What is Extended Stay America Suites Phoenix Scottsdale?
The name says Phoenix, but this hotel is in Scottsdale. Extended Stay America Suites – Phoenix – Scottsdale sits at 10660 North 69th Street, just off Shea Boulevard and a few blocks west of Scottsdale Road, inside Scottsdale’s city limits at the far west end of the Shea Corridor. Cross Scottsdale Road farther north, or head a little west, and you’re in Phoenix, so the chain’s naming makes some sense.
The hotel is a three-story building with about 105 studio suites, each with a kitchen: refrigerator, stovetop, microwave and enough cookware to make dinner. The amenities are what the brand promises and little more: free parking, a basic free breakfast, an outdoor pool that’s open in season, a fitness room and guest laundry. It’s smoke-free and allows pets.
It works well for people who need a bed and a kitchen for weeks rather than days. That includes contractors working in the Airpark about three miles north, families between houses, people starting a new job before their lease begins, and visitors on a fixed budget during spring training when better-known hotels fill up.
It doesn’t work for a vacation. There’s no restaurant, no resort pool and no view, and the surroundings are offices, condos and strip malls. The location is still useful: Scottsdale Road is a few blocks east, Kierland Commons and Scottsdale Quarter are about ten minutes north, and the Shea strip malls hold several good local restaurants.
How to do a long stay at Shea and 69th right
Treat it as an apartment. The kitchen is the main amenity, so stock it. Cooking most nights is what makes a long stay here cheaper than a select-service hotel.
Walk to breakfast. Eggstasy, a short walk away at 6990 East Shea, is one of the Shea Corridor’s local brunch spots, and it beats the lobby breakfast easily. Pita Jungle on Shea near Scottsdale Road is a reliable, healthy dinner a few minutes away.
Use Scottsdale Road. It runs north to Kierland Commons, Scottsdale Quarter and the Airpark, and south past the McCormick Ranch and Gainey Ranch neighborhoods to Old Town. For a resort afternoon, the Grand Hyatt Scottsdale at Gainey Ranch is a short drive southeast.
Know the pet rules. Dogs and cats are allowed, two per room, with a nightly fee capped per stay. On a month-long stay you’ll reach the cap quickly, so the cost stays predictable.
Set expectations for the pool and housekeeping. The outdoor pool is seasonal. Listings describe housekeeping as available on request rather than daily, so ask about the schedule at check-in if regular service matters to you.
Don’t let the name confuse your guests. If someone is meeting you, give them the street address. Searching for “Phoenix Scottsdale” brings up several hotels across the metro area.
Weekly hotels on Scottsdale’s western edge
The corner of Shea Boulevard and Scottsdale Road was at the edge of town for most of the city’s history. Scottsdale grew north from its old downtown in the 1960s and 1970s by annexing the ranches and desert along Scottsdale Road. The road became the boundary in many places, with Scottsdale on one side and Phoenix’s northeast neighborhoods or the Town of Paradise Valley on the other. The line still zigzags through this area, which is why a hotel with “Phoenix” in its name can be inside Scottsdale.
What changed this part of town was the Scottsdale Airpark. The city bought the old Thunderbird Field II training field in 1966, and the airport and industrial park around it opened in 1967. After the Loop 101 was finished through the city in the early 2000s, the Airpark grew into one of the state’s largest job centers, with thousands of businesses within a short drive. A job center that size brings a steady flow of people who need a room for a month: consultants, construction crews, new hires waiting on a house, and medical patients. Weekly hotels with kitchens filled that need along Scottsdale Road and Shea.
Extended Stay America is one of the largest budget brands of that kind. George D. Johnson Jr. and Wayne Huizenga, former Blockbuster executives, founded it in January 1995 to build simple, kitchen-equipped studios for stays of a week or longer, and the chain grew quickly. Its later history followed the ups and downs of private equity: Blackstone bought it in 2004, sold it to the Lightstone Group in 2007, and the company filed for bankruptcy in 2009 before a Blackstone-led group bought it back in 2010. In 2021, Blackstone and Starwood Capital took it private again. The company now runs roughly 650 hotels.
This hotel isn’t part of Scottsdale’s resort history. It’s part of the city’s working history: the offices, clinics and construction sites that keep the city running while visitors spend their time at the resorts.