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Flake Out Festival Deals and Special Hotel Rates

Dells Advice — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:54:45 +0000

If you are visiting the Wisconsin Dells this weekend, there are many excellent deals being offered in conjunction with the annual Flake Out Festival. There are several Dells attractions offering discounted admissions as well as discounts at many Dells restaurants and hotels. In order to take advantage of these special deals, you need to have the Flake Out Festival brochure to present when you buy your tickets at the attraction or visit the restaurant. The brochure is available to print online here. Brochures are also available at the Visitors Bureau’s offices located at 701 Superior Street in downtown Wisconsin Dells. The Visitors Bureau is open from 8:30 – 5:00, 7 days a week.

A full list of the attractions offering discounts can be found on Page 7 of the brochure linked to above. Some of the more notable attractions offering Buy One Get One Free admissions are:

Dells Comedy Club
Dells Mining Co.
Ghost Out-Post Haunted House
Kalahari Water Park
Lost Rios Water Park at Chula Vista
Knuckleheads Bowling & Indoor Amusement Park

Also listed on Page 7 of the brochure are several attractions offering 20% off admission. Not as good as Buy One Get One, but still a pretty good deal.

Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum
Tommy Bartlett Exploratory
Wizard Quest

If you’re interested in shopping, the following stores are some of the ones offering 10% off when you show the Flake Out Fest brochure:

Tanger Outlet Center
Swiss Maid Fudge
Goody Goody Gum Drop

The following restaurants are among those offering a 10% discount off of meals this weekend:

Buffalo Phil’s Pizza & Grille
Cheese Factory Restaurant
Del-Bar
House of Embers
Kaminski Brothers Chop House
Marley’s
Monk’s Bar and Grill
Pizza Pub
River Walk Pub

Several hotels are offering special rates this weekend too. For a complete list, see page 10. Here is a sampling from that list:

$49

Dell Creek Motel
Fitzgeralds Motel
Mayflower Motel & Suites

$59

Copa Cabana
Pine Aire Motel & Suites
White Rose Motel

$79

Alakai Hotel & Suites
Cliffside Resort
Meadowbrook Resort
Thunderbird Resort

$99

Atlantis Water Park & Suites
Polynesian Resort

There are also rooms available at the Kalahari on Friday night for $109 as a part of the Don White Block. Check out Don White’s website for more details.

New Polynesian Condos

Dells Advice — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:58:48 +0000

During our visit to the Polynesian earlier this summer, I noticed a sign announcing the “New Dells Polynesian Condos”. I was very intrigued, so I stopped into the sales office to learn more. The plan is to convert the entire hotel into a condo resort. Rooms (condos) will be available for rental from owners with the Polynesian folks handling the reservations, maid service, etc. The price of the condos starts at $125,000 for a 340 sq. foot unit. In addition, monthly condo fees of $375 would be assessed. As a part of the conversion from hotel to condo property, all of the rooms will be remodeled with an addition to one of the indoor water parks, and a complete remodel of the current lobby area. They are also planning to add a sit down restaurant and a convention center. Unfortunatly, it was hard to tell what the resort will look like since there were no renderings of the renovated resort.

With all of the different condo options available in the Dells, my initial reaction is that I would have a hard time tying myself down to the Polynesian. When comparing the different condo properties, I would say that the Polynesian would not be near the top of my list of where I would want to own. I like to visit, but I can’t see myself paying $125k plus the high condo fees. Maybe my opinion will change once construction is complete and I can see what the new resort looks like.

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Polynesian Visit

Dells Advice — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:46:10 +0000

We made our annual summer trip to the Dells last weekend, and we stayed at the Polynesian again. This was the second time we have stayed there. It is not in the same league as the newer, more opulent Dells resorts, but for a weekend stay in the summer with young children, it suits us just fine. The price was right – around $100 a night for a two room suite. The water park is perfect for the 8 and under crowd.

The resort has its drawbacks. The only dining option is a snack bar with burgers, pizza, and various other unhealthy fried selections. The indoor water parks are old and worn out. The outdoor water park though is just right for families with young children. A big hit with the kids is the pirate ship (pictured below). One of the things I like best about the Polynesian are the rooms. We have always stayed in two room suite, which is their most economical room type. The two room suite has a living room in the front with a bedroom in the back, and seems larger than most Dells hotel rooms.

I noticed in the lobby of the hotel there was a big sign indicating that they are going to be converting the hotel into condos, and undergoing a major renovation. I’ll write more about that in a future post, but I am glad to see that they are updating their look. I love the Polynesian theming and would like to continue visiting this resort in the future. Maybe with the renovations, I’ll want to come here durng the off season too.

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