Fairmont Scottsdale Princess review – The Points Guy

What’s the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess?

The 65-acre Fairmont Scottsdale Princess is a reasonably new property, open solely since 1987. Since then, the resort’s visitor rooms and several other of its public areas obtained main renovations, making it really feel even youthful than its comparatively younger age. The resort’s hacienda-style structure permits the mountain vistas and plush gardens to take middle stage.

Along with being house to TPC Scottsdale’s two famend golf programs, the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess has 750 subtle visitor rooms, 5 award-winning eating places, six swimming pools, a full-service spa and salon, a youngsters membership, and extra.

It’s the consideration to element and degree of luxurious inside these choices that make this resort so memorable.

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How you can e-book the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess

Room charges on the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess begin at round $420 per night time for the standard room within the scorching summer time months and might climb to between $800 and $1,000 within the spring and fall. Along with customary rooms, you possibly can e-book a personal suite on the Fairmont’s Privado Villas. Charges at this “lodge inside a lodge” begin at round $950 per night time and go as much as $1,700 per night time.

Handy location within the coronary heart of Scottsdale

The Fairmont Scottsdale Princess is in North Scottsdale. The resort is simply six minutes by automotive from Scottsdale Airport (SCF), although most vacationers arrive at Phoenix Sky Harbor Worldwide Airport (PHX), which is nearer to a 25-minute drive. The resort sits on the outskirts of the McDowell Sonoran Protect, near a few of the space’s finest climbing trails and panoramic desert views.

From the lodge, it was solely a couple of 12-minute drive to the protect. However we have been additionally lower than a 20-minute drive from different native sights like Outdated City Scottsdale, the Desert Botanical Backyard and the McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park.

Upscale rooms with considerate facilities

My household stayed within the Privado Villas, the Fairmont’s “lodge inside a lodge” that permits entry to all the resort’s facilities, plus extras like a personal foyer with complimentary snacks and drinks, complimentary valet parking, chauffeur service, a personal pool, and complimentary entry to the spa’s health and leisure services.

Our 850-square-foot, one-bedroom villa had a bed room with two queen beds, a big dwelling space with a settee mattress, and a furnished balcony. The youngsters have been notably excited that the couch mattress confronted the gasoline hearth, which we have been capable of activate and off with the flip of a swap.

I am unable to converse to the consolation degree of the couch mattress, however the crisp sheets, light-weight comforter and fluffy pillows made my mattress really feel like sleeping on a cloud.

Our room felt shiny and ethereal, and never solely due to all of the pure mild coming in from the floor-to-ceiling home windows in the lounge. The furnishings and complicated Southwest decor built-in mild colours, pure supplies and a minimalist design that yielded an open and welcoming area.

The toilet featured pure supplies like marble and quartz, the latter of which comes from the Sonoran Desert.

I appreciated the twin vanities, which gave us much more area to prepare than a normal side-by-side double vainness. We loved Le Labo toiletries, true to Fairmont kind.

The bathtub facilities included journey must-haves that many properties neglect to supply, like lip balm, a shaving package and a dental package. I am fairly explicit about tub merchandise and do not often take lodge toiletries house with me, however what was left of the eucalyptus bathe mist positively made its method into my suitcase.

What impressed me most of all, although, have been the considerate touches and facilities all through the villa. The area included complimentary boxed water (and glass bottles for a further payment), in addition to Nespresso pods for making my morning espresso. A minibar was additionally out there with a collection of snacks and drinks.

There was additionally a walk-in closet with loads of area to retailer our belongings in an organized method. The toilet housed a hamper and full-size clothes steamer.

Nice eating to poolside cocktails

The Fairmont Scottsdale Princess has 5 on-site eating places plus a grab-and-go store that serves Starbucks espresso.

Toro Scottsdale

A lot of the eating places are positioned on-site, however Toro is on the 18th gap of TPC Scottsdale. You may entry Toro through the resort shuttle, or non-public automotive transportation in case you are staying within the Privado space.

Toro serves pan-Latin dishes for beakfast, lunch and dinner. Throughout our go to, we tried a bit of little bit of every part. We began with the tuna ponzu guacamole with plantain chips ($22), which even the children loved.

We shared just a few extra dishes for our meal, together with the churrasco ($125), which included New York strip steak, lamb chops, hen and chorizo, and is designed to serve two to a few folks. We added a sushi roll ($20) and a half-dozen oysters ($19) and it was greater than sufficient meals to feed our household of 5.

All the things we ate was cooked expertly, and the service was above and past what I anticipated.

