Magnificently exceeded all expectations.
When is a hotel particularly memorable? We don't need a hotel to enjoy breathtaking scenery, or relax in a heated lap pool. Or even savor a better-than-French meal that includes succulent shrimp from the local Arizona desert shrimp farm or herbs picked fresh for my meal from the herb garden on the fourth floor. What will make this hotel memorable is that I was treated as a treasured, irreplaceable person. There are not 1000 rooms in this hotel, as their website purports; there is only one, and it is the room I occupied. A special mention goes to their restaurant manager, Cliff: The discrete attentiveness reflective of his Continental origins made me feel like Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast..."