  We argue that deconfinement in AdS/QCD models occurs via a first order
Hawking-Page type phase transition between a low temperature thermal AdS space
and a high temperature black hole. Such a result is consistent with the
expected temperature independence, to leading order in 1/N_c, of the meson
spectrum and spatial Wilson loops below the deconfinement temperature. As a
byproduct, we obtain model dependent deconfinement temperatures T_c in the hard
and soft wall models of AdS/QCD. Our result for T_c in the soft wall model is
close to a recent lattice prediction.
