Fairmont Scottsdale Princess<\/a> opens its sixth and largest pool \u2013 Sunset Beach (pictured above) \u2013 with 830 tons of white sand, glamorous cabanas and 102 luxurious new guest rooms.<\/p>\nCentered around the new pool opening is \u201cSummer Beach Party at the Princess,\u201d taking place every weekend Memorial Day through Labor Day.\u00a0 This celebration is a mix of fun throughout the resort with cool rides down waterslides, Techno Glo pool parties, Dive In movies, the new four-story Aqua Flyer inflatable waterslide, the new Mermaid University (pictured below), Swashbuckler Academy and three summer fairies, Dew Drop, Sparkles and Poppy Pixie, who are delightful new Fairmont friends to meet. Plus, the resort has two relaxing pools just for grown-ups.<\/p>\n
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At the lagoons, fishing is fun with Ranger Rick, who also leads nature walks and bird watching with the resort\u2019s falconers. Other unique experiences include sampling any of 240 tequilas a La Hacienda by Richard Sandoval, escaping to Well & Being Spa, savoring a dish at Michael Mina\u2019s Bourbon Steak or enjoy the sunset and Pan-Latin fare at Toro at TPC Scottsdale.<\/p>\n
Fireworks then light up the sky summer Saturday evenings, and holiday weekends including Memorial Day, 4th<\/sup> of July Freedom Fest and Labor Day Dreamcation offer an even greater line-up of festivities.<\/p>\nMemorial Day weekend 2016 kicks off with nightly beach party concerts from tribute bands: Friday, May 27 is Surf\u2019s Up (Beach Boys); Saturday, May 28 is Coral Paradise (Jimmy Buffet) and Sunday, May 29, Desperado (The Eagles).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During Memorial Day weekend,\u00a0Fairmont Scottsdale Princess opens its sixth and largest pool \u2013 Sunset Beach (pictured above) \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":5943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489],"tags":[1716,103,2621,2619,1564,2620],"class_list":{"0":"post-5941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-fairmont-scottsdale-princess","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-memorial-day-fairmont-scottsdale","11":"tag-memorial-day-resort-scottsdale","12":"tag-scottsdale-resorts","13":"tag-sunset-beach-fairmont-scottsdale","14":"cs-entry","15":"cs-video-wrap"},"yoast_head":"\n
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