Staying in a hotel room may stress children who prefer the comfort of home. A themed room can lessen the sting of unfamiliarity if the room is so exciting that the kids forget to be scared. If you are traveling through Ohio and Kentucky, you can find accommodations with family-friendly themed rooms.
Great Wolf Lodge, part of a national chain of hotels with indoor water parks, has Wolf Den Suites with a wolf den theme. Kids stay in the bunk bed cave area, with fake rocks enclosing the sleeping den. the no-smoking suites, which sleep up to six, include a refrigerator, microwave, coffee maker and a separate television for the kids.
Great Wolf Lodge
4600 Milan Road
Sandusky, OH 44870
800-641-9653
greatwolf.com
Fort Rapids, an indoor water park in Columbus, OH, has Cisco Kid Bunkhouse kid's suites. The rooms have bunk beds enclosed in logs so kids can pretend they are sleeping in a log cabin. The four person suites have king size beds for the parents. The water park and resort are decorated in a contemporary western theme.
Fort Rapids
4560 Hilton Corporate Drive
Columbus, OH 43232
877-33-SPLASH
fortrapids.com
Wildwood Inn has over two dozen themed rooms. The Speedway Suite racecar rooms have racing memorabilia and posters and even authentic race cars in the some rooms. The Kentucky Cave Suite has stalactite and stalagmite formations. While Treehouse Suites let recreates the Swiss Family Robinson with a bed suspended by vines, a wicker swing and a spiral staircase hidden in the trunk of a fake tree.
Wildwood Inn
7809 U.S. 42
Florence, KY 41042
859-371-6300
