Zazu Pannee Park Regent

We had a wonderful time at Zazu. The staff were attentive and friendly at every turn. The amenities were great. The coffee bar is worth it’s weight in gold. We had a great time, although it was only a month.

Dirty and Unorganized.
Disgusting is the best word that comes to mind. I felt like I had to wash my hands a million times leaving that place. Mold FILLED the bathtub, furniture is torn, pool was not the color is should have been, and it’s crowded with random weird displays. I don’t know how the hell this place got 4 ½ stars.

I lived here for three years. Eric was always super nice and responsive. I love the bright colors of the units and everything felt clean and safe. Had I not been moving out-​of-​state, I would have continued living there. I lived here for three years. Eric was always super nice and responsive. I love the bright colors of the units and everything felt clean and safe. Had I not been moving out-​of-​state, I would have continued living there.

I recently moved into Zazu (unfurnished townhome) and plan to stay for the duration of my graduate program. To date, I have been very pleased with Zazu. Prior to my move, they were exceedingly easy to work with, and responded promptly to my email inquiries or phone calls (you would be surprised by how unresponsive many apartment complexes are!).
There was some miscommunication regarding the time the unit would be ready, but the Zazu staff worked hard to mitigate that, having the unit ready a couple hours ahead of time and communicating with us throughout. I really appreciated this, as my husband and I were on the road at the time.
I’ve been here for just over a week now. The unit was clean and in good repair when I moved in, the staff has been friendly and helpful with any questions I’ve had, and the amenities have all been in good repair and accessible. The price also can’t be beat, as all of my utilities are included, as well as wifi and cable. Very happy to be living here while going to school.

I rented a furnished apartment for 2 months and felt very comfortable during my stay at Zazu Pannee! The grounds were beautiful, including two pools and a great patch of grass for walking my dog. The neighbors are kind and friendly and the amenities were fantastic. I especially enjoyed the gated community since it made me feel safe and secure in my new surroundings. I would definitely recommend this apartment community!

I’ve lived at Zazu for about three years now and could not be happier with their service! Not only is it an enjoyable place to live but any time I’ve had a question/​concern/​issue it has always been addressed and taken care of within a couple days (if not hours). The staff here are great and I would highly recommend living here to anyone!

We loved it at ZAZU. Eric made our stay wonderful with the help of his office staff. I’ll recommend friends to ZaZu.

Very conveniently located, extremely friendly staff, and beautiful appartments!
I had just relocated to this state about a year ago and zazu pannee made my transition a lot smoother by including water and internet within the rent, so the only thing I needed to worry about was electric.
The office staff is always available and there to help when you need them either by a phone call, by an e-​mail, or by simply stopping by. Overall, very satisfied with my experience there.

If you’re thinking about living at Zazu, do yourself a favor and come take a tour! It’s a great place!
My husband and I lived here while we were in limbo between selling our house and moving out of state. We lived in one of the furnished bungalows in the back of the complex for about 2 months. Everything has been really great here right from the get-​go. The people who work at the office are all super helpful and down to earth, and several live in the complex which I think speaks well for the place. In the event that something happens (we had a minor issue with the monthly bug spraying), the staff was really awesome about apologizing and fixing the problem. Everybody we’ve met here is really nice and quiet. My husband and I are home most of the day, so we’d know if they got rambunctious during the day, but they really don’t!
The furnished places are pretty nice– you get all the basics. Bed, dresser, nightstands, desk, table and chairs, sofa and chairs, pots, pans, dishes, linens. Definitely enough of the basics you need to stay in a furnished place for a few weeks or months.
Pros:
SUPER Dog-​friendly
Really quiet (Id’ say everyone is a hermit here, but they’re too nice to be hermits…)
Surprisingly quiet (road noise) considering how close to Osborn it is
Very helpful staff
Nice pool in the middle of the complex– makes me feel like I’m at a resort haha
Awesome movie room with projection screen, surround sound and comfy chairs
Also:
Decent work out room (two treadmills, two elliptical, weight machines)
Plenty of laundry machines which you CAN CALL to see when your stuff is done!
The place has a lot of character– lots of colors and stuff that makes each place unique

