The North Rim of the Grand Canyon has roughly 500,000 visitors a year to the 5,000,000 that the South Rim receives. There is only one lodging choice - the Grand Canyon Lodge and Cabins. The accommodations are fairly rustic but well kept. You have to book early, especially if you plan to do a do the R2R early or late in the season when it is cooler at the bottom. We booked 9 months in advance.
The lodge has a nice restaurant. You should make reservations ahead of time as well if you care when you eat. We booked reasonably early so that we could digest before going to bed fairly early. The food was good and the staff were friendly. Our waiter guessed that we were doing the R2R in a day and strongly recommended that we take the Rainbow Falls detour, which we (he was right!).
We decided not to stay on the South Rim - primarily because none of hotels had a hot tub. We instead decided to stay at the Railroad Inn in Williams, AZ. Based on the pictures, I had fairly low expectations. I was wrong. The hotel was nice, not fancy, but clean and with all of the amenities we needed. There was a restaurant, a pub,exercise room (didn't need this:)), pool and spa. We ate in the pub. The food was surprisingly good. The menu had a decent variety, there were healthy choices and of course there was beer:)
We stayed on Las Vegas the night before and after. This made the trip fairly easy to the North Rim and back from Williams. You know what Vegas looks like, so no pictures. On the return, we fit in a show - Cirque du Soleil, The Beatles LOVE. Great show and a great end to our Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim adventure!
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