Every Scottsdale resort and hotel worth knowing — past and present
Scottsdale didn’t stumble into being a resort town — it invented the modern desert vacation, one property at a time: 1910s health-seeker inns, dude ranches with real wranglers, Rat Pack pool decks, and today’s five-star golf-and-spa compounds. This is the working archive — 101 resorts and hotels you can check into right now, from the five-star compounds to the Old Town rooftops, the Airpark suites and the motels that still hang a vacancy sign, and 10 legends we’ve lost, each with who it’s actually for, what it costs, and the story behind it. Every page has a reading-depth toggle: skim it in 30 seconds or go full rabbit hole. Not sure whether you want a resort near Old Town, on the Camelback corridor or up north? Start with where to stay in Scottsdale, then when to come.
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Hotel Valley Ho
Scottsdale's 1956 midcentury masterpiece — the walkable Old Town hotel where Hollywood hid from the press, Ramada nearly loved it to death, and an $80 million restoration brought back every breezeblock, terrazzo floor and pastel panel exactly where architect Edward Varney put them.
$$$ Since 1956
JW Marriott Camelback Inn
The Valley's original grand desert resort: 453 adobe casitas between Camelback and Mummy mountains, open every season since 1936, and the property that taught the Marriott family what a resort even was — they liked it so much they bought it.
$$$$ Since 1936
The Phoenician
Charles Keating's infamous 1988 desert palace at the foot of Camelback Mountain — built with other people's money, seized by the government, and matured into Scottsdale's definitive luxury resort, with a mother-of-pearl-tiled pool and the Jokake Inn's 1936 bell towers still standing on the lawn.
$$$$ Since 1988
Safari Hotel
Opened November 1956 on Scottsdale Road, the Safari was the town's first true glamour hotel — modernist architecture, a legendary lounge circuit, the French Quarter restaurant, and a guest list from Sinatra's orbit — before decades of decline ended in 1998 closure and 1999 demolition. The Safari Drive condos hold its ground today.
Closed 1998
AC Hotel Scottsdale North
A six-story, 165-room AC Hotel by Marriott that opened in January 2021 on a slice of the Westin Kierland's parking lot. It sits in Phoenix despite the Scottsdale address, and its pitch is simple: dark, spare design, a good bar, and Kierland Commons directly across Kierland Boulevard.
$$$ Since 2021
AC Hotel Scottsdale Old Town
Old Town's newest hotel, opened in February 2026: a six-story, 168-room AC by Marriott with a rooftop pool and the Cielito rooftop bar, built by PEG Companies on the old Howard Johnson site beside Ralph Haver's Kimsey Building, a block from the Fifth Avenue shops.
$$$ Since 2026
ADERO Scottsdale Resort
The former CopperWynd Resort, rebuilt for roughly $100 million and relaunched in 2020 as ADERO — a 177-room Autograph Collection retreat on a McDowell Mountains ridgeline inside a certified Dark Sky community, where the amenity list includes a resident 'star dude' and the Four Peaks sunrise from your balcony.
$$$ Since 2020 · roots 1997
Aiden by Best Western Scottsdale North
A mid-1990s suites hotel at the Loop 101 and Shea, once a Country Inn & Suites and Scottsdale Suites on Shea, renovated around 2020 into Best Western’s boutique Aiden brand — about 164 rooms, more than half of them suites, many with patios on the pool, plus a full bar and a lawn amphitheater for live music.
$$ Since 1996
Aloft Scottsdale
A five-story, 126-room hotel in the Entertainment District that was the Hotel Indigo Scottsdale until a $4 million conversion made it the city's first Aloft in May 2016 — a young, pet-friendly, mid-priced base with a pool and the W XYZ bar, a short walk from Fashion Square and Old Town's clubs.
$$ Aloft since 2016
Andaz Scottsdale Resort & Bungalows
Hyatt's 2016 design-forward reboot of the old Cottonwoods Resort: 201 single-story bungalows styled with work from the neighboring Cattle Track artist compound, a palette straight out of midcentury desert modernism, and Camelback framed at the end of the lawn.
$$$$ Since 2016
Bespoke Inn Scottsdale
A roughly ten-room inn built in 2012–13 on Marshall Way, the contemporary end of Old Town's gallery district — individually decorated rooms, a 43-foot second-story infinity lap pool, loaner English bicycles, and Gio Osso's Virtù Honest Craft in the courtyard, which is the reason many people find it at all.
$$$ Since 2013
Best Western Plus Scottsdale Thunderbird Suites
A four-story, 120-suite Best Western Plus on Butherus Drive next to Scottsdale Airport, named for the WWII flight school whose grounds it sits on, this all-suite hotel offers two-room suites around a courtyard pool, a free breakfast buffet, pet-friendly rules and a short drive to Kierland Commons and Scottsdale Quarter.
$$ Since the mid-1980s
Best Western Plus Sundial
A three-story, 54-room Best Western Plus on Camelback Road just east of Scottsdale Road — Wright-inspired lines, a pool and whirlpool, free breakfast that reviewers keep praising, and a location that puts Fashion Square, the Waterfront and Old Town's bars within walking distance, along with some of their noise.