I had guests that stayed here from out of town and we rented 2 of the complex bungalows for them to stay… It was a great experience. The staff inside the rental office were very helpful and nice to us during our stay. The 1-​bedroom apartments are really cute and quiet. It is an older complex so it will not have the new-​ish, modern feel but you can tell work was put in to the complex to make it look nice.
The guests we had from out of town loved the space and that it had a kitchen inside so they could pick up snacks and food they liked while staying in Phoenix.
I would recommend this place and would rent these spaces for guests in the future.

My husband and I lived at Zazu for 10 months. We loved our time here! Zazu has a great gym, pool, movie theatre and all around feel. The staff is helpful and accommodating. The residents were also great. We made some really great friends :) Zazu is also very safe, something very important to me. I would recommend Zazu to anyone who wants a safe, happy and welcoming place to live. Thanks Zazu :)

I’ve been a resident at Zazu for a year now, and I couldn’t be happier. This is my first apartment, and after looking at numerous cookie-​cutter apartments we came across Zazu. All the doors are painted different colors, and the entire place is full of green trees, bushes and plants. It feels more like a community rather than an apartment complex, and sure doesn’t feel like you’re in the middle of downtown Phoenix.
There are many different layouts for you to choose from, and most everything inside is just over 3 years old… The paint, tile floors, carpet, counters, cabinets, fridge, stove, AC unit, etc.
There is indeed free high-​speed internet, and free Cox cable (over 100 channels. I opted to get Tivo for $ 25/​month to get HD and DVR). There is a snack area with a candy vending machine, soda machine, and coffee machine. A sandy ‘beach’ area with chairs and tables, a heated pool, and a large grassy area for all the dogs. There are 2 places to do your laundry. I’ve maybe had one small problem with them, and I don’t think have ever run into a time when they have all been in use.
All my friends told me horror stories about their landlords in all of the apartments they have stayed in. and I think this is Zazu’s best quality. Travis and Eric will go above and beyond to personally help you and make things perfect for you. Just renewed my lease and moved into a bigger apartment. love it here!

So I stayed here in one of the furnished bungalows for just over a month during a period of transition for my family. As it turned out I actually was here alone while my husband moved on to our next destination ahead of me. The location is actually pretty great because you are near the awesome parts of down town and great bars and restaurants but you aren’t paying the outlandish price. The community is gated and I felt safe by myself at all times. They are extremely pet friendly but you still have to keep the dog on a leash at all times.
I have lived in a lot of apartments in my time in multiple states and several in the Phoenix area. I have to say that I am so impressed with how friendly every one is. One of my biggest gripes about this city is that it is so hard to meet people. Well I have met and spoken with at least 20 different people that were all very friendly and welcoming. I was even invited to one residents son’s birthday party. Aside from the residents the staff is also exception with regards to their welcoming and accommodations. Everyone was very willing to work with me and be flexible about my move out date. I was always greeted with a smile and spoken to like they had known me for a lot longer than a few weeks.
While it is an older complex you can tell they work to keep it clean and take care of repairs. I never had any problems within my apartment and everything was ready for me as they had promised. The only suggestion that I would make that selfishly would have made my life easier was an area where I could let me dog run. But honestly, Indian Steele dog park is great and is super close, I’m just lazy.

