Beware of the Dark and other Sedona, AZ Warning Or Danger Tips

If it's your first time in Sedona, make sure to arrive during the day, or it could be much more difficult to find your accomodations.

Sedona is a low-light town -- meaning that there are barely any streetlights -- due to the Lowell Observatory located in Flagstaff, a half an hour north.

Therefore, we found it difficult for a few days to get around town at night, as save for a few streetlights, the streets are very dark and it's hard to find addresses or locations of restaurants. You do get used to it after a few days, but by then, you are probably on your way out of town.

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Website: http://www.lowell.edu/

This being our first visit to Sedona, we were not prepared to be inudated by timeshare salespeople.

Our second day in Sedona, we thought we would stop by the handy tourist info building, on Highway 179. While waiting in line, I happened to overhear what the couple in front of us was discussing. It turned out the guy "helping" them was a timeshare salesman. We quickly left.

We were talking to a local, and apparently, there had to be an injunction put in place recently in Sedona against the timeshare people, as they were approaching people on the street, in the store, everywhere! Many of these "tourist info" offices are run by timeshare companies, and were not obviously advertised as such. Still, we were approached while eating our dinner, and it turned out the restaurant was affiliated with a timeshare! They are everywhere!

Sure enough, when I checked the "Tourist information" building the next day, there was small print under the Tourist Information sign, saying "by Sunterra" which was next to the big "Free Tshirts!" "Free Tours" signs.

So, let this be your warning! Look carefully at "Tourist Information " signs - usually it will say "By ---- (put in name of timeshare). Ask a local where the REAL Tourist Info building is. But beware... they could turn out to be a timeshare sales person .....

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