Arizona Biltmore, LXR Hotels & Resorts
Once you’re at the Biltmore, there’s no want to actually depart. You’re right here to be right here, although the surrounding desert panorama and Piestewa peak in full view behind the predominant garden ship the “you’re in Arizona” memo. For a resort with over 700 rooms (amazingly, it doesn’t really feel prefer it), every manages to really feel classically luxurious with out steering into the chilly or cookie-cutter. Plush beds, desertscape paintings, and bulbous ceramic lamps throughout make the room really feel each set in the Southwest and tony sufficient for a Waldorf (which it was at the time of reopening). For a resort the place you propose to remain on-site most of your time, the meals has to ship—by and huge, it does. McArthur’s serves dependable American classics, although Renata’s Hearth with its smoke-inspired menu is the place to decorate up and dine at after a protracted day in the solar. You might come right here only for the spa, the place they lean into astrology, crystals, and chakra opening in an enormous method, ensuing in massages and physique work which are simply that rather more attention-grabbing than the regular choices. There are unsurprisingly a ton of households right here due to family-friendly options like connecting rooms, actions and areas only for youngsters (similar to the very fashionable youngsters’ pool), and the ease with which folks can take turns escaping for a yoga or pickleball class (it’s a really large place). That stated, irrespective of how nice the spa therapies are, nothing can soften away stress like flinging your self down the waterslides—don’t write them off as only for youngsters. From $299. —Megan Spurrell