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Jun 9, 2025 Erin M
Most of the staff were friendly and helpful, but I am a runner. I always try to find out what safe running routes are around. I like to run on the roads; Sedona is hilly and not everywhere on the way into town has a sidewalk (there are bike lanes, though). The people at the Hilton Honors desk didn't seem to know much about running routes, so I…
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Most of the staff were friendly and helpful, but I am a runner. I always try to find out what safe running routes are around. I like to run on the roads; Sedona is hilly and not everywhere on the way into town has a sidewalk (there are bike lanes, though). The people at the Hilton Honors desk didn't seem to know much about running routes, so I just mapped out a run myself on the local highway. No one mentioned the coyotes. On my first run, I ran into four coyotes (a solo observer, and then a group of three). This is not something I am used to, and it freaked me out, so I kept running. Not much else to do. When I returned to the hotel, I decided to ask the staff if it was normal to be so close to the coyotes and if there was anything I should do or any tips I should know. (Things like, "wave your arms," or "shout" or "they preferred to be ignored," or whatever.) Instead, when I asked what I should do if I saw the coyotes again (which I did, on four separate days) the man at the Honors desk shrugged and said, "Around here, we just carry." Uhhhhh. Okay. Not helpful.
Weirdly, I also learned that this isn't even true. People don't go around just shooting coyotes in Sedona. So, I don't know what that whole thing was about. My Pink Jeep tour guide was pretty irritated when I told her the story of what the man said, and the more I thought about it, the more annoyed I became, too. It was really a totally inappropriate response to a hotel guest. That was the only issue I had with a person at the Hilton. I never saw that guy again. The other issues were cost-related in a felt like was a hefty pricetag for a hotel that is really only okay. The pool is run-down, the bathrooms by the pool are sad, the "games" they say they have for families are missing parts or incomplete sets. The drinks and food are really overpriced (and I am not cheap, but we had a really mediocre lunch at the pool on the Monday we arrived and it cost $180). We never ate there again because Sedona has much better food for the same pricetag or less. And then, the surprise to me was the parking, which felt a bit like a "gotcha." I paid $100 ($20/night) to park at a hotel that is literally situated in a giant parking lot off a main highway, not even remotely walkable to the town (shopping/eating) areas in Sedona. That annoyed me. Why charge for parking when there is truly so much parking available that every room has a view of the parking lots?
If the hotel were in a town where parking is at a premium, I'd get it. I assure you, this is not the case. The Hilton Sedona is actually a parking lot in and of itself.
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