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| - I think at the beginning of my trip I would have given the Saguaro 2-stars but like a really bad first blind date, sometimes you can't judge a place by first impressions and you've got to give it a second chance to really see what it's made of.
FIRST DATE: I got into the Saguaro around midnight and checked in at the front desk. The girl who greeted me was over the top friendly and gave me instructions as to where my room was. I guess I was expecting for the Saguaro to be your standard corporate hotel where everything would be in one building. (BUZZER) Wrong. Like an apartment complex, it's separated into several three story buildings which surround the pool areas. They offered to have security escort me but I didn't want to seem like a SCARED BABY, which unfortunately was the God awful truth. I am a big scared baby when I travel to myself because every horror movie scenario starts flashing in and out of my mind. I walked down the long corridors freaked out by the fact that if something were to happen to me, I'd be completely screwed. No one would know what happened to me and I would be BURIED IN THE DESERT!!! Noooooooooooo! As you can see I survived the entire ordeal and continued my self-induced SCAREFEST by locking myself into my room.
The best way to describe the rooms at the Saguaro? TRADING SPACES. Some decorator did the best they could to make the space cool on a small budget. Yet what the Saguaro lacks in fancy accoutrements, it makes up for with a HEAVENLY BED. Wonderful big pillows and the best sleeping I've done in awhile. This of course was completely disrupted the next morning by BLARING POOL MUSIC and I jumped out of bed startled. Is R Kelly in the house and is he filming a music video? I was totally pissed but again, I am a mother of three and all I wanted to do was sleep. I left for a work conference and my bad first date was over.
SECOND DATE: I had no choice but to give the Saguaro a second chance and returned from my work conference with feelings of resentment and dread. Come to find out all my co-workers had rooms surrounding me and I really had created the scarefest unnecessarily. I plopped into my room for a night of working online and was stoked to find that there was FREE WI-FI. Hooray! The next evening we all hung out at the pool and it was really great that although the pool closed at 10 pm, we hung out past midnight and the hotel staff was totally cool with it. Oh Saguaro you are growing on me!
THIRD DATE: Regardless of my initial bad first impressions the staff at the Saguaro really managed to change my entire viewpoint. On our last evening at the hotel we all gathered around a large table in the lobby for a good 5 hours. The table was brilliantly engineered for co-working with outlets built into the center. The music playing in the lobby was fun without being obnoxious. The staff constantly checked up on us by removing trash and asked how we were doing in the friendliest manner. Whoever does the hiring and training at the Saguaro, you should write a book and do a national speaking tour because you are AWESOME! Even the custodial staff is SUPER FRIENDLY & CARING!
If you LOVE POOLS you're really going to enjoy the Saguaro. It's very fun with one pool that blasts music (as I had found out on my first morning) and they pump the tunes underwater, which I thought was the coolest! Great for sunning and enjoying the heat of Arizona. If you want a more mellow experience there's a Calma pool which has a more relaxed vibe minus the bumpin' music and there's a spa.
RELATIONSHIP SYNOPSIS: If you're wanting to sleep in and experience TOTAL SERENITY the Saguaro is not for you. The walls are thin and there's a music video that gets shot every morning at 10 am. If you're coming to PARTY and hang out with friends for the weekend, then THIS IS YOUR SPOT! I'm not sure if we'll have a long lasting relationship but I'll certainly entertain the idea when I plan my next trip to Scottsdale. For the price, I doubt you'll find a better option and it's less than a mile to Fashion Square (the best mall ever!) and Old Town. There's lots of shops and bars in walking distance right next to the hotel, so the location is tough to beat. Thanks for the memories Saguaro!
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