I have been a renter of a bungalow here for about 6 weeks and can’t say anything negative about the place.
The first thing I will say is the Office staff while a bit eclectic bunch, they fit with the place, and have been extremely helpful in getting me through some tough transitional times as I have been relocating to Phoenix, and have been struggling with the home buying process.
Please don’t give up on them upon walking in the door and being greeted by Carl. Carl is a very considerate person who will go way out of his way to help you… just don’t be thrown off by his Back to the Future «Doc Brown» wild white hair style, It really threw me off the first time I walked in.
The rest of the staff is extremely helpful and eager to be accommodating, they just need to know your situation up front, and they will work with you. I called up on a
Sunday saying «I need a fully furnished apartment to move to in a week, and stay only a month. They worked with that, and got me a great deal on a bungalow that is a great rental and then continue to work with me on a weekly arrangement as I am closing on my house.
I don’t hear neighbors, the bungalow stays cool, has great internet and cable access, the bungalows have gas stoves which I really liked, the furniture is in fitting with the style and feel of the rest of the place, its eclectic and colorful, like the people, and the residents that I have met, its just not my style, (keep in mind that when I needed more drawer space, Eric (the office manager), had a second dresser waiting in my room the next day when I got home from work, so the furniture statement is not a reflection on the staff or service they provide.
I will confirm an earlier post, that there are no in-​room laundry machines, so they have 2 laundry rooms with HE washers and Dryers. I admit, I’ve not had community laundry in a long time, but the walk to the laundry really isn’t a bad thing, as the whole area has a park-​like atmosphere, and full of green grass and trees everywhere. I actually forget I’m 5 minutes from downtown Phoenix.
This place is not the Ritz Carlton, and doesn’t try to be, it has its own style one I think most of the residents appreciate. A definite recommendation.

A pretty little complex with dirty little secrets.
When you first see Zazu Pannee it seems elegant and serene. The land scape is lush, and for the most part well thought out. The apartments are newly renovated, the insides are all refurbished. Someone spent big bucks on renewing this property formally known as «Crake Whore Haven», where murder is rumored to tarnish it’s not so far off past.
When I first moved in there was many vacancies. I had four people that followed me into renting there. All of them moved out with bitter feelings towards the place. You can hear people through the walls when they are simply talking on the phone or when they fart on the toilet. There is one woman that gets drunk every night and sits out side in the court yard with a cackling laugh. It does not matter where you live, you can hear her. So annoying. If you make any picture hanging hole in your walls they will charge you $ 10 per hole when you move out, if you fix the holes yourself they will charge you more.
When showing you an apartment, they have there best foot forward. The lease you sign looks beautiful, it sparkles and shines. But beware! They sweet talk you into initially a paragraph that will allow them to enter your apartment every single month. They use a filter in the central air that is a one month filter and demand to come in and change it. I was told it was only an option and that I could pick up the filer every month at the office, and even if I did agree to let them do it, I could opt out anytime later if I found it inconvenient. Not true, they hold you on that entry policy so they can get in and see what you are up to.
When I moved in I found I had a horrible infestation of roaches. They say they use a spray that disrupts the bugs reproductive system. Even after the bugs were gone they would not stop coming in and filling my apartment up with that awful smelling insecticide gas every month. It messed with my bronchial passages and every month they filled my apartment with that poison, I wheezed and coughed. I begged them to stop and they would not. They wanted to keep the access to my home.
In the adds they use to attract new residents they say they have high speed internet service that equals a T1 line. Actually the front office has high speed access that is a bit different then what the apartments get. They wired system constantly crashes and burns. I clocked speeds that were slower then a 56k dial up account most the time. They also have a monitoring system on the internet that documents and regulates your personal internet content. It is the same one they use in corporate businesses. Several residents witnessed a night when management had their settings screwed up, we all got a good look at what they were up to. They claim it is their responsibility to monitor and regulate and censor to keep people from down loading any illegal content.
In short they are spying on you. They come into your apartment every month to check things out. And they monitor your activity on the internet.
On the move out, I left the place spotless. I had help from a guy that cleans professionally. But Zazu has a regulation where they inspect your apartment and you are not allowed to be present when then do the final walk through. Their word is final. You are required to turn in your keys before they do the final walk through. As a rule you are not allowed entry after you have turned in the keys, so you can not be present during the final walk through.
I did receive about half of my deposit, but I should have gotten all of it back. They claimed my oven and microwave needed to be cleaned. I did all that myself, they were flawless. They claimed my bathroom counter was not clean. It was spotless. The celling fans were reported dirty, they were spotless.
If you like to be monitored, spied on, and live in a party atmosphere in the middle of not much else to do and decide to live there, you need to take photos of everything, record everything, document everything. If you give these guys a chance they will bend you over a rail.