$$ Open today
Caesars Republic Scottsdale
Opened March 2024 as the first non-gaming Caesars hotel in the U.S. — an 11-story, 265-room glass tower grafted onto Scottsdale Fashion Square, with celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis running two Italian restaurants and a seventh-floor rooftop pool staring straight at Camelback.
$$$ Since 2024
Canopy by Hilton Scottsdale Old Town
A 177-room lifestyle hotel that opened in October 2020 at First Street and Marshall Way, the first new hotel in Old Town in more than a decade. Its seventh-floor Outrider rooftop, a pool and bar facing Camelback Mountain, is one of the city's most popular sunset spots, steps from the galleries.
$$$ Since 2020
CIVANA Wellness Resort & Spa
The 1960s-era Carefree Resort — once the little town's crown jewel — reborn in 2018 after a $50 million transformation as CIVANA: a wellness resort built on the contrarian idea that spa sanctuaries shouldn't cost Canyon Ranch money, with a European-style aqua circuit, a huge daily class calendar, and high-desert quiet.
$$$ Since 2018 · roots in the 1960s
Club Wyndham Orange Tree Resort
A Club Wyndham timeshare resort of 160 one-bedroom suites wrapped around Orange Tree, a public golf course that opened in 1957 as Century Country Club. It sits in Phoenix at 56th Street and Shea, west of Scottsdale proper, and suits golfers and longer stays who want a living room, a whirlpool tub and free parking.
$$ Golf since 1957 · suites since the late 1980s
Comfort Suites Scottsdale Talking Stick Entertainment District
A 108-suite Choice Hotels build that opened at the very end of 2021 inside the Pavilions at Talking Stick, on Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community land — the practical, free-breakfast answer for anyone whose Scottsdale trip revolves around Salt River Fields, the aquarium-and-Topgolf strip, or a cheap bed off the 101.
$$ Since 2021
Courtyard by Marriott Scottsdale North
A three-story, 153-room Courtyard from the late 1990s at Scottsdale Road and Bell Road, technically in Phoenix despite the Scottsdale address. It has a Starbucks-pouring bistro, a heated pool and small meeting rooms, with the Promenade across the street and the Airpark, Kierland and Mayo Clinic Hospital within a short drive.
$$ Since the late 1990s
Courtyard by Marriott Scottsdale Old Town
A five-story, 180-room Courtyard on Scottsdale Road just north of Osborn — the dependable, pet-friendly, mid-priced option at the south end of Old Town, a few blocks from Scottsdale Stadium and a walk from the galleries and restaurants of the downtown core.
$$ Open today
Courtyard Scottsdale Salt River
A four-story, 158-room Courtyard on Pima Road that the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community built through its development enterprise in 2012 — Marriott's first hotel on U.S. tribal land and its first LEED-certified one — with Community photography on the walls and Old Town about three miles west.
$$ Since 2012
DoubleTree Resort by Hilton Paradise Valley–Scottsdale
A two-story, 378-room resort from 1984 on Scottsdale Road, legally inside the Town of Paradise Valley and about two miles north of Old Town. It is finishing a multimillion-dollar renovation and is scheduled to drop the DoubleTree name on January 1, 2027, when it becomes Ranch House Scottsdale Resort.
$$$ Since 1984
Element Scottsdale at SkySong
A 157-room Element that opened in 2019 on SkySong, ASU's innovation campus at Scottsdale and McDowell. It sits on the ground where Los Arcos Mall stood for thirty years, so you get kitchens, free breakfast and a saltwater pool on the comeback corner of south Scottsdale, about ten minutes from Old Town.
$$ Since 2019
Embassy Suites by Hilton Scottsdale Resort
One family ran this corner of Scottsdale and Chaparral roads for more than sixty years, first as a 12-suite guest ranch, then as one of the country's first all-suite hotels, then as Chaparral Suites; since 2016 it's a 312-suite Embassy Suites on 15 acres, with free breakfast, an evening reception and two pools.
$$$ On this site since 1953
Extended Stay America Select Suites Phoenix Scottsdale North
A three-story, late-1990s Extended Stay America on the Scottsdale side of Scottsdale Road, a short walk from Scottsdale Quarter and Kierland Commons. It's now part of the brand's no-frills Select Suites tier: studio rooms with a stovetop and full-size fridge, free parking, guest laundry, and housekeeping only if you pay for it.
$$ Open today
Extended Stay America Suites – Phoenix – Scottsdale
About 105 kitchen studios in a three-story building off Shea Boulevard at 69th Street, inside Scottsdale's city limits despite the 'Phoenix' in its name, this is the budget long-stay option at the west end of the Shea Corridor, with free parking, a basic breakfast, a seasonal pool and the Airpark three miles north.
$$ Open today
Extended Stay America Suites – Phoenix – Scottsdale – Old Town
An all-studio Extended Stay America on Marshall Way in Old Town's gallery district — every room has a kitchen, parking is free, pets are accepted, and breakfast is grab-and-go — with reviews that praise the location and staff but repeatedly flag cleanliness and smoke odors.
