about 15 minutes from ordering the food to delivery. My burger was decent — I felt the pork was a little over the top, but overall it tasted pretty good. The margarita was excellent. My wife said the dumplings were very tasty.
The bad: My wife’s Mongolian beef was a bit spicier than she’s used to and the sauce was a little «off.» She’s used to a thinner sauce when she has «authentic» Mongolian beef, but this sauce was creamy. The Caesar sauce on my daughter’s salad was also spicier than she’s used to. Also, while the food came out quickly the drinks took an exceptionally long time. It took longer to get our drinks than it did to get our food,
The ugly: The price. Including tip, $ 130+ for a family of six. We had 1 alcoholic drink on the bill (my margarita). While the food was okay, it wasn’t worth anywhere near that much. You expect to pay more to eat in a hotel, and I went into this meal expecting a hefty tab, but I still suffered a bit of sticker shock when the bill came.
You may want to eat at the Loose Moose or the Camp Critter Bar & Grill once while you’re at Great Wolf just for the experience, but the rest of the time I’d suggest going off property for your food or getting a pizza from the pizza place on the second floor near the water park entrance. Burger Claim is within walking distance (in the parking lot of the gas station right next to Great Wolf Lodge) and gives a 5% discount to Great Wolf Lodge guests — or 15% if you’re military!