The top 10 resorts in Arizona.

Phoenix's grand old resort opened in 1929, designed by Albert Chase McArthur with Frank Lloyd Wright consulting, and its patterned "Biltmore Block" concrete gives it a look all its own. Gardens and pools fill the grounds, the Tierra Luna Spa is on site and two golf courses sit next door. Long a Waldorf Astoria, it joined Hilton's LXR Hotels & Resorts in 2024.

Royal Palms began as a 1929 winter home built for New York financier Delos Cooke, opened as a hotel in 1948 and has grown into an intimate resort of casitas and villas in Spanish Colonial Revival style. Its gardens and courtyards sit at the base of Camelback Mountain, with the Alvadora Spa and T. Cook's restaurant on site. It is part of The Unbound Collection by Hyatt.

Opened in 1988 at the base of Camelback Mountain, The Phoenician is a full-scale resort with tiered pools, including the Mother-of-Pearl Pool, The Phoenician Spa and an 18-hole golf course by Phil Smith. The Canyon Suites, a smaller hotel within the resort with its own lobby and pool, offers a quieter stay. The grounds also take in the adobe Jokake Inn, built in 1926.

Opened in 1987, the Princess spreads Mexican colonial-style buildings, fountained plazas and lagoons across 65 acres of north Scottsdale desert, with the Well & Being Spa on site. TPC Scottsdale, home of the WM Phoenix Open, is right next door. Each holiday season the resort hosts Christmas at the Princess, a long-running holiday festival.

Casitas, suites and mountainside villas climb the north slope of Camelback Mountain here, looking out over Paradise Valley toward Mummy Mountain. The property began as a tennis club in the 1950s and later became John Gardiner's Tennis Ranch, and tennis and pickleball are still part of a stay. Today it adds an infinity pool, a full spa and valley views from Elements restaurant and jade bar.

Camelback Inn opened in 1936 and in 1967 became the first resort Marriott ever owned. It keeps the feel of an old desert inn, with pueblo-style casitas spread over 125 acres at the foot of Mummy Mountain, looking across to Camelback. The Spa at Camelback Inn reopened in 2026 after a major renovation, and the resort has 36 holes of golf.

Set in the foothills of Pinnacle Peak, on land that was a family ranch in the 1930s, the Four Seasons is a low-rise resort of casita-style rooms and suites, many with patios and some with private plunge pools. The two courses of Troon North Golf Club are next door, and the trail at Pinnacle Peak Park is a short walk away.

Guest rooms and private villas sit among granite boulder formations some 12 million years old, on 1,300 acres of desert foothills in Carefree. The resort has two Jay Morrish-designed golf courses at the Boulders Club and a 33,000-square-foot spa, and rock climbing is among the activities on site.

Arizona's first wellness resort opened in 1896 around natural hot springs in the desert northwest of Phoenix, hosted the Rockefellers and a young John F. Kennedy, and reopened in 2019 after decades closed. Guests stay in bungalows and cabins, soak in the spring-fed pools, eat from the resort's own farm and can climb its via ferrata course. It is for adults only, and only overnight guests are admitted.

Enchantment sits deep in Boynton Canyon, with casitas and suites set against the red rock walls and hiking straight out from the resort. Mii amo, its destination spa, opened next door in 2001, and Enchantment guests can book its treatments and dine there. It suits a Sedona stay built around hiking and the spa.