$$ Open today
Fairfield by Marriott Inn & Suites Scottsdale Old Town
The former Comfort Suites on Drinkwater Boulevard, renovated and reflagged as a Fairfield in 2025: a three-story, 58-suite hotel with free hot breakfast and an indoor pool, a short walk from Scottsdale Stadium and about fifteen minutes on foot from the middle of Old Town.
$$ Fairfield since 2025
Fairmont Scottsdale Princess
Scottsdale's biggest resort spectacle: a Spanish-colonial mega-property beside TPC Scottsdale that hosts the golf world every February, transforms into a six-million-light Christmas kingdom every December, and somehow keeps 750 rooms feeling like an event rather than a convention.
$$$$ Since 1987
Fountain Park Hotel, BW Signature Collection
The only hotel in downtown Fountain Hills — a locally owned, three-story select-service hotel from 2005, across Saguaro Boulevard from Fountain Park — in its own town over the McDowells from Scottsdale, about 25 to 30 minutes from Old Town, with free breakfast, kitchen suites and the fountain going off on the hour outside.
$$ Since 2005
Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale
Four Seasons service dropped into the boulder fields below Pinnacle Peak: 210 adobe casitas in the high Sonoran, first-priority access to Troon North's two legendary golf courses, and the darkest, quietest, most saguaro-dense luxury stay in greater Scottsdale.
$$$$ Since 1999
Grand Hyatt Scottsdale Resort
The Gainey Ranch landmark that spent four decades as the Hyatt Regency Scottsdale — famous for its 2.5-acre 'water playground,' Venetian-style gondola rides and Frank Lloyd Wright-inflected architecture — reborn in late 2024 as Arizona's first Grand Hyatt after a $115 million renovation.
$$$$ Since 1986
Great Wolf Lodge Arizona
The chain's first Southwest lodge, opened 2019 on Salt River Pima-Maricopa land beside Scottsdale: 350 family suites wrapped around an 85,000-square-foot indoor waterpark held at 84 degrees — which quietly makes it the only Scottsdale-area resort where a 115-degree July is irrelevant.
$$$ Since 2019
Hampton Inn & Suites Phoenix/Scottsdale
A three-story, 123-room Hampton Inn & Suites from 1998 on the Phoenix side of Scottsdale Road just south of Bell Road. It has free breakfast, free parking, a pool and a noon checkout, and it takes dogs and cats, all within a few minutes of Kierland, the Airpark and Mayo Clinic Hospital.
$$ Since 1998
Hampton Inn & Suites Phoenix/Scottsdale on Shea Blvd
A 1994 two-story Hampton Inn at Scottsdale Road and Shea that its owners closed for nearly a year, partly demolished and rebuilt into a three-story, 150-room Hampton Inn & Suites in 2017 — glass-walled lobby, 48 suites and a palm-and-fire-pit pool courtyard that’s better than the price suggests.
$$ Since 1994
Hampton Inn & Suites Scottsdale at Talking Stick
A 101-room Hampton that opened in spring 2011 in the planned Riverwalk business park on Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community land, and that now sits in the middle of the Talking Stick district — free breakfast, free parking, and a short walk to the casino, Topgolf and spring training.
$$ Since 2011
Hampton Inn by Hilton Carefree
A 97-room Hampton that opened in 2022 on Easy Street in the town of Carefree — not Scottsdale — a minute's walk from the Sundial and the Desert Gardens, giving the far north its first ordinary-priced hotel with free breakfast, a pool and a bar, about forty-five minutes from Old Town.
$$ Since 2022
Hilton Garden Inn Scottsdale North/Perimeter Center
A three-story, 122-room Hilton Garden Inn in the Perimeter Center office park, minutes from WestWorld, TPC Scottsdale and the Scottsdale Sports Complex. It's the practical pick for horse-show families, tournament parents and Airpark meetings: free parking, a pool and fire pit, a restaurant and bar, and rates well below the nearby resorts.
$$ Since 2005
Hilton Garden Inn Scottsdale Old Town
A seven-story, roughly 200-room Hilton Garden Inn that opened in 1999 on Indian School Road, on part of the campus where Scottsdale High School stood for sixty years. It's a straightforward business-class hotel with a pool and a restaurant, a short walk from the Civic Center and half a mile from Scottsdale Stadium.
$$ Since 1999
Hilton North Scottsdale at Cavasson
A six-story, 237-room full-service Hilton that opened in January 2023 as the hotel for Cavasson, a 134-acre office-and-residential district on former State Trust land at Hayden Road and the Loop 101. It has a pool-side gastropub, a top-floor terrace facing the McDowells, and an easy drive to TPC and WestWorld.
$$$ Since 2023
Hilton Scottsdale Resort & Villas
Bob Karatz's 1973 resort with the landmark bell tower at Scottsdale Road and Lincoln — a compact garden property whose two-bedroom villas, $24 million renovation and attached Hilton Village shops make it the practical insider's base at the corridor's busiest crossroads.
