Location: We stayed here for a convention, and chose it over the other two hotels right next to the convention center. 1 minute walk to the Convention center, 5 minute walk to: Arizona Place (restaurants and bars), children's museum and D-Backs game.

Hotel: Bar serves just appetizers. Valet parking about $23 a night and seems to be the only option in the area, so plan on the valet if you are driving (we often had trouble finding the valet and on 2 occasions had to go to the desk to have them paged when we pulled up). Front desk was friendly and helpful. Wired in room internet.

Rooms: Good size, handsome and well appointed look. Clean rooms and bathrooms. Comfortable bed and pillows. Small and hot/stuffy workout room. Small outdoor pool.
Would stay here again, although it doesn't have any distinguishing features that would separate it from the other hotels next door, so book the cheapest of the three.


NOTE*****When we stayed here, the hotel contracted out the pool area for a "Pool Party". This included a pool party complete with DJ with a wall of speakers for Saturday and Sunday night. This is a NON hotel guest sponsored event which, on Sunday, began at 3pm. The pool area was taken over by local young adults with mohawks, tattoos, and piercings. While they were friendly, they essentially sat in and around the pool drinking beers and smoking cigarettes while the music pumped on 10. Not the environment you want to have your children in, and I saw some very disappointed 8 year olds who wanted to go swimming but couldn't, a tough time in the phoenix heat. I contacted the Windham when I returned home to ask about this practice and the manager called me promptly to address my concerns and explain: He said, basically, they do rent out the pool on weekends during the summer because it is the slow period. He assured me they will be making changes in the way they do this (reviewing who will be renting the pool, not starting in the afternoon so guests can enjoy it, etc). I was comfortable with his assurances, however, when booking (especially with kids), inquire about this, and be sure there is no "Pool Party" scheduled for your stay.

I was attending several meetings including sessions at the convention center and Board meetings at the Wyndham. The walls are paper thin -- I could hear the folks in the room next to me belching, for example. That was least of the problems, though.

For both Sat and Sun the hotel had booked a band on the pool deck 10 floors down. The music was head banging hell. 12 + hours of really, really bad music over of the 2 day period. I was exhausted and just wanted to sleep. Couldn't -- at least not till 10:00 each night. Couldn't read, couldn't even watch tv over the noise. It was just plain bad.

I complained both evenings. I asked to speak with the meeting planner, who conveniently was off thus spared the head banging ordeal. The front desk clerks were sypathetic, but offered zero help or solutions in solving the problem.

Elevator use was frustratingly full and slow during the events. Two other points about the hotel worth noting are 1. The terribly slow free "high" speed internet; and 2. The disappointingly small pool.

The real complaint for me is the noise, however. A week has passed and I'm still fuming from the hotels lack of respect for its paying customers.

I stayed at the hotel for a week whilst attending a conference. It was situated in downtown Phoenix close to the convention centre and the tram which runs too and from the airport. This is the best way to get to the hotel costing only £1.25.The hotel was clean and the decor in good order. There was free, if rather slow, internet access in the room a limited selection of tv channels and no minibar. The staff were friendly and helpful and did not give the impression they were hanging around for tips, something I have expereinced in New York hotels. Food was well priced and there were a selection of restaurants not too far from the hotel where we chose to eat. The Tex Mex food is especially good at the nearby Arizona Centre. Scottsdale could be reached by tram and bus and had a good selection of trendy department and boutique stores. Close by were a large number of shops all selling pretty much the same selection of native American artefacts. Every other local attraction, such as the grand Canyon , Sedona etc would take a whole day to visit, or possibly two in the case of the grand canyon.

The rooms were decorated very nicely. Desk arrangement is great for doing work. Had a problem with the toilet but maintenance responded very quickly to fix it though a return visit was necessary. There is low speed internet available for free or high speed for $9.95 per day. The free service is adequate for e-mail and general web browsing. The hotel is a five minute walk from the convention center. Getting there by the light rail is very easy, the stop from the airport is adjacent to the hotel while the stop to return is a five minute walk. Several restaurants are nearby and there is a Starbucks on the property.