What is Hyatt Place Scottsdale North?
Most of Scottsdale’s hotels have a backstory; this one has a ribbon-cutting. Hyatt Place Scottsdale North is the 136-room half of a combined hotel at 18513 N Scottsdale Road that celebrated its opening on March 18, 2021, when the pandemic still had travel on hold. Its twin, Hyatt House North Scottsdale, shares the property with 93 kitchen suites. Together they were the first dual-branded Hyatt Place/Hyatt House in Scottsdale.
The Hyatt Place half is the short-stay option: contemporary rooms, each with the brand’s Cozy Corner sofa-sleeper, plus a free hot breakfast, a bar, a heated outdoor pool, a 24-hour gym and some meeting rooms. It’s new construction, which on this stretch of road means walls that block the traffic and Wi-Fi that works.
The location tells you who it’s for. You’re on the Scottsdale side of Scottsdale Road, north of Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard, with the Loop 101 close by. Mayo Clinic Hospital, the Scottsdale Sports Complex, WestWorld and TPC Scottsdale are all a few miles away. That makes it a natural fit for medical visits, youth soccer and lacrosse tournament weekends, event weeks and Airpark meetings. Kierland and the Scottsdale Quarter are a short drive south.
Who should look elsewhere: travelers who want a walkable night out (that’s Old Town) or a resort pool scene (that’s the Fairmont Princess, a few minutes east, at several times the price).
How to do Hyatt Place Scottsdale North right
Choose your half on purpose. You book the Hyatt Place and the Hyatt House separately, but they share the same pool, gym and bar. For a quick trip, the Place’s rooms are the better value. For a week, or with kids who need a fridge and a stove, the House’s suites usually win.
Use the breakfast, then get out early. Breakfast is included. Eat, then drive before Scottsdale Road’s morning commute builds, especially if you’re heading to Mayo or a tournament at the Sports Complex.
Ride the event calendar, or avoid it. The WM Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale, Barrett-Jackson at WestWorld and spring training fill every room in north Scottsdale from late January through March. Book early, or pick a different week.
Eat north or south. Local Bistro + Bar on Hayden is the nearby neighborhood option. The resort restaurants at the Princess, including Bourbon Steak and La Hacienda, are the splurge. For a walkable dinner, Kierland and the Quarter are ten minutes south.
Set expectations. This is a select-service hotel: friendly, clean and efficient, with no spa, no golf and no room service fuss. Treat it as a smart base and spend the savings on the desert: the McDowell Sonoran Preserve trailheads are 20 minutes or so east, and an early hike beats any hotel amenity.
Upper Scottsdale Road and the post-2020 hotel wave
For most of the twentieth century, Scottsdale Road north of Bell Road was desert two-lane, heading toward Pinnacle Peak and the steakhouses, with ranchland and scattered homesteads along the way. The first push came from the south. The Army’s 1942 Thunderbird Field II left behind a runway that the city turned into Scottsdale Airport, and the Airpark grew around it into one of the city’s big employment districts. Then came the north Scottsdale subdivision boom of the 1980s and 1990s, and the Loop 101 around the turn of the millennium. Within a few years, the stretch of Scottsdale Road between Kierland and the freeway had become a run of power centers and office parks.
Hotels followed in waves. The first, in the early 2000s, put extended-stay and select-service hotels near Bell Road and the Airpark. The second came after 2020, pulled by medical travel to Mayo Clinic’s Phoenix hospital campus a few miles west, by tournament traffic at the city’s Sports Complex, and by event weeks at WestWorld and TPC Scottsdale. This Hyatt pair, opened in 2021, is one of the clearest examples of that second wave.
The dual-brand format is the industry’s answer to an expensive piece of land. One developer builds one complex with two brands under one roof: a select-service hotel for one- to three-night stays and an extended-stay hotel for longer ones. They share the lobby, the pool and the staff, and the owner can sell to both markets. Developer Michael Batt (Gardner Batt) brought the format to Scottsdale for the first time here, with Evolution Hospitality operating it at opening.
The investment story moved quickly. In 2022, barely a year after opening, Gardner Batt and its partners sold the 229-key complex for $54.5 million to a joint venture of global investment firm KKR and Riller Capital. That’s a substantial price for a select-service property, and it shows how much institutional money was betting on north Scottsdale’s mix of medical, sports, event and business travel.
For a first-time visitor, the history is short but the lesson is useful. North Scottsdale isn’t only about resorts. Much of the city’s weekday economy runs on this road, and hotels like this one are built for it.