We bought the worst-rated hotel in Page. Here's why.

Not a typo. When we bought this property, it was called the Lake Powell Canyon Inn, and it had a 3.0 rating on Google across 431 reviews.

The reviews weren't wrong. Tired rooms. Promises the place couldn't keep. A "free breakfast" that guests kept showing up to find didn't exist. If you stayed here back then and left one of those reviews, we'd like you to know something: we read them. Most of them twice. They became the to-do list.

Why buy a hotel everyone warned you about

Because it sits in the best small town in canyon country.

Page is 10 minutes from Horseshoe Bend, 15 from Antelope Canyon, 15 from Lake Powell, and it's the only place on Earth where you can enter the Wave's daily lottery and then go get a milkshake. Millions of people pass through every year. And until now, the town has never had a boutique hotel. You could get a clean chain bed or a tired motel bed, and that was the menu.

We're two operators who fix broken hospitality businesses. A 3.0-rated hotel in a town this good isn't a warning sign to us. It's the whole opportunity.

What we're doing about it

We committed $2 million to rebuild this place, and we're partway through spending it the slow way: room by room, with our own hands more days than not.

The first renovated rooms opened at Memorial Day. More come online every few weeks through the summer. Everything gets touched: new beds, new bathrooms, new mini-splits, new everything down to the studs where the studs deserved it. The rooms that aren't done yet don't get sold as if they were. That alone puts us ahead of the old regime.

The name changed too. The Wesley, after John Wesley Powell, the one-armed explorer who ran the Colorado River through these canyons before anyone had mapped them. The property pays homage to the place instead of pretending to be somewhere else. Local art, canyon lines, red rock colors. You'll see.

What we're not going to do

We're not going to tell you the renovation is finished. It isn't. Our Grand Opening is September 25, 2026, and until every room meets the bar, you'll see exactly what's available and what's still behind plastic sheeting.

We're not going to promise a breakfast that doesn't exist. We learned that one from 431 teachers.

And we're not going to pretend the old reviews aren't there. They are, and they're accurate history. We'd rather earn the new ones.

The part where you come in

If you're planning a Page trip this summer or fall, you can stay in one of the new rooms while we finish the rest. You'll get an honest room, a real person on the phone at (928) 612-3300, and two owners who will absolutely over-answer any question about Antelope Canyon tours.

Check dates and rates. Booking direct always gets our best price.

And if you stayed at the old place and got burned: come see us. We have something to prove, and we know it.

Adam Walz is one of the two owners of The Wesley. The other one, Micah Thomas, is probably holding a paintbrush right now.

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