$$$ Since 1973
Hilton Vacation Club Rancho Mañana Phoenix/Cave Creek
A timeshare resort of adobe-style two-bedroom villas beside the Rancho Mañana golf course in the town of Cave Creek — not Scottsdale — on land that started as a 1940s dude ranch, sold for years under Diamond Resorts and now under Hilton's Vacation Club flag, with kitchens, fireplaces and the saloon strip a short walk away.
$$$ Open today · ranch roots in the 1940s
Hilton Vacation Club Scottsdale Links Resort
A low-rise timeshare resort of about 220 one- to three-bedroom suites beside the TPC Scottsdale Champions Course, formerly Diamond Resorts and now part of Hilton Vacation Club. Owners use points and anyone else can rent the rest. Full kitchens and washers make it a strong family base, but expect a sales pitch.
$$$ Open today
Hilton Vacation Club Scottsdale Villa Mirage
A low-rise, Southwestern-styled vacation-club resort on Princess Boulevard, built and sold for years as a Diamond Resorts timeshare and now flying the Hilton Vacation Club flag. Studios through two-bedroom villas with kitchens put the Princess, TPC Scottsdale and WestWorld on your doorstep, and some of the guests next door own their week.
$$$ Open today
Holiday Inn & Suites Scottsdale North – Airpark
A 117-room former Wingate by Wyndham off the Loop 101 at Raintree Drive, reopened as a Holiday Inn in January 2015 after a full renovation, this is the Airpark hotel with its own restaurant: the Raintree Cafe serves breakfast and dinner, the pool has a two-story waterfall, and WestWorld and TPC Scottsdale are a short drive away.
$$ Holiday Inn since 2015
Holiday Inn Club Vacations Scottsdale Resort
A 12-acre villa resort near the Princess and TPC Scottsdale, formerly the Xona and Zona suite hotels, that became Holiday Inn Club Vacations' first Arizona resort in 2016. It has 213 villas with kitchens, four pools and the Splash Canyon waterslide. It's built for families, and it has a timeshare sales center.
$$$ Club resort since 2016
Holiday Inn Express Scottsdale North
A three-story, 122-room hotel on a quiet side street just south of Scottsdale Road and Shea, built in 1998 as a Comfort Inn and reflagged as a Holiday Inn Express in January 2011 — a no-drama base with free breakfast, a pool and Gainey Village’s restaurants a short walk away.
$$ Since 1998
Home2 Suites by Hilton Scottsdale North near Mayo Clinic
A 130-suite Hilton extended-stay hotel that opened in December 2022 on the Scottsdale side of Scottsdale Road by the Loop 101 — kitchenettes, free breakfast, an outdoor pool, EV charging and pet-friendly rooms, a short drive from Mayo Clinic Hospital, which gives the hotel its name and most of its weekday guests.
$$ Since 2022
Home2 Suites by Hilton Scottsdale Old Town
A 169-suite Home2 Suites on Scottsdale Road at the south edge of Old Town, rebuilt from a longtime Holiday Inn Express in the mid-2020s. The suites have kitchen setups, breakfast is included, and Scottsdale Stadium and the HonorHealth Osborn hospital are both less than half a mile away.
$$ Open today
Home2 Suites by Hilton Scottsdale Salt River
The extended-stay half of a four-story Hilton dual-brand hotel that held its grand opening in February 2020 at Pima Center, a business park on land owned by individual Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community members — kitchen suites, free breakfast and parking, and OdySea Aquarium just across the 101.
$$ Since 2020
Hotel Adeline, Scottsdale, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel
A 1960s motor hotel on Scottsdale Road that spent years as a Days Hotel, then got a roughly $13 million makeover in 2018 and came back as Hotel Adeline: 213 rooms around a zero-edge pool built for weekend DJ parties, with a whiskey speakeasy hidden behind a phone booth and Fashion Square a short walk south.
$$$ Since 2018
Hotel Solaya, part of JdV by Hyatt
A 1975 Doubletree on the north edge of the Civic Center that has since been the James, the Mondrian, the Theodore, the rainbow-painted Saguaro and the Monarch, reopened in 2026 as Hotel Solaya — a Modern Mexican makeover under Hyatt's JdV flag, with a smokehouse restaurant facing the park and every Old Town block within walking distance.
$$$ Since 1975 · Hotel Solaya since 2026
Hyatt House North Scottsdale
The 93-suite extended-stay half of the Hyatt complex that opened in March 2021 on the Scottsdale side of upper Scottsdale Road — studios and one-bedrooms with full kitchens, free breakfast, 24-hour laundry and a shared heated pool, built for the medical stays, tournament weeks and relocations that keep north Scottsdale's weekday economy running.
$$ Since 2021
Hyatt House Scottsdale/Old Town
An all-suite hotel that opened on Drinkwater Boulevard in October 1998 as a Summerfield Suites and has been a Hyatt House since 2012. Its 164 one- and two-bedroom suites have full kitchens and separate living rooms, and Fashion Square, the Civic Center and the bar blocks are all within walking distance.
$$ Since 1998
Hyatt Place Scottsdale North
The 136-room hotel half of a combined Hyatt Place and Hyatt House that opened in March 2021 on the Scottsdale side of Scottsdale Road north of Frank Lloyd Wright — new, efficient, with free hot breakfast and a heated pool, a few miles from Mayo Clinic Hospital, TPC Scottsdale and WestWorld.
