The Best Boutique Hotels in Napa Valley
Napa Valley is almost as spoiled for boutique hotels as it is for wineries, with great resorts, lodges and hacienda-style establishments dotted throughout its verdant Californian slopes. In Napa itself you’ve a chic hotel with a rooftop bar right in downtown and a Tuscan villa-style resort on its own vineyard, while further up the valley there are great places to stay in smaller towns. Here’s our guide to hotels in Yountville, Rutherford, Calistoga and beyond.
1. Archer Hotel Napa
Boutique Hotel
Archer Hotel Napa is right on First Street in the centre of town, surrounded by the lively shopping, dining and wine tasting establishments of downtown. Many of the guest rooms and suites at this boutique hotel in Napa have private balconies and you can drink and dine on the rooftop terrace at the Sky & Vine Rooftop Terrace bar, amid potted olive trees, topiary sculptures and stone fire pits. Charlie Palmer Steak and Sky is the hotel’s other dining venue, serving artisanal American beef alongside excellent seafood, chops, chicken and vegetarian options.
2. Rancho Caymus Inn
Budget Hotel, Inn
In the hamlet of Rutherford about 20 minutes north of downtown Napa by car, Rancho Caymus Inn was opened by vintner Mary Tilden Morton in 1984. It was built using materials procured from a dismantled 19th-century Yorkshire Ohio barn, featuring exposed wooden beams and walnut countertops. The 26 rooms have a Spanish hacienda-style feel, with textured walls, wrought iron features and artisanal knick-knacks. You can walk to Rutherford Grill and BV Vineyards’ tasting room, or drive in minutes to dozens of other wineries and restaurants.
3. Calistoga Motor Lodge and Spa
Motel, Inn, Spa Hotel
Calistoga Motor Lodge is inspired by the great American road trip. The Camper Rooms offer a retro interpretation of life on the road, while the New Vista rooms are spacious, some with balconies boasting mountain views. You can unwind with a dip in the three geothermal mineral pools then head over to the Moonacre Spa & Baths for a mud bath at the mud bar or try one of their special treatments – the grape seed body scrub and hemp-derived CBD massage are recommended.
4. Senza Hotel
Hotel, Winery with Rooms
This understated hotel is one of the best places to stay in Napa. It’s set amid two acres (0.8ha) of the Napa Valley, with luxurious rooms and suites featuring top-end bedding, organic bath products and ample patios with garden and vineyard views. You can relax with a spa treatment then emerge renewed in time for a nightly wine and cheese hour and cap the day off with one last glass around the fire pit.
5. Meritage Resort and Spa
Resort
6. Milliken Inn Creek and Spa
Hotel
7. Solage
Resort, Cottages
8. Auberge de Soleil
Boutique Hotel, Resort
9. Bardessono
Boutique Hotel, Hotel
10. North Block Hotel
Hotel
11. Hotel Yountville
Resort, Hotel
12. Villagio Inn and Spa
Hotel, Villa
Traveling to Napa on a budget? Check out our guide the best cheap hotels in Napa – all bookable on Culture Trip.
Alesandra Dubin contributed additional reporting to this article.
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