SpringHill Suites Phoenix Scottsdale

Hotel was really spacious and clean

Got hit with a car valet fee due to constuction around hotel.

It was a fantastic time for my family

Parking lot was under construction so we were forced to pay a $12 daily valet fee plus tips.

This new Springhill Suites (Marriott) is the same as others, which means it's clean and well-designed, with a good breakfast included in the room rate. It's located just north of the Tempe/Scottsdale boundary on North Scottsdale Rd, in an area obviously being developed around the expanding Arizona State University campus. There are new corporate office and meeting buildings across the street (which probably explains the construction of this new hotel). Staff were friendly and helpful. But one very off-putting "feature" of this hotel is the fact that it has no parking for guests, as most of this brand does. Instead, the hotel has contracted with a parking valet service to manage the parking of guest vehicles (guests are prohibited from parking their own vehicles)... and Marriott has raised the price of every room by $12/night to pay for the hotel's failure to provide parking. This add-on charge was not disclosed during the reservation process, though a follow-up email was dispatched to try to ease the surprise, and a fine-print notice on the hotel's website describes having a "Valet only parking lot." The result for guests is a take-away scent of "eau de rip-off." Hopefully this will be remedied when all the construction is finished.