HACIENDA DEL SQL GUEST RANCH RESORT, Tucson. - Review - hotel review

Sunset, Feb, 2001 by Nora Burba Trulsson

* Long a Tucson favorite, Hacienda del Sol was originally a girls' school before it became a guest ranch in the 1940s. As a guest ranch, it catered to sun-seeking Easterners and Holly wood celebs--it was one of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn's hideaways. A recent renovation updated the inn's rambling, Spanish colonial accommodations and added a new restaurant, the Grill. The Hacienda's magnificent old cactus gardens remain intact.

ESSENTIALS: Twenty-three rooms, 7 casitas, and 4 suites, 11 with fireplaces; outdoor pool, hot tub, tennis court, and horseback riding. From $135. 5601 N. Hacienda del Sol Rd.; (520) 299-1501 or www.haciendadelsol.com. Grill: dinner, Sunday brunch; 529-3500.