$$ Since 2021
Hyatt Place Scottsdale/Old Town
A small, practical 126-room hotel that opened in 1998 as an AmeriSuites and became a Hyatt Place when Hyatt rebuilt that chain into a new brand. Its selling points are free breakfast, a pool and an address on Third Avenue that puts Fashion Square, the Civic Center and the bar blocks all within walking distance.
$$ Since 1998
Inn at Eagle Mountain
A 37-suite independent inn from 1998, beside the 18th fairway of Eagle Mountain Golf Club on Fountain Hills' southwest edge — not in Scottsdale, but just over the McDowells' south end on Shea, about 25 minutes from Old Town — where every suite has a kiva fireplace, a whirlpool tub and a balcony over the desert.
$$$ Since 1998
Kasa Scottsdale Quarter Phoenix
Not a hotel but a set of furnished apartments in a residential building at Scottsdale Quarter, rented by the night through Kasa with self check-in, a virtual front desk and no lobby staff. You get a kitchen, in-unit laundry, a pool deck and an eighth-floor skydeck, a short walk from the Quarter's restaurants.
$$ Open today
Kimpton Miralina Resort & Villas
For nearly fifty years this was The Scottsdale Plaza Resort — a family-run, 42-acre Spanish-Mediterranean garden property with five pools on the Scottsdale–Paradise Valley line. Rebranded as Kimpton Miralina Resort & Villas in 2026, it's now IHG's luxury-lifestyle flag on one of the biggest resort footprints in the corridor.
$$$ Since 1976
La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham Phoenix Scottsdale
A three-story, 140-room La Quinta built in 1996 on Shea Boulevard by the Loop 101 — free breakfast, a heated pool, dogs welcome — a practical base for hospital visits, youth tournaments, spring training and the east side’s strip-mall restaurants, priced well below anything with ‘resort’ in its name.
$$ Since 1996
Motel 6 Old Town Scottsdale / Fashion Square
A two-story Motel 6 from the mid-1960s at 68th Street and Camelback, a few minutes' walk from Fashion Square — an outdoor pool, free stays for pets, The Original Pancake House in the same lot, and middling reviews that praise the price and location more than the walls or the mattresses.
$ Since the 1960s
Mountain House Lodge at Sereno Canyon
The resort-style clubhouse of Toll Brothers' gated Sereno Canyon community near 128th Street and Pinnacle Peak Road, run by Troon, which since 2024 has rented a handful of one- and two-bedroom cottages to outside guests — a Swaback-designed lodge with two pools, a spa room and the Alterra restaurant near the Tom's Thumb trailhead.
$$$$ Since 2024
Mountain Shadows Resort
Paradise Valley's 1959 Rat Pack playground — closed 2004, demolished 2014, and rebuilt from the ground up by 2017 as a $100 million modernist homage, with the beloved par-3 Short Course and Hearth '61 keeping the address's two great traditions: golf you can gamble on and dinners with Camelback filling the window.
$$$ 1959 · reborn 2017
Omni Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Montelucia
A $335 million Andalusian fantasy that opened in 2008 on the site of the old La Posada Resort — bell towers, courtyards and Camelback filling the southern sky — survived its developer's collapse, and settled in under Omni as the corridor's most romantic big resort, crowned by the Moroccan-themed Joya Spa.
$$$$ Since 2008
Papago Scottsdale by Reside, Trademark Collection by Wyndham
A two-story mid-century motor inn on McDowell Road, built around a courtyard pool and run under half a dozen names in a decade. It's now a 70-room Wyndham Trademark Collection hotel with turquoise walls, an Airstream at the front door, and Hai Noon, the restaurant of James Beard winner Nobuo Fukuda, on site.
$$ Mid-century motor inn
Prickly Pear Inn
An 11-room, owner-run boutique inn that opened in 2017 on the second floor of a hacienda-style plaza in downtown Cave Creek — not Scottsdale — with a cantina, an ice-cream shop and a mercantile-lobby downstairs, Frontier Town across the road, and every saloon on the strip within walking distance.
$$$ Since 2017
Residence Inn Scottsdale North
A three-story, 120-suite Residence Inn from 2002 on the Scottsdale side of the road at Bell and Frank Lloyd Wright — kitchens, a hot breakfast and a pool, a mile from Scottsdale Airport and across the street from the Promenade's Trader Joe's, which is exactly why consultants, relocating families and snowbird scouts keep it full.
$$ Since 2002
Residence Inn Scottsdale Salt River
A 111-suite Residence Inn that the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community's development enterprise opened in October 2019 next to its Courtyard on Pima Road — studio to two-bedroom suites with full kitchens, free hot breakfast, a cantina bar, and art by local artists drawn from the Community's land and culture.
$$ Since 2019
Rodeway Inn Old Town Scottsdale
A small 1960s motel on Scottsdale Road near Thomas, flying Choice Hotels' economy Rodeway flag — free parking, a fridge and microwave in the room, walking distance to Scottsdale Stadium, and reviews so uneven that you should treat it as a place to sleep cheaply and nothing more.
