What is Home2 Suites by Hilton Scottsdale Old Town?
It’s a practical kitchen-suite hotel at the south end of Old Town, on Scottsdale Road between Thomas and Osborn. For years the building was the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Scottsdale–Old Town. In the mid-2020s it was fully remodeled and reopened as a Home2 Suites by Hilton, Hilton’s extended-stay brand built around kitchen suites.
There are 169 suites. Each has a kitchen setup with a full-size refrigerator, microwave and dishwasher, plus a sofa bed in the living area, so a family or a group of friends can spread out and keep their own food. A hot breakfast is included, and there’s an outdoor pool, a hot tub, a fitness center and a business center.
The location is the main reason to book. Scottsdale Stadium, where the San Francisco Giants have trained every spring since 1984, is about half a mile away. HonorHealth Scottsdale Osborn Medical Center, the hospital that grew from the city’s first in 1962, is nearby too. The Civic Center and the old core of Old Town are about a mile north.
Who it’s for: spring-training fans who want to walk to the ballpark, families visiting someone at the hospital, people relocating or on a long work assignment, and anyone who’d rather spend money on Old Town dinners than on a hotel room. Who should stay elsewhere: people who want to step out the door straight into the bar district or resort grounds. This is the quieter edge of downtown, and it’s priced accordingly.
How to do the Home2 right
Book early for spring training. In late February and March this is one of the most convenient hotels in Scottsdale for Giants games, about a ten-minute walk to the ballpark. Hotels near the stadium sell out first, so reserve as soon as the schedule comes out. Bring a hat: the walk is short, but day games in March can be hot.
Use the kitchen. With breakfast included and a full-size fridge in the suite, a grocery run on the first day covers lunches and a few dinners. For a week-long stay or a hospital visit, that saves real money and makes a hotel room feel more like an apartment.
Hospital stays. For families with someone at HonorHealth’s Osborn campus, the short trip and the suite layout help. You get a living room, a kitchen and a pool to decompress in after a long day.
Walk north for dinner. The Civic Center, the Old Town restaurant blocks and the galleries of Main Street are about a mile north, a pleasant walk on a winter evening. In summer heat, take a rideshare or the free Scottsdale Trolley.
Look around the stadium. Even outside spring training, the ballpark area is worth a stroll. The Left Field Day Park next to the stadium and the shade of the Civic Center are close by.
Scottsdale Road’s south end: ballpark, hospital and hotel
The stretch of Scottsdale Road between Thomas and Osborn is more the working end of downtown than the postcard end. Its history explains why a hotel like this does well here.
The ballpark came first. Scottsdale Stadium opened on Osborn Road in 1956 for the Baltimore Orioles’ spring training. Ted Williams’s Red Sox trained there after the Orioles, and apart from one empty spring in 1966, a big-league team has used the ballpark every year since. The Giants arrived in 1984 and never left, and the city rebuilt the stadium in brick in 1992. Spring training made the blocks near Osborn Road some of the most valuable hotel locations in town for six weeks every year.
The hospital followed. In May 1962, when Scottsdale was a city of about 10,000 with no hospital of its own, City Hospital of Scottsdale opened as a one-story building on Osborn Road, run by the Baptist Hospital Association. It grew into Scottsdale Memorial Hospital, then Scottsdale Healthcare and finally HonorHealth, whose Osborn Medical Center is now a Level I trauma center. A big hospital creates steady demand for nearby rooms from patients’ families and people traveling for treatment.
Between the ballpark, the hospital and the walk to Old Town, a limited-service hotel on Scottsdale Road was an obvious fit. For years this one flew the IHG flag as the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Scottsdale–Old Town. In the mid-2020s it was fully remodeled and reopened under Hilton’s Home2 Suites brand, which pairs kitchen-equipped suites with an included breakfast.
For guests, the practical effect is simple: a newly remodeled room at the edge of Old Town, close to the ballpark and the hospital, with breakfast and a kitchen.
The result isn’t glamorous, and it doesn’t need to be. It shows how Scottsdale’s hotels serve more than vacationers: they also house ballplayers’ fans, patients’ relatives and people in the middle of moving. The resort corridor gets the attention. Hotels like this one handle the everyday demand.