What is the Fairfield Inn & Suites Scottsdale Old Town?
If you knew this hotel as the Comfort Suites Old Town Scottsdale, you’re not imagining it. In 2025 the three-story building on Drinkwater Boulevard was renovated and reflagged as a Fairfield by Marriott Inn & Suites, Marriott’s no-frills, breakfast-included brand. It’s small — 58 rooms, all set up as suites — and that’s both its charm and its catch.
The address is the main selling point. The hotel sits just south of Osborn Road, and Scottsdale Stadium, where the San Francisco Giants train every spring, is a few minutes’ walk north across Osborn. For Cactus League fans, few hotels are closer to the gate. The rest of Old Town — the Civic Center, the galleries, the restaurants — is about a fifteen-minute walk north.
What you get: a free hot breakfast, free morning coffee, a 24-hour market for snacks, an indoor pool, a fitness center and renovated rooms with a little extra space. Pets are welcome, up to two per room.
Who it suits: baseball fans, families watching the budget, road-trippers and anyone who wants a recognizable brand and breakfast in Old Town without paying for a rooftop. Who should look elsewhere: travelers who want a bar or restaurant on site, a big outdoor pool, or a short walk to nightlife. The Entertainment District is a ride, not a stroll, from here.
It’s a modest hotel in a good spot, and with only 58 rooms, it fills up quickly when the Giants are in town.
How to do the Fairfield right
Book March early. The hotel’s size and location make it one of the first to sell out for spring training. If your trip is built around Giants games, book as soon as you have dates. Outside March, it’s one of Old Town’s easier and more affordable rooms to get.
Let breakfast do the work. Breakfast is free, hot and served daily (earlier on weekdays, later on weekends). For families, that’s one meal a day handled. Pair it with a day game and a late Old Town dinner and you’ve covered a full day for the cost of one restaurant meal.
Walk to the ballpark, ride to the bars. The stadium is a few minutes’ walk. The galleries and restaurants around Main Street and Fifth Avenue are about fifteen minutes north on foot, past the Civic Center lawn. The free Old Town trolley helps in summer. For the Entertainment District, take a rideshare.
Use the off-season green space. Outside March, the stadium’s Left Field Day Park is open as a neighborhood lawn, a good spot for a morning walk or for a dog to stretch.
Set expectations. This is a renovated older building with interior hallways, three floors and an indoor pool. It’s clean and practical, not a design hotel. If you want a pool scene, swim at your hotel and drink somewhere else — the Valley Ho is a fifteen-minute walk.
A budget hotel in the ballpark’s shadow
The corner of Osborn and Drinkwater has been about baseball for seventy years. Scottsdale opened its first ballpark here in the mid-1950s, and the Baltimore Orioles started spring camp in March 1956. The ballpark was close enough to downtown that players have wandered Old Town’s bars ever since, and it established Scottsdale as a Cactus League city.
The San Francisco Giants arrived in 1984 by most accounts, and in 1992 the city rebuilt the stadium into the brick ballpark that still stands across Osborn from this hotel. That rebuild changed the surrounding blocks. Spring training became a reliable tourist season, with fans who arrive for a week, want to walk to the game, and don’t need luxury. The small hotels around the stadium fill that need. The ballpark also sits just south of the Civic Center Mall, the city’s front lawn since 1968, so the walk from these hotels into Old Town runs past the library and the LOVE sculpture rather than along a highway frontage road. Few spring-training cities put the stadium, the hotels and the downtown this close together.
For years, this building did it as a Comfort Suites, part of Choice Hotels’ all-suite budget brand. It was the kind of place you booked for the location and the included breakfast, not the décor — a budget option in the middle of a city better known for resorts.
In 2025, the property was renovated and moved to Fairfield by Marriott, a change many owners of older select-service hotels have made in recent years to tap into Marriott’s loyalty program and booking system. Fairfield began in the 1980s as Marriott’s economy brand and has since become one of its largest. For guests, the change mostly meant refreshed rooms, a hot breakfast and Marriott points; for the building, it meant a new sign and a longer life.
The hotel is a useful reminder of a part of Scottsdale’s visitor economy that rarely gets written about. The resorts and rooftop hotels get the attention, but every March the city also depends on small, practical hotels like this one, close enough to the stadium for fans to walk to the game.