What is the DoubleTree Paradise Valley–Scottsdale?
Most visitors know it from the warm cookie at check-in. The DoubleTree Resort by Hilton Paradise Valley–Scottsdale is a 1984 resort on Scottsdale Road, about two miles north of Old Town. It has 378 rooms, 12 of them suites, in two-story buildings spread over roughly 20 acres, with two outdoor pools, a children’s pool, tennis and basketball courts and a palm-lined fountain courtyard used for weddings and events. Its older marketing called the low, horizontal architecture Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired, which is a generous way of describing a sensible 1980s plan that keeps everything close to the ground and close to the pools.
There are two things to know before you book. The first is geography. The mailing address says Scottsdale, but the resort is legally in the Town of Paradise Valley, which owns a strip of Scottsdale Road frontage here. Nobody will notice except your tax receipt.
The second is the name. After a multimillion-dollar renovation in 2026, the resort is scheduled to become Ranch House Scottsdale Resort on January 1, 2027. An earlier announcement said December 1, 2026, so treat the exact date as subject to change. The current owner, Global Hospitality Investment Group, bought the property in 2023.
Who it suits: families who want room to spread out, groups and wedding parties, and anyone who wants a full resort near Fashion Square without Camelback Corridor prices. If you want a scene, a spa or a mountain view from bed, look up the road.
How to do the DoubleTree right
Mind the changeover. Stays around New Year’s 2027 may land in the middle of the rename. If you’re paying with Hilton points or counting on elite perks, ask how reservations made under the DoubleTree name will be honored after January 1. Signage, menus and the app may lag for a while.
Ask for the right room. On 20 acres of two-story buildings, location on the grounds matters. Families should ask to be near the fenced children’s pool; anyone who wants quiet should ask for a room away from the pools and the event lawns, especially on wedding weekends. Cabanas cost extra.
Use the bikes and the canal. The resort lends bicycles for free, and the Arizona Canal path is about a 14-minute walk away. Ride it to Fashion Square and the Scottsdale Waterfront and you’ll skip the worst of Scottsdale Road traffic. The resort also runs a free area shuttle.
Eat on site once, then go out. Asadero Cocina & Cantina is the resort’s restaurant, and there’s a poolside bar; expect menus to change as the Ranch House name arrives. For dinner off property you’re five minutes from Old Town’s grid and about ten from El Chorro on Lincoln Drive.
Budget honestly. There’s a nightly resort fee, and both self-parking and valet cost extra. Breakfast is sold separately. Pets are welcome for a per-stay fee, two per room up to 75 pounds each.
Spring training. Scottsdale Stadium, where the Giants play, is about a ten-minute drive south. In March this is one of the larger resorts that close to the ballpark. See our spring training guide.
The Doubletree that Scottsdale made, and the ranch it becomes
There’s a hometown irony in this resort dropping the DoubleTree name. The chain was born here: Samuel Kitchell opened the first Doubletree Inn at Fashion Square in January 1969, as our page on Doubletree Ranch Road explains, and the 1975 hotel on the Civic Center curve that is now Hotel Solaya was one of the brand’s first. The brand went national, passed through the Promus merger and landed inside Hilton in 1999.
This resort arrived in 1984, during the decade when Scottsdale Road filled in between the older resorts. The Hilton had planted its bell tower at Lincoln in 1973, and the Scottsdale Plaza had followed in 1976. The Cottonwoods, now the Andaz, sat between them, and Smoke Tree on Lincoln still ran at 1954 scale. The bigger flagships came a few years later, with the Hyatt at Gainey Ranch in 1986 and the Phoenician in 1988. This one took the middle path: big enough for conventions, low enough to feel like a resort.
The address explains its town. Paradise Valley incorporated in 1961 to keep its land in estates and resorts, and it has no town property tax. Bed tax and sales tax pay much of the bills, and the town’s own financial reports have listed the DoubleTree among the resorts it depends on, next to Camelback Inn, the Hermosa and the Plaza. A hotel that most guests think of as Scottsdale has spent four decades helping pay for one of the Valley’s smallest, richest towns.
The rename fits a citywide pattern. In the space of a few years the Scottsdale Plaza became the Kimpton Miralina, the old Doubletree downtown became Hotel Solaya, and the Scottsdale Resort at McCormick Ranch was renovated and relaunched under Hilton’s Curio flag. Each time, new money gave a 1970s or 1980s property a sharper identity. Smoke Tree, a few blocks away, shows the other way it can go: it closed in 2020 and is being replaced.
“Ranch House” is a sensible choice of name. It nods to the low-slung buildings and to Scottsdale’s ranch-house vernacular, and the resort is promising refreshed rooms and Western-leaning design. Whether the new name catches on with locals who have called it “the DoubleTree” for decades is another matter. What won’t change is the address, the 20 acres or the ten-minute drive to everything.