My family and I stayed at Zazu for three months from October 2010 to January 2011, staying in one of the corporate rental, «furnished and equipped» units. At first, there was a misunderstanding over the semantical meaning of the words «laundry service». To my Dad and Mom (and most people) this meant laundry service with your laundry being washed, dried and folded, the definition held out at most hospitality businesses. To Zazu, however, it meant a coin (or card) operated, self service laundry. This was pertinent since the rentals at Zazu apparently do not have in-​unit washers and dryers and my Mom and Dad would have stayed elsewhere as a result. Amends were made for this however, not to mention semantical corrections to web sites and other promotional literature to prevent future misunderstandings.
We enjoyed our stay at Zazu, but our biggest gripe was that there were no rugs on the tile floor whatsoever, which, coupled with the coarse sand everywhere outside, made for some constantly dirty floors as there were not even any entry mats or rugs at the doors to keep from tracking inside. As a result, we had to go and buy some rugs even though they are provided in most «furnished and equipped» rentals that we have stayed at all over the country.
This place is extremely dog friendly, though you will pay «dog rent» and extra deposits for the privilege. So dog friendly that, with all the big dogs that live here, the washer and dryers were constantly jammed with lots and lots of long hair from some mighty big furry dogs (judging from the volume)!
During our stay, we were constantly over billed due to accounting errors; and our bill was not straightened out entirely nor refunds for those errors made until just a few weeks before we left.
Zazu has an excellent high definition cable TV/​Internet/​Phone service system; but the premium channels were constantly freezing (from channel conversion) while we stayed there. Just a few days before we left, however, the system was revamped in a manner that most likely resolved the issues. (Most of this problem was centered on Cox Cable, not Zazu.) Zazu had struggled with an unresponsive Cox in Phoenix for several months over the problem without any results; but a phone call made by my Dad to some of his former media executive colleagues at Cox headquarters in Georgia apparently helped speed the resolution along somewhat!
Would we stay here again! Maybe, but having to take all of your laundry all the way to laundromat a big hassle that is usually not confronted by busy people living in corporate rentals that do not have in-​unit washer/​dryers. This is a very special place that has a lot of potential – with just a little more attention to detail, it could be top rate! Note that this review is about one of the furnished rental units. If you are looking for an unfurnished rental, I would highly recommend Zazu with at least four paws up which is my highest rating!

Our actress friend, RB, and her equally phenomenal cast mates in a stage production were housed for a month here by the Arizona Theater Company, each actor/​crew getting their own apartment.
This gated-community/complex’s «30-​day furnished stay» accommodations are actually nice; modest one-​bedroom floorplan, fairly modern kitchen, flat screen television with cable and DVD player, and decently Hotel-​ish furniture (like fancy-​schmancy second hand designs from Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas). With the double/​full bed, the fold-​out couch, and a [requested] air-​mattress, the small accommodation CAN sleep six (6), but four (4) is more reasonable.
Double patio doors (mere feet away from the front door) open up to a small patio… er, mere feet away from the front door. facing a grassy common courtyard. Still, a nice touch, if a little bit of an unnecessary and/​or redundant design.
A requisite pool and marginal workout room were to be expected, but the addition of a theater room is a plus, though we didn’t get to use it while we were there; a large screen with projector, with large leather recliners for up to 8.
In a gesture of either deprecating self-​satire or unawares failing aggrandizement, there’s an area literally designated «The Beach» — a pile of course sand with fire pit (s) and beach chairs. I kid you not. It needs to be seen to be believed. Aaaaaaand we actually had quite a bit of fun there till late into the morning hour, with the theater cast/​crew gathered ’round under a faintly moonlit night’s sky, talking, laughing, drinking.
With the right people, its as good a place as any to hang out and socialize; there’s seemingly little to do in that not-​so-​hot immediate area of Phoenix, if visiting.
Not a bad place to live, though, I suppose.
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No, really. «The Beach». And the complex is brightly painted in a rainbow of colors. Classy, not so much, but it works for what you need.