North Phoenix Hotels

Regarded by many as the best hotel in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area, the 950 room/suite JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort combines luxurious accommodations, high quality customer service, comprehensive facilities and a scenic location to create an unforgettable guest experience. The resort has a quiet, rather remote location on the north side of the 101 freeway, surrounded on most sides by undeveloped Sonoran Desert plains, and with the McDowell Mountains rising up a few miles east. A shopping mall with several restaurants is located a short distance south, though all necessary facilities are available on site; hotel highlights are a full service spa, five swimming pools (including a lazy river), ten restaurants, a championship golf course and 200,000 sq ft of meeting/event space.

Marriott's Canyon Villas is part of the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort, located right at the north edge of Phoenix near the 101 Freeway; the hotel offers a range of luxury accommodation including standard rooms with a kitchenette, and one or two bed villas all with a full kitchen & private balcony. Rooms are divided into several blocks surrounded by landscaped gardens, next to a golf course and bordering untouched, saguaro-studded Sonoran Desert land in some directions. Shopping and dining is available one block south at the Desert Ridge Marketplace, and guests can use all the many facilities at the adjacent Marriott resort, for no additional charge.

Recently built Courtyard Phoenix North is part of the expanding Happy Valley area, containing shops, restaurants and new residences located right at the north edge of the city either side of I-17 - access is from exit 218, 20 miles north of central Phoenix. The hotel is far enough from the interstate for its 164 rooms & suites to offer a quiet night's sleep; all accommodation is very large and well appointed, with amenities including a sofa bed, plasma TV, free internet access and luxury bedding. The hotel has a cafe open for breakfast only, plus other facilities of a business center, meeting space fitness center, hot tub and a large outdoor pool, shared with the adjacent Residence Inn.

The all-suite Residence Inn is the smaller of two adjacent Marriott hotels just off Happy Valley Road on the north edge of greater Phoenix, within walking distance of the new Shops at Norterra Mall and half a mile from I-17 exit 218. The pet friendly inn features spacious, modern suites in studio, one bed or two bed configurations, all equipped with a full kitchen including refrigerator, dishwasher, stove and microwave. Guests are treated to free full breakfast each morning a free manager's reception weekday evenings; also available are a sports court, fitness center, outdoor pool, whirlpool, laundry and business center.

The fully featured, extended stay Residence Inn Phoenix Desert View opened early 2009, adjacent to Mayo Clinic on the north edge of Scottsdale/Phoenix, bordered by untouched desert lands in most directions. Access is from Loop 101 which runs past just to the north. The combination of excellent customer service, the spacious and well equipped suites (all with a full kitchen), the good facilities and the free hot breakfast positions the Residence Inn near the top of the hundreds of hotels in Phoenix; other amenities include an elegant lobby, an outdoor pool (plus cabanas), a courtyard/patio with fire pit, a fitness center, a putting green, a business center and meeting space.

Like most north Phoenix hotels, the Fairfield Inn by Marriott faces interstate 17 - situated next to a Best Western on the east frontage road by exit 212 (Bell Rd), on the opposite side to the Bell Canyon Pavilions mall, which has many restaurants and specialty shops. Rooms are simple, bright and clean, equipped with microwave/refrigerator, large work desk, ironing facility and a coffee maker; other hotel amenities are a nice outdoor pool area with sundeck and hot tub, free hot continental breakfast, basic business services, and guest laundry.

Comfort Inn Phoenix is a large but affordable hotel of 166 interior rooms arranged around three sides of a well-presented courtyard garden containing tropical plants and an outdoor pool/hot tub; it features free hot breakfast, free internet access, a fitness center, business center and meeting/banquet space for up to 150 guests. Some rooms have one or more of a refrigerator, microwave and sofa bed. The hotel adjoins I-17 at the Union Hills Drive exit, two blocks north of the Freeway Plaza shopping center and 16 miles from downtown Phoenix.

Rooms at the Sleep Inn North provide clean, quiet, relaxing and affordable lodging, in a nice, new building between I-17 and N 27th Ave, close to the north edge of Phoenix. There are many shops & restaurants a few blocks away by the 101 Freeway intersection, and the Bell Canyon Pavilions mall is 1 mile to the south. Services at the 61 room hotel are the expected free breakfast (continental), exercise room, outdoor heated pool, hot tub and guest laundry.

Studio 6 Phoenix - Deer Valley provides budget priced, all-suite/extended stay accommodation with limited facilities; a full kitchen in every room, plus wi-fi, laundry, cable TV and free coffee. Rooms are divided into several blocks surrounded by the ample parking lot, in a mostly residential area of north Phoenix next to Interstate 17 (exit 214A; Union Hills Drive). The nearest shopping center is Freeway Plaza, 0.8 miles south.