travel42 Hotel Review: The Phoenician, Luxury Collection Resort

The Phoenician, Luxury Collection Resort travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Nestled at the base of Camelback Mountain, 6 miles northeast of Sky Harbor Airport, this resort remains Arizona's grand dame, a desert version of the Hawaiian tropic's Grand Wailea.

Truly grand and exotic, it covers 250 acres that encompass golf, a world-class spa, extensive meeting facilities and a colony of luxury homes, as well as an extravagant pool complex that, from the air, has the resort looking like a colorful archipelago.

It was once a stif...