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What a trip to Sedona costs

A week in Sedona for eight people works out around $10,700 before flights — $345 a night for a place sleeping four, scaled for the group, plus $75 per adult per day for food. From Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle and Phoenix it is cheaper for a family of four to drive than to fly.

Red-rock country in northern Arizona, known for sandstone formations such as Cathedral Rock, and for hiking and jeep tours among the red rock around the town.

with children okadults-only trip goodstroller / limited mobility poorelevation 4,350 ft

What a week costs

Lodging and food only. Seven nights, whole-property rental, all fees in.

Group	Lodging	Food	Total	Per person
4 people	$2,420	$2,100	$4,520	$1,130
8 people	$6,500	$4,200	$10,700	$1,340
12 people	$8,890	$6,300	$15,200	$1,270

Note the per-person column does not simply fall. A place sleeping four is the efficient unit; going to eight means changing property class, which costs more than double. Past eight it improves again — each additional person adds roughly half what they did over the first jump. The expensive step is condo to house, not the people you put in it.

How Sedona compares

SedonaParks median of 5All destinations median of 40

Nightly lodging for a property sleeping four, month by month. Medians are taken across the seeded destinations in each group, so they are the middle of that group rather than any one place.

Averaged across the year, Sedona runs $318 a night for a property that sleeps four. That is 8% above the median for all 40 destinations in the library ($295), making it the 17th most expensive of 40 destinations. Against its own kind it is 22% below the typical park ($407), the cheapest of 5 parks.

Its season swings 31% between its cheapest and most expensive months, against 87% for the typical park. Dates move the bill less here than they do for most parks.
It is above the all-library median for 9 months of the year and below it for the other 3 (Jun, Jul, Aug) — so whether it counts as an expensive destination depends entirely on when you go.
The same week costs $570 more in March than in January on lodging alone, before anyone has bought a flight.
It is at its most expensive in March and cheapest in January — the opposite of the library as a whole, which peaks in July. Advice about avoiding summer prices is the wrong way round here.
Driving beats four seats from Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle and Phoenix. The longest of those is Seattle — 1,129 road miles and 18.3h each way, and only $11 cheaper than four seats — thin enough that most groups would fly anyway.
The cheapest seven nights of the year fall in January, at $1,845 for the whole property — $2,415 for the same week in March.
The sharpest single step is between October and November: moving the same week across that line changes the lodging bill by $570.
The closest thing to it on price is Destin, FL, a beach town: $10,677 for a week for eight against $10,699 here, $22 apart — the same money for a completely different trip.

When to go

Sedona is at its most expensive in March and cheapest in January — a 31% swing on the same property.

Month	Per night, sleeps 4
January	$264
February	$264
March	$345
April	$345
May	$345
June	$345
July	$345
August	$345
September	$345
October	$345
November	$264
December	$264

Getting there

The two halves are not priced the same way, which is the whole point: a seat costs per person, a car costs the same whatever the headcount.

	Flying		Driving
From	Round tripper person	Each wayhours	Round tripper car	Each wayhours	Cheaperfor four
Atlanta	$480	7.9h	$2,604	27.7h3 days	flying
Chicago	$463	5.7h	$2,293	24.4h3 days	flying
Dallas	$417	4.6h	$1,454	15.6h2 days	driving
Denver	$386	3.9h	$885	9.9h	driving
Los Angeles	$376	3.6h	$701	8.0h	driving
New York	$529	9.0h	$3,488	37.0h4 days	flying
Seattle	$432	5.0h	$1,717	18.3h2 days	driving
Phoenix	$351	3.1h	$226	3.1h	driving

Drives over ten hours are shown in days as well: nobody drives that in one go. The nights on the road are not counted here, so a long drive is cheaper on this page than it would be in life. All fares are modeled from distance — no published average covers this airport. Driving uses the IRS standard mileage rate, which includes running costs, not just fuel.

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Where these numbers come from

Lodging is indexed from the US federal per-diem schedule (GSA) for this county, calibrated against real rental listings. Food uses this location's own federal meal tier. Fares come from the DOT Consumer Airfare Report where that airport pair is published, and from a model fitted to 2,089 real DOT fares otherwise. Everything here is an estimate for planning, not a quote — check real prices before booking.