The Carneros Inn, Napa

The Carneros Inn is nestled among 27 acres of seemingly endless rows of grape vines, unspoiled farmland, and scenic apple orchards. The inn is midway between the Napa and Sonoma valleys, four miles from the town of Napa, and 45 miles from San Francisco. The Carneros Inn is four miles from the American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts (COPIA), a cultural museum and educational center dedicated to exploring the interrelationships of food, wine, and the arts.This non-smoking hotel has two restaurants, a hilltop dining lounge offering panoramic views of the surrounding vineyards, and a casual, rustic-looking cafe. The onsite day spa offers health and beauty treatments, including various styles of massage, and a sauna and steam room. Overlooking the countryside, the pool-deck area comprises a lap pool and spa tub. Guests also enjoy a fitness center, concierge services, and book- and DVD-borrowing privileges at the hotel's library. The staff provides business services, including faxing, copying, and printing. Guests have complimentary use of the computer at the concierge station, which has high-speed Internet access. Guests can also enjoy bocce, croquet, meandering through fruit orchards and flower gardens, and wine tasting.The 86 guestrooms and suites are located in individual cottages with private, heated patios and French doors opening onto gardens. Rooms include Frette Italian linens, down duvets, vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors, and wood-burning fireplaces. Spacious bathrooms have bathrobes, designer toiletries, and heated slate floors. Other highlights are complimentary indoor and outdoor high-speed Internet access, patio showers, flat-screen plasma TVs, DVD/CD players, complimentary local phone calls, and windows that open.