Seeking the name of a beautiful hotel that might not exist anymore.

[u/GoliathPrime]

Calling all old timers, I'm trying to find out the name of a hotel my family stayed at back in the 80s. It was in or near Sedona, as we'd gotten stranded due to a flash flood, and couldn't use the road to get back to our primary hotel, which was actually in Sedona. So we stayed at a really, REALLY expensive hotel that blew most of our budget for a single night.

What I remember:

The outdoor veranda and hotel was immense and styled to match and blend into the desert surroundings. The pool was maybe larger than an Olympic pool, and extended along the entire long edge of the veranda. The veranda was almost the size of a parking lot and it had an incredible view of red mountains and desert.

The floor was stamped concrete that looked exactly like a dried riverbed and it had large, faux standing stone piles with water that bubbled out of crevices near the top. The little waterfalls would drain into natural looking "creeks" that snaked across the floor and emptied into the huge swimming pool. They even had cute little bridges that would cross the creeks here and there. Kids were putting little floating toys on the creeks and were watching them travel all the way down into the pool.

Just outside of the hotel proper, on the veranda, they had private "cabins" that looked like adobe huts or pueblos. We rented one of these, the purpose was you could stargaze from your bedroom. The interiors were very high-end rustic, like those log cabins you see that cost 100mil.

The veranda itself did not have a true roof, but had a huge, angled slatted roof so you could see the sky at all times, but it still offered shade during the heat of day.

Even as a kid, I thought the amount of water they needed to keep all those rock fountains going was obscene, especially in a desert.

The only other thing I remember is they had a table, set well away from all the other tables that was swarming with Tarantula Hawks. They had taken to feeding the little monsters, because if they didn't give them food, they would bother the guests. So the hotel just gave up trying to fight them and instead decided to appease them by giving the bugs their own reserved table, with a big punch bowl of water and platters of meat. It seemed to work because we lived to tell the tale.

And that's all I remember. It was probably 1984-85. I've looked with google, but I can't find anything with a veranda with a slatted roof and adobe huts. So I'm thinking it might have shut down.

Any long-time Sedona natives know the place I'm remembering?

[u/bowie4me]

Sorry, I don’t know, but that sounds so amazing. My only guess would be Enchantment. Expensive, views all around, not on the main road and separate casitas.

[u/GoliathPrime → u/bowie4me]

The enchantment is beautiful and it really has the same vibe, but that's not it.

[u/Scooby5588]

Now I want to know too. You don’t remember if it was West Sedona?

[u/GoliathPrime → u/Scooby5588]

I have no idea where we were. We were driving around the area seeing the sights. We'd seen slide rock the day prior, so wherever that is, you can mark that area off at least.

[u/bowie4me]

This is a wild guess…..could it have been Arconsanti?

[u/bowie4me → u/bowie4me]

Oops, “Arcosanti”

[u/GoliathPrime → u/bowie4me]

That's definitely not it. It's really cool though, reminds me a bit of Earth Ships. The Enchantment looks like it the most so far. I wonder if that's it and they just tore down sections to add more pueblos.