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Thunderbird Lodge
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Do not stay
User: SallynNn from:
Trip Type: Couples
Published Date: Apr, 15, 2025
Travel Date: Apr, 1, 2025
Rating: 1
I would recommend you avoid staying here. Stay outside the park and save your money. Atrocious rooms with spiders and amenities actually purchased in 1980s and never updated.
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Would recommend staying here - clean, updated, convenient.
User: gritz71 from: Wisconsin
Trip Type: Family
Published Date: Apr, 5, 2025
Travel Date: Apr, 1, 2025
Rating: 5
The lodge is right on the south rim - literally, there is a walking path and then the rim. 15 feet away. You can’t beat the location. Check-in is at the Bright Angel lodge next door, which has really good food. The Arizona Steakhouse at Bright Angel requires reservations and is hard to get into and pricey. The El Tovar also is hard to get into and pricey. The family restaurant at the Bright Angel is fantastic and reasonable. Breakfast portions were huge and inexpensive. Supper was equally as good and reasonable, including prime rib, steaks, chicken, fish, pasta, and other items. The restaurant itself is a 5*. There is also a bar/lounge that serves drinks and food and is a great place to hang out. The lodge was very clean, simple, and has been updated / upgraded recently. Very, very nice. Not rustic at all. Very quiet, too. Parking is the biggest drawback, but that is just the way it is in GC Village everywhere. You will have to unload then go find an empty space. Highly recommend staying here.

Stay on the rim!
User: Susan B from: Dallas, Texas
Trip Type: Couples
Published Date: Apr, 3, 2025
Travel Date: Mar, 1, 2025
Rating: 4
Perfect location for our stay - the lodge has been updated and our room was quiet and comfy. We loved having a view of the Canyon right from our room. Very convenient as it is right on the Rim Trail, with several options next door for meals (none at T-bird).
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Cleaner options down the road. Drive into the park in the morning and you can have a better view than you would here.
User: Aimee O from: Omaha, Nebraska
Published Date: Mar, 15, 2025
Travel Date: Feb, 1, 2025
Rating: 2
Nothing about this hotel is worth the prices they charge. The partial view is of a sidewalk. You may be able to find parking to check in, you may be able to find parking near your actual building, you may get to park 4 buildings away! If you're lucky the room will just be dusty and look worn out and dated, or you could get the room we were put in. Some sort of red/brown stain on the mattress cover, which was IMPOSSIBLE to miss had the bedding been changed after the last guest. The brown stain in the bathtub. Dust on the bathroom mirror, clumps of dust under the filthy vent. The second room was just dusty and gross. We did receive a refund (which is why I gave more than one star) and we stayed at a super clean and friendly hotel just outside the park for half the price and none of the disgust!
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Grand Canyon in early March
User: Steve W from:
Trip Type: Family
Published Date: Mar, 12, 2025
Travel Date: Mar, 1, 2025
Rating: 3
Motel 6 amenities at Hilton prices. A very plain, but clean motel that I would have been comfortable paying $100 for, that I paid $400 for. On the positive side: it's in the park so you don't have to deal with the lines getting in, and it has a view of the canyon. On the negative side: it's a plain, dated roadside type motel with inadequate parking, no services, no lobby.
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