Buckets Incredible Craveables (Gurnee)
1700 Nations DriveB couldn’t wait to get back to Great Wolf Lodge.
We had to get up really early morning Thursday morning to get L to the Pleasant Prairie Rec Plex. She had her first practice at 7:00 AM then her skates were at 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM. It was an early day for us with an early out.
L wanted to stay and watch her friends so J took B and I back to the hotel. He had very little interest in hanging around and wanted to get back to the pools.
It was lunch time and I hadn’t really eaten much. We stopped at Kwik Trip on our way to the rink and grabbed some sandwiches and drinks but that was all I really had.
J wanted to get back to the rink and B wanted to swim. So lunch wasn’t an option.
That was fine. I figured I’d get B to the pool then just grab something there to hold me over until dinner time.
There are a few options for food inside the water park at Great Wolf Lodge in Gurnee but I went with the the simpler one.
Buckets Incredible Craveables is a staple at Great Wolf Lodges. The one in Gurnee has access from both the waterpark side and the arcade side so you can grab something real quick without having to go in to the water park to do it. We have ordered from Buckets before when we stayed at the Great Wolf Lodge in Traverse City so I knew what I was in for when I walked up to the counter.
The set up is a counter service concession stand but you don’t actually interact with any people. There are three touch screen ordering kiosks where you put your own order in then get a text message with the order number. When your food is ready, you get another text message and someone hands you a tray of food.
I ordered the Bacon Cheeseburger meal which comes with fries and a drink. The cost was right around $20. I could have used my wristband to pay right at the kiosk had we set that up but we didn’t so I just swiped my credit card.
The meal was about what I expected it to be. It was fine but that’s about the best I can say about it.
I grabbed the food and actually headed over to the wave pool to eat because I had found a place to put our stuff down and sit over there. There are tables around the area where Buckets is located but they were already full.
I started with the fries on my walk over. They were frozen restaurant fries. There was quite a few of them but that’s about all there is to say. They were fine. They got the job done.
Same deal for the burger. Buckets Incredible Craveables is about speed and convenience. The burger is a simple frozen beef patty on a white bun with a couple strips of crispy bacon and a slice of cheese thrown on as the sandwich is being assembled. I didn’t have high expectations for the burger. I just needed something to eat while B played on the slides.
This is a pretty quick blog post because there’s really not much to say. The food from Buckets is fine. It’s nothing special but it’s not supposed to be. It’s essentially a concession stand. You get your food, eat quickly, then get back in the water and enjoy the thing you really came to Great Wolf Lodge for.
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