What is the Hilton Garden Inn Scottsdale North/Perimeter Center?
Most people who stay here booked for a reason, and the reason is usually down the road. The Hilton Garden Inn Scottsdale North/Perimeter Center is a three-story, 122-room hotel on Princess Drive. It sits in the Perimeter Center office park, just inside north Scottsdale’s busiest event district. WestWorld is a couple of minutes’ drive east. The Scottsdale Sports Complex fields and TPC Scottsdale are close enough to walk. The Airpark, one of the Valley’s biggest job centers, starts just to the south and west.
It’s a standard Hilton Garden Inn, done well. Property listings put its build year at 2005. Rooms come with a microwave and mini-fridge, five of them are suites, and the lobby has a fireplace. There’s a pool and hot tub, a putting green and a fire pit outside. The Garden Grille & Bar serves a breakfast buffet in the morning and dinner and drinks at night. Breakfast isn’t free unless your rate includes it. Parking is free, though, and that matters on a week when lots near WestWorld are charging event prices.
Who it’s for: horse-show families, travel-soccer parents, Airpark meetings, and golfers who want TPC without paying resort prices. It’s pet friendly too, which helps if you’re one of the many people who come to WestWorld with animals. Who should stay elsewhere: anyone after a resort pool scene or walkable nightlife. For that, look at the Princess or Old Town.
How to do the Perimeter Center Hilton Garden Inn right
Book around the calendar. This hotel’s rates follow the event schedule. Late January brings Barrett-Jackson. February brings the Arabian Horse Show and the WM Phoenix Open, sometimes in overlapping weeks. Spring adds youth tournaments at the Sports Complex. If your dates are flexible, check all three calendars. The Princess, TPC and WestWorld guide lists what happens when.
Don’t drive on event days if you can help it. Princess Drive and Bell Road back up when WestWorld and TPC are both busy. The hotel’s location lets you walk to the Sports Complex fields. For the Phoenix Open, the official shuttles and bike valet beat trying to park.
Breakfast: decide before you book. The buffet costs extra unless it’s in your rate. A rate that includes breakfast is usually worth it for families on early show or tournament mornings.
Eat a little further out. The Garden Grille covers a weeknight dinner. For something better, Toro overlooks TPC’s 18th green, and the Princess has La Hacienda and Bourbon Steak. Kierland Commons and Scottsdale Quarter are about ten minutes west for an easy choice of chain restaurants.
Bring the pets. Up to two dogs or cats are allowed for a fee, which makes this one of the easier stays for people showing or traveling with animals at WestWorld.
Mind the airports. Sky Harbor is about 23 miles away. Private and charter flyers land at Scottsdale Airport, only 2 to 3 miles south.
Why a Hilton Garden Inn landed on Princess Drive
This corner of Scottsdale has three origin stories, and the hotel depends on all of them.
The first is the runway. Thunderbird Field II opened in 1942 as an Army pilot school. The Seventh-day Adventists took it over for a boarding school, and in 1963 they commissioned a plan for an industrial park around the airfield. The city bought the airfield in 1966, and the Airpark grew into a district of about 2,600 acres, with thousands of companies and tens of thousands of jobs. Its office parks, the Perimeter Center among them, filled the desert north toward the freeway.
The second is golf. In 1985 the city leased federal land north of the CAP canal to the PGA Tour, the Stadium Course opened in 1986, and the Phoenix Open moved in the next year. The Scottsdale Princess opened beside it in 1987.
The third is horses. The city began developing a horse park off Pima Road in 1986, and by 1989 the Arabian Horse Show and Barrett-Jackson had moved in. That horse park is today’s WestWorld. Climate-controlled arenas built later let it host events in summer too. Since 2021 the Bell94 fields have added more tournament soccer and Phoenix Open parking.
By the mid-2000s, the area had demand all year: offices during the week, and golf, horse shows, car auctions and youth sports on weekends. That’s the market a Hilton Garden Inn was designed for, a select-service hotel with a real restaurant and bar, cheaper to build and run than a resort. The Loop 101, finished in 2002, connected it to the rest of the Valley, so guests could reach Sky Harbor in about half an hour.
Twenty-some years later the hotel still does the same job. It’s a reasonably priced place to sleep in a district that holds some of the biggest crowds in Arizona for a few weeks a year. During the quiet weeks it’s one of north Scottsdale’s easiest bargains.