Spontaneous Trip

Last weekend Josh and I decided to take a spontaneous overnight trip to Scottsdale....via Hotwire! For those of you who have never used Hotwire, it is a vehicle that hotels use to sell rooms that didn't get booked. The hotels push the unsold rooms through Hotwire to sell at a discounted rate rather than not selling at all. The catch is that Hotwire masks the hotel name until you actually make the purchase (if they didn't mask the names, the hotels would lose revenue). That's the best part about it :)...the surprise! So, Josh and I went to Hotwire's website, selected a Five-Star equivalent for the search criteria and clicked submit! Our result...drum roll please...Intercontinental Montelucia! Sounds fancy right? Well, all I can say is....HEAVEN.

The resort was gorgeous. We arrived at 8pm so the night crowd was already trickling in. Some were staying at the resort but the majority we think were local Scottsdale people. You know, the rich type with judging eyes at our blue jeans :). I was able to change out of my uniform at work, but Josh didn't have enough time (working those Maintainers hard)! We decided he should change out of his uniform in the car before we walked into the hotel. Didn't want people griping that the Military puts its members in Five Star resorts (although I would argue that they deserve it)....ok, back to the story. The central part of the resort had two restaurants, fire pits, cafe, spa, and pool. The entire area was surrounded with speakers and Spanish style music was playing. The night, fire, spanish music....altogether, it was pretty romantic. I'm just going to give you one little tid-bit about the resport and then I'll stop typing, becuase the pictures are always the best part of blogs :). The Owner (or CEO of the resort developer...someone like that) traveled to Spain, Morocco, and Italy to get an idea of how the culture and architecture of the resort should be. That is the best way to describe the resort. Mesh all three countries together :). Ok, now for the pics. Sorry for the poor quality photos. I forgot to pack our camera, so everything was taken with our iPhones...not so good quality at night.


The room was perfect. Bathroom, bed, balcony, TV, furniture, everything was beautiful!

Gorgeous and very big bathroom. The shower heads (notice it's plural) were very nice. Paying for a room at a resort is worthless if it has a bad shower head. True story.

Photo shoot before dinner.

Sleeping in the bed was like sleeping on a cloud. No, I've never slept on a cloud before, but if I had, it would have felt like that bed. Makes perfect sense. Oh, and the bathrobes felt like getting a hug from that same cloud.

Josh sleeping in as I enjoy the morning...the usual :)

Morning read!

Views from our balcony.

Breakfast at their cafe called "Crave." Their espresso was acceptable.

Cool pod swing!

I thought this orange tree was really neat so I made Josh get a picture in front of it. So weird to have them all over the place.

We ended our adventure by laying out at the pool.

It was a wonderful little getaway!