What is Hotel Adeline?
Hotel Adeline is what happens when someone buys a tired Scottsdale Road motor hotel and decides the swimming pool is the whole business plan. The building at 5101 N Scottsdale Road went up in the 1960s and spent years as the Days Hotel, a budget stop on the way to the resorts. In 2016 New Orleans-based HRI Lodging took it over and called it the Scottsdale Inn for a year. Then came a renovation of roughly $12–13 million, and in January 2018 it reopened as Hotel Adeline for its owner, ESI Ventures.
The renovation kept the old layout and spent the money on the middle of the property. That means a 3,000-square-foot zero-edge pool with cabanas, fire pits and an elevated deck, and 213 rooms done in what the designers called “contemporary with a bohemian twist”: leather and wood, geometric rugs, Arizona art. In 2021 Marriott made it the first Arizona hotel in its Tribute Portfolio, so it keeps its own personality but you can earn Bonvoy points there.
Who’s it for? Groups of friends, bachelorette weekends, couples who want a scene, and anyone who’d rather walk to Fashion Square than drive to a golf course. Who should skip it? Anyone who wants silence on a Saturday in April. On weekends the pool turns into Liquid Sunshine, the hotel’s DJ party, and a hidden whiskey bar called Straight Up handles the rest of the night. It’s a party hotel that knows exactly what it is.
How to do Hotel Adeline right
Pick your room by noise tolerance. Poolside rooms open straight onto the action, which is wonderful on a Tuesday and loud on a Saturday afternoon from April through September, when Liquid Sunshine runs. If you’re here for the party, book poolside. If you’re here to sleep, ask for a classic room away from the deck.
Book the cabana on the right day. The pool is the reason you came, and its 16 cabanas go first on spring weekends and during events. Weekday mornings return the deck to something calmer.
Find the phone booth. Straight Up hides behind a vintage telephone booth off the lobby: lift the receiver, give the password, and a wall opens onto a low-lit whiskey room. Ask for an Arizona pour like Whiskey Del Bac and let the bartender build a flight. Our speakeasy guide puts it in context with the rest of town.
Eat in once, then go out. Selfmade, the restaurant, does dinner and a Sunday brunch; Freestyle feeds the pool. After that you’re on the Scottsdale Road dining strip: Postino Highland and Roaring Fork are just south, The Canal Club is a block away at The Scott, and the Old Town bar district is a short ride.
Watch the calendar. The hotel hosts events, including the pool night of Scottsdale Fashion Week. In spring training season, Scottsdale Stadium is about a mile and a half south.
From roadside motel to pool club: the Scottsdale Road strip
To understand the Adeline, look at its neighbors. Scottsdale Road north of Camelback was where the town’s postwar tourist boom parked its cars. The Safari Hotel opened in 1956 a few blocks south. Scottsdale Fashion Square arrived in 1961, and that November the Executive House Arizonian opened just down the road; it’s now The Scott. Right next door to the south, a 1953 guest ranch became the all-suite hotel that is now Embassy Suites. The 1960s motor hotel at 5101 was one more piece of that strip: a place to sleep near the shopping for people who weren’t booking a Camelback casita.
Those properties aged in different ways. The Safari didn’t make it; it closed in 1998 and was demolished the next year. The Executive House has worn five names. The motor hotel at 5101 ended up under the Days flag, a cheap bed between Old Town and the resort corridor, which is how many visitors who came before 2016 remember it.
What changed in the 2010s was the idea of what a mid-priced Scottsdale hotel could sell. Visitors coming for bachelorette weekends, spring training and the Old Town bars wanted a pool worth posting and a bar worth staying for more than a golf course. HRI Lodging’s 2016–2018 conversion of the Days Hotel into the Adeline followed that logic. It kept the old footprint and put the money into the pool deck, the cabanas, the restaurant concepts and the rooms.
Marriott’s Tribute Portfolio deal in 2021 finished the move. It gave a one-off independent the booking engine and loyalty program of the world’s largest hotel company without making it look like a Marriott. Similar thinking runs through the rest of town. The Scott, reinvented in 2017 from the 1961 Executive House, and the Hotel Solaya, the 1975 Doubletree reborn in 2026, both run older buildings as personality hotels with their own pools and parties. The row of tired roadside motels north of Camelback has turned into one of Scottsdale’s more interesting stretches of mid-priced hotels, and the Adeline is the loudest proof.