This is an outstanding property. Loved everything. Staff was superb. Great food and great service. About 10-15 minutes from airport which is nice. Many shops and restaurants about 5-10 minutes drive. Can't wait to go back. Truly memorable.

After reviewing an article in Via (AAA Magazine) about the deals in Arizona, my partner and I decided to book a room. We looked at several spas, but decided on Sanctuary due to it's relaxing atmosphere. We got a great deal, according to AAA rooms normally go for $600.00+ per night for our room, we got our room for around $100.00 a night. This is due to the heat, which we were expecting. The place is beautiful, well maintained, we never knew when house keeping would be around as they were so quiet. Special touches included arriving to the room at night with all the candles lite, water at our bed side and the room being sprayed with scents. The room was great, nice touches included flat screen TV, DVD player, CD player with white noise, paper every morning, excellent shampoo, soaps, etc....

The place is an older place, but did not feel that way. They have done a great job keeping the place up. All the staff was wonderful, especially the front desk upon check in. Our plane arrived early and we were at the Spa at 1000 in the morning. We asked if they could recommend a place for us to wait (shopping area, or restaurant) until check in. The front desk checked for us and said we could check in right then if we wanted. It was great, we were able to relax and shower after our travel and start a day out in the City feeling refreshed.

Pool area is excellent, open 24/7. I have no complaints with this place.

My complaint is only with the Scottsdale Visitors Office. They sent us information speaking of a great Art Walk each Thursday night. This was one of the reasons we went there. We planned our stay around this Art Walk as this is a hobby of ours. They stated 100's of Art Galleries would be open with live music, wine, food, etc...well, Thursday night came and we made our way there...only to find about a dozen other tourist waundering around bumping into each other. Only about 6 Art Galleries were open. They stated that most all close entirely for the month of August due to heat. We felt very cheated by this. Also, the Visitors Office had NO GLBT information, we had to seek this out on our own, which truthfully was disappointing. We had heard the area had a huge GLBT community, but other than a few bars, and a few stores we found nothing.

My wife and I celebrated our one-year anniversary at the Sanctuary and it was a wonderful experience.

The staff was wonderful and the property very clean. I highly reccommend this spot for anyone looking to get away!

My husband, SIL & BIL spent four nights there last week. After reading about the much lower prices at resorts in AZ in AAA magazine, VIA, we decided to take advantage of that and booked a two bedroom suite for the four of us. We found the whole experience to be wonderful, the staff could not have been better from the moment we drove up. We had wonderful views of Paradise Valley and from our bedroom patio we could also see portions of Camelback Mountain. The rooms were nicely furnished, very comfortable and spacious, we loved some of the design touches, especially in the bathroom. We indulged in a spa day and all of the treatments were fantastic. The only thing that could be improved upon in that area is the salon where we received our manicure /pedicure, it was very small and somewhat outdated. It also shared space with the boutique and you had to go through the boutique to get to the salon. The infinity pool was crowded the first day, a Sunday, but after that is was wonderfully vacant. The best part of the pool experience was the fact that other than on the first day there were no small children so it was fairly peaceful. The one drawback to the pool atmosphere was the dreadful music that was much too loud and annoying, not conducive to creating a truly relaxing environment..We did not eat in the restaurant but we did have room service twice and were pleased with the food and amazed that it arrived HOT, rather than the usual lukewarm you find from room service. Be sure to take in a Diamondbacks game if you are there in the summer, the stadium is incredible! The Sanctuary is a great place and I would love to return there again next summer, I do not hesitate to recommend it at all. I had a stress free four days and came home truly relaxed and rested.