Different on-site eating choices

Nearer to the lodge (inside strolling distance or a golf cart trip away), you may as well dine at Bourbon Steak, a up to date American steakhouse; La Hacienda, a Mexican superb eating restaurant; Ironwood American Kitchen, an all-day eatery close to one of many principal pool areas; and The Plaza Bar, an indoor-outdoor lounge.

Though we weren’t on the property lengthy sufficient to strive the opposite eating places, we made a few stops at Provisions for espresso. This spot serves your entire Starbucks favorites, and we have been additionally capable of seize breakfast sandwiches and snacks to gasoline up earlier than an early morning hike.

Swimming pools and actions for each sort of traveler

The Fairmont Scottsdale Princess has six glimmering swimming pools to select from. Throughout our go to, we spent most of our time on the Sonoran Splash Pool. This pool was fairly massive and was surrounded by cabanas (for a payment) and loungers (complimentary). The pool has two 200-foot twisting slides that I loved as a lot as my youngsters did.

We additionally visited the Sundown Seaside pool space as a result of I knew my youngsters would love taking part in on the sandy seashore. Throughout our keep, I discovered that the sand is imported from Florida. This 9,000-square-foot pool space additionally has a splash pad and a zero-entry space for youthful youngsters.

For those who desire to swim sans youngsters (or wish to sneak in just a few laps), head for the adults-only Sonoran Touchdown Pool. This pool has designated lanes for lap swimming, floating bean baggage and a few much-needed peace and quiet.

There may be additionally a personal pool for Privado friends, the Princess Pool overlooking the TPG Stadium course, and the Nicely & Being Rooftop Pool for spa friends.

Along with swimming, friends even have entry to a wide range of retailers, health lessons and a Trailblazers Youngsters Membership. You may pay a every day fee to drop your baby off for supervised actions or go to as a household within the afternoon; actions embody arcade video games, desk tennis and pool.

A spa you may wish to reside in

Typically after I go to a lodge spa, I really feel like I simply do my spa therapy after which transfer on with my day. Nevertheless, this was not the case on the lodge’s 44,000-square-foot Nicely & Being Spa — which was undoubtedly probably the greatest spa experiences I’ve ever had. I felt pampered from the second I stepped into the area. With inside decor impressed by the Grand Canyon’s Havasupai Falls, I may’ve spent all the day luxuriating within the resplendent services.

I had simply sufficient time earlier than my therapy to don one of many spa’s cozy robes and head to the side-by-side whirlpool and chilly plunge. I began within the chilly plunge and was capable of stroll just some steps to the nice and cozy, soothing whirlpool.

For my therapy, I selected the 60-minute Desert Oasis Detoxifying Wrap ($215). This included an natural clay physique wrap and a turquoise sage arnica physique lotion to assist with muscle fatigue. The therapy felt indulgent and enjoyable, and the therapist was pleasant and really useful after I wanted to get to and from the bathe modestly to rinse off my physique wrap.

The spa presents a full menu of providers, together with facials, massages, physique scrubs, prenatal remedies and salon providers like manicures, pedicures and hair styling.

With my spa therapy, I may have stayed within the spa so long as I needed to benefit from the non-public rooftop pool, sauna, Swiss bathe, inhalation room and cafe, however, alas, my motherly duties known as me again to my household.

Causes the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess may not be for you

As a lot as I liked my keep, there are just a few causes the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess may not be the fitting match on your Scottsdale trip:

• The worth: Rooms on the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess begin at greater than $400 per night time. For those who desire budget-friendly properties, it’s possible you’ll wish to look elsewhere.
• In case you are touring with a big household: Customary rooms on the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess sleep 4 friends. For those who often keep in a room with two beds and a settee mattress to accommodate your loved ones, these rooms could not give you the results you want until you go for a collection.

Accessibility

The Fairmont Scottsdale Princess is an Individuals with Disabilities Act-compliant property. As such, the lodge presents a number of rooms and room sorts which can be wheelchair accessible. The lodge’s public areas — together with the foyer, eating places, pool areas, spa, health middle and assembly rooms — are additionally wheelchair pleasant.

The one space of the lodge that isn’t wheelchair accessible is the Privado part. It’s good to climb stairs to entry the Privado Villas.

Trying out

I feel I can safely converse for my complete household after I say we loved our time on the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess and we hope to return sooner or later. It is the kind of resort the place you are feeling completely pampered from the second you step via the door.

Whereas I could by no means develop into an precise princess, the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess certain made me really feel like royalty.

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