$ Since the 1960s
Royal Palms Resort and Spa
A New York financier's 1929 Spanish Colonial winter estate at the foot of Camelback Mountain, a hotel since 1948 and now a 119-room Hyatt-run hideaway on nine acres. It is in Phoenix, about two miles west of Fashion Square, and for courtyards, fountains, fireplaces and T. Cook's it has no real equal on the Scottsdale side.
$$$$ Since 1948
Sanctuary Camelback Mountain
The celebrity hideout built into Camelback's northern slope: 109 casitas on the site of the 1956 Paradise Valley Racquet Club and John Gardiner's fabled tennis ranch, reborn in 2001 as Sanctuary — infinity pool, Asian-inflected spa, and Elements' sunset dining room hanging over the Valley.
$$$$ Since 2001
Scottsdale Camelback Resort
An independent, all-villa timeshare resort from the early 1980s on 11 acres of Camelback Road, just east of the Phoenician. It is technically in Phoenix, but with full kitchens, washers and dryers, wood-burning fireplaces and Fashion Square about a 15-minute walk away, it works as a Scottsdale apartment with a pool.
$$$ Since the early 1980s
Scottsdale Marriott at McDowell Mountains
A 1999 all-suite Marriott in the Perimeter Center office park, built where the business district runs into the TPC Scottsdale golf courses. Every room has a separate bedroom and living room, the AGAVE patio looks across the Champions Course at sunset, and the Phoenix Open's Stadium Course is on the same golf complex.
$$$ Since 1999
Scottsdale Marriott Old Town
The old Marriott Suites on Third Avenue — a full-service, all-suite Marriott where every one of the 243 rooms has a separate living room, set a block south of Indian School Road so that Old Town's bars, galleries and the Civic Center lawn are a walk rather than a ride.
$$$ Since the late 1980s
Scottsdale Parkview Hotel
An independent low-rise stucco hotel from around 1980, on McDowell Road at the southern end of the Indian Bend Wash Greenbelt. For years it was the 3 Palms, then it sold in 2023 and reopened under the Parkview name in late 2024. It's a no-frills base with a pool, a rooftop sundeck and the city's best park system out back.
$$ Since c. 1980
Senna House Hotel Scottsdale, Curio Collection by Hilton
A six-story, 169-room desert-modern hotel that opened in December 2021 on Camelback Road, on the site of Don & Charlie's, the steakhouse where spring-training baseball ate for 38 years. It has Beau MacMillan's coastal-Mediterranean CALA and the Sonora Swim Club pool deck, and it's a short walk from both Fashion Square and the Old Town bar blocks.
$$$ Since 2021
Sentral Old Town
A five-story, 160-unit apartment building completed in 2021 on Scottsdale Road just north of Camelback, where Sentral rents designer-furnished apartments of up to two bedrooms by the night or for 30-plus days, alongside regular long-term residents — a kitchen, in-unit laundry and a pool, with no hotel lobby.
$$$ Built 2021
Sheraton Desert Oasis Villas, Scottsdale
A Starwood-era Sheraton timeshare on Hayden Road, now part of the Marriott Vacation Clubs, with one- and two-bedroom villas, full kitchens and laundry, a waterfall pool built for families, and no resort fee. It puts TPC Scottsdale and the Princess district minutes away, and plenty of your neighbors own their week.
$$$ Since 1999
Sleep Inn North Scottsdale near Mayo Clinic
A three-story Choice Hotels Sleep Inn with about 105 rooms on the Phoenix side of Scottsdale Road just south of Bell. Breakfast and parking are free, there's a pool and hot tub, and the “Mayo Clinic” in its name is Mayo Clinic Hospital in north Phoenix, about 4 miles away.
$$ Since the late 1990s
Sonesta ES Suites Scottsdale Paradise Valley
A former Residence Inn on lower Scottsdale Road, now flying Sonesta's extended-stay flag: apartment-style suites with full kitchens, a free hot breakfast, a pool and pet rules with no weight limits, on the same block as the Andaz and the resort corridor's restaurants, at a fraction of what the neighbors charge.
$$ Built c. 1991
Sonesta Select Scottsdale at Mayo Clinic Campus
The two-story, 124-room former Courtyard on the Mayo Clinic's Scottsdale campus at the far east end of Shea Boulevard, run by Sonesta since 2021 and renovated in 2023, is the practical base for a Mayo appointment: a free weekday shuttle to the clinic, a heated pool, pet-friendly rules and McDowell Mountain trailheads nearby.
$$ Since the late 1980s
Sonesta Simply Suites Phoenix Scottsdale
A three-story, 130-suite extended-stay hotel on 90th Street just north of Shea Boulevard, built around 2000 as a TownePlace Suites and switched to Sonesta in the 2020–21 Marriott breakup, it suits medical stays, relocations and long work trips more than vacations: every suite has a real kitchen, and Shea's best strip-mall restaurants are minutes away.
$$ Since 2000
Sonesta Suites Scottsdale Gainey Ranch
Opened in 1999 as the independent Gainey Suites Hotel and flagged as Sonesta in 2018, this courtyard hotel of roughly 160 studio, one- and two-bedroom suites with full kitchens is Gainey Ranch’s grown-up alternative to the big resort up the road, with free breakfast, an evening social hour and Scottsdale’s busiest brunch strip a short walk away.
$$$ Since 1999
Spark by Hilton Fountain Hills Scottsdale
The 1996 Comfort Inn that was Fountain Hills' first hotel, renovated for about $1.5 million and reopened as a Spark by Hilton in 2024 — a small, two-story, pet-friendly hotel with free breakfast on Shea Boulevard in Fountain Hills, not Scottsdale, about ten minutes east of the Mayo Clinic and 30 from Old Town.
