Phoenix, the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Arizona, is the fifth most populated city in the United States, Phoenix once considered merely a Sunbelt retirement community is now home to approximately 1.5 million people. Also known as the Valley of the Sun, the city attracts travelers year-round to its golf courses, spas and posh resorts. Phoenix is emerging as one of the “newest” cities in the nation and yet there is a lot more to this mild-mannered metropolis than pristine greens and tee times. It is among the country’s fastest expanding metropolitan areas, emerging as a major transportation hub in North America and a main transportation, financial, industrial, cultural and economic center of the Southwestern United States.

CLIMATE

Phoenix has an arid climate which is why it has been ranked the hottest city in the United States. With its perfect year-round weather that consist of very hot summers and temperate winters. Most days are sunny, and rainfall is scarce, simultaneously there are short-lived, late-day thunderstorms, often accompanied by high winds during July and September. Phoenix receives a handful of frost warnings during the winter, with occasional fog. Snow is rare occurrence.

TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

The desert oasis of Phoenix is now the fifth largest city in the US, attracting travelers year-round to its golf courses, spas, posh restaurants and unique tourist attractions. The best among them that attract a major chunk of the tourists are Heard Museum, Chase Field, Desert Botanical Garden, Piestewa Peak, Scottsdale Art Walk, Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Rawhide Western Town and Steakhouse, Phoenix Zoo, Drive Apache Trail, Golf at Gold Canyon Ranch, Dinosaur Course, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, South Mountain Park and many more.

AIRPORT

Phoenix is served by Sky Harbor International Airport which is a joint civil-military venture. It is the sixth-busiest airport in the USA and the principal gateway for Phoenix, capital of Arizona carrying an estimation of around 20,315,544 commercial passengers. One can have immediate access to all the plush resorts phoenix offers right from the airport.

At the airport, your options for car rentals would be: Avis, Advantage, Budget, Dollar, National, Alamo, Thrifty, E-Z Rent-A-Car, Enterprise, Hertz, Payless, Simply wheels, Europcar and Practical.

TRANSPORT

Phoenix introduced the METRO Light Rail system in December 2008. Downtown Phoenix has “greeters” wearing purple vests who can direct travelers to a copy and provide answers to many travel questions. The system even includes a ‘ride share’ program. These buses provide public transport at feasible rates throughout north-central Phoenix, downtown, and eastward through Tempe and Mesa.

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