The 61 Best Hotels in Scottsdale
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The best hotels in Scottsdale, according to the experts: Forbes Travel Guide, AAA, and Michelin Guide have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. The Canyon Suites at The Phoenician, Scottsdale comes out on top.
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Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North and The Scott Resort & Spa hold the next two places. AAA shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with Michelin Guide next.
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A hotel-within-a-hotel tucked behind The Phoenician, The Canyon Suites earns its Forbes Five Star as a quieter, more insular retreat from the main resort's bustle. Earth-toned rooms lean into the Sonoran setting, a private palm-fringed pool runs serene enough to hear pages turning, and the Canyon Lounge keeps a fire going for when the desert night reminds you it can actually get cold.
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- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Five Star
- AAA AAA: Five Diamonds
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Casitas scattered across 40 desert acres make it easy to forget the other 209 guests exist. This Forbes Four Star, Michelin Key resort sits at the foot of Pinnacle Peak, where saguaros do the landscaping and Troon North's two golf courses are practically at the door. The pool is a genuine refuge from the Scottsdale heat, the spa runs Four Star as well, and Talavera handles dinner. Phoenix is a short drive whenever the desert quiet starts feeling too quiet.
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- AAA AAA: Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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A Havana-via-Hemingway resort sitting just off Scottsdale's main drag, where the whole premise is that you're not in the Arizona desert, even when the Arizona desert is right there. Eight acres of hammocks and two pools, one with a sandy beach, do a lot of convincing. Rooms run Art Deco and mid-century, heavy on walnut and brass. The on-site restaurant serves Cuban-American food, and yes, craft cocktails arrive in pineapples.
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- AAA AAA: Four Diamonds
- AAA AAA: Three Diamonds
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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The rooftop lounge and the sandy palette both nod to Camelback Mountain, which gives this modern Hilton a more coherent design identity than most hotels in the Phoenix sprawl. Rooms are contemporary and quietly comfortable, with Cobre Kitchen + Cocktails and the open-air Outrider Rooftop Lounge on site. The real advantage is the address: Old Town Scottsdale is one of the few genuinely walkable neighborhoods in a metro that treats sidewalks as a theoretical concept.
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- AAA AAA: Three Diamonds
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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- AAA AAA: Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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- AAA AAA: Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Retro doorknob tassels stand in for standard "do not disturb" signs, which tells you pretty much everything about the vibe here. The REMI. is a hotel in North Scottsdale built for the kind of people who consider the pool deck a social obligation. Rockwell Group did the interiors, all leather headboards and powder-blue velvet, and the Allegra rooftop bar pulls sunset crowds on the 12th floor. Kauboi's yakitori-meets-sushi terrace and the F-16 diner round out a property that locals treat like a neighborhood.
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- AAA AAA: Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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A 110-foot water slide and a Flowrider wave machine in the same resort that houses the Agave spa, where the treatments draw on traditional Native American healing practices. This Scottsdale resort runs to ten restaurants, a championship golf course, and day camps that will absorb the kids entirely if you need them absorbed. It's the kind of place where "staycation" stops being a lazy word and starts making geographic sense.
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- AAA AAA: Four Diamonds
- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: 2025 · Best Staycation Spot · Best of Phoenix
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Some Scottsdale hotels park the hot tub by the pool, which means sharing the water with strangers and their unexplained rashes. Scottsdale Parkview puts one in your room instead, spacious enough for two, in full view of the TV and the windows, the latter detail left to your judgment. It's a hotel that won a Phoenix New Times Best of Phoenix nod for exactly that setup, which tells you where the priorities are.
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