Visiting Phoenix (Scottsdale: hotel, neighborhoods, to live)

[westcoastbabe]

Visiting Phoenix the week of Labor Day and was thinking of staying at the Four Points Sheraton Downtown...From the looks on the internet...looks like a safe place to stay..as I will be visiting solo...If anyone has better suggestions for a places to stay...I welcome them...

[observer53]

I can't find anything on a Four Points downtown. When I go to the Four Points site, the Phoenix area listings includes the downtown Sheraton Hotel. It's not a Four Points, but it is brand new, a large high rise. It's perfectly safe. I don''t know that I'd stay downtown if I wasn't planning on spending most of my time downtown, or stay somewhere I had to pay for parking and not just be able to walk out and get in the car and drive off, but that's just me.

[westcoastbabe]

10220 North Metro Parkway

[observer53]

That's NOT downtown, by any means. I'm sure the hotel is safe, and you can drive to several restaurants nearby (many of them on the other side of the adjacent freeway) but that's not a very central base of operations in terms of location within Phoenix. The adjacent shopping mall is not aging well and is not worth visiting.

[westcoastbabe]

Some reviews that I have been reading about say it near a not so good part of town.

[MaxPower123]

From what I see in Google Maps, you should be able to walk to Metro Center mall and several restaurants nearby (Culver's, Red Lobster, Chili's, and some others). Some people find Metro Center to be a dangerous mall especially at night but I disagree. My sister lives nearby and it's the mall I frequent the most. I find it to be a perfectly safe place.

[grmi66]

Much of Phoenix you can go from a really bad part of town to a really good part of town within two blocks of each other. Used to live right down the street from that hotel and the only thing that I would avoid is the mall itself. The neighborhoods south of the mall are a little run down, but most of the neighborhoods around the mall are filled with lower to middle class working families. Lots of teachers, civil servants, retail managers, cops and trades people.

Lots of restaurants around that hotel, you can get to downtown in 20 minutes and get north to Anthem in 25 minutes. So for checking out Phoenix proper, it is fairly centrally located. Tough to get to Scottsdale and the east Valley from that location.

[observer53]

There's just not much IN that mall to look at any more. There are so many other places to stay, see no particular reason (if the OP is going to be looking around all over Phoenix) to stay there.

[Kimballette]

Originally Posted by westcoastbabe

Some reviews that I have been reading about say it near a not so good part of town.

That's correct. That area is not a good area, and, unless you have a specific reason for staying in that area during your visit, I wouldn't recommend it. The hotel is nice, and the immediate area is not ghetto, but is urban, ugly, and not exactly a tourist destination.

Are you coming for business or pleasure? Are you visiting friends in the area? That would help people offer you more meaningful feedback.

[westcoastbabe]

Not coming for business...Coming to visit to get a 'feel' for the area.....Don't know a soul in the area...that why i kind of want the area to be safe....Just gonna be driving around scoping out the city...