Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series on Florida’s first Great Wolf Lodge, one of the most significant endeavors in Naples history that’s drawing plenty of questions from you. One of Collier County’s biggest private workplaces, the 530,000-square-foot retreat and water park is slated as Southwest Florida’s third largest employer in tourism, drawing by itself the same number of visitors in a year that all of Collier in its entirety attracts in nearly three months time.
It’s been a common inquiry about Collier’s Great Wolf Lodge South Florida.
“I was just wondering how they are going to find enough housekeepers when pay is only $14 per hour,” Reader Bob Di told me. “Hardly an affordable wage.”
“I’m curious how they will find enough employees to work so far out there,” said Tamara Crowell Chilver of Fort Myers.
“It’s too expensive to live in Naples,” added Deangelis Olive. “Where I live, to get to Naples takes a half-hour. (Is Great Wolf) going to have wages good enough for people to work here?”