What is Maya Day + Night?
Most entertainment-district clubs pick a lane: a pool party in daylight, or a dark room with a DJ after midnight. Maya Day + Night does both on one property. It has a pool with daybeds and cabanas on the weekend afternoons and a nightclub indoors after dark, joined by a single dual DJ booth that plays to both.
The address is 7333 E Indian Plaza, in the middle of Old Town’s entertainment district. Maya grew out of Spellbound Entertainment Group, the nightlife company of Shawn and Steven Yari, who also built the W Scottsdale. In December 2019 Spellbound merged with Riot Hospitality Group, the company behind El Hefe and Whiskey Row, and Riot runs Maya today.
In early summer 2025 Maya reopened after what Riot described as a floor-to-ceiling remodel. The new room is 15,000 square feet. A 100-foot hand-sculpted wooden goddess stands behind the main bar, and a sculptural tree with LED branches lights the front lounge. The arched facade is clad in chevron wood paneling, and inside there are amber tones, woven basket pendants and curved banquettes. Riot’s chief development officer, Jason Adler, announced the reopening with “Maya is back, and nightlife will never be the same.”
The other big change is the building next door. In July 2025 the Yaris opened The REMI., a 12-story hotel connected directly to the club. Its lobby bar works as one entrance to Maya, and its Kauboi Terrace looks down on the pool.
Day, night, and the dress code
Pick your shift. The day club runs Friday through Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. The nightclub runs 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Thursday and Friday, 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday, and 4 p.m. to midnight Sunday. On Saturday and Sunday the two programs overlap in the late afternoon, which is the closest Scottsdale gets to a Las Vegas pool-to-club day.
Dress for the right one. The day club requires upscale swimwear and turns away jeans, pants and athleisure, though swimwear is optional in the cooler months. The nightclub asks for business casual and lists what it will turn away: athleisure, slides, cutoffs, sleeveless shirts, beachwear, bandanas and oversized clothes. Getting it wrong is the most common way to be turned away at the door.
Book the furniture. Maya runs separate VIP lines for day and night. Daybeds, cabanas and tables with bottle service are what it sells, and on big weekends such as the WM Phoenix Open, spring training and Barrett-Jackson they sell out first. General admission works on ordinary nights, but groups and bachelorette weekends should reserve.
Eat before, or next door. Maya’s food is a small-plates menu for sharing. For a real dinner, Kauboi is inside The REMI. next door, and Bottled Blonde and Casa Amigos are a few doors down Indian Plaza. Use a rideshare, because the district’s pickup lanes are designed for it and its parking is not.
The Yaris’ corner of Indian Plaza
Maya makes the most sense as one piece of a family plan. In the 2000s the Yari brothers set out to make the blocks between Fashion Square and Old Town into an entertainment district they could own in pieces. The W Scottsdale opened in 2008 with the WET Deck, which brought Las Vegas pool-party culture to Scottsdale. Their Spellbound venues, including Maya, The District and the Clubhouse at Maya, took the same idea to Indian Plaza. When Spellbound and Riot merged at the end of 2019, the result was one of the largest nightlife operators in Old Town.
The remodel followed the city’s paperwork. In November 2023 an application went to Scottsdale planners for an exterior remodel of “The District (aka Maya Day + Night Club).” The two names point to the same property, and event listings still use The District for some nights. Meanwhile the hotel next door, approved in 2020 as the Maya Hotel, ran more than two years behind schedule. The rebuilt club and the finished hotel opened within weeks of each other in summer 2025, built to share guests.
The timing also matched a shift across the district. In the mid-2020s, operators described a move toward a more upscale crowd, and the city budgeted money to spruce up Old Town. Maya’s carved goddess, business-casual dress code and hotel connection fit that shift better than the old open-air party did. The 2020s version of the entertainment district is about curated rooms that sell tables.
Honest assessment: Maya is expensive, its door policy is strict, and it is designed for groups more than for anyone wandering by. If the pool party is what you came to Scottsdale for, Maya is the newest and most polished one in town, and staying at the hotel next door means the walk back to your room is an elevator ride.