$ Since 1996
SpringHill Suites Phoenix Scottsdale
A 117-suite SpringHill Suites that opened in 2023 on the redeveloped Papago Plaza corner at Scottsdale and McDowell roads. You get free breakfast, a heated pool and newer rooms than almost anything at this price, ten minutes from Old Town and closer still to the airport, ASU and the Giants' spring-training park.
$$ Since 2023
SpringHill Suites Scottsdale North
A four-story, 121-suite Marriott at Scottsdale Road and Bell Road, renovated around 2019, with free hot breakfast, a pool and room to spread out. It's technically in Phoenix despite the Scottsdale address, a short drive from the Airpark, Kierland and Mayo Clinic Hospital.
$$ Since the 1990s
Spur Cross Inn
A four-suite inn in a renovated 1950s ranch house terraced into Saguaro Hill in the town of Cave Creek — not Scottsdale — next to a Desert Foothills Land Trust preserve and a short walk from the saloons, with private entrances, a telescope on the stargazing patio and big views of Black Mountain and the Spur Cross country.
$$ Open today · 1950s ranch house
Staybridge Suites Scottsdale – Talking Stick
A 112-suite extended-stay hotel that opened during the pandemic in October 2020 at the Pavilions at Talking Stick, between Salt River Fields and the Home Depot. Every suite has a full kitchen, breakfast and laundry are free, and the owner is an entity majority-owned by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, on whose land it stands.
$$ Since 2020
Talking Stick Resort
The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community's 15-story, 496-room casino resort — opened 2010 just across Scottsdale's eastern line — with the state's flashiest gaming floor, a rooftop-caliber view lounge, headline entertainment, and spring training and Topgolf as next-door neighbors.
$$ Since 2010
The Boulders Resort & Spa
A 1,300-acre high-desert hideaway on the Carefree border where adobe casitas are literally molded around 12-million-year-old granite boulder piles — with two Jay Morrish golf courses, a landmark spa, and the most architecture-in-service-of-landscape design of any Arizona resort.
$$$$ Since 1985
The Hermosa Inn
Cowboy artist Lon Megargee hand-built Casa Hermosa in the mid-1930s as home, studio and (legend says) speakeasy; ninety years, one fire and one loving restoration later, it's a 43-casita adobe hideaway whose restaurant — Lon's — is the most romantic dinner patio in the Valley.
$$$$ Since the 1930s
The McCormick Scottsdale
Opened in the summer of 1975 as the Inn at McCormick Ranch, a year before the famous conference resort on the same lake, and renamed The McCormick Scottsdale in 2014 after Clarion, Regal and Millennium years: 125 rooms and villas on Camelback Lake, with golf next door and Piñon Grill on the water.
$$$ Since 1975
The REMI., Scottsdale, Autograph Collection
A 12-story, 161-room Autograph Collection hotel that opened in July 2025 in the middle of the Entertainment District, built by the Yari brothers next to their Maya nightclub — with a rooftop pool billed as the city's highest, a Japanese steakhouse called Kauboi, and a lobby that leads straight to the dance floor.
$$$ Since 2025
The Scott Resort & Spa
Opened November 1961 as the Executive House Arizonian, this shape-shifting Old Town stalwart has been the Sunburst, the Caleo and Kimpton's FireSky before its 2017 reinvention as The Scott — a green-tiled, palm-shaded Bauhaus-meets-Havana fantasy with two pools and a sandy 'beach' minutes from the bar district.
$$$ Since 1961
The Scottsdale Resort & Spa
Opened September 1976 on the old McCormick cattle-and-Arabian ranch as the first purpose-built conference resort in America — now a $40 million-refreshed Curio Collection hacienda surrounded by the lakes, golf courses and bike paths of McCormick Ranch.
$$$ Since 1976
The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa
The 2002-built anchor of the Kierland district: 735 rooms, 27 holes of golf, a lazy river and FlowRider wave for the kids, Scotch and a sunset bagpiper for the grown-ups — the rare mega-resort that runs on genuine good cheer, with Kierland Commons' shops and restaurants across the street.
$$$ Since 2002
The Westin Kierland Villas, Scottsdale
Starwood's 2004 timeshare resort on ten acres beside the Westin Kierland: 158 one- and two-bedroom villas with kitchens and fireplaces, two pools of its own, the Kierland Golf Club outside, and limited access to the big resort next door. It's in Phoenix, with a Scottsdale address.
