Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale, Arizona, hosts seminars, company receptions, weddings and private dinners, from a twelve-person boardroom meeting to a standing reception for 550 guests. The hotel stands at 6850 East Main Street in Old Town Scottsdale and has operated since 1956. Its meetings page lists a run of indoor rooms, several of which divide into sections, and seven outdoor spaces, so a plenary, breakout rooms and an evening reception can stay on one site.
Seminars and company events
The largest indoor room is the SoHo Room, at 4,000 square feet. It takes 500 people theater style, 240 classroom style, 300 at banquet rounds and 550 standing. It splits into SoHo I and SoHo II, each 2,000 square feet, which take 250 in theater layout, 110 in classroom layout and 50 in a conference layout. For a mid-sized plenary, the Valley Ho Room (2,410 square feet) takes 256 theater style or 150 classroom style, and it also divides into two halves.
Smaller groups have the Tropicana Room (1,152 square feet, 120 theater or 46 conference style), the Sahara and Dunes rooms (760 square feet each, 60 theater style) and two boardrooms, Riviera and HVH, that seat 12 each. The Sands is a separate event venue of 3,500 square feet indoors and 1,500 outdoors, with its own parking area, a full kitchen, a built-in bar and a landscaped patio. It takes 250 theater style, 160 classroom style and 200 at banquet rounds.
Weddings and receptions
The hotel sells weddings, and its wedding page names five spaces. Palm Court Lawn (5,000 square feet) holds a ceremony for 250 and a reception for 250. Citrus Grove holds a ceremony for 200 and a reception for 160. Sky Line Rooftop, on the eighth floor with views of Camelback Mountain and Old Town, is listed for receptions: 150 at banquet rounds or 200 standing. The Sands is listed at 180 for dinner and the SoHo ballroom at 240 for dinner.
Every wedding includes tables, chairs and linens, black or white folding chairs for the ceremony, and audio-visual equipment with two microphones, a sound system and a technician. Two packages add event-day valet parking, a suite for the wedding night and a breakfast for the couple the next day.
Rooms and capacities
Outdoors, Palm Court takes 300 at banquet rounds and 500 standing, and the OH Pool area (6,750 square feet) takes 225 seated and 325 standing. Citrus Grove takes 200 in either layout. The Main Place Courtyard takes 160 seated and 275 standing, and the East Palm Lawn 160 seated and 200 standing. The smaller Ohasis pool area suits 80 seated or 150 standing.
Accommodation
The hotel lists 13 room types, split between the main building and the Tower. They run from studio rooms and pool-view rooms to cabana rooms, terrace and hideaway suites, and in the Tower a two-bedroom suite and the Tower Presidential Loft. The hotel does not publish its total room count on its website, so ask for the number available to your group when you plan dates. There are two pools, the OH Pool and the Ohasis Pool, with cabanas and daybeds.
Catering
The Sands is catered exclusively by the hotel. Catering menus are published as downloads on the meetings and wedding pages. ZuZu is the hotel restaurant, and room service is available. The site describes ZuZu as named for Rosalyn Bennett Lyon, the matriarch of the family that owns the hotel.
History and setting
The hotel has operated since 1956 and marks its seventieth anniversary in 2026. It lies within Old Town Scottsdale, which the hotel describes as a walkable area for dining, nightlife and shopping. That helps for groups that want to leave the property for an evening between sessions.
