These Arizona hotels were just named among the best in the US. Here's why they're beloved
Arizona hotels just keep landing on prominent national best-of lists. This week, hotels in Sedona, Tucson and metro Phoenix figure prominently on the latest ranking of Tripadvisor users' favorites.
Mountain Shadows Resort in Paradise Valley, Adobe Grand Villas in Sedona and Graduate Tucson are ranked highly in Tripadvisor Travelers' Choice Hotel Awards for 2023, published to time with the start of the summer travel season.
Tripadvisor analyzed reviews posted in 2022 for 1.5 million hotels worldwide to determine which ones made the list. Earlier this year, Tripadvisor users praised Arizona cities in the 2023 Travelers' Choice destination awards, ranking Page and Sedona among the best places to visit.
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Why Tripadvisor users love Mountain Shadows in Paradise Valley
Mountain Shadows Resort impressed users for its distinctive design, contemporary fused with 1950s modernism in a nod to the original resort. (It first opened in 1959, was torn down, then rebuilt and reopened in 2017), as well as its sweeping views of Camelback Mountain.
Mountain Shadows narrowly missed being among the top 10 of the best hotels in the U.S., ranking at No. 11.
The resort also received praise for its Hearth '61 restaurant, fitness classes at The Citizens Club and 18-hole golf at the Short Course.
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Why Tripadvisor users love Adobe Grand Villas in Sedona
Adobe Grand Villas is the No. 1 Sedona hotel on Tripadvisor with a 5 average rating based on more than 1,200 reviews. That helps explain why it topped Tripadvisor's list of the best small hotels in the U.S.
The hotel, near Thunder Mountain in west Sedona, is beloved for its spacious private villas — the smallest one is 900 square feet — and fresh baked bread in the room.
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Why Tripadvisor users love Graduate Tucson
Graduate Tucson ranked No. 9 in the world in a new subcategory for this year's Travelers' Choice Awards, best hotels for sleep.
Tripadvisor's summary of the hotel highlights the rooms' inspiration from the region's animal and plant life, with accents of leather, wood and textiles throughout that work "to create a modern space that's distinctly Southwest." Several reviewers spoke favorably of their stays, citing comfortable beds and quiet rooms.
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This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Tripadvisor Travelers' Choice hotels for 2023 includes 3 in Arizona
