Best Resorts in Phoenix
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Phoenix is one of the top destinations in the United States for resort-style stays, offering beautiful desert landscapes, luxury spas, golf courses, and relaxing pool complexes. Many Phoenix resorts are designed as full-service retreats with spacious accommodations, scenic mountain views, and upscale amenities. Whether you're planning a relaxing staycation or a sunny desert getaway, Phoenix resorts provide the perfect mix of comfort, relaxation, and outdoor recreation.
These Phoenix areas are known for resort-style hotels offering scenic desert views, luxury amenities, and convenient access to outdoor activities.
Scottsdale is home to many of the most famous desert resorts in the Phoenix area, featuring luxury spas, championship golf courses, and beautiful mountain views.
Spread across 250 acres at Camelback Mountain's base, the Phoenician remains the Valley's grand resort: nine pools including a mother-of-pearl-tiled centerpiece, a 27-hole golf course, and a three-story athletic club and spa. The full-scale Arizona resort experience, polished for decades.
The Princess runs six pools, a lagoon with trout fishing for kids, and a calendar — Christmas at the Princess, summer's Sonoran Splash — that makes it the Valley's default family resort. It adjoins the TPC Stadium Course of Phoenix Open fame. Big, busy, and very good at it.
Paradise Valley hosts some of the most exclusive luxury resorts in Arizona, known for peaceful desert settings, elegant accommodations, and world-class service.
Sanctuary terraces its casitas up Camelback's north slope with the best infinity-pool view in the Valley and a spa that draws destination travelers on its own. Elements, Beau MacMillan's longtime restaurant, faces the sunset. Paradise Valley's romantic flagship.
Rebuilt in 2017 on its 1959 bones, Mountain Shadows is Paradise Valley's modernist play: glass walls framing Camelback, twin 75-foot pools, and The Short Course — 18 par-3 holes locals genuinely love. Sharp design at a friendlier rate than its neighbors.
North Phoenix offers several resort-style hotels near hiking trails, golf courses, and scenic desert landscapes.
Desert Ridge is North Phoenix's resort city: a lazy river and five pools, two Palmer and Faldo golf courses, and the Revive Spa's rooftop treatments. It absorbs families and conferences alike without feeling crowded. The north side's most complete staycation.
Tapatio Cliffs' Falls Water Village — a three-tiered pool complex with a 40-foot waterfall and 138-foot slide — headlines a hillside, all-suite resort priced well under the Valley's marquee names. Different Pointe of View's cliff-top dining adds the sunset. Strong family value.
Downtown Phoenix features modern hotels with resort-style amenities such as rooftop pools and spa services near restaurants and entertainment.
The Biltmore's 1929 Frank Lloyd Wright-influenced architecture made it the Valley's society resort — every president from Hoover onward has stayed — and its Catalina Pool was reputedly Marilyn Monroe's favorite. Fifteen minutes from downtown, it is the closest grand resort to the city's core.
A 1929 Mediterranean estate at Camelback's foot, Royal Palms wraps casitas around citrus-scented courtyards and a palm-lined pool, with T. Cook's among the Valley's most romantic tables. Small, adult, and garden-quiet — a short drive from downtown Phoenix.
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