$$$ Since 2004
Tru by Hilton Scottsdale Salt River
Hilton's simple, lower-priced brand in half of a four-story dual-brand hotel that officially opened on February 13, 2020, at Pima Center on land owned by Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community members — about 80 rooms, free breakfast and parking, and the Talking Stick district a few minutes away.
$$ Since 2020
Villas of Cave Creek
A small, 25-unit timeshare resort of two-story, two-bedroom townhouses in the town of Cave Creek — not Scottsdale — each with a full kitchen, two fireplaces and its own backyard spa, a five-minute walk from the Cave Creek Museum and one of the few places in the area that takes a dog.
$$ Open today
W Scottsdale
The 2008 arrival that formalized Old Town's party era: a glass-and-steel W with the WET Deck pool scene above Camelback Road, Sushi Roku downstairs, and the entertainment district's entire bar grid as its de facto lobby — Scottsdale's designated urban-resort id.
$$$ Since 2008
We-Ko-Pa Casino Resort
The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation's 246-room hotel, opened in 2005 as a Radisson and joined in 2020 to the Nation's new smoke-free casino, sits on sovereign land past Fountain Hills, not in Scottsdale — a 35-to-40-minute drive from Old Town, with Four Peaks out the window and two of Arizona's best golf courses next door.
$$$ Since 2005
WorldMark Scottsdale
A WorldMark vacation-club resort of condo-style suites on Indian Bend Road, from 275-square-foot studios to a 2,293-square-foot four-bedroom presidential unit. Members trade points to stay here and other guests rent the leftover inventory. It's a practical base for families and groups, between McCormick Ranch and Talking Stick, with a pool, a fire pit and in-unit laundry.
$$ Open today
Casa Blanca Inn
A 1920s desert mansion turned Moroccan-fantasy resort: George Borg crowned it with an onion dome in the 1940s, hotel operators opened it as the Casa Blanca Inn in 1953, and for three decades Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Eisenhower-era society dined at the Sultan's Table — until the 1980s converted it all to a gated community that kept the dome as a clubhouse.
Closed 1982
Ingleside Inn
Built as the private Ingleside Club in 1909 by canal magnates W.J. and Ralph Murphy amid their citrus groves south of Camelback, it became the Valley's first true luxury resort in the 1920s — golf course, cottages, gala winters — and invented the playbook every Scottsdale resort still runs. It closed in the early 1940s; a school and then subdivisions took the land.
Closed 1942
John Gardiner's Tennis Ranch
Born as the Paradise Valley Racquet Club in October 1956 and transformed by tennis-resort pioneer John Gardiner after 1967, the Tennis Ranch on Camelback ran up to 18 courts for the country's power elite — its bipartisan Senator's Cup a Washington institution — until the boutique-spa era remade the mountainside as Sanctuary in 2001.
Closed 2001
Jokake Inn
Begun as a painter's family tearoom in 1926 and named 'mud house' by a Hopi visitor, the Jokake Inn grew into one of winter Scottsdale's defining resorts — easterners, titans and titled Europeans in adobe casitas below Camelback. The resort faded in the 1970s, but its twin 1936 bell towers still stand on The Phoenician's grounds: Scottsdale's oldest surviving resort architecture.
Closed 1979
La Posada Resort
The 1970s hacienda sprawl on Lincoln Drive whose lagoon pool and swim-up grotto bar — a waterfall-curtained cave you floated into — made it three generations of Valley kids' favorite resort memory. Sold for $31 million in 2004 and razed for the Montelucia, it survives as the corridor's most fondly mourned ghost.
Closed 2004
Paradise Inn
Opened just after World War II beside the older Jokake Inn, the Paradise Inn was the Camelback corridor's postwar workhorse — four decades of winter seasons, tennis whites and casita Christmases — until Charles Keating bought the neighborhood in the mid-1980s and The Phoenician's construction erased it.
Closed 1987
Smoke Tree Resort
A 1954 ranch-style holdout that stayed small while Lincoln Drive went five-star — a few dozen casitas, decades of loyal snowbirds, and The Other Place restaurant out front — until disrepair and bankruptcy closed it in 2020. Walton Global bought the site in 2022 with an approved boutique-hotel redevelopment; the corridor's dude-ranch scale ends with it.
Closed 2020
The Cottonwoods Resort
Opened in 1980 as the Alamos and soon renamed for its cottonwood shade, this 23-acre casita resort on lower Scottsdale Road spent 34 years as the corridor's unassuming insider haunt — its Moriah restaurant a steady local meeting spot — before closing in 2014 and passing its low-slung DNA directly to the Andaz that replaced it.
Closed 2014
The Registry Resort
Opened 1977 on 36 acres of McCormick Ranch land, the Registry was late-'70s and '80s Scottsdale at maximum wattage — stadium-court tennis tournaments, showroom entertainment, power conventions — before bankruptcy, a Radisson rebadging, 2005 closure and a 2007 date with the wrecking ball for condo development.
Closed 2005
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“Gone but not forgotten” entries cover resorts that built Scottsdale’s reputation but have closed or been demolished. They’re kept here as local history — and as a reminder that even a landmark with a thousand rooms can vanish when the land under it gets valuable enough.